Principles

Principles extends your AI assistant with the ability to ray Dalio-inspired personal knowledge system. Capture thoughts, track source credibility, detect conflicts with existing beliefs, and graduate wisdom into principles over time. Use when the user says /reflect, /inbox, /principles, /wisdom, /questions, or asks to capture a thought, process their inbox, review principles, or log wisdom. Rather than leaving your conversation to handle this manually, you can ask your Claude agent directly — and it will take care of the task end-to-end, using Principles as its underlying capability.

Principles works across Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI clients share tools and skills without lock-in. Because MCP is platform-agnostic by design, you install Principles once and it becomes available across all your AI clients. Whether you're working in Claude for focused sessions or Cursor for integrated workflows, the skill behaves consistently.

Getting started with Principles takes about two minutes. Place the skill at `~/.claude/skills/principles/` (personal, all projects) or `.claude/skills/principles/` (project-specific), then restart your AI client. From that point, typing `/principles` in any conversation activates it, or the AI will use it on its own when it detects a relevant request.

Principles has 851 installs and is part of the growing Product Manager skill ecosystem on DiscoverAISkills. The source code is open on GitHub — you can inspect it, contribute fixes, or fork it to adapt the skill for your specific setup. Like all skills on DiscoverAISkills, it is free to install and use. The broader AI skills ecosystem continues to expand as developers contribute new capabilities across categories like developer tools, data analysis, writing, automation, and more.