Turn a messy idea or brief into structured next steps in five minutes.

What's inside

Two skills, one worked example. Each skill has a single opinionated job and refuses to do anything else. The worked example shows them end-to-end against a realistic input, so you can see what the output looks like before you install anything.

• /idea-clarifier

  Takes a rough idea, brief, or project sketch and returns a clear audience, a pain point in the audience's own words, an offer framing (one product, one price, one channel), and a ranked first-action plan. Rejects category audiences ("founders", "marketers"), demands a real quote before writing the pain section, and refuses to invent specifics you didn't supply.

• /first-skill-template

  Scaffolds a new Claude Code skill at .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with the canonical Knack body pattern: frontmatter, when-to-use, inputs, steps, output format, worked-example pointer, don'ts. Refuses to overwrite an existing file. Useful for your own first skill or as a reference for how every paid Knack pack is structured.

Worked example

One end-to-end run included with the pack. Copy the INPUT.md, run it through the skill, and have a usable artefact in under 5 minutes.

• Pricing tool for freelance graphic designers

  An indie hacker pastes a vague brief about "something for freelance graphic designers around pricing". The skill rejects the category audience, demands a real Reddit quote, narrows to designers 1 to 2 years in losing on Upwork pricing, and produces a five-step plan starting with the smallest possible signal-gathering action: post the question, not the offer.

How it gets installed

# macOS / Linux
./install.sh

# Windows: easiest path is to double-click install.cmd from File Explorer.
# Or from PowerShell:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1

Re-run any time; you'll get a clean overwrite with no duplicate entries. Skills land in your Claude Code config directory (~/.claude/ by default; override with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR). No licence key, no telemetry. The -ExecutionPolicy Bypass flag on Windows is needed because we don't pay for a code-signing certificate yet; it tells PowerShell to run this one unsigned script just this once, and changes nothing permanent on your machine.

FAQ

Is it really free?

Yes. MIT-licensed, no licence key, no email gate on the download itself (we ask for an email so you hear about updates and new packs, but you can skip it). Use it, fork it, build on it.

What's Claude Code?

Anthropic's official CLI for Claude. Open-source, free to use; you bring your own API key. Knack packs are bundles of skills, slash commands and agents that drop into the Claude Code config directory. If you don't have it yet, claude.com/claude-code.

How long to install?

Under 2 minutes from a clean Claude Code setup. Run ./install.sh on macOS or Linux, or double-click install.cmd on Windows. The two skills appear in Claude Code immediately; no restart, no licence key.

Mac, Windows, Linux?

All three. ./install.sh covers macOS and Linux. On Windows, double-click install.cmd from File Explorer for the easiest path, or run `powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1` from PowerShell directly. Re-run any time; you'll get a clean overwrite with no duplicate entries.

What's the upgrade path?

If you find these two skills useful and want to go deeper into a specific job, the paid packs at knack.run/packs go deep on a single domain (consulting ops, indie-hacker launches, more shipping over Q2 2026). Each is lifetime-licensed: one-time payment, no subscription.