AI as a Personal Practice — Sundance Skills

Built for The Health Summit · Sundance '26. Ten skills you can mount in Cowork today.

These are the encoded workflows from the session. Each one is a plain text file (SKILL.md) that captures a workflow once so it runs in seconds, forever. Download the package, drop the whole folder into the folder you mounted in Cowork (Downloads is fine), and Claude picks them up.

Start here

If you take one home, take start-of-day. It's the seed of the daily loop. Run it tomorrow morning, iterate it in plain English until the brief looks the way you think, and you're on the curve.

The daily loop

Skill	What it does
start-of-day	Writes a morning brief — next 48h, conflicts, email needing a reply
email-triage	Sorts your inbox into reply-now / can-wait / archive
reply-drafts	Drafts the replies triage flagged — you review and send
end-of-day	Reads the morning brief and grades the day against it

Going deeper

Skill	What it does
loose-threads	Finds dropped threads — what you owe, what you're owed
meeting-prep	A prep sheet for any meeting on your calendar
calendar-defrag	Finds the back-to-backs and proposes a cleaner week
weekly-review	Stitches the week's briefs and recaps into a review + a plan
decision-log	Captures decisions and the reasoning so they don't walk out the door
skill-builder	Describe a workflow you repeat — it writes you a brand-new skill

How they stitch together

The mounted folder is the shared memory. start-of-day writes briefs/brief-YYYY-MM-DD.md; end-of-day reads it back tonight. weekly-review reads a whole week of both. No copy-paste between skills — one skill reads what another wrote. That's the compounding.

As the skills run, they create this layout in your mounted folder:

your-mounted-folder/
├── sundance-skills/                ← the skills themselves live here
│   ├── start-of-day/  email-triage/  end-of-day/  ... (10 total)
│
├── briefs/        brief-YYYY-MM-DD.md         (start-of-day writes)
├── recaps/        recap-YYYY-MM-DD.md         (end-of-day writes, reads briefs/)
├── triage/        triage-YYYY-MM-DD.md        (email-triage writes)
├── drafts/        drafts-YYYY-MM-DD.md        (reply-drafts writes, reads triage/)
├── meeting-prep/  {date}-{slug}.md            (meeting-prep writes)
├── reviews/       weekly-review + defrag      (weekly-review reads briefs/ + recaps/)
├── loose-threads-YYYY-MM-DD.md                (loose-threads writes)
└── decisions.md                               (decision-log appends)

Two ground rules baked into every skill

Nothing is sent, shared, or deleted without you. Skills that touch email leave drafts for you to review. They never send, never delete, never change who can see what.
Personal device, personal data. This is the setup from the session — your personal laptop, your personal Google account. Keep patient data and anything regulated out of these flows. Build the intuition here, then take informed questions back to IT for the work version.

Installing

Download and unzip sundance-skills.zip.
Move sundance-skills/ into the folder you mounted in Cowork.
In Cowork, ask: "What skills do I have?" — they should show up.
Run one. Iterate in plain English. Keep the ones that stick.

Galt's Law: every complex system that works started as a simple system that worked. Start simple. Run it once a day this week. That's where the practice gets built.