Quartz 4

2026-05-24

2 min read

Set up dungeonbooks/skills (private for now). It’s a Claude skills plugin for running a bookstore’s back office, adapted from Anthropic’s small-business plugin so other Square shops can bootstrap off it. The idea: a shop that roughly matches our stack connects their tools and these just work.

Did it as a clean git history so the adaptations are reviewable: one commit vendors the upstream skills verbatim, then one commit per skill remaps them to our stack. Connector mapping is QuickBooks (cash), Square (in-store), Stripe (online), Ko-fi (memberships), Hi.Events (events), Gmail, Google Calendar, Discord. We dropped the upstream PayPal/HubSpot/Slack/Intercom stuff.

Ported and genericized 6 skills: business-pulse, contract-review, handle-complaint, ticket-deflector, customer-pulse, router. Apache-2.0 with a NOTICE crediting upstream.

Decisions worth remembering:

  • Memberships default to Ko-fi in the public-facing copy (low friction for other shops). Guild and Square Loyalty are listed as swap-in alternatives. We still run on Guild ourselves; this was about what’s easiest for someone else to start with.
  • Bookstore only, not game shop. Pulled all the board-game/game-night examples.
  • Reference clone of the upstream repo lives at ~/projects/knowledge-work-plugins for browsing.

Backlog: more skills worth porting (later)

Held off on these. Ranked by fit (they were checked against actual connector deps in the upstream source).

Tier 1 (strong fit, light work):

  • smb-onboard → connector setup walkthrough. Highest leverage: without it a new shop installs the plugin and has nothing connected. This is the whole bootstrap story. Rename to onboard/setup, swap HubSpot for our stack.
  • close-month → month-end reconcile QuickBooks vs Square + Stripe. Already references Square/Stripe.
  • margin-analyzer or price-check → retail margins and pricing (pick one).
  • sales-brief → what’s selling / what to promote, from Square.

Tier 2 (worth it, more relevant once cash-tight or staffed):

  • plan-payroll, month-heads-up (cash forecast), invoice-chase (if we do library/wholesale/special-order deposits), tax-prep or tax-season-organizer.

Tier 3 (only if we do that work): content-strategy, canva-creator (event/newsletter promo), job-post-builder (seasonal hiring, clean port, Gmail+DocuSign only).

Skip: monday-brief / friday-brief / cash-flow-snapshot (redundant with business-pulse); call-list, lead-triage, crm-cleanup, crm-maintenance, customer-pulse-check, run-campaign, quarterly-review (HubSpot/B2B-pipeline bound); review-contract (dup of contract-review); month-end-prep (overlaps close-month).

Action Items

  • Decide if/when to make the repo public (the /plugin marketplace add dungeonbooks/skills install needs public access, or installers need repo access).
  • Port smb-onboard first when picking this back up.

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