The Skillify Pack — Garry Tan's "Personal AGI" Talk Turned Into a Checklist You Can Finish in One Week
The companion to the video on Garry Tan's closing talk at YC Startup School 2026 — "Personal AGI Is How You Stay Under Your Own Power" — uploaded Aug 6, 2026 and broken down the same day. The president & CEO of Y Combinator put a 400x output receipt on stage (then deflated it himself to an 8x hostile floor — that part makes it believable), and open-sourced the system behind it. INSIDE: (1) THE 7 MOMENTS, TIMESTAMPED — every load-bearing quote linked into the official YC upload: the heresy ('the thing everyone is watching for is already in the room'), rent-vs-own ('your assistant gets a lobotomy on someone else's schedule'), the 400x receipt, three-Harry-Potter-books working memory, 'markdown is actually code', 'first you build one shelf', and 'own your skills or your job becomes a skill file'. (2) THE 5-STEP PLAN WITH EXIT CHECKPOINTS — tonight: run one agent (Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw+GBrain, 'any of them does 99% of this'); this weekend: one folder of markdown; week 1: your first skill file; week 2: schedule it; forever: skillify everything ('if you have to ask twice, you failed'). (3) 3 COPY-PASTE SKILL-FILE TEMPLATES — the meeting-recording skill he showed on stage, the compendium pattern that turned 1,500 pages of Spinoza biography into his opening overnight, and the end-of-task skillify habit. (4) THE FACT-CHECK TABLE — GStack claimed 123,000 stars on stage, GitHub API pulled the same day: 126,599 (top-100 in GitHub history confirmed); GBrain 27,852 stars, MIT, free; what stays HIS claim (the 220,000-page private brain). (5) THE OWNERSHIP DOCTRINE — the Maya story (same 40 files, one variable: who controls them) and the 5-line portable-repo checklist. Independent companion from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Y Combinator.
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