Use Case
Principles is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. 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. This guide walks you through installing Principles, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Principles: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install principles
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to product manager to trigger Principles
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Principles with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Principles
Help me get started with Principles
What can Principles do for my product manager workflow?
Show me an example of using Principles
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install principlesOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install principlesβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/principles/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.