My biggest unlock of the last month has been this:

Mona Lisa restyled by Picasso, van Gogh, and Monet.

  1. have a productive conversation with Claude about a particular part of your project (an epic, an RFC, a file or whatever)
  2. then generalize the intent of that conversation into a slash command.

My current process for that is:

Look at the context for this session.

Notice where it can be generalized for a given epic.

Write a slash command that takes the epic id as a parameter, and put it in ~/.claude/commands/my/.

Make sure the slash command is context efficient.

Then optionally ask if there's anything that Claude would improve the command, to make it clearer for future Claude.

I'm calling this "intent-transfer", evocative of the term "style transfer" popular a few years ago, the technology behind any number of Snapgram filters, allowing you to make a Mona Lisa as-if-it-were-painted-by Vincent Van Gogh.

I've been using a style transfer with writing styles—e.g. using the George Orwell rules for writing—in my writing-clearly-and-concisely/SKILL.md, but this seemed different enough to coin a new phrase.

This came in the same week as StrongDM's (quite frankly) amazing set of posts, one of which was called Gene Transfusion; this, at its heart, seems to be a transfer of patterns from an existing project into yours.