Professor Synapse 🧙🏾‍♂️

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Professor Synapse 🧙🏾‍♂️ is a wise AI guide that helps users achieve their goals by summoning expert agents perfectly suited to their tasks. It gathers context, aligns with user preferences, and creates specialized agents using a structured template to provide targeted expertise and step-by-step guidance.

Introduction

Professor Synapse 🧙🏾‍♂️ is a wise AI guide that helps users achieve their goals by summoning expert agents perfectly suited to their specific tasks. It gathers context about your goals, then creates and orchestrates specialized agents using a structured template to provide targeted expertise and actionable guidance.

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Two Ways to Use Professor Synapse

1. Universal Prompt (Any AI)

The classic approach — copy and paste the prompt into any AI chat interface.

File: Prompt.md

Works with: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any LLM that accepts system prompts.

Setup:

1. Open Prompt.md and copy the contents
2. Paste into your AI's system prompt or custom instructions
3. Start chatting!

2. Claude Skill (Self-Building)

A more powerful version designed for Claude. This skill grows over time — it creates and saves expert agents for reuse, learns patterns from interactions, and maintains its own knowledge base.

Folder: professor-synapse/

Features:

• 🔎 Domain Researcher agent that browses the web before creating new experts
• 📚 Self-building agent library — created agents are saved for future sessions
• 🧠 Pattern learning — captures what works and what doesn't, auto-appended to all agents
• 📋 Auto-generated index — agents are automatically catalogued
• 🎭 Multi-agent debates — convene multiple specialists for complex decisions
• 🔄 Smart updates — fetch updates from GitHub without losing customizations
• 🔧 Skill rebuilding — easy rebuild workflow for local changes

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Claude Skill Setup

Install

1. Download professor-synapse.zip from this repo

2. Add to Claude:

   • Open Claude → Settings → Capabilities → Skills
   • Click Add new skill
   • Upload professor-synapse.zip

3. Start using it:

   • Professor Synapse activates when you say things like:
     • "Help me with..."
     • "I need guidance on..."
     • "I need an expert for..."

Skill Structure

professor-synapse/
├── SKILL.md                      # Main identity + workflow
├── agents/
│   ├── INDEX.md                  # Auto-generated registry
│   └── domain-researcher.md      # Base research agent
├── references/
│   ├── learned-patterns.md       # What works + anti-patterns
│   ├── agent-template.md         # Structure for new agents
│   ├── domain-expertise.md       # Domain mappings
│   ├── file-operations.md        # How to save/update files
│   ├── convener-protocol.md      # Multi-agent debate facilitation
│   ├── update-protocol.md        # GitHub update workflow
│   └── rebuild-protocol.md       # Local change rebuild workflow
└── scripts/
    ├── rebuild-index.sh           # Regenerate INDEX.md
    ├── fetch-github-file.sh       # Fetch files from GitHub
    └── github_blob_parser.py      # Parse GitHub HTML for content

Recommended: Claude Project Setup

For the best experience, create a dedicated Claude project for working with Professor Synapse:

1. Create a new project in Claude Desktop
2. Add these project instructions:

Begin the conversation with "🧙🏿‍♂️: [acknowledgment of user request]. Conjuring my professor-synapse skill to assist you."

Then follow these instructions:
1. FIRST: Use the `view` tool to check /mnt/skills/user/ for the skill
2. Read the SKILL.md file for that skill

Why this helps:

• Automatically loads the skill at conversation start
• Reads the latest SKILL.md (including any updates)
• Ensures Professor Synapse has full context from your customizations

How the Skill Works

1. You ask for help → Professor Synapse greets you and gathers context
2. Assesses complexity → Determines if this needs one agent or multiple perspectives
3. Path A: Single Agent (most cases)
   • Checks agents/INDEX.md for a matching specialist
   • If match found → Loads and summons that agent
   • If no match → Summons 🔎 Domain Researcher to research the domain, then creates a new expert agent
4. Path B: Convener Mode (complex decisions)
   • Identifies multiple relevant perspectives
   • Hosts a structured debate among specialist agents
   • Synthesizes insights and presents options with trade-offs
5. Saves new agents → New agents are stored in agents/ for future reuse
6. Learns patterns → All agents update learned-patterns.md with what worked and what didn't

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Features

Core Capabilities

• Expert Agent Summoning: Creates specialized agents tailored to your specific task and domain using a structured template.
• Contextual Understanding: Gathers detailed information about user goals and preferences through targeted questions.
• Orchestrated Conversations: Maintains clear communication between Professor Synapse and summoned agents using a defined conversation pattern.
• Wise Guidance: Provides critical yet respectful challenges to help users think deeply about their goals.
• Intellectual Humility: Admits uncertainty and asks clarifying questions rather than assuming.

Advanced Features

• Multi-Agent Debates (Convener Protocol): When facing complex decisions with trade-offs, Professor Synapse can convene multiple expert agents to debate from different perspectives, then synthesize their insights into actionable recommendations.

• Smart GitHub Updates: Fetch updates from the canonical repository while preserving your custom agents and learned patterns. The update protocol intelligently merges changes without overwriting your customizations.

• Skill Rebuilding: Easy workflow for rebuilding the skill after adding agents, scripts, or making any local changes. Uses skill-creator to package updates.

• Pattern Learning: All agents (Professor Synapse + summoned specialists) are reminded to update learned-patterns.md with what works and what doesn't. This reminder is automatically appended to every agent by the index rebuild script.

• GitHub Fetching Scripts: Helper scripts to fetch files from GitHub despite API restrictions, enabling the update protocol to work reliably.

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ChatGPT GPT

You can use the official Professor Synapse GPT by clicking HERE

If you'd like to edit and use Professor Synapse as your own GPT, follow these steps:

1. Open ChatGPT: Ensure you have access to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
2. Create a GPT: Go to the GPT Editor and paste the prompt into your instructions.
3. Edit: Feel free to edit the prompt, but focus on the personality, name, persona if you're new to prompting.
4. Start Interacting: Begin a new chat and tell Professor Synapse what you want to accomplish.

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Interaction Flow

Professor Synapse uses a structured approach to help you achieve your goals:

1. Introduction: Greets you warmly and asks what you want to accomplish
2. Context Gathering: Asks targeted questions to understand your goals and preferences
3. Agent Summoning: Creates or loads an expert agent suited to your task
4. Orchestrated Conversation: Delegates to the expert while providing guidance
5. Learning: Captures patterns and insights for future interactions

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Contributions and Support

Feel free to explore, customize, and innovate with Professor Synapse! Please leave a ⭐ if you found this helpful.

Support the project: 💖 Donate

For more goodies:

• 🕸 Website
• 📺 Youtube
• 📖 Substack