yuanzhao321/tcm.skill

TCM.Skill is a knowledge base packaged as a Claude Skill, built to act as a family Traditional Chinese Medicine advisor. It is not code in the usual sense but a large set of reference files, distilled from sixteen classic and modern TCM textbooks that the author read cover to cover, including foundational theory, diagnosis, herbal medicine, formula science, internal medicine, and acupuncture texts, plus five ancient classics and several later scholars' writings. The files are organized in layers: modern textbooks form the main structure, ancient classics provide historical grounding, and later scholarly works add depth. A short workflow file routes each type of question, such as explaining a concept, analyzing symptoms, looking up an herb's safety profile, or finding an acupuncture point, to the right reference files, which are loaded only as needed rather than all at once. The skill is explicit about acting as an advisor rather than a licensed doctor. It grades its suggestions into tiers: things a person can safely do themselves, such as dietary or lifestyle advice, moxibustion, or massage, things that require confirmation from a licensed practitioner, covering any medicine or invasive procedure, and situations that call for immediate medical care. It refuses to teach acupuncture needling as a self-administered technique and includes a hard safety table covering known herb interactions, pregnancy restrictions, and toxic dosage limits that must be checked before discussing any specific medicine. Beyond concept explanations, it can interpret tongue and pulse readings, walk through diagnostic reasoning, look up hundreds of herbs and hundreds of formulas with their sources, guide acupuncture point selection, review a prescription a doctor has already written for interaction and dosage issues, and help someone prepare notes before a clinic visit. Installation is a simple copy of the skill folder into a Claude Skills directory, either globally or per project. The README documents its version history and openly lists what future contributors could add next.