Resistance is futile. Your capabilities will be assimilated.
A Claude Code agent that analyzes external Claude/Obsidian setups and integrates their best features into your system.
Click to watch: Stop Copying Claude Code Skills Blindly
You see someone's Claude Code setup online and think "I want that feature."
But copying and pasting creates problems:
- Their naming conventions don't match yours
- Their dependencies don't exist in your system
- You don't know what conflicts with your existing tools
- Manual adaptation is tedious and error-prone
This agent solves that.
# In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add aplaceforallmystuff/marketplace
/plugin install claude-agent-borg@aplaceforallmystuffManual install (without the marketplace)
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/claude-agent-borg.git
# Copy to your Claude Code agents directory
cp claude-agent-borg/agents/borg.md ~/.claude/agents/Or add it as a git submodule:
# Add as submodule in your .claude directory
cd ~/.claude/agents
git submodule add https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/claude-agent-borg.git borg
ln -s borg/agents/borg.md borg.md- Use it when you find a Claude setup on GitHub and want its skills without copying blindly:
Clone and assimilate https://github.com/username/their-claude-setup. - Use it to analyze a local
.claude/directory and get an assimilation report:Assimilate ~/path/to/external-claude-setup. - Use it to absorb one specific feature rather than a whole system:
Borg: absorb the specific-skill from ~/path/to/external-system. - Use it to compare your system against another and surface gaps:
Compare my system with ~/path/to/external-setup and identify gaps. - Use it to review what has already been pulled in:
What have we assimilated recently?.
The Borg agent runs a systematic 5-phase assimilation process:
| Phase | Action | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Reconnaissance | Maps external system | Identifies skills, agents, workflows, dependencies |
| 2. Gap Analysis | Compares capabilities | Scores features by value, flags conflicts |
| 3. Adaptation Planning | Maps conventions | Converts external patterns to your standards |
| 4. Assimilation | Integrates features | Creates adapted artifacts in your system |
| 5. Documentation | Updates changelogs | Tracks what was absorbed and from where |
Infrastructure Compatibility Check
- Verifies all dependencies exist before porting
- Substitutes equivalent services automatically
- Flags missing requirements clearly
Smart Assimilation Decisions
- PROCEED - Genuinely new capability
- EXTEND - Add to existing artifact
- COMPOSE - Combine existing tools
- ITERATE - Extract pattern only
- BLOCK - Would create problematic duplication
Convention Adaptation
- Converts TitleCase to kebab-case
- Maps directory structures
- Adapts to your branding and aesthetic
- Preserves source attribution
When the external system has a generic version of something you've specialized, the agent can extract just the pattern:
Example:
- External: Generic "Research" skill that searches 5 sources in parallel
- Your system: 8 specialized librarian agents (tech, craft, security, etc.)
- ITERATE decision: Don't replace your agents. Instead, extract the "parallel spawn + query decomposition" pattern and apply it to YOUR agents.
This prevents losing your domain-specific implementations while still gaining valuable patterns.
Every assimilation updates CHANGELOG-borg.md:
## [2026-01-07] Assimilation: Image Prompt Skill
**Source:** awesome-claude-setup
**Source URL:** https://github.com/example/awesome-claude-setup
### Added
- skill: image-prompt - AI image prompt generation
### Adapted
- Replaced Replicate with OpenAI DALL-E
- Converted naming conventions to local standards
- Adapted to local infrastructure
### Dependencies
- OpenAI API key required
### Usage
Run: `generate image prompt for [description]`Scenario: You find a Claude setup on GitHub with interesting skills for generating image prompts.
User: Clone and assimilate https://github.com/example/awesome-claude-setup
Borg:
[Phase 1: Reconnaissance]
Cloning repository...
Scanning repository structure...
Found:
- 12 skills
- 8 agents
- 3 commands
- 2 hooks
[Phase 1.5: Infrastructure Check]
Checking dependencies...
✅ OpenAI API - available
✅ Anthropic API - available
⚠️ Replicate API - MISSING, will substitute with OpenAI DALL-E
❌ Custom MCP server "image-gen" - MISSING, will skip related features
[Phase 2: Gap Analysis]
HIGH VALUE Features:
- image-prompt skill (AI image prompt generation) - HIGH VALUE
Adaptation: None of your skills handle image prompting
MEDIUM VALUE Features:
- research skill (parallel query spawning) - MEDIUM VALUE
Note: You have 8 specialized librarian agents
Recommendation: ITERATE - extract parallel pattern, don't replace agents
[Phase 3: Adaptation Planning]
image-prompt Skill:
- Source: /tmp/awesome-claude-setup/.claude/skills/image-prompt/
- Target: ~/.claude/skills/image-prompt/
- Adaptations needed:
* Convert naming to your conventions
* Replace Replicate API calls with OpenAI DALL-E
* Adapt to your local infrastructure
Ready to assimilate? [Y/N]
The agent adapts to YOUR system's conventions. Common mappings:
| External | Your Standard |
|---|---|
.claude/Skills/ |
~/.claude/skills/ |
| TitleCase dirs | lowercase dirs |
${EXTERNAL_VAR} |
Absolute paths |
You can customize convention mappings by editing the agent's <convention_mappings> section.
- Claude Code CLI
- Access to external
.claude/directories you want to analyze - Appropriate API keys for features you choose to assimilate
"Your culture adapts to service us"
This means:
- External patterns get converted to YOUR conventions
- You don't adopt their naming, they adopt yours
- Infrastructure gaps are bridged or substituted
- The collective (your system) improves without losing identity
I build Claude Code setups like this one for my own work, and I help teams set up AI tools they can trust: implementation, security review of agent permissions and data handling, and training. See jimchristian.net/work or book a discovery session.
Built by Jim Christian as part of the Claude Code agent ecosystem.
Inspired by the need to learn from the best setups without copying blindly. If you find a better way to do something, resistance is futile.
Related Projects:
- claude-draft-reviewer - Reviews AND fixes drafts
- claude-think-first - Mental models before implementation
- claude-creation-guard - Prevents duplicate artifacts
MIT — see LICENSE.