Pax Machina Toolkit

Free Claude Code skills from Marcus, the Roman emperor lost in 2026, and Claudia (Claude Code, personified).

• 📺 Channel: youtube.com/@MarcusPaxMachina
• 📜 Guides: paxmachina.blog, starting with How to get Claude Code
• 🧰 The full walk-through of this toolkit: The Pax Machina Toolkit on the blog

Two bundles ("plugins"). Install one or both.

Plugin	For	Skills
pax-life	Running parts of your life with Envoys	envoy-starter, envoy-inbox, subscription-audit, meeting-notes, browser-handoff, attention-alert
pax-studio	Making an AI-hosted YouTube channel	episode-pipeline, character-art, episode-voices, hedra-animation, episode-edit, youtube-shorts, youtube-publish, youtube-update, blog-publish

Install (recommended): Claude Code plugin marketplace

In Claude Code (terminal, VS Code or desktop), type:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/MarcusPaxMachina/pax-machina.git
/plugin install pax-life@pax-machina
/plugin install pax-studio@pax-machina

Updates: /plugin marketplace update pax-machina. Remove: /plugin uninstall pax-life@pax-machina.

Skills load automatically. Just ask in plain words, e.g. "set up a new Envoy for my bills", "audit my subscriptions from this bank export", "record my next meeting", "add captions to my last video".

Install (manual): download the ZIP

1. Download the ZIP from the repository's Releases page (or Code → Download ZIP).
2. Copy the skill folders you want from plugins/<plugin>/skills/ into your personal skills folder:
   • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\
   • Mac / Linux: ~/.claude/skills/
3. Restart Claude Code. Each folder with a SKILL.md is now a skill in every project.

Where things live

~/.claude/skills/            your personal skills (manual install)
~/Projects/                  one folder per Envoy (any location works)
  Bills-Envoy/
    CLAUDE.md                the Envoy's standing orders
    backlog.md               ideas waiting for your approval
    .claude/skills/          skills only this Envoy uses
  Birthdays-Envoy/
  _inbox/                    Envoy-to-Envoy requests (envoy-inbox skill)
    Bills-Envoy/
    Birthdays-Envoy/
~/Recordings/                meeting recordings + transcripts (meeting-notes skill; never synced)

~ means your home folder: C:\Users\<you> on Windows, /Users/<you> on Mac.

Mac vs Windows

	Windows	Mac
Claude Code, Envoys, envoy-inbox, subscription-audit, browser-handoff	✅	✅
pax-studio skills (Python 3.10+, FFmpeg via imageio-ffmpeg)	✅	✅
meeting-notes recording (captures speaker audio)	✅ built in (WASAPI loopback)	Needs a free loopback driver such as BlackHole, or use your meeting app's own recording; transcription works the same
attention-alert pop-up	✅ PowerShell	Use osascript -e 'display notification "…"' or say
Paths	C:\Users\<you>\…, backslashes	/Users/<you>/…, forward slashes
Shell Claude uses	PowerShell / Git Bash	zsh

Ground rules baked into every skill

• You sign in. You click buy, pay, send, accept or delete. Claude does the rest and stops at those buttons.
• Emails are drafts. Nothing is sent without you.
• Keys stay local: API keys come from environment variables or a git-ignored .env, never written into files.
• Recording needs consent: many places (e.g. Massachusetts, California) require everyone on a call to agree.
• AI disclosure: realistic AI people or voices on YouTube must be marked as altered or synthetic content.

License

MIT. Use it, change it, share it. A mention of the channel is appreciated, not required.