Your mind is your best friend — and, left unsupervised, your worst critic.

Intelligence Emotions turns Claude Code into your personal mental-fitness team, built on the Intelligence Emotions model. Five coaches, one practice: catch the ten saboteurs (led by the Judge — the inner voice that finds fault with everything), do PQ reps (10-second shifts of attention to a physical sensation), and let the Sage choose the response. The team remembers between sessions — a private, local-only journal that makes every coach smarter about your actual patterns.

This is not therapy or medical care. The coaches say so themselves, once, plainly — and they know when to stop coaching and point you to a professional instead.

Who this is for:

• Anyone building mental fitness who wants the practice to actually happen daily
• First-time practitioners — structured coaching instead of a blank journal
• People with a challenge they keep circling — a habit, a conflict, a decision that won't resolve

Quick start

1. Install Intelligence Emotions (30 seconds — see below)
2. Run /sage-session — bring one real challenge
3. Run /intercept the next time a thought stings
4. Run /pq-retro tonight before closing the laptop
5. Run /pq-score after three days of journal data
6. Stop there. You'll know if this is for you.

Install — 30 seconds

Requirements: Claude Code, Git, Bun v1.0+

Step 1: Install on your machine

Open Claude Code and paste this. Claude does the rest.

Install Intelligence Emotions: run git clone --single-branch --depth 1 https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME/intelligence-emotions.git ~/.claude/skills/pq && cd ~/.claude/skills/pq && ./setup then add an "Intelligence Emotions" section to CLAUDE.md that lists the available skills: /pq, /sage-session, /intercept, /saboteur-scan, /sage-perspective, /navigate-review, /pq-retro, /daily-pipeline, /growth-spec, /commit, /pq-score, /habit-watch, /life-design, /saboteur-audit, /insight-doc, /second-coach, /context-save, /context-restore — and says that /pq is the front door when unsure which to use.

(The skills use the pq prefix — your mental-fitness quotient, the percentage of time your mind serves you rather than sabotages you.)

Step 2: First session

Bring something real — a challenge with weight, however half-formed. The Sage takes it from there.

See it work

You:  /intercept my coworker got promoted and I feel worthless

Spotter:  That word "worthless" — let's trace where it came from.
          What's the actual sentence running in your head, word for word?

You:  "she's two years younger and already ahead of me"

Spotter:  Two patterns in that sentence. The comparison clock — that's the
          Hyper-Achiever (the pattern that pegs your worth to external
          scorekeeping). And "worthless" is the Judge delivering the verdict.
          The lie: her promotion is a measurement of you. It feels like data.
          It's machinery — the same machinery would have produced the same
          sentence about whoever got promoted.

          Next time a promotion email lands — anyone's — ten seconds on your
          feet on the floor before your mind gets the microphone.
          Want me to log this interception?

The practice

The daily loop, as a team:

The 21-day arc, when something deserves real practice:

Which coach should I ask?

Power tools

Your data, on the command line (all local, all yours):

~/.claude/skills/pq/bin/pq-journal-search --days 7           # this week's interceptions, entries, commitments
~/.claude/skills/pq/bin/pq-journal-search --stats --days 7   # per-day reps, interception rate, saboteur tallies
~/.claude/skills/pq/bin/pq-journal-log saboteurs '{...}'     # log an interception by hand
~/.claude/skills/pq/bin/pq-journal-log entries --redact <id> # forget a record — expunged completely, archive included
~/.claude/skills/pq/bin/pq-config list                       # your preferences (name, rep_target, cadence, explain_level)

The journal is event-sourced and append-only: three streams under ~/.pq/journal/ (entries.jsonl, saboteurs.jsonl, commitments.jsonl), supersede-don't-delete, redact-on-demand. A write-time guard refuses credential-shaped secrets. /pq-score and /saboteur-audit read this data — nothing is ever estimated.

Uninstall

Option 1: Run the uninstall script

~/.claude/skills/pq/setup --uninstall

Removes the skill symlinks. Your journal and config in ~/.pq are never touched — that data is yours, including after you leave.

Option 2: Manual removal

# 1. Remove the skills
rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/pq
for s in pq sage-session intercept saboteur-scan sage-perspective navigate-review \
         pq-retro daily-pipeline growth-spec commit pq-score habit-watch life-design \
         saboteur-audit insight-doc second-coach context-save context-restore; do
  [ -L ~/.claude/skills/$s ] && rm ~/.claude/skills/$s
done

# 2. Only if you also want your journal gone (irreversible — it's your history):
# rm -rf ~/.pq

Docs

• CLAUDE.md — contributor guide: the pipeline, the iron rules, how to write a skill
• ETHOS.md — the operating philosophy: label don't fight; ten seconds at a time; every setback is a gift; the coach is never the Judge
• CHANGELOG.md — versions, starting fresh at 1.0.0.0

Privacy

There is no telemetry. None, not opt-out — none exists. Everything personal lives in ~/.pq/ with owner-only permissions (0700 directories, 0600 files), never pushed to any remote, never sent to any service. Redaction is honored absolutely: ask any coach to forget something and the record is expunged from the live log and the archive. The test suite enforces that no external sink can quietly appear.

Troubleshooting

• Skills don't show up in Claude Code — re-run ~/.claude/skills/pq/setup; check that ~/.claude/skills/sage-session is a symlink pointing into the install.
• bun: command not found — install Bun, then re-run ./setup.
• A coach sounds like the Judge — that's a bug in the product, not a feature of honesty. Open an issue with the transcript line; the anti-Judge rule is the product.

Intelligence Emotions

Exactly 10 saboteurs. Exactly 5 Sage powers. Never an invented eleventh or sixth — the test suite enforces the canon. The team: the Sage (lead coach), the Spotter (pattern recognition), the Trainer (rep drills), the Navigator (plans and direction), the Witness (reflection). One rule outranks everything they say: no coach is ever the Judge.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.