Use when you need focused cleanup audits, safe removals, scoped quality-risk reductions, and evidence-backed cleanup plans before touching code.
Analyze, design, or triage LLM evaluation workflows. Use when the user asks for evaluator design, error analysis, judge prompts, RAG evals, synthetic data, or review tooling.
Create a durable guardrail, validator, doc, eval, or skill-reference update from a verified failure or learning.
Restore broken behavior by reproducing failures, identifying root cause, and delivering verified fixes.
Selects the correct Harness Engineering lifecycle stage and compatibility alias route. Use when a request is ambiguous, mixes brainstorm/spec/plan/work/review intent, references…
Build and audit polished interaction refinements for existing React or Tauri UI when motion, accessibility, reduced-motion, and browser-verified behavior need focused improvement.
Explains Robert Overweg's One Brain, No Filtering talk and helps design safe knowledge-memory systems: context maps, retrieval rules, provenance labels, local knowledge-store…
Scan Codex session history for skill failures, usage patterns, and coverage gaps. Use when the user wants daily skill-health monitoring or evidence-backed recommendations about…
Create, review, or repair recurring Harness Engineering heartbeats that wake a thread, re-check live state, and route back into the right HE stage; use when PRs, CI, reviews,…
Answers questions about Lamis's (Anthropic) AI Native DevCon talk on context engineering, agent memory systems, and dreaming — an asynchronous, out-of-band memory-curation…
Create or refactor AGENTS.md and linked instruction docs using progressive disclosure. Use when the user wants repo-specific agent guidance organized, deduplicated, or routed…
Use when the user asks about Katie Roberts's talk \"Stop Maintaining, Start Evolving: Applying AI-Native Engineering in Brownfield Codebases\" (AI Native DevCon, June 2026) —…
Create, validate, and repair Project Brain .harness memory files when setting up Project Brain, saving repo learnings, recording decisions, or preserving quality rules.
Answers questions about, summarises key insights from, and helps apply concepts from Simon Martinelli's talk \"Lessons from Spec-driven Development\" — providing verbatim-grounded…
Summarizes, explains, and answers questions about Dave Farley's talk 'Vibe Coding — Is this really the best we can do?', including key arguments, frameworks, and recommendations.
Diagnose Codex Desktop or CLI local-state bloat and safe recovery options. Use when sessions, archived history, logs, worktrees, or stale Codex config may be making Codex feel…
Runs approved Harness Engineering plans in recurring phases: check live state, confirm continuation authority, execute only the active he-work slice, verify gates, update Linear…
Automate until-green PR review, CI, merge, and cleanup follow-through. Use when open project PRs need GitHub/gh, CodeRabbit, CircleCI, Context7, Snyk, autofix, heartbeat, and…
Check if a repository or agent-facing product surface is ready for AI coding agents. Use when you need to audit repo agent compatibility, review AGENTS.md, find missing test/build…
Deepen an existing system or UI spec so boundaries, lifecycle rules, failure handling, and validation are strong enough for planning.
Analyze options and trade-offs before traceable work is ready, without pretending exploration is a plan.
Summarizes, explains, and applies Lars Trieloff's AI Native DevCon talk on browser-native agents. Use for browser agents, running AI in the browser, browser-as-runtime…
Review diffs, PRs, specs, plans, or review-feedback items and return severity-ranked engineering findings with exact locations.
Install, repair, and validate Vale prose linting. Use when users need Vale config, style sync, docs lint gates, or broken Vale workflow diagnosis.
Run, audit, and design authorized Recon Workbench workflows when scoped target interrogation needs evidence artifacts, redaction, validation, and safe reporting.
Use when the user asks about Dave Kerr's AI Native DevCon talk on bipolar disorder, dysregulation, and AI, including responsible interpretation of personal and clinical themes…
Install, update, audit, diagnose, and explain @brainwav/coding-harness when repository governance, harness init, CI migration, or action-sync needs live command evidence.
Convert approved HE cognition into small live-ready Linear execution tracking. Use when strategy, reframe, plan, bug, or source-prompt evidence needs scoped issue, milestone, or…
Use when the user asks about Katie Roberts''s talk \"Stop Maintaining, Start Evolving: Applying AI-Native Practices to Brownfield Codebases\" — including questions about using AI…
Assists with questions about a practitioner panel talk titled 'From Pipelines to Prompts: Surviving the Shift to AI' featuring Stephane Jourdan, Simon (Saxo Bank), and Samantha.
