Use when turning internal/external situation analysis into strategic options with SWOT and TOWS: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, evidence quality, SO/WO/ST/WT…
Apply typography, color theory, spacing systems, and iconography principles to create cohesive visual designs.
Use when extracting durable project knowledge from code, docs, issues, incidents, reports, screenshots, or conversations into reusable context such as skills, ADRs, glossaries,…
Warning fixture for the gate-conformance suite: the sidecar is schema-valid but omits the four durable Audit Status verdict fields.
Use when drawing Domain-Driven Design boundaries: bounded contexts, context maps, ownership seams, upstream/downstream relationships, anti-corruption layers, shared kernels, and…
Use when the user is unsure which skill to use or where to start. Interviews the user with targeted questions and recommends the best skill(s) from the installed library for their…
Use when designing tests that verify the interaction between two or more units of a system — modules, services, layers, processes: the scope-and-boundary primitives that…
Use when designing a color system — palette construction, semantic color tokens, WCAG contrast ratios, perceptual uniformity in OKLCH/LCH, and light/dark mode parity.
Implementing and optimizing database connection pools for high-performance applications.
Use when auditing a route, defining a route contract, reviewing onboarding or setup flows, diagnosing why a page feels confusing, or when the user asks about top tasks,…
Use when declaring, measuring, or enforcing performance thresholds as a quality contract rather than as an aspirational target.
Use when choosing, replacing, or justifying a framework, library, SDK, runtime, database, UI kit, or platform by fit: constraints, team skill, ecosystem maturity, migration cost,…
Optimizes agent context setup. Use when starting a new session, when agent output quality degrades, when switching between tasks, or when you need to configure rules file — from…
Use when performing state-changing operations, recovering sessions, creating handoffs, or managing context freshness
Use when building an artifact whose purpose is to answer a specific question — paper sketch, wireframe, clickable mockup, wizard-of-oz, role-play, service prototype, or code spike…
Use when analyzing product, brand, business-unit, or investment portfolio allocation with the BCG Growth-Share Matrix: market growth, relative market share, stars, cash cows,…
Use when choosing the representation paradigm for domain knowledge: knowledge graph, frame, production rule, semantic network, concept map, procedural ontology, or hybrid.
Use when storing decision traces, querying past precedents, or implementing learning loops. Load in COMPLETE state or when needing to learn from history.
Use when implementing or reviewing an inbound webhook handler for any third-party provider - verifying signatures, deduplicating retries, choosing the right HTTP status code for…
Use when validating incoming Stripe webhook requests in a Node.js or Next.js backend before processing any payment event.
Layout composition, visual weight distribution, and attention flow. Create designs that guide users effortlessly through content with intentional hierarchy.
Use when reasoning about types as a quality property of code: what guarantees the type system actually provides, the difference between sound and unsound systems, structural vs…
Use when uncertainty must be updated after new evidence: start with a prior or base rate, estimate how strongly the evidence fits each hypothesis, update to a posterior, and…
Use when designing reusable component modules — composition patterns, compound components, slot/children APIs, render props, headless component contracts, and the choice between…
Use when writing a Next.js Server Action that accepts user-submitted form data, mutation parameters, or any client-originated input.
Use BEFORE any tool call that could modify state, touch sensitive targets, rewrite history, install dependencies, publish packages, or expose credentials/environment data.
Use when working with Printify — the print-on-demand REST API, catalog model (blueprints, print providers, variants, print areas), product creation and publish lifecycle to…
Use when designing the deterministic health-tooling layer for a skill library, diagnosing why an existing library is decaying invisibly, deciding which categories of automated…
Use when typing edges in a knowledge graph or concept map, resolving synonym/antonym/polysemy/homonym confusion, testing whether a connection is IS-A, PART-OF, causal, thematic,…
Research high-intent TikTok and Instagram search keywords using ScaleBrick's framework. Returns categorized keywords with intent type, search volume estimate, difficulty score,…
Use when running migration 0004 that normalizes the orders table from a Stripe-specific shape (stripe_session_id, stripe_customer_id as top-level columns) to a canonical…
Use when facing a new problem and unsure which problem-solving methodology or foundational skill to apply first.
