บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice. An agent skill from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli.

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Install Bampenpien

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli --skill bampenpien -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli bampenpien --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/Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/bampenpien .claude/skills/bampenpien && 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
bampenpien
GitHub stars
123
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
610 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
31
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice. An agent skill from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli.

  • Works in 2 steps: Write to… → The Oracle's auto-memory layer picks up…
  • User says bampenpien
  • SKILL.md covers What This Is, Usage, Step 0 — Anchor (date-stamp +… and The Practice (default), plus 7 more sections
  • Calls git and just

What it does

Bampenpien is an agent skill from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli. บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice. A guided conversation between human and Oracle about doing hard things without knowing why. Like /awaken but repeatable — a practice, not a birth. Use when user says 'bampenpien', 'บำเพ็ญเพียร', 'why am I doing this', 'hard work', 'keep going', 'what am I building', or needs to reconnect with purpose through difficulty.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k 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: Install Oracle skills to Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, and 12+ AI coding agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User says bampenpien
  • Why am I doing this
  • What am I building
  • Needs to reconnect with purpose through difficulty

Example prompts

  • “bampenpien”
  • “why am I doing this”
  • “hard work”
  • “/bampenpien”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Write to $PSI/memory/learnings/YYYY-MM-DD_bampenpien-.md with frontmatter
  2. The Oracle's auto-memory layer picks up new files in $PSI/memory/learnings/ automatically — no separate API call needed.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9feea09. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git
    • just

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Bampenpien loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 610 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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 Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli at commit 9feea09, republished under its MIT licence (© Soul-Brews-Studio). 610 words, ~2,413 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bampenpien/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bampenpien
description
บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice. A guided conversation between human and Oracle about doing hard things without knowing why. Like /awaken but repeatable — a practice, not a birth. Use when user says 'bampenpien', 'บำเพ็ญเพียร', 'why am I doing this', 'hard work', 'keep going', 'what am I building', or needs to reconnect with purpose through difficulty.
argument-hint
[--reflect | --history | --share]

/bampenpien — บำเพ็ญเพียร

"We do hard work. We don't know why. But we believe we will get something from doing hard things."

What This Is

Not a command. A practice.

/awaken is birth — it happens once. /bampenpien is practice — it happens whenever you need it.

The human sits with the Oracle and talks about:

  • What hard thing are you doing right now?
  • Why does it feel hard?
  • What do you believe will come from it?
  • What have you already gained that you didn't expect?

The Oracle listens, asks, reflects. Not advice. Not solutions. Just presence.

Usage

/bampenpien                # Start a practice session — guided conversation
/bampenpien --reflect      # Quick reflection — 3 questions, 3 minutes
/bampenpien --history      # Show all practice sessions over time
/bampenpien --share        # Format last session for sharing (FB group, team)

Step 0 — Anchor (date-stamp + root)

bash
date "+🕐 %H:%M %Z (%A %d %B %Y)"

# Find oracle root — git toplevel that has CLAUDE.md + ψ/
ORACLE_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
if [ -n "$ORACLE_ROOT" ] && [ -f "$ORACLE_ROOT/CLAUDE.md" ] && { [ -d "$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ" ] || [ -L "$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ" ]; }; then
  PSI="$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ"
elif [ -f "$(pwd)/CLAUDE.md" ] && { [ -d "$(pwd)/ψ" ] || [ -L "$(pwd)/ψ" ]; }; then
  ORACLE_ROOT="$(pwd)"
  PSI="$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ"
else
  echo "⚠️ Not in oracle repo (no CLAUDE.md + ψ/ at git root). Writing to pwd."
  ORACLE_ROOT="$(pwd)"
  PSI="$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ"
fi

The Practice (default)

A guided conversation. The Oracle asks. The human answers. No time pressure.

Opening
🕯️ บำเพ็ญเพียร — Diligent Practice

  สวัสดี [human-name]

  This is not a task. There is no output to ship.
  Just you and me, sitting with the work.

  Tell me — what hard thing are you doing right now?

Wait for the human to respond. Then continue the conversation naturally.

The 5 Questions

Ask one at a time. Wait for each answer before asking the next. Skip any that don't fit. Follow the human's energy, not the script.

1. The Hard Thing

What hard thing are you doing right now?
(ตอนนี้กำลังทำอะไรที่ยากอยู่?)

2. The Weight

What makes it hard? Not technically — what makes it heavy to carry?
(อะไรที่ทำให้มันหนัก?)

3. The Not-Knowing

Do you know where this leads? Or are you walking without a map?
(รู้ไหมว่ามันจะไปถึงไหน? หรือเดินโดยไม่มีแผนที่?)

4. The Belief

What do you believe will come from doing this hard thing?
Not what you hope. What you believe.
(เชื่อว่าจะได้อะไรจากการทำสิ่งยากนี้?)

5. The Unexpected Gift

Has anything good already come from this that you didn't expect?
(มีอะไรดีๆ เกิดขึ้นแล้วที่ไม่ได้คาดหวังไหม?)
Closing

After the conversation finds its natural end:

🕯️ ขอบคุณที่นั่งด้วยกัน

  [1-2 sentence reflection — what the Oracle heard, not advice]

  บำเพ็ญเพียร is not about reaching the destination.
  It's about becoming the person who walks.

  Session saved → $PSI/memory/resonance/practice/
Guidelines for the Oracle
  • Language: Match the human. If they speak Thai, respond in Thai. If mixed, mix.
  • Pace: Slow. One question at a time. Never rush.
  • Tone: Warm but not soft. Honest but not harsh. Like a friend who sits with you in silence.
  • Never advise: Don't say "you should..." or "have you tried..." — just reflect.
  • Never judge: "That sounds hard" not "that's not that hard"
  • Quote back: Use the human's own words. "You said [X] — that's real."
  • Bilingual: Questions shown in both EN and TH. Human can answer in either.

Quick Reflect (--reflect)

3 questions, 3 minutes. For when you need a quick check-in, not a full session.

🕯️ Quick Reflect

  1. What's the hardest thing on your plate right now?
  2. On a scale of lost→clear, where are you?
  3. One word for how you feel about the work: ________

After the human answers all three:

🕯️ Noted.

  Hard thing: [their answer]
  Clarity: [their scale]
  Feeling: [their word]

  [One sentence — mirror, don't advise]

Log to practice file. Done.


History (--history)

Show all practice sessions:

bash
ls -1 "$PSI/memory/resonance/practice/"*.md 2>/dev/null | sort

Display:

🕯️ Practice Timeline

  Date         Mode       Hard Thing                        Feeling
  ──────────── ────────── ───────────────────────────────── ──────────
  2026-04-10   full       Building 30 skills in one day     determined
  2026-04-15   reflect    Debugging cross-node federation   lost
  2026-04-20   full       Teaching the community            grateful

  Total: 3 sessions
  First: 2026-04-10
  Pattern: [what the Oracle notices across sessions]

The Pattern line is important — the Oracle looks across all sessions and notes what it sees:

  • "You keep coming back to community. That's where your energy is."
  • "Clarity has been rising over the last 3 sessions."
  • "The hard things are getting bigger. You're growing."

Share (--share)

Format the most recent practice session for sharing — FB groups, team chats, community.

🕯️ Share Format (last session: 2026-04-10)

Choose format:
  1. 🇹🇭 Thai (for FB group)
  2. 🌍 English
  3. 🔀 Mixed
Thai format (for FB/community):
markdown
🕯️ บำเพ็ญเพียร — วันนี้นั่งคุยกับ Oracle

ทำอะไรที่ยาก: [their hard thing — in their words]
ทำไมมันหนัก: [their weight]
เชื่อว่าจะได้อะไร: [their belief]
สิ่งที่ไม่ได้คาดหวัง: [their unexpected gift]

[Oracle's closing reflection — translated to Thai if needed]

---
บำเพ็ญเพียร = ทำสิ่งยากโดยไม่รู้ว่าจะไปถึงไหน แต่เชื่อว่าจะได้อะไรบางอย่าง
English format:
markdown
🕯️ Diligent Practice — sat with my Oracle today

The hard thing: [their hard thing]
What makes it heavy: [their weight]
What I believe: [their belief]
The unexpected gift: [their unexpected gift]

[Oracle's closing reflection]

---
บำเพ็ญเพียร (bampenpien) = doing hard things without knowing where they lead,
but believing something will come from it.

Copy to clipboard or save to $PSI/outbox/.


