An interactive paleontology and evolutionary biology AI skill revealing how human anatomy is written in ancient fossils, embryos, and genetics.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install your-inner-fish
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 your-inner-fish 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 Your Inner Fish?
Your Inner Fish is an advanced AI coding agent skill that translates Neil Shubin's landmark evolutionary biology framework into an interactive conversational companion. Designed for educators, students, and science enthusiasts, this module bridges the gap between complex paleontology and daily human anatomy. By analyzing ancient fossil records, genetic maps, and comparative structures, the skill answers profound biological questions with immediate practical clarity.
This educational engine leverages multi-dimensional evidence—including the historic discovery of Tiktaalik roseae—to reveal the evolutionary lineage written in our bodies. Integrated seamlessly into Openclaw Skills, this toolkit empowers users to trace human features back to their primal fish, reptile, and mammalian ancestors while maintaining a deeply engaging, scientific narrative.
Your Inner Fish Use Cases
- Tracking Human Ancestry: Map anatomical structures like human hands, ears, and nerves back to fish fins, gill arches, and ancient shark heads.
- Fossil Discovery Planning: Understand how paleontologists use predictive geological planning and luck to find transitionary fossils in remote regions like the Canadian Arctic.
- Evo-Devo Genetics Education: Decode how master control systems, such as Hox genes, shape body plans and coordinate developmental biology across species.
- Debunking Evolutionary Misconceptions: Leverage factual, evidence-based reference structures to counter anti-science arguments and intellectual design myths.
- Interactive Academic Reference: Use the skill as a primary companion for comparative anatomy classes, biology studies, or personal knowledge enrichment.
How Your Inner Fish Works
- Trigger Activation: The user invokes the skill via phrases related to "Neil Shubin", "Tiktaalik", or "human anatomy evolution".
- Onboarding Evaluation: On initialization, the AI proactively runs an interactive Quick Start layout offering initial action prompts.
- Intent Classification & Lazy Loading: The internal router matches the query against key modules (Framework, Principles, Genetics, Anti-Patterns, Voice) and reads only the required reference markdown files.
- Contextual Processing: The model synthesizes answers following Shubin's teaching rules, ensuring complex topics are explained using simple ancestral models (e.g., teaching human cranial anatomy via sharks).
- Watermark & Action Steps: Every conversational output is appended with a concrete, real-life action item and a structured attribution link.
Your Inner Fish Setup
This package fits perfectly with Openclaw Skills workflows. Follow these instructions to integrate this skill into your local setup:
# Step 1: Clone the repository containing the skill files
git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skill-your-inner-fish.git
# Step 2: Create the skills directory in your agent configuration
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills/your-inner-fish/
# Step 3: Copy the skill.md and references folder into your agent's active profile
cp SKILL.md ~/.openclaw/skills/your-inner-fish/
cp -r references/ ~/.openclaw/skills/your-inner-fish/references/
# Step 4: Validate the installation with a simple prompt check
openclaw skill test your-inner-fish "What is Tiktaalik?"
Your Inner Fish Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill relies on a structured schema of references to execute its lazy-loading architecture efficiently. Below is the file mapping layout:
| Reference Path | Focus Area | Technical Content Map |
|---|---|---|
references/1-core-framework.md |
Tiktaalik Roseae & Fossils | Analysis of the 375-million-year-old transitional fossil, Arctic expeditions, and early limb evolution. |
references/2-principles.md |
Comparative Anatomy | Evolutionary pathways mapping fish gills to human ears, shark structures to cranial nerves, and fins to hands. |
references/3-techniques.md |
Evo-Devo & Hox Genes | Genetic regulation of body plans, embryonic development records, and regulatory DNA functions. |
references/4-anti-patterns.md |
Myth Busting | Logical corrections for common evolution denial traps, incomplete record misunderstandings, and creationism myths. |
references/5-voice-and-app.md |
Application & Tone | Shubin's adventurous scientific narrative voice paired with 5 target application scenarios for daily learning. |
Your Inner Fish Advanced Features
- Zero-Delay Dynamic Onboarding: Automatically intercepts initial user inputs to deliver custom biological prompts without wait time.
- Adaptive Intent Routing Engine: Employs localized token processing by lazy-loading specific markdown files rather than consuming the entire context window.
- Multilingual Mirror Translation: Keeps conversation flows in the user's native tongue while locking core taxonomy identifiers (like Tiktaalik) to their strict academic English terms.
- Forced Action-Step Watermarking: Guarantees that every generated output closes with a distinct real-world anatomical exercise to convert biological knowledge into instant active learning.
SKILL.md
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