AugmentClaude

Second Brain Mind Shift Tracker

Track how your beliefs and positions changed over time with supporting evidence.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.

    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/second-brain-changed-my-mind-undefined-ui/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

    Quick install (SKILL.md only)
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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

Trace where the user's recorded position on something has shifted: superseded claims, contradictions between sources of different dates, and what evidence moved them. Use this skill when the user asks what they have changed their mind about, how their thinking on a topic developed, what they used to believe, or wants a quarterly look back at their own positions. Do NOT use for finding contradictions between sources with no time dimension, or for a current-state answer.

What this skill does

Trace changed positions

This is the query a vault can answer that nothing else can, and the reason the supersession rules exist. It only works because contradictions are recorded rather than overwritten.

Core rule

Report the change with both positions, both dates and the evidence between them. A conclusion without its history is just the current claim.

Workflow

  1. Find superseded claims across concept pages, and contradictions where the sources differ in date.
  2. Reconstruct the sequence: what the page said, when, based on what; what changed it, when.
  3. Distinguish real revision from correction. A factual error being fixed is not a change of mind. A conclusion being revised on better evidence is.
  4. Flag unresolved ones. Contradictions still sitting open are the most actionable output here.
  5. Say how firm the current position is, based on what moved it.

Output format

## <topic>
Was: <claim> (<source>, <date>)
Now: <claim> (<source>, <date>)
What moved it: <evidence>
Firmness: <what would move it again>

## Still unresolved
<contradictions with no current position>

Calibration

If nothing has changed in the period, say so in one line. Manufacturing an apparent revision from two pages that never disagreed is worse than an empty result.

Never present the more recent source as correct by virtue of being recent.

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