# Telos

Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, and strategies with...

- Repository: https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS (19669 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-28
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill Telos -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill Telos -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill Telos -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill Telos -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, and strategies with timestamped backups; Project TELOS analyzes .md/.csv directories for dependencies, bottlenecks, and alignment. USE WHEN Telos, life goals, projects, dependencies, update TELOS, narrative points, McKinsey report, dashboard, what am I wrong about, life frames, mental models. NOT FOR conversational constitutional review (Interview).

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Telos

**Contents:** Ideal State · Intent Routing · Data & Config · Project TELOS Analysis · Building Dashboards · Gotchas · Examples

Reads and changes the principal's personal TELOS (life goals, ideal and current state, beliefs, strategies, wisdom, lessons, wrong-beliefs and the rest) at `~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/TELOS/`, every change made through the Update intent's tool with a timestamped backup and a changelog line, because a hand edit can lose history or break the structure other tools parse. **TELOS** (Telic Evolution and Life Operating System) is the context-gathering system behind it. The same skill also runs Project TELOS: it reads a directory of .md/.csv files for dependency chains (PROBLEMS→GOALS→STRATEGIES→PROJECTS), bottlenecks, alignment and progress, and renders the analysis as a McKinsey-style report, n=24 narrative points, or a Next.js dashboard built by parallel engineers.

## Ideal State

The rest: https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS/blob/HEAD/LifeOS/install/skills/Telos/SKILL.md