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Abilityai/cornelius agent skills
- skills
- 51
- GitHub stars
- 109
GitHub description: “AI-powered second brain template for Claude Code + Obsidian”
- Stars
- 109 (35 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Sep 2026
- Created
- Nov 2025
Install all skills
npx skills add Abilityai/corneliusAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in Abilityai/cornelius, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generate images using Google's Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 2 | Protocol for creating dated changelog files after significant agent sessions. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~555 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 3 | Create long-form articles from knowledge base insights. An agent skill from Abilityai/cornelius. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 4 | Framework for distinguishing research findings from hypotheses and speculative synthesis. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 5 | Extract the transcript from a YouTube video by URL or video ID. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~525 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 6 | Standard format for capturing and documenting insights in the knowledge base. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~616 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 7 | Extract chapters from PDF, MOBI, and AZW3 book files into individual markdown files. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~872 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 8 | Run self-diagnostics on Cornelius agent to verify skills, commands, agents, and integrations are working. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 9 | 9.Talk Conversational partner mode - delegates each exchange to the thinking-partner sub-agent, which embodies the knowledge base as its own memory and engages as an intellectual equal. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~834 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 10 | Extract all chapters from an EPUB file into separate markdown files. | Abilityai/ | 109 | 1 repo | ~351 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 11 | 11.Brain Merge Compare and selectively merge Brain directories across any two agent instances. | Abilityai/ | 109 | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 12 | 12.Advise Solve problems using knowledge base insights - extracts search terms, runs parallel KB queries, synthesizes advice grounded in your own frameworks | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~873 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 13 | Autonomous AI crystallization - synthesizes converged thinking topics into ai-inferred notes in a dedicated folder. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 14 | 14.Analyze Kb Analyze knowledge base structure and update the knowledge-base-analysis.md report | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 15 | Discover non-obvious cross-domain connections through random sampling and pattern analysis | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 16 | Systematic benchmarking framework for Local Brain Search memory system with LLM-as-judge scoring | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 17 | Run a full coherence sweep across the Brain Dependency Graph - computes staleness, lifecycle transitions, structural health, and generates a report | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~627 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 18 | Compute lifecycle scores for all insight and framework notes - detect which notes are crystallizing or becoming generative | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~447 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 19 | Generate explanatory diagrams and infographics that visually communicate concepts. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 20 | Detect productive contradictions between notes - high semantic similarity with opposing conclusions that represent synthesis opportunities | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 21 | Extract insights from external documents (research papers, books, articles). | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~649 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 22 | Discover hidden connections and relationships between notes in the knowledge base | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 23 | Extract the user's perspective on a topic (called by a content agent or user) | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~864 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 24 | Stage, commit, and push changes to remote repository with approval gate | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~793 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 25 | Review and graduate notes to permanent status using Zettelkasten principles. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 26 | Fully autonomous end-to-end ingestion of a SINGLE source (book, paper, article, transcript) into the knowledge base - prepare to markdown, extract insights against the live index, refresh the index… | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 27 | KB-grounded Socratic interview. An agent skill from Abilityai/cornelius. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 28 | Find notes created in the last 14 days and discover their connections to the knowledge base | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~966 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 29 | Continuous learning heartbeat - autonomously researches, extracts insights, and expands knowledge base | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 30 | Upsert and maintain entity notes in a REFERENCE-kind scope (external facts/records), then reindex so they become connection/insight targets. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 31 | Manage the incubation loop topic lifecycle — seed new questions, review status, crystallize converged conclusions, and retire stale topics | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 32 | Manage domain-watch surveillance configs — seed new domains, review scan status and proposals, activate Watch Log proposals into thinking topics, pause domains, and update PIRs or watch queries | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 33 | Propagate staleness from a changed note through the Brain Dependency Graph - shows which downstream notes need review | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~455 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 34 | 34.Quick Search Fast knowledge base retrieval - single FAISS search + graph connections, no subagents or LLM orchestration | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~465 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 35 | 35.Recall Retrieve relevant knowledge from Obsidian vault using 3-layer semantic search based on conversation context | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~858 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 36 | 36.Ref Audit Integrity report for a reference scope — the reference-scope analog of /coherence-sweep. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 37 | 37.Ref Bridge Bridge reference entities to the cognitive knowledge base — "this client maps to that insight you had." A thin mode over connection-finder that mounts core,Company/<sub and surfaces entity↔insight… | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 38 | 38.Ref Ingest The single entry point for incoming information of ANY kind about a reference entity (a person, org, product, engagement, or watched competitor). | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 39 | 39.Ref Query Structured, temporal lookup against a reference scope — "what do we know about Acme Corp as of today?", "which engagements are active and expiring in 90 days?", "list our competitors". | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 40 | Keep a reference scope canonical and internally consistent. An agent skill from Abilityai/cornelius. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Ref Refresh Mechanical staleness sweep over a reference scope. An agent skill from Abilityai/cornelius. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 42 | Handle a validity transition on a reference entity — a contract renewal, role change, or re-termed price where a full prior snapshot matters. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 43 | Rebuild the Local Brain Search FAISS index to reflect vault changes | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 44 | Wrapper for scheduled playbooks - handles git sync before and after execution | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Search Vault Quick search across Obsidian vault using keywords or semantic similarity | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~557 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 46 | 46.Start Here Orientation guide - introduces Cornelius, its core capabilities, main use cases, and the abilities marketplace | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 47 | Combine multiple insights into coherent narrative. An agent skill from Abilityai/cornelius. | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 48 | Comprehensive testing playbook for Local Brain Search memory improvements (Phases 1, 3, 4) | Abilityai/ | 109 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 16 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in Abilityai/cornelius?
Nano Banana Image Generator from Abilityai/cornelius ranks first of the 51 skills in Abilityai/cornelius listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 109 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 1.2k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Changelog Protocol and Create Article.
Are the skills in Abilityai/cornelius official?
None yet. All 51 skills in Abilityai/cornelius listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from Abilityai/cornelius?
Run npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.