danielmiessler · neilinger · Aug 20, 2026
diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/ApertureOscillation/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/ApertureOscillation/SKILL.md
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 name: ApertureOscillation
 version: 1.0.9
 description: "3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recommendations, and coherence assessments invisible at any single zoom level. USE WHEN aperture oscillation, oscillate scope, zoom in and out, tactical vs strategic, scope framing, design tension, system coherence check, local vs global design, wrong scope, scope negotiation. NOT FOR lens rotation across angles (use IterativeDepth)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/ApertureOscillation/`
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/ApertureOscillation" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 
 # ApertureOscillation

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Aphorisms/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Aphorisms/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: Aphorisms
 version: 1.1.20
 description: "Curated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to prevent repetition. Four workflows: FindAphorism, AddAphorism, ResearchThinker, SearchAphorisms. Themes: Stoicism, Wisdom, Truth-seeking, Excellence, Resilience, Curiosity. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing or social posts."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Aphorisms/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Aphorisms" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Apify/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Apify/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: Apify
 version: 1.1.22
 description: "Scrapes social platforms, business data, and e-commerce via Apify actors — Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, and web crawls — filtering in code. USE WHEN scrape Instagram, scrape LinkedIn, scrape TikTok, scrape YouTube, scrape Facebook, Google Maps leads, Amazon reviews, business intelligence, multi-platform social listening, competitive analysis, lead generation, social monitoring, Apify actors, web crawl, extract contacts. NOT FOR X/Twitter account operations like posting, threads, or bookmarks (those need a dedicated X API client), 4-tier progressive scraping with proxy escalation (use BrightData), or real-Chrome bot bypass and computer use (use Interceptor)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Apify/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Apify" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/ArXiv/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/ArXiv/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: ArXiv
 version: 1.0.9
 description: "Search and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, category, or paper ID — with AlphaXiv-enriched AI-generated overviews. Uses arXiv Atom API across cs.AI/cs.LG/cs.CL/cs.CR/cs.MA/cs.SE/cs.IR. Three workflows: Latest, Search, Paper. USE WHEN arxiv, papers, latest papers, research papers, recent ML papers, paper lookup, summarize paper, latest LLM papers, AI safety papers, cs.AI latest. NOT FOR general research (Research), URL parsing, or annual reports."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/ArXiv/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/ArXiv" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Art/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Art/SKILL.md
@@ -2,22 +2,22 @@
 name: Art
 version: 1.5.23
 description: "Static visual content across 20+ formats — diagrams, mermaid, infographics, D3 dashboards, comics, icons, wallpaper — via Nano Banana Pro (default), Nano Banana, and Flux. USE WHEN art, illustration, diagram, flowchart, infographic, header image, blog social thumbnail, visualize, generate image, mermaid, architecture diagram, comic, icon, blog art, framework diagram, D3 chart, remove background, wallpaper. NOT FOR locked house-style YouTube/channel/video thumbnails, video or animation (use Remotion), or web UI design and integrated frontend layout (use Webdesign)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 # Art Skill
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Art/`
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Art" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
-If this directory exists, load and apply:
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply:
 - `PREFERENCES.md` - Aesthetic preferences, default model, output location
 - `CharacterSpecs.md` - Character design specifications
 - `SceneConstruction.md` - Scene composition guidelines
 
