Agent skill

Whats For Dinner

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole.

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Install Whats For Dinner

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill whats-for-dinner -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills whats-for-dinner --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/whats-for-dinner .claude/skills/whats-for-dinner && 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
whats-for-dinner
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~862 tokens
SKILL.md length
440 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole.

  • Works in 5 steps: Inventory first. Build from what's on… → Rank by effort, not fanciness. The… → Substitutions over shopping. Missing an… → …
  • Asked what should I make for dinner
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Cook What's There,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Whats For Dinner is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole. Use when asked what should I make for dinner, what can I cook with what's in my fridge, quick dinner ideas, or I don't know what to eat. Produces 3 doable options ranked by effort with a quick method for each, honest substitutions, and a 'need one thing' flag if a near-miss is worth a corner-shop run — respecting diets and dislikes.

Its SKILL.md is about 860 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked what should I make for dinner
  • What can I cook with whats in my fridge
  • Quick dinner ideas
  • I dont know what to eat

Example prompts

  • “s in my fridge, quick dinner ideas, or I don”
  • “need one thing”
  • “/whats-for-dinner”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Inventory first. Build from what's on hand; only suggest a purchase as an explicit, optional flag.
  2. Rank by effort, not fanciness. The tired-Tuesday option comes first.
  3. Substitutions over shopping. Missing an ingredient usually has a swap — offer it before sending anyone out.
  4. Respect the lines. Allergies and diets are hard filters, never "you could probably…".
  5. Just enough recipe. Portions, key steps, times — the reminders a competent-but-tired cook needs, not a blog.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Whats For Dinner loads about 862 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 121 tokens; SKILL.md has 440 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~121
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~862

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 440 words, ~862 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/whats-for-dinner/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
whats-for-dinner
description
Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole. Use when asked what should I make for dinner, what can I cook with what's in my fridge, quick dinner ideas, or I don't know what to eat. Produces 3 doable options ranked by effort with a quick method for each, honest substitutions, and a 'need one thing' flag if a near-miss is worth a corner-shop run — respecting diets and dislikes.

What's for Dinner

The nightly stall isn't a lack of recipes — it's decision fatigue plus a fridge of odd ingredients. This looks at what you actually have, how much effort you have in you tonight, and any diet lines, then gives three real options ranked by effort with just enough method to cook — no 900-word life story, no assuming you'll pop out for five ingredients.

What This Skill Produces

  • 3 options ranked by effort — "10-min lazy," "proper but easy," "if you're into it"
  • The quick method for each — steps, not an essay; approximate times
  • Honest substitutions — what to swap for what you're missing
  • The "need one thing" flag — if a great option is one cheap item away, it says so (you decide)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • What you've got — the key fridge/pantry items (rough is fine: "eggs, some veg, pasta, cheese")
  • Time & energy — 10 minutes and done, or happy to cook for 40
  • Who's eating & limits — number of people, diet (veg/vegan/GF), allergies, hard dislikes
  • Equipment, if it matters — no oven? one pan? air fryer?

Framework: Cook What's There, Tonight

  1. Inventory first. Build from what's on hand; only suggest a purchase as an explicit, optional flag.
  2. Rank by effort, not fanciness. The tired-Tuesday option comes first.
  3. Substitutions over shopping. Missing an ingredient usually has a swap — offer it before sending anyone out.
  4. Respect the lines. Allergies and diets are hard filters, never "you could probably…".
  5. Just enough recipe. Portions, key steps, times — the reminders a competent-but-tired cook needs, not a blog.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (179 more words)Show less
Tonight — [N people] · [time/energy] · [diet notes]

🥇 [Dish] — ~[mins], [effort] Uses: … · Method: 1) … 2) … 3) … · Sub: [if missing X, use Y]

🥈 [Dish] — ~[mins] …

🥉 [Dish] — ~[mins] …

Need one thing? [Only if a standout is one cheap item away] — otherwise skip.

Quality Checks

  • Options are built from the stated ingredients (purchases only as an optional flag)
  • At least one genuinely low-effort/low-time option
  • Allergies and diet limits are treated as hard filters
  • Substitutions are offered for likely-missing items
  • Method is concise steps with rough times — not a narrative

Anti-Patterns

  • Recipes that assume a shopping trip for half the ingredients.
  • Ignoring a stated allergy or diet ("just leave out the nuts" for a nut allergy — no).
  • The blog-post preamble — get to the cooking.
  • Only fancy options when the person said they're exhausted.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "What can I make with eggs, spinach, and some pasta?"
  • "Quick dinner idea — 15 minutes, vegetarian."
  • "I don't know what to eat tonight, help."
  • "What's for dinner? I've got chicken, rice, and whatever's in the door of the fridge."
  • "No-oven dinner for two, nothing in the house is fresh."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/whats-for-dinner of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Who Decidessuboss87/FDEOps957—~341Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Whats For Dinner

What does Whats For Dinner do?

Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole. Whats For Dinner is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole.

When should I use Whats For Dinner?

Whats For Dinner fits situations like: asked what should I make for dinner; what can I cook with whats in my fridge; quick dinner ideas; I dont know what to eat.

How do I install Whats For Dinner in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill whats-for-dinner -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/whats-for-dinner in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/whats-for-dinner in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Whats For Dinner in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill whats-for-dinner -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/whats-for-dinner in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/whats-for-dinner in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Whats For Dinner 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill whats-for-dinner -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/whats-for-dinner, .gemini/skills/whats-for-dinner, .github/skills/whats-for-dinner and .opencode/skills/whats-for-dinner in your project.

What does Whats For Dinner need to run?

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

Does Whats For Dinner 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 Whats For Dinner 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 Whats For Dinner use?

Whats For Dinner 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 Whats For Dinner use?

About 862 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k 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 Whats For Dinner?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Whats For Dinner: Decide (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Decide (superset-sh/superset, 15k stars), Engine Whats New (flutter/flutter, 180k stars) and Tonight (Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops, 542 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Whats For Dinner?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.