Aphorisms

Manages a curated aphorism collection with full CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, and database maintenance. Organizes quotes by author, theme, context, and newsletter usage history to prevent repetition. Four workflows: FindAphorism (analyze newsletter content, match themes, return 3-5 ranked recommendations with rationale), AddAphorism (parse quote + author, extract themes, validate uniqueness, update theme index), ResearchThinker (deep research on philosopher, add sourced quotes to database), SearchAphorisms (search by theme, keyword, or author). Database at ~/.claude/skills/aphorisms/Database/aphorisms.md — stores full quote text, author attribution, theme tags, context/background, source reference, and usage history per entry. Theme index supports 12+ categories: Work Ethic, Resilience, Learning, Stoicism, Risk, Wisdom, Truth-seeking, Excellence, Curiosity, Freedom, Rationality, Clarity. Supported thinkers: Hitchens, Feynman, Deutsch, Sam Harris, Spinoza, plus any requested author. Newsletter integration: tracks which quotes used in which issues to enforce variety; content theme extraction drives automated matching. USE WHEN: aphorism, quote, saying, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, search aphorisms, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quotes about [topic], quote bank, find matching quote, quote collection, add this quote, check usage history. NOT FOR general creative writing or social media post generation — those go through dedicated writing/social skills.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/src-aphorisms
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/src-aphorisms/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/src-aphorisms/SKILL.md

@misc{src-aphorisms-2026,
  author    = {tharunramagiri},
  title     = {Aphorisms [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/src-aphorisms/}
}