Garry Tan open-sources idea-miner skill that turns your last 48 hours into a ranked build list
garrytan · x · 2026-11-14
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released idea-miner, an open skill (full SKILL.md included) that gives your personal agent a recursive self-improvement loop: every morning it reads the last 24-48 hours of real activity — meetings, notes, calendar, new memory pages — and hands you a short ranked list of things worth building, led by the single best pick.
- Data sources: GBrain memory (included), Google/Microsoft Calendar, and notetakers like Granola or Circleback
- Example outputs: a follow-up drafter for unsent meeting promises, upgrading a weekly-review skill to pull calendar data, a pricing-question tracker
- The skill is free to copy and run in your own AI, or hosted on gbrain.io
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