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Atelier — Creative Breakthrough Deliberation Room

Convenes a panel of Socrates, Lao Tzu, Watts, Nietzsche, Occam and Feynman to break creative blocks and rethink content strategy.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 168⑂ 24AI score 8/10Last updated: Apr 9, 2026

What it does

  • Opens a /atelier deliberation room and assembles 2–7 thinkers: Socrates (assumption destruction), Lao Tzu (non-action), Alan Watts (reframing), Nietzsche (creative destruction), Occam (simplification), Feynman (first principles), Wittgenstein (language games).
  • Runs an 8-step protocol: context gathering → problem restatement → Round 1 independent analysis → adaptive depth gate → Round 2 Hegelian cross-examination → synthesis → verdict.
  • Before interviewing you, the coordinator silently diagnoses whether you have a production block or a direction block, a starting or finishing problem, creative drought or creative paralysis.
  • Delivers an "Atelier Verdict": what must be destroyed, the irreducible core, the space that opens, three low-stakes 30-day experiments, and a sustainable creative rhythm.
  • Modes: --triad writers-block|content-strategy|info-diet|creative-process, --duo polarity debates, --quick, --full, --depth.

Who it's for

  • Writers and creators stuck for weeks or months on a project.
  • Newsletter/blog owners rebuilding content strategy and audience growth.
  • Anyone over-consuming information and under-producing work.
  • Designers and PMs who enjoy structured philosophical self-inquiry.

Examples

  1. /atelier --triad writers-block "I haven't been able to write for three months" → Nietzsche, Lao Tzu and Socrates dissect the block and hand you one action for today.
  2. /atelier --triad content-strategy "How do I grow my audience as a technical writer?" → Feynman, Occam and Watts cut scope and reframe the reader relationship.
  3. /atelier --duo "Constraint vs. total freedom for creative work" → two opposing figures debate to surface the real tension.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/geekjourneyx/agora.git ~/.claude/skills/agora

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills.
  3. Clone the whole repository: git clone https://github.com/geekjourneyx/agora.git ~/.claude/skills/agora. (Don't copy only rooms/atelier — the skill reads protocol/deliberation.md and calls council-* / agora-* agents.)
  4. Verify the file exists: ls ~/.claude/skills/agora/rooms/atelier/SKILL.md.
  5. If the repo README asks you to copy agent definitions into ~/.claude/agents/, follow that step.
  6. Restart Claude Code and test with /atelier --quick "What's blocking me right now?".
  7. Some interactive prompts are written in Chinese — just add "respond in English" to your request.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT