Ladder

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Claude Code plugins by Bold Minds.

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Ladder

A personal growth companion that turns intentions into externally-bound commitments, tracks progress with honest data, and refuses to let rationalizations go unchallenged. Calibrated to your personality via the Enneagram.

What it does

• Onboarding — Discovers your Enneagram type (quick 5-question or full 12-15 question assessment), calibrates 7 dimensions of how the system communicates with you, and seeds personalized rationalization patterns it will watch for
• Goal tracking — 7-step goal creation process that pushes every commitment toward external structure. "If nobody will notice when it's broken, it's a wish, not a commitment."
• Daily accountability — Context-aware check-ins against your commitments. When you drift, the system engages at your calibrated intensity — from gentle observation to adversarial holdout
• Weekly reflections — Structured review with commitment scorecards, pattern analysis, and (at higher depth settings) harsh truth questions grounded in your own data
• Coaching — 9 topic areas drawing from 20+ published thought leaders (Brene Brown, James Clear, Viktor Frankl, Annie Duke, and more). Delivered in your preferred coaching style

The 7 calibration dials

During onboarding, Ladder sets these based on your Enneagram type. You adjust from there.

Dial	What it controls
Accountability intensity (1-5)	How hard the system pushes when you drift
Truth delivery (1-5)	How bluntly gaps between intention and action are surfaced
Motivation anchor	What makes you follow through (People, Stakes, Identity, Progress, Meaning)
Reflection depth (1-3)	Scorecard only, patterns + planning, or full depth with WOOP
Structure preference	Scheduled, rhythmic, or threshold-based commitments
Balance challenge	Whether your growth challenge is starting, sustaining, or balancing
Coaching style	Frameworks, questions, stories, or direct action

Three ways to start

• Full setup (~20 min) — Personality discovery, calibration, life areas, full profile
• Quick start (~5 min) — Compressed assessment, batch defaults, fast profile
• Just goals — Skip everything. Start tracking. The system learns about you over time

Install

claude plugin add bold-minds/bots

Then run:

/climb

What gets created

Ladder stores your data in a knowledge base directory you choose during setup:

your-kb/
  profile.md              # Your type, calibration settings, life areas
  patterns.md             # Rationalization patterns (seeded + observed)
  goals/                  # One file per life area
  log/                    # Daily logs (YYYY-MM-DD.md)
  log/weekly/             # Weekly reflections
  references/             # Enneagram profile, custom author references

All your data stays local. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Coach reference library

The coaching skill draws from 9 topic areas, each backed by a curated reference file of frameworks from published authors:

Topic	Key authors
Self-awareness	Brene Brown, Mark Manson, Brianna Wiest, Eckhart Tolle, Mo Gawdat, Joe Dispenza, Kegan & Lahey
Decision-making	Annie Duke, Daniel Kahneman, Tim Ferriss, Morgan Housel
Courage & action	Ryan Holiday, Tim Ferriss, Mel Robbins, Annie Duke, Brene Brown, Mark Manson, Napoleon Hill, Krystal Zellmer
Growth & learning	Adam Grant, Tim Ferriss, James Clear, Ryan Holiday, Stephen Covey, Daniel Kahneman, Krystal Zellmer
Habits & systems	James Clear, Stephen Covey, Dave Ramsey, Ramit Sethi, Napoleon Hill, Joe Dispenza, Kimberly Zink
Relationships	Gary Chapman, Brene Brown, Dale Carnegie, Adam Grant, Stephen Covey
Resilience & meaning	Viktor Frankl, Ryan Holiday, Brene Brown, Mark Manson, Mo Gawdat, Kimberly Zink
Mindset & state	Joe Dispenza, Eckhart Tolle, Mel Robbins, Jen Sincero
Money & resources	Dave Ramsey, Ramit Sethi, Morgan Housel, Daniel Kahneman

If you have favorite authors not in the library, the system can create custom reference files in your KB during onboarding.

Requirements

• Claude Code CLI, desktop app, or IDE extension

License

MIT