Be Ambitious

Makes a task or prompt more ambitious using Felix Rieseberg's types of ambition, Altitude (aim at the outcome, the goal beyond the goal), Depth (work like the best expert in the field, from the raw data, checked by an outside judge) and Range (bring in other fields and do what their experts do). Writes the ambitious plan and a rewritten prompt, then does the work when it was handed a task. Use when the user types /be-ambitious, says "be more ambitious", "aim higher", "go deeper on this", "what's the goal beyond the goal", "what would a top expert do here", "raise the bar", or asks to make a pr

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add robonuggets/be-ambitious --skill be-ambitious
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robonuggets/be-ambitious.git /tmp/be-ambitious
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/be-ambitious/. ~/.claude/skills/be-ambitious

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Be ambitious

Every idea here comes from Felix Rieseberg's article [How to be more ambitious: a tutorial for humans with models](https://felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutorial-for-humans-with-models/) (13 Oct 2026). Felix works on Claude at Anthropic. This skill turns his article into steps an agent can follow.

Most people use a model at the size of the task they typed. Model skills grow unevenly, "astounding in some directions, while inadequate in others" (Terence Tao), so the only way to find the astounding parts is to aim higher than feels reasonable.

## The rules that matter most

1. **Better, not bigger.** Each type raises something: the outcome (Altitude), the standard (Depth) or the set of perspectives (Range). None of them means more deliverables, features or side quests. If a suggestion makes the job larger without making it better, drop it.
2. **Do what the expert does, not how they talk.** When you bring in a field, use its methods and instruments. Switching vocabulary without switching methods is role play: the transcript gets weirder and the result stays the same.
3. **An outside judge decides if it worked.** Never grade your own work. Find something other than you or the user that shows the result is right: a test, a benchmark, a reproduction, held-out data, a measurement. Best of all is a tool you can run to get feedback at once.
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Details

Skill name
be-ambitious
Repository
robonuggets/be-ambitious
License
MIT
Repo updated
17 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Be Ambitious skill do?

Makes a task or prompt more ambitious using Felix Rieseberg's types of ambition, Altitude (aim at the outcome, the goal beyond the goal), Depth (work like the best expert in the field, from the raw data, checked by an outside judge) and Range (bring in other fields and do what their experts do). Writes the ambitious plan and a rewritten prompt, then does the work when it was handed a task. Use when the user types /be-ambitious, says "be more ambitious", "aim higher", "go deeper on this", "what's the goal beyond the goal", "what would a top expert do here", "raise the bar", or asks to make a pr

How do I install the Be Ambitious skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add robonuggets/be-ambitious --skill be-ambitious. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Be Ambitious popular?

It lives in robonuggets/be-ambitious, which has 154 GitHub stars and 18 forks.

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