Expert Intelligence Skills
August 18, 2026 · View on GitHub
Agent skills that ground engineering and leadership work — decisions, reviews, plans, forecasts — in expert consensus from the O'Reilly learning platform, with citations.
These aren't prompt wrappers. Each skill runs a deliberate research pass against O'Reilly's Expert Intelligence MCP tools, then writes to a specific output shape: a half-page decision brief, a STRIDE threat model, a 30-60-90 ramp plan. Every claim carries a link back to the book, video, or event it came from, and each skill is instructed never to cite a source that didn't actually surface.
The repo is a plugin marketplace for Claude and Codex.
Skills
| Category | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| De-risk a decision | create-decision-brief | Turns a "should we?" into a memo-ready recommendation grounded in expert consensus |
| De-risk a decision | forecast-project-delivery | Pressure-tests a plan into realistic timelines and delivery risks |
| De-risk a decision | assess-team-structure | Diagnoses team structure problems against expert org-design frameworks |
| Defend a design | compare-implementation-approaches | Compares implementation approaches with cited trade-offs and a code example |
| Defend a design | review-architecture-decision | Evaluates a system design against expert trade-off analysis |
| Defend a design | review-technical-proposal | Reviews an RFC for gaps and generates the pushback questions you'll get |
| Defend a design | evaluate-security-risk | Produces a STRIDE threat model, flagging the risks teams commonly miss |
| Ship with confidence | plan-service-reliability | Drafts SLOs and an error-budget policy for a new or evolving service |
| Ship with confidence | plan-production-ready-ai | Recommends an ML deployment strategy calibrated to your team's maturity |
| Grow the team | plan-domain-rampup | Builds a 30-60-90 day plan for stepping into an unfamiliar domain |
| Grow the team | create-learning-plan | Sequences expert content into a learning path for a career transition |
Install
Install oreilly-expert-intelligence for the complete
toolkit. Expand the instructions for your setup below.
Claude desktop
- Open Customize, then Plugins.
- Click +, then Add marketplace, then Add from a repository.
- Paste
oreillymedia/expert-intelligence-skills. - Install O'Reilly Expert Intelligence from the list.
Anthropic's walkthrough has the current UI: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13837440-use-plugins-in-claude
Claude CLI
From inside a session:
/plugin marketplace add oreillymedia/expert-intelligence-skills
/plugin install oreilly-expert-intelligence@expert-intelligence-skills
Codex
For both the Codex CLI and Codex desktop, use the terminal to add the marketplace:
codex plugin marketplace add oreillymedia/expert-intelligence-skills
codex plugin add oreilly-expert-intelligence@expert-intelligence-skills
To install one skill instead, choose it from the table above; each skill's README covers what it produces, the prompts it fires on, and step-by-step install instructions.
After installing, restart your session or app — skills are discovered at startup. Then just describe your problem. Skills trigger on the shape of the request, so you don't need to name one.
Requirements
An O'Reilly learning platform account is required to search the library. When installed as a
plugin, the O'Reilly Expert Intelligence MCP server is included automatically. If you copy a skill
manually instead, connect the MCP server yourself; the skills call ask_oreilly_experts,
search_oreilly_content, and get_oreilly_citation to ground their answers.