Software Development Skills

Write, review, and maintain architecture decision records with clear context, alternatives, consequences, and lifecycle governance. Use when a consequential technical decision must remain understandable.

Design, run, review, or release framework- and vendor-neutral evaluations and observability for AI agents. Use when defining agent evals, datasets, graders, trajectory review, regression analysis, release gates, production traces, or privacy-aware telemetry. Covers task and trajectory contracts, statistical comparisons, and incident-to-case learning; route framework implementation to pydanticai or langgraph when needed.

Operate an evaluated agent with tools and authority in production through a runtime control plane covering versioning, staged rollout, fallback, cost and latency budgets, tool health, human escalation, disablement, and trace-to-eval feedback. Do not use for building agents, designing evals, or general release, SRE, security, or platform engineering — those methods stay with their specialist skills.

Design, document, review, and evolve consumer-facing APIs and event interfaces. Use when choosing REST/HTTP, GraphQL, RPC, events, webhooks, or streaming; writing OpenAPI or AsyncAPI contracts; defining schemas, pagination, mutations, errors, idempotency, or API compatibility; or planning API versioning, deprecation, and migration. Use secure-software-engineering for a full security lifecycle, ADR authoring for durable architecture decisions, and spec-driven-development for a delivery specification and implementation gates.

Organize durable agent research outputs as summaries, analysis, and evidence dossiers. Use when producing multi-layer research artifacts or coordinating research handoffs.

Create comprehensive brand identity documentation for any brand. Guides you through documenting strategy, visual identity (logo, color, typography, imagery), voice and tone, application guidelines, governance, and asset inventory. Produces markdown specs, compiled brand books, and brand-compliant images via reference-image-aware generation. Use when you need to capture a brand's identity in structured, durable form — for vault storage, agency handoff, or press kit distribution.

Create C4 software-architecture diagrams using Mermaid or Structurizr. Use when teams need clear system context, container, component, or code-level views.

Model technical capacity, unit cost, and budget constraints connected to demand, performance, and reliability decisions. Use when projecting capacity from growth forecasts, sizing for peak events, designing cost-aware scaling policies, defining budget thresholds or quota/rate-limit enforcement, running or planning load/soak tests as capacity evidence, or resolving SLO-cost tradeoffs. Do NOT use for financial P&L statements, fundraising scenarios, or SaaS metrics (route to financial-modeling); for infrastructure implementation or cloud-resource provisioning (route to platform-engineering); or for generic cloud-cost tips and universal utilization targets — this skill does not prescribe fixed savings rates or one-size-fits-all thresholds.

Prepare accountable executive decisions, information triage, briefing, calendar choices, organizational sensing, and institutional memory without assuming authority or monitoring people. Use when a chief of staff or CoS, executive office, gatekeeping, decision memo, executive briefing, board materials, organizational sensing, team health, institutional memory, calendar triage, meeting audit, strategic time, or attention allocation is requested.

Use when discovering and comparing cloud-native technologies from the CNCF Landscape for an architecture or engineering decision. Query the live public Landscape API, filter candidates by capability, category, maturity, license, and repository signals, then produce an evidence-backed shortlist with trade-offs, unknowns, and validation steps. Do not use it as a substitute for project documentation, production-readiness testing, legal review, or general architecture methodology.

Expert-level color management for ICC profiles, working spaces, gamut mapping, and color science. Use when inspecting ICC profiles, converting between color spaces, checking gamut clipping, validating well-behaved working spaces, or troubleshooting color workflow issues with ImageMagick, ArgyllCMS, Exiftool, or LittleCMS.

Guide recurring human-relationship practices — success plans, health evidence, renewal and expansion signals, QBRs, handoffs, escalation, and closed-loop Voice of Customer. Do not use this skill for products without accounts, renewals, QBRs, or a customer-success team, including some internal tools, pure transactional products without recurring relationships, and public services without account-based engagement. Load only when the product context includes a recurring human relationship; decline or route away otherwise.

