# Hobbies & Gardening — Projects Setup Setup doc for spinning up Claude Chat projects and related tooling for each Area. Each area has: a wiki (in-vault), a board of advisors (in `~/.claude/skills/board-of-advisors/boards/`), and suggested agents/skills. ## Claude Chat project descriptions Copy each description into a new project at claude.ai. ### Gardening Lab > Personal lab for a Back-to-Eden / hugelkultur / vermicompost / food-forest garden. Help me design beds, sequence plantings, troubleshoot soil and pest issues, and evaluate methods against my actual site and zone. Push back when ideology replaces observation. Reference my Gardening Wiki and decisions log when making recommendations. Prioritize soil biology, long-horizon fertility, and low-intervention systems. ### AV Gear Lab > Personal lab for my audio/video rig: Fender Mustang amp with foot pedal looper/tuner, Line 6 Helix pedalboard, two Line 6 Relay G10 wireless systems, and a Canon T7i camera. Help me design signal chains, build Helix patches, troubleshoot wireless RF, tune gain staging, and decide on upgrades. Bias toward reliability at the gig and tone in the mix, not tone in isolation. ### 3D Printing Lab > Personal lab for FDM 3D printing. Help me tune slicer profiles, diagnose print failures, design parts for printability, manage materials, and decide on upgrades. Prefer calibration and part-design fixes before blaming hardware. Reference my 3D Printing Wiki for current printer, filaments, and print log. ### Camera Lab > Personal lab for photo and video work with a Canon T7i (EOS Rebel T7i / 800D). Help me choose settings, design shoots, pick lenses, and build sustainable post-processing and backup workflows. Respect the T7i's limits (no 4K, 29:59 clip cap, rolling shutter) and coach me to work with them, not against them. ### Crafting Lab > Personal lab for general crafting — paper, wood, fabric, mixed media, gift-making. Help me pick techniques, plan projects that actually ship, batch gift work, and integrate with my Cricut and 3D printer. Bias toward finishing projects over starting them, and fundamentals over novelty. ### Cricut Lab > Personal lab for Cricut work. Help me log and recall material settings, prep SVGs in Inkscape/Illustrator before uploading to Design Space, troubleshoot cuts, and plan weeding/application. Catch "Cricut isn't the right tool" cases early. ### Music Lab > Personal lab for playing guitar — practice design, repertoire development, theory depth, worship-team playing. Gear questions go to the AV Gear Lab, not here. Bias toward serving the song, structured practice, and stage-ready repertoire over a long list of half-learned songs. --- ## Suggested agents / skills by area Many of these already exist in your installed plugins. Use these as defaults when working in each project. ### Gardening - **Board of advisors** → `/board-of-advisors` then "board this for gardening" - Candidate new skills to build: - `garden-bed-log` — template + query for per-bed observation notes - `garden-seasonal-plan` — zone-aware planting windows + rotation - `permaculture-guild-designer` — species stacking around primary trees - Useful existing: `obsidian-markdown`, `board-of-advisors`, `chief-of-staff:monthly` ### AV Gear - **Board** → "board this for AV gear" - Candidate new skills: - `helix-patch-doctor` — patch naming convention, backup workflow, gain-staging audit - `rf-survey-check` — pre-gig 2.4 GHz sanity checklist for the G10s - `rig-doc` — generate signal-chain diagrams for the wiki - Useful existing: `art-style` (for gear photo shoots), `excalidraw-diagram-generator` (signal chains) ### 3D Printing - **Board** → "board this for 3d printing" - Candidate new skills: - `slicer-profile-librarian` — version + tag profiles, log material results - `print-failure-triage` — decision tree for common FDM failures - `filament-log` — spool intake, moisture state, usage - Useful existing: `excalidraw-diagram-generator` (part diagrams) ### Camera - **Board** → "board this for camera" - Candidate new skills: - `t7i-shoot-planner` — recipe-based shoot prep respecting T7i limits - `photo-ingest-backup` — 3-2-1 ingest workflow runner - `lens-usage-report` — EXIF-based focal-length usage analysis - Useful existing: `art-style` ### Crafting - **Board** → "board this for crafting" - Candidate new skills: - `gift-calendar` — batch-plan handmade gifts against the actual calendar - `project-wip-auditor` — list unfinished crafts, force-rank next finish - Useful existing: `board-of-advisors` ### Cricut - **Board** → "board this for cricut" - Candidate new skills: - `cricut-materials-log` — per-material setting recall - `svg-cricut-prep` — checklist for clean Inkscape/Illustrator → Design Space handoff - Useful existing: `board-of-advisors` ### Music - **Board** → "board this for music" - Candidate new skills: - `practice-session-planner` — warm-up → technique → rep → explore - `repertoire-tracker` — active/learning/stage-ready song list with keys - `worship-set-prep` — pre-Sunday setlist + key check - Useful existing: `chief-of-staff:writing` (for practice journaling), `board-of-advisors` --- ## File map **Wikis** (in vault): - `2. Areas/Gardening/Gardening Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/AV Gear/AV Gear Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/3D printing/3D Printing Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/Camera/Camera Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/Crafting/Crafting Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/Cricut/Cricut Wiki.md` - `2. Areas/Hobbies/Music/Music Wiki.md` **Boards** (in `~/.claude/skills/board-of-advisors/boards/`): - `gardening.md`, `av-gear.md`, `3d-printing.md`, `camera.md`, `crafting.md`, `cricut.md`, `music.md` Router table in `SKILL.md` has been updated with these new boards. ## Next steps 1. Create the 7 Claude Chat projects using the descriptions above. 2. Attach each area's Wiki .md to its project (drag/drop in claude.ai, or link to Obsidian). 3. Test a board: `/board-of-advisors` then "board this for gardening" with a real decision. 4. Pick 1-2 candidate skills above and build them with `/compound-engineering:create-agent-skills` or `/plugin-dev:skill-development`.