# Bad Influence story: Lauren Tan suggests Claude skills for modeling app state machines

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 15:02. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/e75f1a7e-3e9a-46ff-8af2-c06f7a0b52c3

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Latest update (11-08 15:02): try this next “use /create-formal-verification-skill to model these state machines, one skill per subsystem. and use /statechart to visua...

Overview: Lauren Tan recommends using two skills, /create-formal-verification-skill and /statechart, to model state machines in an app, with one skill per subsystem and /statechart used to visualize key user flows. Both skills are in the pstack plugin in the cursor/plugins GitHub repository, according to Tan's post on X. Steve Ruizok suggests starting with the prompt "find all of the implicit state machines in my app."

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1. 11-08 15:02 · Lauren Tan · [try this next “use /create-formal-verification-skill to model these state machines, one skill per subsystem. and use /statechart to visua...](https://badinfluence.news/items/eipozssc0sm3q5vw3p27cllob)
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