I'm Thomas Musser, a Staff Data Scientist building small, opinionated tools for making AI-assisted work more reliable.
I got tired of cognitive debt: moving fast with AI, but ending up with work I could not fully explain, verify, or hand off.
These repos are my attempt to fix that.
Core wedge
Better specs, not bigger specs. Plan Mode prevents premature edits. These workflows prevent premature agreement. Context engineering is not about preserving more context. It is about preserving the right uncertainty.
Start here
Portable skills for Claude Code, Codex, and coding agents. Use it when AI coding sessions drift, overbuild, lose context, or skip verification.
Claude skills for turning messy workplace context into clear facts, asks, decisions, owners, risks, updates, and safe replies. Start with /reduce-to-facts when the source is too dense or ambiguous to act on safely.
A Python library for claim-first analytical charts with audit trails, caveats, and provenance. Use it when AI-generated charts look polished but may be analytically weak.
Reduce messy context. Clarify the claim. Bound the work. Verify the result. Leave a handoff.
- Improving adoption paths and proof examples for the AI workflow repos.
- Sharpening
context-to-action-skillsaround epistemic distillation: facts, uncertainty, claims, and next actions. - Building
chart-contractas a concrete proof artifact for analytical integrity.
| Repo | Problem | First thing to try |
|---|---|---|
| ai-engineering-skills | AI coding work drifts, overbuilds, or skips checks | Compare broken-vs-gated, then try mini-spec → scope-freeze → verify-contract |
| context-to-action-skills | Messy context does not become a clear decision path | Start with /reduce-to-facts, then move to clear-ask, decision-brief, status-update, or follow-up-draft |
| chart-contract | Charts can look good while hiding weak claims or missing provenance | Build one chart with an explicit claim, caveat, and source trail |
These projects are intentionally small. The goal is not to automate judgment away; it is to make judgment easier to apply.