-These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
-
+These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/AudioEditor/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/AudioEditor/SKILL.md
@@ -2,16 +2,17 @@
 name: AudioEditor
 version: 1.0.27
 description: "AI audio editing pipeline: Whisper word-level transcription → Claude segment classification (KEEP/CUT_FILLER/CUT_FALSE_START/CUT_STUTTER/CUT_DEAD_AIR) → ffmpeg with 40ms qsin crossfades and room-tone fill → optional Cleanvoice cloud polish; plus GateScan/GateRepair for noise-gate ticking artifacts. Modes: --preview, --aggressive, --polish. Workflow: Clean. USE WHEN clean audio, edit audio, remove filler words, clean podcast, remove ums, cut dead air, polish audio, trim recording, cut stutters, ticking audio, clicking audio, audio clicks, gate artifacts, popping audio. NOT FOR video composition (use Remotion)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 # AudioEditor
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/AudioEditor/`
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/AudioEditor" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## Voice Notification
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/BeCreative/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/BeCreative/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: BeCreative
 version: 1.1.21
 description: "Divergent ideation and corpus expansion via Verbalized Sampling plus extended thinking — single-shot generates several internally diverse candidates and surfaces the strongest, or expands a seed corpus into a diverse dataset for evals and test sets. USE WHEN be creative, brainstorm, divergent ideas, creative solutions, maximum creativity, tree of thoughts, radically different, name this, creative angle, expand this corpus, synthetic data, generate diverse examples, create test set. NOT FOR multi-cycle evolutionary ideation with Lamarckian meta-learning (use Ideate)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BeCreative/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BeCreative" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/BiasCheck/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/BiasCheck/SKILL.md
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ name: BiasCheck
 version: 1.0.3
 description: "Three-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, or text — auto-fetches the content and any cited study, then audits data-level biases, source conflicts of interest, and journalism-added distortions, separating what the data supports from what's editorialized. USE WHEN bias analysis, analyze bias, bias check, check this study, who funded this, is this source biased, fact-check article, methodological flaws, source credibility, what's wrong with this claim. NOT FOR psychological author analysis, research synthesis (use Research), entity due diligence."
 disallowed-tools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BiasCheck/`
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BiasCheck" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
-If this directory exists, load and apply any `PREFERENCES.md` or additional reference files found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any `PREFERENCES.md` or additional reference files found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 # BiasCheck
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/BitterPillEngineering/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/BitterPillEngineering/SKILL.md
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 name: BitterPillEngineering
 version: 1.0.10
 description: "Audits any AI instruction set for over-prompting using the core test — would a smarter model make this rule unnecessary? Applies Five Questions to every rule (Claude already does this? Contradiction? Redundant? One-off fix? Vague?) then classifies as CUT/RESOLVE/MERGE/EVALUATE/SHARPEN/MOVE/KEEP. Workflows: Audit (full system, token savings), QuickCheck (single file). Principle: less scaffolding = better output. USE WHEN BPE, bitter pill, audit setup, over-prompting, trim instructions, dead weight, simplify setup, clean up CLAUDE.md. NOT FOR attacking logical flaws in ideas (use RedTeam)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BitterPillEngineering/`
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BitterPillEngineering" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## Voice Notification
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/BrightData/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/BrightData/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: BrightData
 version: 1.2.20
 description: "4-tier progressive web scraping that auto-escalates WebFetch to curl to Interceptor to Bright Data proxy for bot detection and CAPTCHAs, with single-URL and multi-page crawl modes, output as markdown. USE WHEN Bright Data, scrape URL, web scraping, bot detection, crawl site, CAPTCHA, can't access, site blocking, extract page content, scrape whole site, spider domain, convert URL to markdown, getting blocked. NOT FOR simple public content (use WebFetch directly), social platform scraping with named actors (use Apify), or real-Chrome bot bypass with logged-in sessions and zero CDP fingerprint (use Interceptor)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BrightData/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/BrightData" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Council/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Council/SKILL.md
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ version: 1.1.20
 description: "Multi-agent collaborative debate producing visible round-by-round transcripts with real intellectual friction — members are topic-briefed custom agents, run as a 3-round DEBATE or a 1-round QUICK check, to find the best path. USE WHEN council, debate, multiple perspectives, weigh options, deliberate, get different views, what would experts say, pros and cons. NOT FOR pure adversarial attack (use RedTeam)."
 context: fork
 background: false
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Council/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Council" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/CreateCLI/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/CreateCLI/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: CreateCLI
 version: 1.1.25
 description: "Generates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tier template system (manual arg parsing, Commander.js, oclif), each shipping full implementation, docs, package.json, strict config, JSON output, and exit-code compliance. USE WHEN create CLI, build CLI, command-line tool, wrap API, add command, upgrade tier, TypeScript CLI. NOT FOR LifeOS skill scaffolding (use CreateSkill)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/CreateCLI/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/CreateCLI" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
 

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/CreateSkill/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/CreateSkill/SKILL.md
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 name: CreateSkill
 version: 1.1.31
 description: "Mandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skill work — creating, editing, adding a workflow or tool, renaming, validating, or canonicalizing any skill. Handrolling skill files is forbidden; owns the full lifecycle: scaffold, validate, canonicalize, test, improve. USE WHEN create skill, new skill, make a skill, build a skill, set up a skill, private skill, make a X skill, add a workflow, add a tool, edit/change/update/rename a skill, skill frontmatter, validate skill, check skill, canonicalize, scaffold skill, test skill, improve skill, optimize description, skill not triggering, overtriggering. NOT FOR TypeScript CLI generation (use CreateCLI)."
+allowed-tools: Bash(find:*)
 ---
 
 ## Customization
 
-**Before executing, check for user customizations at:**
-`~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/CreateSkill/`
-
-If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
+**User customizations for this skill** (resolved at invocation — empty means none):
+!`find "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/CreateSkill" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null; true`
 
+If any paths are listed above, read and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If nothing is listed, proceed with skill defaults.
 
 ## 🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)