Stripe payment reconciliation for Sales Hub: webhook lifecycle (signature verification, idempotency, PII-redacted raw event storage, order linking, ledger projection,…
Use when designing or evaluating a production AI agent system, choosing a multi-agent coordination pattern (orchestrator/worker, fan-out, consensus, sequential chain,…
Use when you need to explain how parts of a system, feature, concept, page, workflow, or problem connect; identify the single most important part of something; untangle dense…
Auto-invoke when reviewing authentication, authorization, input handling, data exposure, or any user-facing code. Enforces OWASP top 10 awareness and security-first thinking.
Use when prioritizing work in an AI-assisted codebase, designing agent autonomy levels, deciding what to automate vs keep manual, or evaluating whether a process/tool adds value.
Use when designing a controlled classification system: category trees, facets, browse taxonomies, SKOS broader/narrower relationships, tagging rules, and duplicate-category…
Perform Porter's Five Forces analysis — competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants.
Use when deciding whether to route a task to Anthropic's frontier reasoning tier (Claude Opus) — architecture, multi-file synthesis, hard debugging, security reasoning,…
Use when diagnosing organizational alignment with the McKinsey 7S framework: shared values, strategy, structure, systems, style, staff, and skills; how the seven elements…
Generate an Ansoff Matrix analysis mapping growth strategies across market penetration, market development, product development, and diversification.
Guides agents implementing or auditing PostgreSQL Row Level Security in a multi-tenant SaaS codebase.
Negative fixture for the gate-conformance suite: the SKILL.md frontmatter is fully valid, but the sibling audit-state.json sidecar is missing the required `owner` field.
Use when locating a bug in an unfamiliar codebase, tracing a failure from symptom to source, or choosing between candidate fixes after the symptom is observed but before a patch…
Use when designing or reviewing Next.js Route Handlers (`route.ts`): when a Route Handler is right vs Server Actions or Server Components, the HTTP-method-as-export contract…
Use when an agent is making too many tool calls, when context is filling from verbose tool outputs, when the same operation could be a script instead of N individual calls, or…
Use when designing a theme system — design tokens, semantic token layering, CSS custom property strategy, runtime theme switching, and theme contract guarantees.
Expert Shopify theme development guidelines for Liquid, Online Store 2.0, CSS, JavaScript, and UX best practices
Discovery group skill. Restates the client's problem, target user, current workaround, success signal, and renders a falsifiable hypothesis.
Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) for agents writing skill content, designing prompts, building UI/dashboards, and authoring documentation.
Use when building, reviewing, or applying a Balanced Scorecard for strategy execution and performance management: destination statement, strategy map, perspectives, strategic…
Use when formalizing domain meaning with classes, properties, constraints, RDF/OWL-style semantics, SHACL-like validation shapes, or reasoning-ready axioms.
Use when modeling lifecycle states, transitions, guards, events, side effects, invalid states, retries, and state invariants for workflows or domain objects.
Use when building, reviewing, or repairing an STP marketing strategy: segmentation, targeting, and positioning as one linked sequence from market definition to segment profiles,…
Test fixture exercising v3.1 SKOS predicates (related, broader, narrower) and the ADR 0006 split between boundary (routing-layer) and disjoint_with (OWL class-disjointness).
Use when designing or reviewing asynchronous event contracts: producer/consumer ownership, event envelope, schema, topic/channel naming, ordering, idempotency, versioning,…
Use when designing telemetry semantics before or during implementation: logs, metrics, traces, events, spans, attributes, correlation IDs, SLOs, alert signals, and diagnostic…
Negative fixture for the gate-conformance suite: valid v8 frontmatter except `subject` is set to a value outside the closed twelve-shelf enum.
Use when writing or reviewing Postgres queries in a multi-tenant SaaS where every table row must be scoped to a single organization.