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The Skill I Use to Turn Agent Into My Personal Manager

I'm publishing retainer — a skill that reproduces the vault workflow my daily process has been built on for months.

  • AI agents
  • Claude Code
  • personal systems

I’m publishing a skill that lets you reproduce the same workflow I’ve been using for several months now.

This workflow by itself is still just the foundation. Around it I already have a whole mass of tools, applications and additional skills which altogether help me automating daily routines. For example, my morning-processing skill. Every morning it fetches my wellness metrics, my training data, my work calendar, my work tasks, plans the day for me, and gives me feedback on the points I ask it about. Ultimately, for me it answers the question: am I actually following my long-term and mid-term goals.

With that being said, I assume other people may use this skill in completely different ways.

The skill itself creates the structure of the vault. Essentially it’s just a folder with markdown files. It says nothing about how it’s stored or backed up. I keep it synced with other devices as well as with server via Syncthing, from where it’s periodically auto-committed to git to make sure it has a back up. You can also just tell the agent to periodically commit it to a private GitHub repository without any more sophisticated automation.


The skill is on GitHub: AlexDobrushskiy/retainer.