Agent skill

War Of Art Pressfield

by simbajigege in simbajigege/book2skills

Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning pro, daily creative discipline, fear, hierarchy, and territory.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install War Of Art Pressfield

skills CLI
$ npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill war-of-art-pressfield -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install simbajigege/book2skills war-of-art-pressfield --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/simbajigege/book2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/war-of-art-pressfield .claude/skills/war-of-art-pressfield && 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
war-of-art-pressfield
GitHub stars
183
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,030 words
Files
5
Skills in repo
37
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning pro, daily creative discipline, fear, hierarchy, and territory.

  • Works in 4 steps: Identify the calling and resistance… → Name the fear or rationalization. → Prescribe professional action for the… → …
  • Tasks that involve Focus and ADHD support
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use This Skill, Core Principle and Workflow Inventory, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

War Of Art Pressfield is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning pro, daily creative discipline, fear, hierarchy, and territory.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files (for example `README.md`, `quotes/resistance-framework-quotes.md` and `quotes/turning-pro-inspiration-quotes.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Focus and ADHD support. The repository describes itself as: Create best skills based on best books.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Focus and ADHD support

Example prompts

  • “/war-of-art-pressfield”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the calling and resistance pattern.
  2. Name the fear or rationalization.
  3. Prescribe professional action for the next session.
  4. Define what counts as showing up.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e5ba66c. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

War Of Art Pressfield loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,030 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~40
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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 1,030 words (~2,220 tokens).

“Knowledge source: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.”

— opening of SKILL.md by simbajigege, Custom licence
name
war-of-art-pressfield
license
Skill distillation for personal/educational use. Do not reproduce source passages verbatim.

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files in skills/war-of-art-pressfield of simbajigege/book2skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE.txt
  • README.md
  • quotes/resistance-framework-quotes.md
  • quotes/turning-pro-inspiration-quotes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5ba66c

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War Of Art Pressfield this skillsimbajigege/book2skills183—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
I Have AdhdTanStack/ai3.2k5 repos~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Attention Kindalexgreensh/attention-span1.4k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Remind Meshaheer-00/claude-adhd105—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassNone
Daily Focus Boardgithub/awesome-copilot40k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Attention Controlaaddrick/attention-control119—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about War Of Art Pressfield

What does War Of Art Pressfield do?

Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning pro, daily creative discipline, fear, hierarchy, and territory. War Of Art Pressfield is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning pro, daily creative discipline, fear, hierarchy, and territory.

When should I use War Of Art Pressfield?

War Of Art Pressfield fits situations like: tasks that involve Focus and ADHD support.

How do I install War Of Art Pressfield in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill war-of-art-pressfield -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/war-of-art-pressfield in simbajigege/book2skills) into .claude/skills/war-of-art-pressfield in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install War Of Art Pressfield in Codex?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill war-of-art-pressfield -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/war-of-art-pressfield in simbajigege/book2skills) into .agents/skills/war-of-art-pressfield in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use War Of Art Pressfield 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 simbajigege/book2skills --skill war-of-art-pressfield -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/war-of-art-pressfield, .gemini/skills/war-of-art-pressfield, .github/skills/war-of-art-pressfield and .opencode/skills/war-of-art-pressfield in your project.

What does War Of Art Pressfield need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: War Of Art Pressfield is instructions for the agent only.

Does War Of Art Pressfield 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 War Of Art Pressfield 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 War Of Art Pressfield use?

War Of Art Pressfield has a licence file (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does War Of Art Pressfield use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.9k 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 War Of Art Pressfield?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with War Of Art Pressfield: I Have Adhd (TanStack/ai, 3.2k stars), Attention Kind (alexgreensh/attention-span, 1.4k stars), Remind Me (shaheer-00/claude-adhd, 105 stars) and Daily Focus Board (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains War Of Art Pressfield?

simbajigege (a GitHub user) maintains it in simbajigege/book2skills, which has 183 GitHub stars. The repository holds 37 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 26, 2026.

Source: simbajigege/book2skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.