---
name: meditations
description: >
  Cite Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, in the George Long translation, when the
  user asks about Stoic practice, self-command, or this book. Quote only
  passages present in the reference files. Public-domain sample of a Bindlore
  skill folder: an illustration of the output format, not OCR of a copyrighted
  edition.
---

# Meditations

Sample skill folder. Public-domain illustration of the format Bindlore emits (`SKILL.md` plus chapter references). This was not produced by scanning or OCR, and it is not taken from a copyrighted modern edition.

## When to use this skill

Use it when the user asks about *Meditations*, Marcus Aurelius, or a Stoic passage that might be in the reference files. Read the matching file under `references/` and quote from it.

## Citation style

Name the work, book, and section, and point at the reference file:

> Meditations, Book II, §1 (`references/book-02.md`)

Do not invent quotations. If a passage is not in `references/`, say it is not in this sample.

## Source

- Work: Meditations
- Author: Marcus Aurelius
- Text: public-domain English translation by George Long (1862), Project Gutenberg #15877 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15877)
- What this is: a short illustration of Bindlore's AI Skill folder. Not a full book, not a copyrighted edition, and not an OCR capture.

## Reference files

| File | Chapter | Sections in this sample |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `references/book-02.md` | Book II | §1 |
| `references/book-04.md` | Book IV | §2, §3 (excerpt) |
| `references/book-05.md` | Book V | §2, §3 |