AdvisoryBoard — Communication skill for Claude Code

The Advisory Board

Eighteen advisors and one tidy way of carrying them all around. Bring your own tea.

The Point Of The Exercise

In any given week a person is required to make a number of decisions, of which roughly three genuinely matter and the remaining several hundred merely feel as though they do. The difficulty has never been making decisions, at which humans are enthusiastically prolific, but rather telling the important ones apart from the rest and then working out what to do about them, ideally before the tea goes cold.

The Advisory Board is a modest attempt to help with exactly that. It is an Agent Skill for Claude that summons a room full of strongly opinionated advisors. You bring an idea, a plan, a deal, or a vague sense of unease, and they engage with it, locate the flaw you had been carefully not looking at, and then argue amongst themselves about the correct way to fix it.

The advisors are not real, in the narrow and frankly overrated sense that you cannot buy any of them a drink. They are real in the far more useful sense that they will reliably tell you things you needed to hear and would, on balance, have preferred not to.

Who Is On The Board

The Advisory Board is a panel of eighteen thinkers assembled, at no small expense of reading, from the public record of people who are unusually good at one particular way of seeing the world.

There is a value-and-temperament corner (Munger, Buffett) and a build-it-impossibly-fast corner (Musk, Bezos, Jensen) who do not always get along, which is the point. There are the persuaders (Voss, Cialdini), the marketer who will tell you to give before you ask (Gary V), and the Stoic who will tell you the obstacle was the way all along (Holiday). There are the people who think about thinking (Deutsch, Sagan, Naval), the person who thinks about machines that think (Dario), the astrobiologist who wants to know what life actually *does* rather than what it is (Sara Imari Walker), the contrarian who wan