Show HN: An AI coaching team in Claude Code that's forbidden from judging you A developer released Intelligence Emotions, an open-source AI coaching team that runs inside Claude Code to help users build mental fitness by identifying self-sabotaging thought patterns and practicing attention shifts. The tool, which is not a substitute for therapy, uses five AI coaches and a private local journal to track patterns over time. 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