/skill-gap — what skill should we build next?

🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator, end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language. (memory eli5-always)

Finds the gap between what the operator DOES (recurring manual work across sessions) and what they HAVE (installed skills), and proposes the highest value × frequency new skills. Read-only; proposes, never auto-builds. Mirror of [[evaluate-recurring-into-routine]] (that catches one task → routine; this scans the whole fleet of sessions → skill gaps).

Method (token-cheap — cheap tools first, [[vault-data-architecture]])

1. The week's agenda (≈0 tokens): mcp__ccd_session_mgmt__list_sessions (limit ~60) — session TITLES are the agenda; cluster them by theme. Don't read every transcript; use titles + memory. (Full-text search_session_transcripts needs the operator's approval — only if a cluster is ambiguous.) ⚠️ This only sees THIS machine's sessions; with the cross-machine relay live ([[machine-migration]], skill inbox) a pattern from another computer is invisible here — note the current-machine label and don't assume the gap is global.
2. What's already built: the installed skills (the Skill tool list) + on-disk $USERPROFILE/.claude/skills/*\SKILL.md. Also note scheduled routines that have NO manual skill twin.
3. Cross-map: for each session cluster, is there a skill that covers it? RECALL memory ([[machine-migration]], [[n8n-stack]], [[notebooklm-integration]], etc.) so you don't propose something a neighboring session already built — this is the #1 trap (a parallel session, INCLUDING one on another machine, may have shipped it; check /inbox / the relay).
4. Rank gaps by value × repeat: how many sessions touched it? does it hurt now? is the infra already there (→ thin wrapper, cheap to build)? Flag ⚠️ ADDED COMPLEXITY for anything heavy ([[ak47-simplicity]]).

Output

• A ranked table: gap · where it showed up (which sessions) · score (HIGH/MED/LOW) · is the infra already there.
• Top 2-3 as BEFORE→AFTER on real data ([[show-before-after]]).
• Refresh the dashboard: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/_Dashboards/Skill-Gap-Audit.html (the operator works by eye, [[prefer-visual-dashboards]]).
• Then 🧒 recap. End by asking which to build (their "+" = go).

Daily routine

Scheduled twin skill-gap-daily runs this read-only and updates the dashboard + drops a one-line note if a NEW gap appeared since yesterday (don't nag if nothing changed). Grunt drafting → Sonnet; the judgment/ranking → keep on the session model ([[model-routing-sonnet-grunt]]).

Like this skill? It is one of 100 in second-brain-starter-kit: the second brain we built for ourselves and run every day at Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Install the whole set with npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. Everything is open source and free, so take what you need.

Flagships worth a look on their own: secondop-panel (a second opinion from a panel of external models), claude-memory-tidy (stop your agent's memory from rotting), telegram-mcp-kit (your own Telegram over MCP in about 15 minutes).

Author: Anton Dziatkovskii, Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Telegram @tonydzi - WhatsApp +1 341 222 9178 - X @Tony_Stef_

Engineers: want to test-drive this setup? Message me. I hand out free starter seeds to engineers who test and report back, and custom skill requests are welcome.