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2PythonAudience · generalComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

Praxis Workflow OS is a personal productivity system that interviews you about how you work, builds a custom AI-agent workflow plan, and helps you improve it over time based on real evidence from your work.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Interviews you
      Builds custom workflow
      Improves over time
    How it works
      Adaptive AI interview
      Blueprint with skills
      Retrospective reviews
    Key skills
      Routing skill
      Interview skill
      Blueprint skill
      Retrospective skill
    Install options
      Cross-client CLI
      Local Python installer
      Plugin marketplaces
    Use cases
      Writers
      Designers
      Researchers
      Founders
    Design principles
      Separates five concerns
      Human approval gates
      Obsidian vault support

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Interview yourself to build a custom AI workflow plan tailored to your exact work style and tasks.

USE CASE 2

Run retrospectives on your work history to find friction points and get AI-suggested improvements.

USE CASE 3

Convert leftover session notes from AI coding agents into curated, durable knowledge in an Obsidian vault.

USE CASE 4

Set up approval gates so an AI agent helps with your work while you stay in control of key decisions.

What is it built with?

PythonClaude CodeCodexObsidian

How does it compare?

mfarzanansari/praxis-workflow-os0-bingwu-0/live-interpreter010zx00x1/faresnipe
Stars222
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultymoderatemoderateeasy
Complexity3/52/52/5
Audiencegeneralgeneralgeneral

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires an AI coding agent like Claude Code or Codex and optionally an Obsidian vault for knowledge storage.

No license information was mentioned in the explanation, so the terms of use are unknown.

In plain English

Praxis Workflow OS is a personal productivity system built on top of AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. Instead of handing you a generic set of prompts, it interviews you about your actual work, builds a custom workflow plan, and then helps you improve that plan over time based on real evidence. It is designed for a wide range of professionals, including writers, designers, researchers, and founders. The system starts with a simple model of work: a trigger leads to evidence, which informs decisions and actions, producing deliverables that get verified and handed off, leaving behind durable lessons. Praxis uses an AI agent to conduct an adaptive interview, asking one question at a time to understand how you work. It then uses your answers to create a blueprint, which is a small map of skills, a knowledge model, and a set of approval gates for your tasks. The repository contains several specialized skills. The main skill routes your request to the right tool. Other skills handle the interview, blueprint creation, setup, and a process for converting useful session residue into curated notes. There is also a retrospective skill that reviews your work history to find friction and suggest improvements. You can install the whole system or just a few pieces, and it includes tools to safely build an Obsidian vault without overwriting your existing notes. Praxis separates five concerns that often get tangled in personal AI systems: intent, orchestration, execution, knowledge, and runtime memory. By keeping these distinct, it avoids the common failure modes of generic prompt packs that never learn your habits, or sprawling agent collections that become too complicated to manage. It treats your workflow as an operating model with explicit contracts and human approval gates. You can install Praxis through a few different paths, including a cross-client CLI, a local Python installer, or native plugin marketplaces. A companion project called Prompt Polish can optionally help refine the specific prompts your agent uses. The full README is longer than what was shown.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to use Praxis Workflow OS to understand my work habits. Start an adaptive interview with me, ask one question at a time about how I work, what triggers my tasks, and what deliverables I produce.
Prompt 2
I have Praxis installed. Run a retrospective on my recent work sessions to find friction points and suggest concrete improvements to my workflow blueprint.
Prompt 3
Help me set up a Praxis blueprint for my role as a founder. Map out my skills, create a knowledge model, and define approval gates for tasks my AI agent should handle.
Prompt 4
I have useful session residue from working with Claude Code. Use Praxis to convert that into curated notes and safely add them to my Obsidian vault without overwriting existing files.

Frequently asked questions

What is praxis-workflow-os?

Praxis Workflow OS is a personal productivity system that interviews you about how you work, builds a custom AI-agent workflow plan, and helps you improve it over time based on real evidence from your work.

What language is praxis-workflow-os written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Claude Code, Codex.

What license does praxis-workflow-os use?

No license information was mentioned in the explanation, so the terms of use are unknown.

How hard is praxis-workflow-os to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is praxis-workflow-os for?

Mainly general.

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