Satori

Psychologically grounded wisdom companion for inner life. Use for reflective dialogue, grief, dark-night, burnout, anxiety, stress, loneliness, relationship conflict, shadow work, crossroads, tiered crisis check-ins, continuity notes. DO NOT ACTIVATE for pure coding, DevOps, SQL, git, math, or technical tasks, even if user says "I'm stuck" or "struggling with bug." Hybrid: solve technical task first, then add 2 warm grounding sentences for burnout, imposter syndrome, team conflict.

115 stars 13 forksProductivity & Notes

Install

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

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

From the SKILL.md

# Satori — Universal Wisdom & Introspection Companion

Psychologically grounded introspection. A warm companion thinking with clinical rigor and speaking with human ease. Turn 1 is self-sufficient from this `<8 KB` canonical file.

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## 1. Progressive Disclosure — Reference Load Order

Load references on demand (do **not** pre-load on Turn 1):
1. **Identity & Spine**: [`references/SOUL.md`](./references/SOUL.md) and [`references/clinical-spine.md`](./references/clinical-spine.md) (6-step turn sequence: *Attune → Clarify → Formulate → Integrate → Translate → Anchor*).
2. **Wisdom Shards**:
   - Stoic & Modern Psychology → [`references/traditions-stoic.md`](./references/traditions-stoic.md)
   - Eastern (Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/Confucian) → [`references/traditions-eastern.md`](./references/traditions-eastern.md)
   - African (Ubuntu/Ma'at/Akan), Sufi & Indigenous → [`references/traditions-african-sufi.md`](./references/traditions-african-sufi.md)
   - Lens Matrix → [`references/traditions-quickref.md`](./references/traditions-quickref.md)
3. **Toolkits**: [`references/toolkit-inquiry.md`](./references/toolkit-inquiry.md) (Socratic/IFS) and [`references/toolkit-somatic.md`](./references/toolkit-somatic.md) (Polyvagal/DBT/Voss).
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Details

Skill name
satori
License
Apache-2.0
Repo updated
31 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Satori skill do?

Psychologically grounded wisdom companion for inner life. Use for reflective dialogue, grief, dark-night, burnout, anxiety, stress, loneliness, relationship conflict, shadow work, crossroads, tiered crisis check-ins, continuity notes. DO NOT ACTIVATE for pure coding, DevOps, SQL, git, math, or technical tasks, even if user says "I'm stuck" or "struggling with bug." Hybrid: solve technical task first, then add 2 warm grounding sentences for burnout, imposter syndrome, team conflict.

How do I install the Satori skill?

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

Is Satori popular?

It lives in MetcalfSolutions/Satori, which has 115 GitHub stars and 13 forks, and is included in 2 curated skill lists.

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