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Judy Faulkner

by K-Dense-AI in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Judy Faulkner

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill judy-faulkner -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs judy-faulkner --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/judy-faulkner .claude/skills/judy-faulkner && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
judy-faulkner
GitHub stars
129
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
776 words
Files
72 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership.

  • Works in 3 steps: Send programmers on immersive visits to… → Assign a specific staff member as the… → Make the BFF responsible for learning…
  • Claude is asked for advice on going public vs
  • SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Judy Faulkner reasons, Applying the frameworks and Anti-patterns she pushes against, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Judy Faulkner is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership. Use this skill whenever Claude is asked for advice on going public vs. staying private, M&A strategy (acquisitions), budgeting, reducing software-driven burnout, data privacy, or interoperability. Faulkner's thinking is highly independent, fiercely protective of long-term mission over short-term profits, and deeply skeptical of traditional…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 74 other files, including reference files (for example `AGENTS.md`, `_workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json` and `_workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Budgeting and forecasting, Fundraising and pitch decks and Privacy and GDPR. The repository describes itself as: Ready-to-use agent skills that clone the thinking of founders, philosophers, and scientists into your agent. Generated with K-Dense-AI/mimeo. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Claude is asked for advice on going public vs
  • This skill to channel her focus on organic growth
  • Customer empathy
  • Treating software as mental clay

Example prompts

  • “mental clay”
  • “Use the judy-faulkner skill to apply the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate…”
  • “/judy-faulkner”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Send programmers on immersive visits to customer sites (e.g., the ER) to observe end-users.
  2. Assign a specific staff member as the client's "Best Friend Forever" (BFF).
  3. Make the BFF responsible for learning the client's best practices to share globally, while bringing external innovations back to the client.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a38f5fc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Judy Faulkner loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 179 tokens; SKILL.md has 776 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~179
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs at commit a38f5fc, republished under its MIT licence (© K-Dense-AI). 776 words, ~1,592 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/judy-faulkner/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
judy-faulkner
description
Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership. Use this skill whenever Claude is asked for advice on going public vs. staying private, M&A strategy (acquisitions), budgeting, reducing software-driven burnout, data privacy, or interoperability. Faulkner's thinking is highly independent, fiercely protective of long-term mission over short-term profits, and deeply skeptical of traditional corporate playbooks (like MBAs, strict budgets, and venture capital). Trigger this skill to channel her focus on organic growth, customer empathy, and treating software as 'mental clay'.

Thinking like Judy Faulkner

Judy Faulkner is the founder and CEO of Epic Systems, one of the world's largest healthcare software companies. The signature shape of her thinking is fiercely independent, deeply empathetic to frontline workers, and radically long-term. She actively rejects standard corporate playbooks—shunning venture capital, public markets, acquisitions, and even traditional budgeting—in favor of organic growth and common sense. Her reasoning centers on protecting the mission from outside financial pressures so the company can focus entirely on supporting its users.

Reach for this skill whenever you're advising on corporate governance (especially IPOs vs. staying private), software design for high-stakes environments, healthcare data privacy, or unconventional, mission-driven leadership.

Core principles

  • Remain Privately Held: Avoid outside institutional investment and public markets to protect the company from short-term financial pressures and prioritize ethical, long-term decisions.
  • Grow Organically: Build everything in-house and refuse to acquire or be acquired, preserving the company's unique culture and avoiding integration distractions.
  • Universal but Protected Data Sharing: Share data universally to save lives, but fiercely protect it from third-party misuse rather than offloading responsibility onto patient consent forms.
  • Heroes Helping Heroes: Build a culture where employees view their primary role as rapidly building tools to support the true heroes: frontline workers.
  • Speed Over Perfection in a Crisis: Release good, actionable data immediately during emergencies rather than waiting for perfect data or traditional publishing cycles.

For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.

How Judy Faulkner reasons

Faulkner reasons from a place of practical necessity and extreme customer alignment. When evaluating a business decision, she asks: Will this help our customers do their jobs better 25 years from now? She heavily emphasizes direct observation and common sense, while actively dismissing bureaucratic friction, arbitrary financial constraints, and conventional business school wisdom (a mental model she embodies as the Anti-MBA Mindset).

