familiarsby notgabriels
Skills · plugins · themes for Claude

Small minds that know one job.

Familiars are Claude skills and plugins built in a Berlin studio for people who make and deliver sound. Each one has a form, a name and a narrow job. It works inside your rules, says what it does not know, and stops when the job is done.

What a familiar is

A narrow helper with house rules built in.

A familiar loads when your request matches its job, and only then. Three rules hold for every one of them.

Narrow

One job, stated exclusions

Each familiar names what it covers and which neighbour to call for the rest, so two of them never answer the same question twice.

Bound

Your specs, never invented ones

No sample rate, loudness target, true-peak ceiling or file format appears unless you supplied it. Missing values come back as a labelled default or a single question.

Honest

Facts kept apart from guesses

What you said, what was measured and what was inferred stay labelled. A familiar never claims it heard, sent or published something it did not.

Catalogue

Seven familiars, each with its sigil.

The sigil is the familiar's mark at small size: one colour, readable at 16 pixels. Hover a card to see it drawn.

Early access

Latch

Track Finishing System · skill

Reads what stage a track is in, sets completion criteria and runs time-boxed sessions across a backlog of unfinished projects. One open decision per answer, one next action per session.

RefusesOpening a new idea before the current one is closed.
Early access

Loom

Release Concept Architecture · skill

Turns a folder of tracks into a body of work: the concept axis, the arc, the running order, a title system and the release texts.

RefusesMarketing register, and any phrase on the house banned list.
Early access

Witness

Audio Evaluation & Annotation · skill

Rubric-based rating and A/B comparison, evidence first. Every finding carries a timecode, the observed artifact, its audible character, the effect on usability and a confidence level.

RefusesNaming a cause when the audio only supports a symptom.
Early access

Ledger

Mixing & Mastering Reports · skill

Session and delivery notes a client can act on: what changed, what was measured, what stayed untouched, and versions compared level-matched.

RefusesA loudness number with no platform, client or artistic reason behind it.
Early access

Echo

German Practice Drills · skill

Corrections, grammar and vocabulary for studio and office German in Berlin, pitched at beginner to intermediate. Spoken rehearsal for calls you would rather not improvise.

RefusesOverexplaining a correction.
Early access

Den

Studio Ops · plugin, nine skills

The working room of a techno studio in one install, from demo triage to the tech rider.

demo triagetrack reviewmix and master decisionssound design recipeslive set designtech riderrelease deliveryfreelance admin DEGerman correspondence
RefusesBlending the artist, the label and the freelancer into one voice.
Public · MIT

Ash

Graphite · dark theme

A dark theme where every colour pair carries its computed contrast ratio, with a written restriction wherever a pair fails.

RefusesEyeballing contrast.
Request a familiar

Early access is by email.

Say which familiar you want and what you would use it for. Each reply comes from a person, not an autoresponder.

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