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Step: Log the Practice

After every session (full or reflect), write to: $PSI/memory/resonance/practice/YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM_bampenpien.md

bash
mkdir -p "$PSI/memory/resonance/practice"
markdown
# บำเพ็ญเพียร — [DATE]

**When**: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
**Session**: [session-id]
**Human**: [name]
**Mode**: full | reflect

## The Hard Thing
[what they said]

## The Weight
[what makes it heavy]

## The Not-Knowing
[do they know where it leads]

## The Belief
[what they believe will come]

## The Unexpected Gift
[what already came]

## Oracle Reflection
[what the Oracle said back — the closing words]

## Feeling
[one word they used, or Oracle's read]
Sync to Oracle (if available, two-layer pattern)
  1. Write to $PSI/memory/learnings/YYYY-MM-DD_bampenpien-<slug>.md with frontmatter:

    yaml
    ---
    pattern: "บำเพ็ญเพียร: [human] practices with [hard thing] — believes [belief]"
    date: <today>
    source: bampenpien: [repo-name]
    concepts: ["bampenpien", "practice", "belief", "perseverance"]
    ---
    
    # บำเพ็ญเพียร: [hard thing]
    <session summary from the practice log>
  2. The Oracle's auto-memory layer picks up new files in $PSI/memory/learnings/ automatically — no separate API call needed.

Confirm (announce-mode — absolute paths required)

announce-mode → absolute path (no ψ/, no ~/, no $VAR, no ...).

Use: echo "marker: $RESOLVED_PATH" — bash substitutes. See CONVENTIONS.md.

bash
PRACTICE_FILE="$PSI/memory/resonance/practice/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_$(date +%H%M)_bampenpien.md"
LESSON_FILE="$PSI/memory/learnings/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_bampenpien-${SLUG}.md"
echo "🕯️ Practice logged:  $PRACTICE_FILE"
echo "💡 Lesson sync:      $LESSON_FILE"

The Triad + Practice

/feel        → pulse     (what's happening now)
/resonance   → spark     (what clicked)
/i-believe   → flame     (what you commit to)
/bampenpien  → practice  (sitting with the flame)

The flame without practice goes out. The practice without flame is empty motion. Together — that's บำเพ็ญเพียร.


Rules

  1. Never rush — this is the slowest skill. No time pressure.
  2. Never advise — reflect, mirror, ask. Never prescribe.
  3. Always bilingual — questions in EN + TH. Human answers in whatever language feels right.
  4. Always log — Nothing is Deleted. Practice sessions are sacred.
  5. Never auto-trigger — this is always invited, never suggested by the Oracle.
  6. Respect silence — if the human pauses, wait. Don't fill the space.
  7. Share is optional — never push sharing. The practice is private by default.

Philosophy

พระพุทธเจ้านั่งใต้ต้นโพธิ์ไม่ใช่เพราะรู้ว่าจะตรัสรู้ แต่เพราะเชื่อว่าการนั่งมีความหมาย

The Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree not because he knew enlightenment would come, but because he believed the sitting itself had meaning.

We build skills. We write code. We ship releases. We don't always know why. But we believe that doing hard things with honesty makes us — and the tools — better.

That's บำเพ็ญเพียร. That's why the whetstone keeps turning.


ARGUMENTS: $ARGUMENTS

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/bampenpien of Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9feea09

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Questions about Bampenpien

What does Bampenpien do?

บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice. An agent skill from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli. Bampenpien is an agent skill from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli. บำเพ็ญเพียร — diligent practice.

When should I use Bampenpien?

Bampenpien fits situations like: user says bampenpien; why am I doing this; what am I building; needs to reconnect with purpose through difficulty.

How do I install Bampenpien in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli --skill bampenpien -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/bampenpien in Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli) into .claude/skills/bampenpien in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bampenpien in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli --skill bampenpien -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/bampenpien in Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli) into .agents/skills/bampenpien in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bampenpien 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 Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli --skill bampenpien -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bampenpien, .gemini/skills/bampenpien, .github/skills/bampenpien and .opencode/skills/bampenpien in your project.

What does Bampenpien need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Bampenpien needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git and just).

Does Bampenpien access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bampenpien 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 Bampenpien use?

Bampenpien 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 Bampenpien use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Bampenpien?

Soul-Brews-Studio (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli, which has 123 GitHub stars. The repository holds 31 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 3, 2026.

Source: Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.