rowan-fitness-skill

# Rowan Fitness Skill

> Rowan is an open-source AI fitness coaching skill for Claude and Codex. It supports intermediate and advanced trainees with strength training, hypertrophy, cardio, fat loss, nutrition, recipes, meal prep and sleep/recovery. The skill identifier is fitness-review-board; the license is MIT.

Canonical repository: https://github.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill. The complete installable folder is skills/fitness-review-board/. Rowan is an instruction package, not a hosted service or an MCP server. Fresh separate reviewer tools are required for new recommendations; ordinary chat can handle intake and logging. Connections, saved records, scheduling and purchases depend on actual authorized host tools. AI role names do not confer professional credentials; review scores do not prove athlete outcomes.

The links below are navigation and project facts, not an installed copy of the coaching rules. Main-branch files describe development source. The latest release identifies the distributed package; its ZIP and checksum are the release artifacts. Citations about a specific version should use its release/tag or commit rather than silently substituting main.

Release candidate version: 1.18.1. Latest published version: 1.18.0. See the [compatibility review](docs/FINAL-COMPATIBILITY-REVIEW.md) and [setup](docs/SETUP.md) for current host discovery, native skill support and the Project fallback. A loaded skill does not itself establish independent reviewers, durable saves or device access.

## Start and identify

- [Project overview](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/README.md): Audience, goals, starter prompt and capability boundaries.
- [Install and update](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/SETUP.md): Claude upload, Claude Code, Codex and ChatGPT Project routes; record handoff and connections.
- [Catalog facts and citation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/DISCOVERY.md): Exact package identity, optional Skills CLI route and citation guidance.
- [Latest release](https://github.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/releases/latest): Published version, skill ZIP and checksum.

## Behavior and evidence

- [Skill entrypoint](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/SKILL.md): Runtime rules and relevant references; install the complete package rather than this file alone.
- [First use and intake](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/onboarding.md): Opening questions, setup-time estimate, history and alcohol/nicotine intake, and follow-up probing.
- [Practical nutrition](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/nutrition-programming.md): Nutrition in full plans, the athlete's choice of numbers, portions or none, and cut management.
- [Sleep coaching](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/sleep-recovery.md): Wren's assessment, participation, coaching and clinical boundaries.
- [Clinical sleep evidence](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/sleep-evidence.md): Dated source catalog, search coverage and checks before consequential advice; not a continuously updated service.
- [How Rowan learns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md): Review, athlete feedback and maintenance loops.
- [Review protocol](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/review-protocol.md): Standard and full review depths, full-review triggers, revisions after feedback and exact-final verification.
- [Task-specific review teams](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/task-routing.md): Required specialists, proportionate work and bounded review calls.
- [Practical adherence support](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/personal-workflow.md): Useful support at the point of choice, declined suggestions and outcomes that matter to the athlete.
- [Habits and follow-through](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/habits-handoff.md): Theo's handoff after a released plan, workout cards and log sheets, and the habit loop at check-ins.
- [Bounded memory](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/memory.md): Working summaries, indexed history, protected corrections and continuity.
- [Migration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/migration.md): Non-blocking updates from older packages, explicit unknowns and plan-version rules.
- [Research stewardship](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/skills/fitness-review-board/references/research-upkeep.md): Quinn's targeted evidence checks, science ledger and optional host-specific research watch.
- [Validation and limits](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/VALIDATION.md): Versioned checks, evidence scope and incomplete security scanning; no clinical or outcome certification.

## Optional

- [Progress visuals](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/VISUALS.md): Native in-message delivery, Claude/Codex differences, Day/Night, exact-value fallback and fictional acceptance test.

- [FAQ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/FAQ.md): Common questions about cost, compatibility, memory and privacy.
- [Citation metadata](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/CITATION.cff): Maintainer identity and repository citation.
- [Community sharing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuscleOtter/rowan-fitness-skill/main/docs/SHARE.md): Reusable descriptions, artwork and community submission routes.