robonuggets / be-ambitious

# be-ambitious
A free Claude skill that makes your agent more ambitious when you invoke it.
It turns Felix Rieseberg's article How to be more ambitious: a tutorial for humans with models into steps an agent follows. Felix works on Claude at Anthropic. All the ideas are his.
## What it does
Most of us use a model at the size of the task we typed. Felix's point: the model can do far more if you aim it higher, deeper or wider. He names four types of ambition. The skill uses three of them:
| Type | The question it asks | Example |
|---|---|---|
| **Altitude** | What's the goal beyond the goal? | Don't fix one crash. Keep the app crash-free. |
| **Depth** | What would the best expert in the field do, from the raw data, and what outside check proves it's right? | Don't make a markdown table. Load the data into a database and fit a real statistical model. |
| **Range** | Which other fields would help, and what do their experts actually do? | Bring in a journalist, an editor and a short seller, and have each do their real job. |
The fourth type, **Speed** (the same work in less time), is how most people already use AI, so Felix skips it and so does the skill.
When you invoke it, the skill:
1. Finds the goal beyond the goal.
2. Picks the types that fit your task (usually one or two, not all three).
3. Writes the ambitious plan: a 3-rung ladder for Altitude, Felix's four expert questions for Depth, and the crew for Range.
4. Lists the data, tools and access the plan needs, and what's missing.
5. Rewrites your prompt at that level, ending with an outside check and what counts as a pass.
6. Does the work, if you handed it a task. Stops after the rewrite, if you handed it a prompt to improve.
It holds a few hard lines from the article: better, not bigger. Do what the expert does, not role play. Never grade your own work. Treat the hard target as reasonable, and report honestly against the check.
## Install
**Claude Code.** Put the skill in a folder named `be-ambitious` inside your skills folder.
For all your projects:
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For one project only, run this from the project folder:
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The skill is one file, so copying `SKILL.md` into `~/.claude/skills/be-ambitious/` works too. On Windows, `~/.claude` is the `.claude` folder inside your user folder.
**claude.ai.** Zip `SKILL.md` and `LICENSE` in a folder named `be-ambitious`, then upload it under Skills in your claude.ai settings.
## Use it
Type `/be-ambitious` and your task:
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- **A task to do** (fix, build, analyse): you get the plan and the rewritten prompt, then the agent starts on the rung it picked. It asks first only if the rung replaces what you asked for, costs money, or can't be undone.
- **A prompt to improve** ("rewrite this prompt", or a prompt meant for another tool): you get the plan and the rewritten prompt, and it stops.
- **No task:** `/be-ambitious` on its own uses your last request.
You can also say it in plain words, like "be more ambitious with this" or "what would a top expe