Gremlin Bootstrap
SkillProductivityBootstrap Gremlin work from the joelclaw side. Use when a task mentions gremlin from outside the repo and you need to locate the repo, load its shipped repo-local skill, or understand which guidance belongs to gremlin versus joelclaw.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Gremlin Bootstrap skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by joelhooks/joelclaw in skills/gremlin/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
This is not the canonical Gremlin repo skill.
Gremlin-specific skills should ship with the Gremlin repo unless they are specifically about how Gremlin plugs into the joelclaw system.
Canonical repo-local skill
Load this first for normal Gremlin work:
/Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin/SKILL.md
Then load narrower repo-local skills as needed:
/Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-package-release/SKILL.md/Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-project-setup/SKILL.md/Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-tanstack-start/SKILL.md
Use this joelclaw-side skill only when
- you are outside the Gremlin repo and need to jump into it
- you need to distinguish repo-local Gremlin guidance from joelclaw-specific automation/integration guidance
- you are updating joelclaw prompts, routing, or memory surfaces that refer to Gremlin
Rules
- Prefer the repo-local Gremlin skill for Gremlin truth.
- Do not let joelclaw-owned prompts drift into owning Gremlin repo policy.
- If a Gremlin skill is generally useful to Gremlin contributors, move it into the Gremlin repo instead of expanding this file.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 64
- Forks
- 2
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
gremlin- Source
- github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw