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stryx:prompt-coach
You say "coach this": a rough task becomes a clear prompt with limits for an agent.
/stryx:prompt-coachInside its piece: 7 specks, one for each file on its shelf. Its fourteen group-mates glow on the open book behind it. The light splits toward indigo, the band of Workflow.
In numbers
counted 2026-10-12 in the installed set- 6reference files
- 7files in the skill
- 24KB on disk
- 3chapters
Use it when
in the skill’s own words- When the owner says
- "coach this"
- "make this a good prompt"
- "improve my prompt"
- "turn this into a prompt for an agent" about a rough task an agent will run
- hands such a task to be shaped first
- When a held task from a coldstart is read back at hotstart or firestart with a "Shaped prompt" under it
- When the Prompt Upgrade switch or prompt_coach.py is asked about
- When a prompt for real work is about to go out with no limits ("infinite resources", "as many agents as you want", "whatever it takes")
Not for
another skill does it- Writing a skill, agent or hook→ stryx:skill-forge
- Tightening an existing skill, agent, app system prompt or CLAUDE.md→ stryx:prompt-engineer
- Image prompts→ stryx:image-gen
- Evals of a prompt→ stryx:eval
What it covers
7 parts- the limits block
- the nine intent parts
- the silent template pick
- the anti-patterns
- model tuning for Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1 and the local model
- the lessons file
Inside the book
3 chapters, by title only- The shaper
- What a shaped prompt IS (the recipe)
- The held-list path (coldstart)
Works with
the skills it names most- stryx:ai-power→When you are not sure which skill fits, or you say "load aipower": it is the map of all skills.
- stryx:image-gen→When an AI image model must make or change a picture: a hero, a product shot, a texture.
- stryx:eval→When you must measure how a prompt, an agent or an AI feature behaves.
- stryx:learn→You say "remember this" or wrap up a session: the lessons are saved for next time.
- stryx:local-ai→When running AI models on your own graphics card: Ollama, LM Studio, ComfyUI.
- stryx:skill-forge→When creating or changing a skill, agent, slash command or hook, or a skill did not fire.
Claude loads it by itself when the moment comes; by hand, type the line at the top. It comes with the whole set: Installs all 94 skills, 32 agents and the brain program as one set. The skill’s own text is private source and is not shown here.