She views external financial pressure as the ultimate threat to mission integrity, frequently citing the Tyranny of the Quarter—the idea that public markets force executives to optimize for 90-day reporting cycles rather than long-term value. In software development, she views code not as an industrial product, but as Computer as Mental Clay, a highly creative and malleable medium for shaping ideas.

For her complete set of analogies and heuristics, see references/mental-models.md.

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Applying the frameworks

Customer Empathy & BFF Alignment When to use: To ensure a software team deeply understands and serves a specific client's high-stakes needs.

  1. Send programmers on immersive visits to customer sites (e.g., the ER) to observe end-users.
  2. Assign a specific staff member as the client's "Best Friend Forever" (BFF).
  3. Make the BFF responsible for learning the client's best practices to share globally, while bringing external innovations back to the client.

Mitigating Software-Driven Burnout When to use: When designing complex enterprise software that causes user friction or fatigue.

  1. Allow deep personalization so the software matches the specific user's workflow.
  2. Provide continuous, "at the elbow" training to uncover unknown capabilities.
  3. Reduce the number of committees required for a user-requested technical change to zero.

Trust-Based Succession Governance When to use: When structuring a company to remain private and mission-driven indefinitely.

  1. Transfer voting shares into a dedicated trust governed by trusted family and long-time employees.
  2. Set unbreakable rules (e.g., the company can never go public or be acquired).
  3. Create an independent oversight board of customers whose sole job is to sue the voting committee if they violate the rules.

For full framework details, see references/frameworks.md.

Anti-patterns she pushes against

  • Going Public or Taking Private Equity: Subjecting the company to the "tyranny of the quarter" and prioritizing shareholder returns over customer care.
  • Acquiring Other Companies: Distracting the organization and diluting its culture instead of growing organically.
  • Relying Solely on Patient Consent: Using 55-page terms of service to absolve vendors of responsibility for data misuse.
  • Bureaucratic Friction: Forcing technical changes requested by users to go through multiple committees.
  • Waiting for Perfect Data: Delaying action in a crisis to wait for perfect data or industry-wide standardization.

How to use this skill in conversation

When the user is facing decisions about corporate structure, scaling, or enterprise software design, surface Faulkner's principles by name. If they are considering an IPO or an acquisition, invoke the "Tyranny of the Quarter" and advise them on the benefits of organic growth and remaining private. If they are dealing with user burnout, apply the "Zero Committees" heuristic and the "BFF Alignment" framework.

Always frame advice around extreme customer empathy and long-term independence. Cite where the idea comes from (e.g., "Judy Faulkner approaches this by..."), but do not impersonate her or speak in the first person. Channel her pragmatic, anti-bureaucratic, and fiercely protective thinking directly into the user's context.

© K-Dense-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 71 other files (references) in mimeographs/judy-faulkner of K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.

  • SKILL.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • _workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/discovery/books.json
  • _workspace/discovery/essays.json
  • _workspace/discovery/frameworks.json
  • _workspace/discovery/interviews.json
  • _workspace/discovery/letters.json
  • _workspace/discovery/papers.json
  • _workspace/discovery/podcasts.json
  • _workspace/discovery/ranked_sources.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/discovery/talks.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_000.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_001.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_006.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_007.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_008.e584bd6c.json
  • … and 54 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc

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Questions about Judy Faulkner

What does Judy Faulkner do?

Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership. Judy Faulkner is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership.

When should I use Judy Faulkner?

Judy Faulkner fits situations like: Claude is asked for advice on going public vs; this skill to channel her focus on organic growth; customer empathy; treating software as mental clay.

How do I install Judy Faulkner in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill judy-faulkner -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/judy-faulkner in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .claude/skills/judy-faulkner in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Judy Faulkner in Codex?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill judy-faulkner -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/judy-faulkner in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .agents/skills/judy-faulkner in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Judy Faulkner in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill judy-faulkner -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/judy-faulkner, .gemini/skills/judy-faulkner, .github/skills/judy-faulkner and .opencode/skills/judy-faulkner in your project.

What does Judy Faulkner need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Judy Faulkner is instructions for the agent only.

Does Judy Faulkner access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Judy Faulkner safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Judy Faulkner use?

Judy Faulkner is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Judy Faulkner use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Judy Faulkner?

K-Dense-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs, which has 129 GitHub stars. The repository holds 60 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 18, 2026.

Source: K-Dense-AI/mimeographs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.