adam-local

Compare pairs of PDFs (name.pdf + name<suffix>.pdf in the same folder) to determine whether they would produce identical printouts and whether their embedded text differs — e.g. to safely delete redundant "-signed" or "-needsocr" duplicates. Recursively finds every pair under a directory, rasterizes pages and compares hashes, and diffs extracted text. Triggers: "compare pdf pairs", "find duplicate pdfs", "are these pdfs identical", "which suffixed pdfs can I delete", "dedupe scanned pdfs".

Launch a detached, interactive Claude Code session inside WSL from a Windows Claude Code session — in a specific repo/folder, optionally remote-controllable and optionally seeded with an initial prompt. Use this WHENEVER the user wants to open / launch / spawn / start / fire off a separate (or background, detached, standalone, "and ignore it") Claude session in WSL, in a given directory, especially so it shows up in their remote Claude sessions list, even if they don't name every detail. It handles the Windows→WSL launch quirks that silently break naive attempts: ConPTY via Windows Terminal, PowerShell path passing, session-id vs initial-prompt openers, prompt quoting, and the workspace-trust gate.

Inventory, clean up, and migrate Claude Code auto-memory stores found under ~/.claude/projects/<munged-path>/memory/ on this machine. Use this skill to list every memory store with its decoded project path, file count, size, and freshness; to identify ORPHANED stores whose original workspace no longer exists (so a human can review and delete them); and to migrate a chosen store into a repo's git-tracked .claude/memory/ directory so the memory travels with the repo across machines and is visible to hosted/cloud Claude sessions. Trigger on requests like "clean up claude memory", "migrate claude memory", "inventory memory stores", "orphaned memory", "sync memory across machines", "make memory portable", or any mention of `~/.claude/projects` or `autoMemoryDirectory`. LOCAL-ONLY: this skill reads and writes files under this machine's `~/.claude` directory and CANNOT run in a hosted/cloud Claude session that has no local `~/.claude` on disk — do not invoke it there.

Batch-OCR scanned PDFs flagged as needing OCR, then visually review results with a WPF side-by-side comparison tool.

Audit PDF files to determine whether OCR (optical character recognition) is needed to make them fully text-searchable. Use this skill whenever the user asks about PDF searchability, OCR status, whether PDFs have embedded text, which PDFs are scans, or wants to audit/inventory a folder of PDFs for text extraction readiness. Also triggers for: "which PDFs need OCR", "are my PDFs searchable", "do these PDFs have text layers", "audit my PDFs", "find scanned PDFs".

Rename already-searchable PDFs in a specified folder to descriptive, date-prefixed names, proposing each name from the PDF's own content and prompting for per-file confirmation or edit before applying. Use after running `ocr-pdfs` to clean up scanner-output filenames like "Scan from 2024-03-15.pdf", "QuickScan_001.pdf", or "Document(47).pdf" — or for any folder of PDFs that already have text layers but unhelpful filenames. Triggers: "rename my pdfs", "clean up pdf filenames", "rename searchable pdfs", "give my pdfs descriptive names", "rename scanned pdfs", "tidy pdf names".

Sync Claude Code settings.json between a Windows home and a WSL home. Triggers on requests to "sync Claude Code settings", "merge my settings.json", "keep WSL and Windows Claude settings in sync", or mentions of reconciling %USERPROFILE%\.claude\settings.json with ~/.claude/settings.json in WSL. Backs up both files with an Eastern-time-stamped prefix, then merges per property (union for permissions.allow/ask/deny and spinnerVerbs.verbs; per-key merge for env; more-recently-modified-wins with optional prompt for scalars like theme, model, effortLevel; OS-bound keys such as hooks, statusLine, defaultShell, sandbox, apiKeyHelper, permissions.additionalDirectories and env.CCSTATUSLINE_WIDTH are kept per-file and never copied across). Preserves each file's existing newline style, UTF-8 BOM presence and trailing newline. Windows-only (needs PowerShell 7+ and access to the WSL UNC share). Use when the user wants the two settings.json files reconciled, not when they want a single file edited in place.

Sync local skill folders from git repos to Claude.ai (and other agent targets) via the upload-skill API. Trigger when the user says "sync skills", "push skills to Claude", "upload skill", or after editing SKILL.md files locally. Requires a claude.ai tab open in Chrome (uses browser session cookies via javascript_tool). Works on Adam's computer wherever the agentskills clones live, but the helper does not guess where: it scans its own checkout, and any other clone must be named with --repos or $AGENTSKILLS_REPOS.

Handle "Access is denied" from powershell.exe or pwsh.exe run inside WSL — Register-ScheduledTask / Set-ScheduledTask on a RunLevel=HighestAvailable task, a service change (Set-Service, Stop-Service, New-Service), an LSA rights grant such as "Log on as a batch job" (SeBatchLogonRight, secedit, ntrights), an HKLM registry write, or any other change to Windows state from a WSL session. Use it BEFORE attempting such a write from WSL and the moment one is denied. PowerShell run from WSL inherits the elevation of the session that launched WSL, and an agent's session is not elevated: reads succeed (Get-ScheduledTask, Get-Service, the registry) so the surface looks available, writes that need elevation fail, and no flag, retry, Start-Process -Verb RunAs, schtasks, sudo, SYSTEM principal or downgraded RunLevel fixes it. Compose the command from WSL, export what it will overwrite (Export-ScheduledTask), then hand the operator the exact line for an elevated Windows prompt and say it needs elevation.