The Catholic intellectual tradition has been writing rigorously about every subject these skills touch for two thousand years. Every answer should be verifiable, every citation should resolve to a primary source, every saint should be the saint the Church canonized, not the one the model half-remembers. That is what this repository does.
I built these for myself. I keep an Obsidian vault of Scripture notes ( the way Jeff Cavins teaches ) for the Bible studies I lead, and I got tired of AI hallucinations and citations that didn't resolve or were flat wrong. I also have young adult children. I'm blunt, and I sometimes need to prepare for a hard conversation before I have it, rather than wing it. These three skills came out of those two needs. Ive published these for anyone struggling like myself.
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Three skills do three different jobs. A pre-verified reference library (174 cross-checked entries on saints, popes, Church Fathers, apostles, ecumenical councils, the Beatitudes, and the Ten Commandments) supports two of them. All three are built and tested for Claude Code. They conform to the Agent Skills v2.0 specification, so they should work in any other compliant client (Codex, Cursor, etc.) without modification. But only Claude Code is verified at the time of release.
Skills
| Skill | When to use | Version |
|---|
| catholic-advisor | A specific question. "What does the Church teach about purgatory?" "Walk me through the Catechism on the Beatitudes." Per-question opt-in. | 1.0.0 |
| catholic-advisor-setup | An entire vault, notes folder, or knowledge base. Run once; every conversation in that directory inherits the Catholic theologian persona automatically. | 1.0.0 |
| youth-communication-coach | Hard conversations with someone aged 4–25. Death, dating, faith doubts, failure, money. Coaches the adult, not the young person. | 1.0.0 |
catholic-advisor
Ask anything about the Catholic faith (doctrine, Scripture, the sacraments, moral theology, apologetics, a specific saint, a specific council, a specific encyclical) and receive a sourced answer rooted in official Church teaching.
Example:
"What did the Council of Trent actually define about justification?"
The skill answers from the conciliar text itself, links to the relevant Catechism paragraphs on catholiccrossreference.online, cites the Bible Gateway NRSVCE passages used, and points at the Council documents on vatican.va. If the Church has not spoken definitively on something, the skill says so. If there is no source for a claim, the skill says so. Every response ends with a ## Sources section listing every URL cited. No fabricated URLs.
Why this exists. I run multiple Bible studies and the Obsidian vault is where the work lives. I kept losing time to fighting hallucinated citations and saint biographies the model got subtly wrong. So I built this. Every answer has to resolve to a primary source. If it can't, the answer says so out loud.
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catholic-advisor-setup
Run once inside an Obsidian vault, a Scripture study folder, a theological writing project, or any directory where you want Catholic teaching to be the default behavior of every Claude Code conversation, not something you have to invoke per question.
What gets installed:
