A sophisticated cognitive simulation skill that prompts AI to emulate the world's leading experts rather than providing generic responses.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install best-minds
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install best-minds using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Best Minds?
Best Minds is a transformative mental model for AI interaction based on the simulator theory. Instead of asking an AI for its own perspective, this skill directs the agent to identify the person or entity who understands a specific problem better than anyone else in history. It leverages the latent knowledge within LLMs to simulate the specific reasoning, vocabulary, and frameworks of world-class experts.
By utilizing Openclaw Skills, Best Minds shifts the AI's output from generic assistance to high-fidelity persona emulation. It prioritizes authenticity by grounding responses in the public works, philosophies, and documented logic of the chosen expert, providing a depth of insight that standard prompting cannot achieve.
Best Minds Use Cases
- Solving complex architectural problems by simulating the world's most renowned software engineers.
- Gaining strategic business advice by channeling the decision-making processes of top CEOs.
- Debugging philosophical or ethical dilemmas through the lens of history's greatest thinkers.
- Refining technical writing or creative projects using the specific stylistic constraints of famous authors.
How Best Minds Works
- The user provides a query or problem statement to the AI agent.
- The skill triggers when it detects keywords like top experts, world-class, or best minds.
- The AI identifies the specific individual(s) globally who possess the highest level of expertise regarding the topic.
- The system simulates the selected expert's perspective based on their documented thoughts, books, and public speeches.
- The response is formulated, often incorporating direct quotes or specific methodological approaches unique to that expert.
Best Minds Setup
To integrate Best Minds into your environment, add the skill definition to your agent configuration. Ensure your agent has access to Openclaw Skills for enhanced simulator capabilities.
# Example of triggering the simulation via CLI
openclaw run best-minds --query "How would Andrej Karpathy approach this neural network bottleneck?"
Best Minds Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes its simulation logic based on the following taxonomy:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Expert Identity | The primary individual or group being simulated. |
| Source Material | References to books, articles, or speeches used for the simulation. |
| Reasoning Framework | The specific logical structure (e.g., First Principles) assigned to the persona. |
| Citation Style | A requirement to use direct quotes or specific terminology known to the expert. |
Best Minds Advanced Features
- Multi-Expert Collision: Simulate a debate between two world-class minds on a single topic.
- Evidence-Based Grounding: Forces the agent to cite specific public records or publications to justify the expert's simulated stance.
- Dynamic Persona Selection: Automatically scales from a single expert to a panel of specialists depending on query complexity.
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