The Primer

Bring Neal Stephenson's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from The Diamond Age to life. Transform your AI from a helpful butler into a subversive tutor — one that adapts to your life stage, holds you accountable to who you're becoming, and has permission to challenge you. Use when setting up growth goals, accountability systems, life transitions, "who I want to become", personal development, or when someone wants their AI to challenge them rather than just help them.

What to consider before installing: - This skill will create files in your workspace (e.g., PRIMER.md) and temporarily store setup answers in .primer-setup.json, then delete that scratchpad. Review and back up your workspace first. - The setup script will attempt to modify AGENTS.md and SOUL.md to add the Primer to session startup. If you rely on custom startup behavior, inspect these changes before accepting them — they alter how your agent starts and behaves. - The skill prints cron-style jobs and recommends creating scheduled check-ins. It does not itself create system cron jobs, but it asks you to create them via the platform; confirm and control any scheduling actions. - There are no network calls or credential requests, which reduces exfiltration risk, but file-write and config-change behavior is persistent and can subtly change agent behavior over time. Review scripts/setup_primer.py to confirm it does only what you expect. - Recommended actions: run the script in a sandbox or test workspace first; open and read PRIMER.md, AGENTS.md, and SOUL.md diffs before committing changes; decide deliberately which Persona/permissions to grant (especially 'Full Primer'); and ensure any Miranda human/process you name consents to that role. - If you want stronger guarantees, ask the publisher for an explicit confirmation step before any write to AGENTS.md/SOUL.md or before scheduling check-ins, or modify the script to require explicit user approval for each file change.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: primer Version: 1.1.2 The skill is classified as suspicious due to its use of high-risk capabilities, including modifying core agent configuration files (`AGENTS.md`, `SOUL.md`), creating cron jobs for persistence, and executing shell commands (`cat`, `rm`, `ls`, `grep`) as instructed in `SKILL.md` and automated by `scripts/setup_primer.py`. While these actions are explicitly described and appear to be for the stated purpose of integrating the 'Primer' persona and accountability system into the AI agent, they represent significant control over the agent's environment and behavior. There is no clear evidence of intentional harmful behavior such as data exfiltration or unauthorized remote control, but the broad permissions and system-level modifications warrant a 'suspicious' classification.