Create, review, and validate an alignment checkpoint. Use when a request is ambiguous, high-stakes, multi-step, or requires explicit approval before tool use.
Explains Oleg Selajev's Docker Sandboxes talk and helps design safe, conceptual agent-isolation policies: file-sharing boundaries, network policy, secret isolation, audit…
WHAT: Route plugin-factory requests to the right lane. WHEN: Use when plugin creation, building, installation, review, or routing is broad, mixed, or under-specified.
Use when the user asks about Peter Wilson and Davide Eynard's AI Native DevCon talk on cq, a Stack Overflow-like knowledge commons for agents, local/team/public knowledge sharing,…
Create or refresh evidence-bound Harness Engineering learning artifacts from verified solved problems.
Create evidence-backed HE reframe migration programs. Use when structural drift, routing ambiguity, or source-prompt gaps need phased rollback-safe execution.
Ship skill changes to PRs when Codex skills need source edits, rooted sync, strict audit, reviewer evidence, commit, push, and PR status.
Use when the user asks about Don Syme's AI Native DevCon talk on Continuous AI, GitHub agentic workflows, repository automation, and safe developer-controlled automation loops.
Compress HE cognition artifacts into evidence-backed strategy. Use when intent, review, triage, ADR, core, or source-prompt comparison evidence needs durable direction.
Analyze and validate compound Harness Engineering run state, blockers, validation status, and Linear context.
Review the completed slice for correctness, risk, evidence gaps, and next-stage blockers. Use when the user asks for review, PR readiness, risk assessment, blocker identification,…
Analyze, compare, and recommend a Codex build primitive. Use when the user is packaging or automating a workflow and the right primitive is unclear.
Review services, APIs, and multi-component systems for reliability risks including failure modes, cascading failures, resilience gaps, and SLO readiness.
Capture a completed Codex workflow as a reusable SKILL.md package by analyzing session context plus optional session-collector evidence, interviewing the user with structured…
Review, configure, and troubleshoot prek hooks when users need prek.toml edits, shim installs, hook validation, or pre-commit migration help.
Answers questions about, summarises key insights from, and applies the security guidance of Joseph Katsioloudes's talk 'Code Security Reinvented: Navigating the era of AI'.
Use when the user asks about Daniel Jones (Deejay) and Tomasz's talk \"More software, faster — Odevo's AI Native transformation\" — including questions about how Odevo (Sweden's…
Assists with questions about Guy Podjarny's talk \"Skills are the new Code\". Use when the user wants to understand, apply, audit, or explore frameworks from this keynote —…
Use when the user asks about Lieven Scheire's talk \"Artificial Intelligence\" (a Belgian physicist/comedian's keynote on AI for a developer audience) — including questions about…
Review PRs, branches, diffs, and workflow artifacts for package-level go/no-go readiness with severity-ranked synthesis.
Define problem scope, requirements, and decision options before spec or plan stages. Use when the user has ambiguity in what to build, why it matters, or which direction to choose.
Routes old phase-heartbeat requests into HE phase work: check the approved plan, reuse or create a 10-minute continuation only with authority, run phase gates, delegate the active…
Generate closure-grade HE eval and drift proof for one execution slice. Use when Linear, milestone, or source-prompt closure needs validation evidence.
Explains the Product Brain talk and helps design curated product-memory systems for AI-assisted product work: knowledge structure, provenance, synthesis cadence, ownership, and…
Audit, validate, and troubleshoot Agentation integrations in frontend apps. Use when annotations, MCP registration, endpoint sync, webhook delivery, or watch mode readiness are…
Plan tracker-ready slices with dependencies, labels, acceptance fields, and validation placeholders. Use when trace work needs Linear-ready or tracker-ready issue structure…
Use when creating, auditing, upgrading, or validating Codex hook packs, hooks.json files, hook scripts, or repo-local/user-level .codex hook installs.
Explains, summarizes, and turns Matthias Luebken's talk on embedding Pi-style coding agents into safe product-design artifacts: tool-contract sketches, guardrail checklists,…
Refine Harness Engineering artifacts, plans, specs, or work into clearer action plans. Use when users ask for tightening, simplification, or lifecycle repair.
Plan execution work from specs, brainstorm outputs, bugs, or feature requests into an implementation-ready sequence.