General Support
Category: Life / Business · Difficulty: High · Tags: planning · goals · habits · reflection
What it does
A broad personal and business support skill that handles missions outside the narrow scope of the other skills. Use it for life planning, debt management, business operations, career pivots, health goals, productivity, and anything else where a user needs structured help getting from point A to point B.
This is the skill your agent reaches for when the request doesn’t map to a specialized skill. It’s structured enough to produce real output and flexible enough to cover wide ground.
Steps
| # | Step | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Intake — understand the situation | Asks targeted questions to map the user’s current state across financial, career, business, health, and relationship axes — only in areas relevant to the mission. Listens before advising. |
| 1 | Set SMART goals | Converts the user’s situation into specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound goals. |
| 2 | Research solutions and resources | Pulls best-in-class options for the goal area (debt consolidation methods, career-pivot frameworks, productivity systems, etc.). |
| 3 | Financial snapshot | If money is involved: builds income/expense/debt/savings sheet. |
| 4 | Build the weekly action plan | Concrete tasks for this week, each assigned a day + time block. |
| 5 | Design keystone habits | Picks 1–3 high-leverage habits that compound toward the goal. Writes cue-routine-reward for each. |
| 6 | Set up tracking and accountability | Configures reminders, weekly check-ins, dashboards the user will actually look at. |
| 7 | Execute first three actions | Runs the first three tasks on day 1 so the user doesn’t end the session with homework. |
| 8 | End of day check-in | Logs progress, surfaces what stalled, adjusts tomorrow’s plan. |
When this skill fires
The agent chooses general-support when the intent is real and important but doesn’t match a more specialized skill:
- “Help me get out of credit-card debt in 18 months” → general-support (financial snapshot + habits + tracking).
- “I want to pivot into product management, where do I start” → general-support (goal-setting + research + weekly plan).
- “Help me build a running habit” → general-support (keystone habit + tracking).
- “I need to organize my week better” → general-support (planning + habits).
If the user explicitly says “help me find a job” or “shop insurance”, the agent routes to the specialized skill (find-job / insurance-quote) instead.
How to invoke from Claude Desktop
do("I want to pay off $22k in credit-card debt in 18 months. Income
$85k/yr, current expenses $4600/mo. Give me a plan I can start
Monday and do without a spreadsheet app.")Or:
“General support: I’m trying to switch careers from marketing into product. 3 years runway of savings, open to anywhere in the US.”
Artifacts produced
life-plan.xlsx—intake,goals,actions,habits,tracking,reflectionssheets.- Weekly plan PDF delivered Sunday evenings.
- Optional: Google Calendar events for time-blocked actions.
Full source
cto-gui-libvirt-backend/app/services/agent_skills/general-support.md.