Software Development Skills

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List, reply to, resolve, and create GitHub PR review comment threads using gh CLI scripts. Use when managing code review feedback, replying to reviewer remarks, resolving review conversations, creating reviews with line-level comments, or bulk-processing threads by author.

Clean up local branches with deleted remote tracking and their worktrees. Use after merging PRs to remove stale branches, detect squash-merged and rebased branches, and clean up associated worktrees.

Stage only specific hunks from the working tree for selective commits. Use when a file has changes from multiple sessions, parallel AI agents, or mixed user and agent edits and you need to commit only the changes made by the current session. Use when git add -p is unavailable or when you need non-interactive partial staging. Lists hunks with IDs, stages by hunk ID, file, regex pattern, or line range.

Interactive KubeCon CFP submission writer. Guides through topic selection, title crafting, abstract writing, and benefits section using acceptance data from 1,100+ talks across 7 KubeCon events (2024-2025). Use when preparing a conference talk proposal for KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, writing a CFP, or asking about KubeCon submission strategy.

Critique a Claude implementation plan before approving execution. Spawns parallel persona subagents (Skeptic, Architect, Verifier) to evaluate the plan against the codebase and return an Approve/Reject/Refine verdict with concrete refinements. Use when a plan has been generated (Plan Mode output, ExitPlanMode, pasted plan text, or plan file path) and needs review before code is written. Triggers on "critique this plan", "review this plan", "is this plan good", "poke holes in this plan", "should I approve this plan", or sharing a plan for evaluation.

Use when turning rough instructions into optimized, evidence-based AI prompts for system prompts, task prompts, coding-agent instructions, tools, eval graders, subagent briefings, or prompt-improvement work. Copies to clipboard.

Audit and fix CLAUDE.md files using a tiered binary checklist based on official Anthropic best practices and community guidelines. Use when the user asks to "review CLAUDE.md", "audit CLAUDE.md", "score CLAUDE.md", "improve CLAUDE.md", or "fix CLAUDE.md".

Diagnose and fix flaky e2e tests and general connectivity issues in service mesh environments (Kuma, Istio, Linkerd, Consul). Trigger when: a user mentions intermittent test failures, "test is flaky", e2e failures in CI that don't reproduce locally, Ginkgo/Gomega test files that fail sometimes, 503/connection refused errors, mTLS handshake failures, pods not getting traffic, xDS NACKs or warming resources, cert delivery timing issues, or "works locally but not in cluster". Covers Kuma flakiness patterns (timing races, xDS propagation delays, Envoy circuit breakers, mTLS readiness, Gomega misuse) AND universal mesh debugging (control plane connectivity, proxy lifecycle, certificate problems, traffic routing/policy, service discovery).

Staff-engineer-level code review that goes beyond correctness to evaluate architectural alignment, system-level implications, failure modes, performance, scalability, backward compatibility, observability, security, and cross-team impact. Use when reviewing a PR (URL or diff), analyzing code changes for architectural fitness, or when the user asks for a thorough/staff-level/senior review of code changes. Triggers on "review this PR", "review these changes", "staff review", "thorough code review", sharing a GitHub PR URL for review, or asking about the architectural impact of changes.

Build and refine staff-level engineering resumes through interactive coaching, research-backed best practices, and per-job tailoring. Use when building, improving, or tailoring a resume for Staff/Principal engineer roles.