BookSkills converts popular business and nonfiction books into interactive, AI-executable skill files. Instead of reading a book and forgetting its frameworks, you run named commands — like habit-scorecard or batna-analysis — that guide you through the book’s core methodology in a structured, personalized way.
The problem
Millions of people read books like Atomic Habits or Getting Things Done, feel inspired, and then revert to old habits within days. The gap isn’t motivation — it’s the distance between reading about a framework and actually applying it to your specific situation.
Summaries help with the first half. They compress knowledge, make it faster to absorb, and reduce the barrier to getting through a book. But they don’t close the loop. You still walk away with highlights you won’t act on.
BookSkills is about the second half: applied frameworks.
How it works
Skills are distributed as SKILL.md files — portable Markdown files containing structured metadata, commands, and guided prompts. Each skill ships with 5–8 named commands that walk you through the book’s core exercises interactively. They ask targeted questions, synthesize your responses using the book’s framework, and deliver personalized output: scorecards, action plans, decision trees.
The format is compatible with AI assistants and follows an open standard. You don’t just read about the methodology — you run it.
The library
The library currently covers 43+ skills across 13 categories: habits, productivity, negotiation, leadership, entrepreneurship, finance, mindset, communication, marketing, and strategy. Books range from Atomic Habits and Getting Things Done to Zero to One, Never Split the Difference, and The Psychology of Money.
The Atomic Habits skill is free. Individual skills are $7 each, with an all-access plan for the full library.
What’s different
The frame I kept coming back to when building this: knowledge isn’t power — applied knowledge is. A workshop based on a textbook is genuinely different from reading the textbook. BookSkills is that workshop, packaged as a file you can run anytime.