Render data dashboards as pure ASCII art in monospace text -- the cheapest, most portable delivery method. No rendering engine, no SVG, no browser.
Markdown sanitization order matters — marked.js then DOMPurify then Mermaid to prevent XSS
Inter-agent communication protocol for C-suite agent teams. Defines invocation syntax, loop prevention, isolation rules, and response formats.
Build professional, themed PowerPoint decks from Markdown via LLM-generated pptxgenjs JavaScript. Uses modular per-slide architecture for all decks.
Route AI image generation and editing requests to Replicate (FLUX, Ideogram, Recraft, SDXL, imagen) via the bundled `replicate` MCP server.
Best practice decision matrix for choosing between Marp, Gamma, and PptxGenJS based on use case requirements.
Cognitive load reduction strategies for clearer, simpler user experiences. 認知負荷削減策略：選擇精簡、漸進披露、一致模式、智能默認。 Use when: reviewing information architecture, simplifying complex flows,…
Author markdown and Mermaid diagrams that render correctly in VS Code, GitHub, and other Mermaid 10+ consumers — covers diagram-tool selection, mandatory init template, parser…
Classify and remediate CodeQL alerts with the SymFix workflow using staged changelog updates — from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall
Apply reviewed disambiguation changes to a live semantic model: read a reviewed Excel workbook (produced by the semantic-overlap-detection skill), apply approved column…
Comprehensive preparation for doctoral dissertation defense including timeline management, presentation design, Q&A practice, mock sessions, and committee dynamics.
Cleanly uninstalls the four Alex ACT constellation plugins (alex-act-core, alex-act-illustrator-plugin, alex-act-enterprise, alex-act-msft), the fifteen user-scope discipline…
Audits a candidate prompt (.prompt.md) against five gates (spec compliance, content quality, scope fit, safety, currency & coherence).
Design and optimize production-grade multi-agent systems with LangGraph, LangChain, and DeepAgents for complex AI workflows.
Systematic documentation audit, drift detection, preflight validation, and multi-pass quality pipelines
Defense-in-depth, PII protection, secrets scanning, and secure packaging for distributed software
Guided requirements template for data storytelling projects -- walks users through audience, Big Idea, questions, data sources, and delivery target before any chart is created
Comprehensive brain file review — external freshness, internal consistency, semantic accuracy — stamp only after full assessment
Context-dependent editorial style rules for academic writing — APA7, Chicago, MLA judgment calls
Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.
Data cleaning, profiling, transformation, and quality gates -- prepares raw data for visualization and analysis
Focus blocks, distraction management, and flow state triggers for cognitively demanding work
Author print-quality SVG figures for books, reports, and exec-facing documents. Ships the canvas + typography grammar (viewBoxes, print-legibility floor with math, type hierarchy,…
Evaluate plugin quality. Use when user says "evaluate plugin", "review plugin quality", "score my plugin", "check plugin", "rate plugin".
Render data dashboards as self-contained HTML files using Apache ECharts v6. Single file, zero build step, interactive charts with tooltips and data zoom.
Compose one self-contained SVG from multiple visual fragments — banner, treemap, bar charts, KPI strip, footer — using a shared coordinate system and one panel primitive.
End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.
End-to-end process of rehoming (moving or reissuing) certificates so every production Entra app credential lives in the same tenant and cloud as the app itself.
Emit and (with consent) install the Copilot CLI settings block for the public Microsoft ecosystem — Azure, Fabric (consumption/skills/operations/authoring), Power BI, and…
Critical thinking as philosophical practice. Covers the Socratic method (elenchus), argument identification and reconstruction, premise evaluation, fallacy detection (formal and…
Visual hierarchy, data visualization, and minimal text patterns for impactful presentations
Add a new project to the planning suite. Creates a project-specific configuration directory and walks through project settings.
Create and manage high-quality custom instruction files for GitHub Copilot. Use when you need to define new project-specific guidelines, workflows, or coding standards in the…
Consolidate session learning into permanent architecture — extract patterns into skills, instructions, prompts, or memory
Convert a Markdown file to a styled Word (.docx) document using docpilot — syntax-highlighted code blocks, blue-header tables, no Pandoc required.
Execute an approved model task plan through Microsoft Foundry, Hugging Face, or ElevenLabs and record provider evidence.
Maintain the source registry in sources/supported-stores.json — add a new third-party plugin store, retire one, refresh metadata, validate the schema.
Documentation hygiene — anti-drift rules, count elimination, and living document maintenance
Verify a rendered visual artifact actually says what it was supposed to say — open it, read its console errors, walk a failure catalog, and check it against the claim it was meant…
Cut a release of Alex_ACT_Edition — preflight, brain-qa, changelog, version bump, tag, push
Curate Alex_Skill_Mall — decide when to add, keep, refresh, or prune stores and catalog entries
Analyze documentation gaps, create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and build knowledge indexes.
Safely update Copilot CLI plugins by wrapping `copilot plugin update` with per-plugin change summaries and breaking-change warnings.
Generate an executive organization brief (leadership chain, direct reports, extended teams, and vendor partners) for a target person.
Perform a local brain audit for ACT Edition using deterministic QA plus targeted file review, then produce severity-ranked fixes.
VS Code Copilot platform changes affecting how tools are used: deferred-tool categories with example search queries (GitHub, Azure MCP, Fabric, Microsoft docs, browser, notebook,…
This skill should be used for persistent semantic memory in agent systems: cross-session knowledge retention, entity tracking, temporal validity, graph or vector retrieval, memory…
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).
This skill should be used for the tool-interface layer of an agent system specifically: writing tool descriptions agents can route on, designing tool schemas and response formats,…
How the Plugin Mall scans, scores, and prunes itself. The Mall is a self-curating repo; this skill is its operational playbook for the weekly catalog refresh and trust scoring.
This skill should be used when building agent evaluation systems: deterministic checks, regression suites, multi-dimensional rubrics, quality gates, production monitoring,…
Strip Markdown formatting and produce clean plain text via pandoc
VitePress iframe embedding gotchas — CSP headers, sandboxing, responsive sizing
Recognize and prevent confabulation — when you don't know, say so.
Time Saved: 30 minutes - 1 hour debugging
Extensions/tools that auto-write to user workspaces without consent:
AI/LLM features default to verbose responses, causing:
Complete release automation for VS Code Marketplace publishing
With `cleanUrls: true`, nav links must NOT have `.html` extensions:
Version numbers in 5+ files WILL drift with manual edits: