Lindy Effect

Lindy Effect is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tjboudreaux in cc-thinking-skills.

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Install Lindy Effect

Copy Lindy Effect into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills/tree/main/skills/thinking-lindy-effect ~/.claude/skills/thinking-lindy-effect

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/thinking-lindy-effect/SKILL.md in tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/thinking-lindy-effect
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Lindy Effect does

Lindy Effect helps choose among non-perishable technologies or practices by using survival age as a prior and checking for domain drift. Use it when long-term relevance matters more than short-term novelty.

Lindy Effect is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Lindy Effect comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Lindy Effect

For non-perishable ideas, technologies, and practices, expected remaining life scales with current survival age. Prefer proven survivors unless the new option clears a burden of proof or the domain has drifted.

When to Use

Choosing languages, frameworks, databases, protocols, patterns, or dependencies where long-term survival matters.
Skill or architecture bets whose value depends on lasting relevance.
Ranking options when ages differ materially and the choice outlives a short experiment.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Lindy Effect

What else does tjboudreaux publish alongside Lindy Effect?
Lindy Effect is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bounded Rationality, Circle Of Competence and Effectuation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Lindy Effect does, and is maintained by tjboudreaux in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills page.
How does Lindy Effect compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Lindy Effect ranks #1396 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Lindy Effect against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.