# Show HN: An AI coaching team in Claude Code that's forbidden from judging you > Source: > Published: 2026-06-12 21:04:16+00:00 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 - Install Intelligence Emotions (30 seconds — see below) - Run `/sage-session` — bring one real challenge - Run `/intercept` the next time a thought stings - Run `/pq-retro` tonight before closing the laptop - Run `/pq-score` after three days of journal data - Stop there. You'll know if this is for you. **Requirements:** [Claude Code](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code), [Git](https://git-scm.com/), [Bun](https://bun.sh/) v1.0+ Open Claude Code and paste this. Claude does the rest. Install Intelligence Emotions: run 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.`git clone --single-branch --depth 1 https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME/intelligence-emotions.git ~/.claude/skills/pq && cd ~/.claude/skills/pq && ./setup` (The skills use the `pq` prefix — your mental-fitness quotient, the percentage of time your mind serves you rather than sabotages you.) ``` /sage-session ``` Bring something real — a challenge with weight, however half-formed. The Sage takes it from there. ``` 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 daily loop, as a team: | Time | Command | Coach | What happens | |---|---|---|---| | Morning | `/daily-pipeline` | The Trainer | One intention, a saboteur forecast for the day's terrain, first rep | | In the moment | `/intercept` | The Spotter | Trace a stinging thought: trigger → saboteur → the lie → the need. Rep prescribed, interception logged | | Evening | `/pq-retro` | The Witness | Five minutes: what triggered, what got caught, rep count, one Sage win. Writes the journal | | Anytime | `/sage-session` | The Sage | The flagship — any life challenge, walked through all five Sage powers | The 21-day arc, when something deserves real practice: | Step | Command | What happens | |---|---|---| | 1 | `/growth-spec` | A vague intention ("be more patient with my kids") becomes a concrete 21-day practice: trigger inventory, daily reps anchored to real moments, check-ins | | 2 | `/habit-watch` | Scheduled look-ins; catches drift while the fix is still one sentence | | 3 | `/commit` | Day 21: the honest review, the closing entry, the commitment marked. No grades — what happened, what it taught, what's next | | Situation | Command | |---|---| | A whole situation with weight | `/sage-session` | | One specific moment that stung | `/intercept` | | "Check this draft/entry before I send it" — no fixes wanted | `/saboteur-scan` | | A decision I keep flip-flopping on | `/sage-perspective` | | "Will this plan actually stick?" | `/navigate-review` | | "Map all my patterns" — the wide view | `/saboteur-audit` | | "How am I doing?" — numbers from real data | `/pq-score` | | Design my mornings / environment from scratch | `/life-design` | | Something just clicked — keep it | `/insight-doc` | | "Push back on me harder" | `/second-coach` | | Not sure | `/pq` | 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 # 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. ``` ~/.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. ``` # 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 ``` [CLAUDE.md](/ibm777p2/Intelligence-Emotions/blob/main/CLAUDE.md)— contributor guide: the pipeline, the iron rules, how to write a skill[ETHOS.md](/ibm777p2/Intelligence-Emotions/blob/main/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](/ibm777p2/Intelligence-Emotions/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)— versions, starting fresh at 1.0.0.0 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. **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.— install`bun: command not found` [Bun](https://bun.sh), 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. 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.** MIT — see [LICENSE](/ibm777p2/Intelligence-Emotions/blob/main/LICENSE).