Use when diagnosing organizational alignment with the McKinsey 7S framework: shared values, strategy, structure, systems, style, staff, and skills; how the seven elements…
Cross-cutting best practices enforcement across code, templates, skills, prompts, scripts, documentation, pages, and design.
Stripe payment reconciliation for Sales Hub: webhook lifecycle (signature verification, idempotency, PII-redacted raw event storage, order linking, ledger projection,…
Schedule and manage recurring tasks with cron and systemd timers. Use when setting up cron jobs, writing systemd timer units, handling timezone-aware scheduling, monitoring failed…
Use when implementing dark mode — prefers-color-scheme detection, theme persistence, flash-of-unstyled-theme prevention, color token mirroring, image and asset variants, and meta…
Use when designing or auditing form structure and validation UX: field grouping, required vs optional inputs, validation timing, client/server validation split, submission…
Use when reasoning about how a web UI is produced and delivered: client-side rendering, server-side rendering, static-site generation, incremental static regeneration, React…
Consumer-driven contract testing for microservices using Pact, schema validation, API versioning, and backward compatibility testing.
Layout composition, visual weight distribution, and attention flow. Create designs that guide users effortlessly through content with intentional hierarchy.
Use when reasoning about React Hooks as a discipline: when a render is the right shape for state, why the Rules of Hooks exist as a compile-time invariant, how the dependency…
Apply typography, color theory, spacing systems, and iconography principles to create cohesive visual designs.
Use when reasoning about the four ACID properties of database transactions — Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability — as foundational concepts beneath any transactional…
Use when turning a vague business strategy, product strategy, market-entry decision, or initiative plan into an integrated Playing to Win strategy cascade: winning aspiration,…
Conjecture generation, sequence analysis, and experimental mathematics for mathematical discovery. Covers sequence analysis (OEIS lookups, recurrence relations, generating…
Use when designing or auditing icon systems, colors/badges/shapes, visual metaphors, interface signs, or naming-plus-visual surfaces that users misread.
Use when diagnosing whether a business has, can build, or is falsely claiming durable strategic power using Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers: scale economies, network economies,…
Use when designing or reviewing React Server Components: what an RSC can do (async, data fetching, server-only imports) versus what it cannot (state, effects, event handlers,…
Implement state management patterns for frontend applications. Use when managing global state, handling complex data flows, or coordinating state across components.
Use when designing how a database keeps multiple copies of its data in agreement across nodes for availability, read scaling, and disaster recovery: the three foundational…
Use when deciding whether to route a task to Google's Gemini Pro frontier model (current Gemini 3.1 Pro generation, moving to Gemini 3.5 Pro) instead of Claude Opus or GPT-5 —…
Use when designing a color system — palette construction, semantic color tokens, WCAG contrast ratios, perceptual uniformity in OKLCH/LCH, and light/dark mode parity.
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,…
Use when drawing Domain-Driven Design boundaries: bounded contexts, context maps, ownership seams, upstream/downstream relationships, anti-corruption layers, shared kernels, and…
This skill provides live data update patterns for web applications: webhook-to-UI push patterns, Server-Sent Events for dashboard updates, polling fallback strategies, optimistic…
Use when dispatching a content-fetch task across the multiple sources the site reads from — local markdown under `content/`, MDX with React components under `content/mdx/`, and a…
Use when reasoning about building language-model-integrated systems by writing evaluations before and alongside the system: the statistical (not binary) nature of LLM evals, the…
Use when authoring or reviewing the build-time image pipeline config — defining responsive srcset breakpoints, picking output formats (AVIF / WebP / JPEG fallback), tuning…
This skill consolidates autonomous AI agent loop patterns: the Ralph Wiggum exit-code-2 pattern, our manage-loop (manage-continuation.json + manage-loop-hook.py), grind-loop.sh…
Use when migrating every existing post in `content/posts/**/*.md` to the v2 frontmatter schema — adding the new required `summary` field, normalizing `tags` to the controlled…
Use as the v6-conformant fixture exercising the full Understanding surface — flat top-level fields (mental_model, purpose, boundary, analogy, misconception) AND the nested v5…
Negative fixture for the gate-conformance suite: valid v8 frontmatter except `relations.verify_with` points at a skill that does not exist.
This skill records the skill-graph protocol's specific classification conventions — the closed-enum scope values (portable/codebase/reference), category enum…
This skill records the skill-graph protocol's specific semantic conventions — the non-negotiable naming and meaning rules for protocol entities (Skill, ConceptCard,…
Use as the smallest v6-conformant capability fixture for skill-graph package tests. Activate this skill when verifying that lint, manifest generation, and routing accept the…
This skill records the formal ontological commitments of the skill-graph protocol — what entities exist (Skill, ConceptCard, Eval, ComprehensionEval, Relation, Manifest, Audit,…
Use as the v6-conformant fixture exercising all four typed relation predicates (related, boundary, verify_with, depends_on) using the {skill, reason} object shape.
Use when authoring or reviewing the frontmatter of a markdown post — checking required fields (title, date, slug, tags), validating against the content schema in…
Use as the minimal v6-conformant codebase-grounded fixture for skill-graph package tests. Activate this skill when verifying that lint enforces grounding requireds (domain_object,…
Use when authoring or reviewing a periodic-scan job that walks every external link in a markdown content set and flags 404s, redirects to unrelated content, and connection…
This skill provides decision frameworks for choosing the optimal execution path before starting work: plan-vs-act gates, agent architecture selection (chaining, routing,…
This skill provides mobile-specific UX patterns for SaaS dashboards: touch-friendly targets (44px minimum), thumb-zone optimization, swipe gestures, condensed data display, bottom…
This skill provides expertise in data and context compression: SaaS payload optimization (Zstd, Brotli, Gzip), database storage compression, and AI context window compression…
Solve problems by thinking backward - what would cause failure?