---
title: "AI as a Personal Practice — Sundance Skills"
description: "Ten Claude skills plus a guide from The Health Summit · Sundance '26 — a daily AI operating loop you can mount in Cowork today."
source: "https://blog.dvx.ventures/resources/sundance-skills"
site: "DVx Blog"
publisher: "DVx Ventures"
type: "Skill set"
published: "2026-06-08"
updated: "2026-06-08"
attachment: "https://blog.dvx.ventures/downloads/sundance-skills.zip"
---

# AI as a Personal Practice — Sundance Skills

> Ten Claude skills plus a guide from The Health Summit · Sundance '26 — a daily AI operating loop you can mount in Cowork today.

Download: [sundance-skills.zip](https://blog.dvx.ventures/downloads/sundance-skills.zip)

**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

1. **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.
2. **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

1. Download and unzip `sundance-skills.zip`.
2. Move `sundance-skills/` into the folder you mounted in Cowork.
3. In Cowork, ask: *"What skills do I have?"* — they should show up.
4. 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.

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*Source: https://blog.dvx.ventures/resources/sundance-skills — DVx Blog, published by [DVx Ventures](https://dvx.ventures).*