📚 book2skills

Transform the wisdom of classic books into AI Agent Skills.

book2skills is an open-source project focused on systematically distilling high-quality practical books into Agent Skills format, enabling AI agents like Claude and Claude Code to directly apply the methodologies from these books to solve real-world problems.

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🎯 Philosophy

The value of a great book shouldn't exist only in human memory.

By distilling a book's core frameworks, decision processes, and evaluation criteria into structured Skills, anyone can let AI agents directly apply time-tested wisdom.

Our principles:

• 📖 Faithful to the source — Every Skill is based on reading the complete original book, not secondhand summaries
• 🧩 Actionable — Not just knowledge transfer, but transformation into executable judgment frameworks for agents
• 🔍 Verifiable — Every criterion and rule is annotated with its source chapter for traceability
• 🌐 Open standard — Follows specifications, compatible with Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and more

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📦 Skills List

Skill	Book	Author	Category	Status
common-stocks-uncommon-profits	Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits	Philip Fisher	Investing	✅ Released
(more coming soon)				🔜

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🚀 Quick Start

Using with Claude.ai

1. Go to any Skill folder and download the corresponding .skill file (see Releases)
2. Open Claude.ai → Settings → Features → Custom Skills → Upload

Using with Claude Code

# Clone the entire repository
git clone https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills.git

# Copy the desired skill to your project
cp -r book2skills/skills/common-stocks-uncommon-profits .claude/skills/

Manual Installation (any platform supporting Agent Skills)

Copy the skills/<skill-name>/ folder to your platform's skills directory.

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🗺️ Roadmap

We plan to progressively convert the following books into Skills:

Investing

• [ ] The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• [ ] One Up On Wall Street — Peter Lynch
• [ ] Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger

Business Thinking

• [ ] Good to Great — Jim Collins
• [ ] Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• [ ] The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen

Mental Models

• [ ] Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• [ ] The Art of Problem Solving — Russell Ackoff

Have a book you'd like to see? Submit an Issue and vote!

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🤝 How to Contribute

Everyone is welcome! Ways to contribute:

1. Submit a book request — Tell us which book you'd most like to see converted
2. Contribute a new Skill — Follow the Contributing Guide and submit a PR
3. Improve existing Skills — Found an error or inaccuracy? Open an Issue or submit a PR directly
4. Spread the word — Star ⭐ this project and share it with interested friends

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📁 Project Structure

book2skills/
├── README.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md          # Contributing guide
├── skills/
│   ├── common-stocks-uncommon-profits/    # Each skill in its own folder
│   │   ├── SKILL.md         # Core file: triggers + main framework
│   │   └── references/      # Detailed reference files (loaded on demand)
│   │       ├── fifteen-points.md
│   │       ├── scuttlebutt.md
│   │       ├── when-to-buy-sell.md
│   │       └── donts.md
│   └── (more skills...)
└── .github/
    └── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/      # Issue templates

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📄 License

The code in this project is licensed under the MIT License.

Skill content is distilled from original works for personal learning and research purposes only. Copyright belongs to the original authors.

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