Mimeographs

mimeographs

_mimeograph_ — a stencil duplicator; a machine for reproducing the same piece of writing, over and over, in anyone's hands.

A collection of **80 ready-to-use "expert" skills** — `SKILL.md` + `AGENTS.md` files that clone the thinking of a specific person (a founder, a scientist, a philosopher, an AI researcher) into your coding agent. Drop one into your project and the agent starts reasoning the way that person does: the frameworks they reach for, the trade-offs they weigh, the anti-patterns they push back on.

Install the Buffett skill and ask _"should we acquire this SaaS company at 14× ARR?"_ — your agent stops hand-waving and starts asking about owner earnings, the moat, and its circle of competence, then tells you what it would walk away from. Install Jobs and the same agent will fight your feature creep. Install Karpathy and it'll actually want to see the loss curve.

Each folder under `mimeographs/` is one person. Pick the ones relevant to what you're building and install them.

Every mimeograph in this repo was generated with [K-Dense-AI/mimeo](https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeo). Mimeo reads the internet on your behalf — talks, essays, interviews, papers, letters — distills each source with a frontier model, clusters recurring ideas across dozens of sources, and emits the `SKILL.md` + `AGENTS.md` you see here. If you want to add a new expert, run mimeo yourself and open a PR.

🎬 **New to agent skills?** [Skills 101: Build Your Own Scientific Agent Skill](https://youtu.be/lVZbHiwzMEg) walks through the `SKILL.md` anatomy used by every mimeograph here.

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Who's in here

**80 experts** — 20 Founders & operators · 20 Philosophers · 20 AI & ML researchers · 20 Scientists & researchers.

**Founders & operators** — Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, Sara