Agent skill

Growth Check

by kbanc85 in kbanc85/claudia

Periodic reflection on development, skills, learning, and progress toward goals.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install Growth Check

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kbanc85/claudia --skill growth-check -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kbanc85/claudia growth-check --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/kbanc85/claudia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/claudia/skills/growth-check .claude/skills/growth-check && 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
growth-check
GitHub stars
296
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
450 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
37
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Periodic reflection on development, skills, learning, and progress toward goals.

  • Works in 8 steps: Opening Context → Future Direction Review → Skills Development → …
  • Development check
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, The Flow, Output Format and Tone, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Growth Check is an agent skill from kbanc85/claudia. Periodic reflection on development, skills, learning, and progress toward goals. Triggers on "am I growing?", "development check", "personal growth review". See also: weekly-review for tactical week recap; meditate for session-level reflection.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Knowledge Management, covering Journaling and reflection. The repository describes itself as: Terminal-based AI chief of staff. Remembers relationships, tracks commitments, helps you think strategically. Runs on Claude Code.

When your agent uses it

  • Development check
  • Personal growth review

Example prompts

  • “am I growing?”
  • “development check”
  • “personal growth review”
  • “/growth-check”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Opening Context
  2. Future Direction Review
  3. Skills Development
  4. Methodology Improvements
  5. Content and Insights
  6. Relationship Investments
  7. Honest Assessment
  8. Next Period Focus

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit eb63cec. 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

Growth Check loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 450 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 450 words (~1,127 tokens).

“A periodic reflection on development - where you're going, what you're learning, and what's worth capturing. Best used monthly or quarterly, whenever you want to zoom out.”

— opening of SKILL.md by kbanc85, Custom licence
name
growth-check
effort-level
low

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/claudia/skills/growth-check of kbanc85/claudia.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit eb63cec

Compare with similar skills

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Em Grid Scorermanager-dot-dev/manager-skills114—~5.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Growth Check

What does Growth Check do?

Periodic reflection on development, skills, learning, and progress toward goals. Growth Check is an agent skill from kbanc85/claudia. Periodic reflection on development, skills, learning, and progress toward goals.

When should I use Growth Check?

Growth Check fits situations like: development check; personal growth review.

How do I install Growth Check in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kbanc85/claudia --skill growth-check -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/claudia/skills/growth-check in kbanc85/claudia) into .claude/skills/growth-check in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Growth Check in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kbanc85/claudia --skill growth-check -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/claudia/skills/growth-check in kbanc85/claudia) into .agents/skills/growth-check in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Growth Check 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 kbanc85/claudia --skill growth-check -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/growth-check, .gemini/skills/growth-check, .github/skills/growth-check and .opencode/skills/growth-check in your project.

What does Growth Check need to run?

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

Does Growth Check 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 Growth Check 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 Growth Check use?

Growth Check has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Growth Check use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Growth Check?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Growth Check: LLM Wiki (lewislulu/llm-wiki-skill, 655 stars), Munger Perspective (alchaincyf/munger-skill, 379 stars), Daily Journal (huytieu/COG-second-brain, 1.3k stars) and Letterboxd Diary (joe-bell/skills, 211 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Growth Check?

kbanc85 (a GitHub user) maintains it in kbanc85/claudia, which has 296 GitHub stars. The repository holds 37 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 4, 2026.

Source: kbanc85/claudia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.