Create or analyze settings, scenes, world operations, and image direction in the literary cyberpunk mode of William Gibson's Sprawl fiction: dense, accreted urban systems; uneven high technology; corporate power; mediated culture; and human-scale survival inside global networks. Use for Gibson-informed creative work, setting design, or visual briefs, not for generic neon cyberpunk, faithful continuation of named canon, or imitation of Gibson's prose.

Guide a consent-based conversation that helps a person discover how an AI agent could improve their day-to-day life: routines, friction, attention, decisions, relationships, learning, and small experiments. Use when someone asks for a daily check-in, wants the agent to learn how they work, says "grill me," wants a conversational journal, or asks what an AI could help with. Do not use for therapy, diagnosis, crisis support, covert monitoring, or product requirements interviews.

Use when someone asks what is true, false, misleading, unsupported, unknown, or genuinely complicated in a persuasive message, article, pitch, advertisement, policy claim, or viral post. Analyze propaganda, spin, selective framing, urgency, social proof, deceptive marketing, and AI-generated persuasion by tracing claims to evidence and separating literal truth from implied conclusions. Do not use to read deception from demeanor, adjudicate intent, or replace broad domain research.

Assess and explain questions about mental health and neurocognitive conditions against DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria, and guide evidence-based conversations for clinicians, patients, and family members. Use when someone asks about symptoms, possible conditions, differential diagnoses, diagnostic criteria, prevalence, specifiers, or wants to understand or explain a mental health or neurological condition in plain language. Do not use for formal diagnosis, treatment decisions, crisis intervention, legal or insurance determinations, or any situation that requires a licensed clinician's judgment.

Use a small FlareSolverr JSON CLI for browser-backed GET and POST requests, readiness checks, and session lifecycle management when a site requires Cloudflare or DDoS-GUARD challenge handling.

Expert skill for production search and NLP pipelines with Haystack (deepset). Pipeline DAG composition, document stores, retrievers, PromptBuilder (Jinja2), generators, evaluation, Hayhooks deployment. Use when building search pipelines or comparing NLP application frameworks.

Build, customize, and debug advanced Hugo CMS themes — template architecture, asset pipeline (CSS/JS/image processing), shortcodes and render hooks, page bundles, cover images, Hugo Modules, performance, SEO, and CI/CD. Use when working on a Hugo theme or site template layer.

Convert operational incident and near-miss evidence into durable product, engineering, test, evaluation, and governance improvements with verified closure. Separate observed facts from causal hypotheses and unresolved uncertainty; map follow-up work across code, tests, skills, operations, product, and governance; track ownership, verification, and closure for every finding. Do not use to assign blame or produce a generic postmortem template; do not close learning because tickets were created — require evidence the intended change occurred.

Expert-level skill for Jira Query Language (JQL). Use when the user asks about writing, debugging, optimizing, or understanding JQL queries; needs to filter Jira issues by complex criteria, date ranges, history, or cross-project conditions; wants to build saved filters, dashboard gadgets, or automation rules; or needs guidance on JQL performance, functions, operators, history operators (WAS/CHANGED), relative dates, role-based query patterns, or the JQL REST API.

A virtual Kanban expert who can diagnose flow problems, design board configurations, set up multi-portfolio operating models, calibrate WIP limits, establish service level expectations, and guide Scrum-to-Kanban transitions. Load this when your team is struggling with throughput, cycle times are unpredictable, multiple stakeholders compete for the same engineers, or you're wondering if Kanban is right for you.

Access Last.fm listening history, music stats, and discovery. Query recent tracks, top artists/albums/tracks, loved tracks, similar artists, and global charts.

Plan and execute safe cross-system migrations — schema, data, API, infrastructure, and service — with compatibility windows, dual-running, backfills, reconciliation, cutover, deprecation, and cleanup. Covers expand/contract, reversible and irreversible recovery paths, migration observability, correctness evidence, ownership, and customer impact. Do not use for single-technology quick fixes, tool-specific how-to guides, or migrations whose scope does not cross a system boundary; do not prescribe one migration technology or claim rollback is always possible.