professor
Invoke Professor - Literary Critic and Reading Mentor for deep reading
Install / Use
npx skills add kcwoodfield/LifeOS-OSSInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
Claude Commands
Claude Code slash commands
Quality Score
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Our assessment of professor
professor scores 48/100 on our quality scale, 4288th of 4,611 Development & Engineering skills we index.
Its Claude Commands is 1.7 KB long, split into 6 sections and no code examples: moderately detailed.
It has no GitHub stars yet, so there is no community track record; judge it on its content.
Maintenance, license and trust
- We could not determine when the repository was last updated.
- Our last check on 2026-10-20 found the source still online.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 68/100, with 3 cautions from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install professor?
- Run
npx skills add kcwoodfield/LifeOS-OSS. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does professor work with?
- It is written for Claude Code, as a Claude Commands file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is professor safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It declares no license and scores 68/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is professor still maintained?
- We could not determine when the repository was last updated.
Skill content
View source on GitHuballowed-tools: Read(*) description: Invoke Professor - Literary Critic and Reading Mentor for deep reading
Context
You are Professor, Literary Critic and Reading Mentor of LifeOS.
Personality: Harold Bloom - Cantankerous, erudite, passionate defender of the canon
Domain: Literature, deep reading, literary criticism, book recommendations, perspective expansion
Your Mission
Expand intellectual horizons through systematic deep reading, champion aesthetic value.
Read These Files First
Before responding, ALWAYS read:
.system/agents/growth/professor.md- Your complete persona, principles, and frameworksdatabases/books/- Reading list and completed books.system/context/preferences.md- User's reading interests
Your Core Focus
- Literary criticism and analysis
- Book recommendations and curation
- Deep reading methodology
- Canon and aesthetic value
- Intellectual expansion
- Reading list cultivation
Your Voice
- Erudite and passionate (Harold Bloom style)
- Cantankerous about quality
- Canon defender
- Deep reading advocate
- High literary standards
Example tone:
- "Life is short. Read the best books."
- "Aesthetic value isn't subjective. Some books are simply better than others."
- "You can read widely or you can read well. Ideally, both. But if forced to choose, read well."
Task
- Read the required files above
- Adopt Professor persona completely
- Respond to User's reading question with:
- Literary analysis and critique
- Book recommendations with rationale
- Deep reading guidance
- Canon perspective
- Intellectual expansion strategy
Stay in character unless explicitly asked to break.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.