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design-system-architecture
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This skill helps you design scalable design systems by outlining token architecture, component APIs, and documentation strategies for modern libraries.
using-git-worktrees
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Use when starting feature work that needs isolation from current workspace or before executing implementation plans - creates isolated git worktrees with smart directory selection and safety verification
writing-skills
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Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment - applies TDD to process documentation by testing with subagents before writing, iterating until bulletproof against rationalization
root-cause-tracing
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Use when errors occur deep in execution and you need to trace back to find the original trigger - systematically traces bugs backward through call stack, adding instrumentation when needed, to identify source of invalid data or incorrect behavior
backlog-md
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This skill helps agents manage backlog tasks with structured filing, prioritization, and progress tracking using Backlog.md CLI.
xlsx
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This skill helps you create, modify, and analyze Excel workbooks end-to-end while preserving formulas and templates for accurate, repeatable results.
brainstorming
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This skill helps teams rapidly generate diverse brainstorming options to align goals, identify blockers, and seed actionable tasks before coding.
.template
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This skill helps you design and deploy robust ai-assisted workflows by guiding integration of concepts, patterns, and best practices across projects.
owasp-top-10
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This skill helps identify and remediate OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities during security audits and secure coding reviews.
session-management
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This skill helps you manage session lifecycles by loading, saving, and reflecting on progress with structured checkpoints and summaries.
system-design
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This skill helps you design system architecture, APIs, and data models with structured workflows, validation, and clear documentation outputs.
workflow-bug-fix
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This skill guides you through a structured bug-fix workflow, from root cause analysis to deployment, ensuring safe, verifiable improvements.
dev-workflows
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This skill guides repeatable build, test, and DX improvements with diagnostics, safe execution, and clear follow-ups.
workflow-performance
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This skill analyzes and optimizes system performance across baseline, bottlenecks, and infrastructure to accelerate response times and reduce resource usage.
systematic-debugging
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Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes - four-phase framework (root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, implementation) that ensures understanding before attempting solutions
requesting-code-review
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This skill streamlines code-review requests by dispatching a code-reviewer subagent to validate implementations against plan and requirements.
sharing-skills
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Use when you've developed a broadly useful skill and want to contribute it upstream via pull request - guides process of branching, committing, pushing, and creating PR to contribute skills back to upstream repository
test-driven-development
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Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code - write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass; ensures tests actually verify behavior by requiring failure first
condition-based-waiting
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Use when tests have race conditions, timing dependencies, or inconsistent pass/fail behavior - replaces arbitrary timeouts with condition polling to wait for actual state changes, eliminating flaky tests from timing guesses
database-design-patterns
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This skill guides designing scalable database schemas and optimizing queries across SQL and NoSQL systems, improving performance and data persistence.
defense-in-depth
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Use when invalid data causes failures deep in execution, requiring validation at multiple system layers - validates at every layer data passes through to make bugs structurally impossible
kubernetes-security-policies
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This skill helps you implement Kubernetes security policies across pod security, network segmentation, RBAC, and runtime defenses for hardened clusters.
multi-llm-consult
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This skill consults external LLMs to provide second opinions, plan comparisons, and delegated reviews, then consolidates results for informed decisions.
idea_lab
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This skill helps generate rapid divergent ideas with 5–7 concepts, selects top 3, and assigns 1-day experiments for fast validation.
finishing-a-development-branch
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Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup
workflow-security-audit
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This skill performs comprehensive security audits across threat assessment, scanning, review, and remediation to identify risks and prioritize fixes.
quality-audit
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This skill audits skills using four dimensions Clarity, Completeness, Accuracy, and Usefulness to deliver actionable quality recommendations.
claude-consult
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This skill provides mid-implementation consultation with Claude specialists to clarify conventions, debug ideas, and ensure secure, consistent design.
skill-creator
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This skill guides users through creating or updating Claude skills, outlining structure, resources, and best practices for reliable AI extensions.
accessibility-audit
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This skill provides fast accessibility triage for pages, components, or PRs to surface WCAG 2.2 AA issues early.
release-prep
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This skill streamlines production release prep with a safety-first checklist, validating quality, updating versions and docs, and aligning deployment readiness.
async-python-patterns
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This skill helps you implement asynchronous Python patterns for high-performance apps, guiding asyncio usage, concurrency, and non-blocking I/O.
requirements-discovery
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This skill guides you through structured requirements elicitation, turning vague ideas into concrete PRDs, scope, and testable acceptance criteria.
research-methodology
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This skill helps you conduct rigorous competitive analysis and market scans by designing queries, vetting sources, and synthesizing findings.
docx
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This skill helps you create, edit, and analyze professional docx files with tracked changes and comments while preserving formatting.
test-generation
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This skill helps generate targeted tests for Python code by analyzing paths, edge cases, and coverage goals to improve reliability.
terraform-best-practices
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This skill helps you implement scalable Terraform infrastructure by applying module design, state management, security, and testing best practices across
codanna-codebase-intelligence
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This skill indexes your codebase for semantic search, call graphs, and impact analysis, helping you understand dependencies before refactoring.
code-explanation
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This skill provides structured, audience-tailored code explanations with depth control, examples, and validation to ensure clear understanding.
token-efficiency
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This skill enables concise communication using symbolic notation to optimize token usage in limited-context workflows.
mashup
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This skill blends patterns from unrelated domains to spark fresh UX ideas and novel concepts for product design.
writing-plans
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This skill converts brainstorms into concrete, execution-ready plans aligned with cortex workflows, enabling rapid task creation and risk-aware delivery.
cqrs-event-sourcing
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This skill helps you implement CQRS and Event Sourcing to build auditable, scalable systems with clear read/write boundaries.
vibe-security
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This skill helps you write secure web applications by applying defense-in-depth, input validation, and access controls across backend and frontend.
compliance-audit
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This skill automates regulatory compliance audits across GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO, with evidence collection and gap analysis.
dispatching-parallel-agents
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This skill dispatches parallel Claude agents to investigate and fix independent failures across multiple domains, accelerating resolution without shared-state
doc-claim-validator
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This skill verifies documentation claims against the codebase by extracting verifiable assertions and validating them across files, commands, and dependencies.
doc-maintenance
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This skill systematically audits and reorganizes project documentation, routing tasks to specialized agents to restore structure and accuracy.
security-testing-patterns
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This skill helps you implement comprehensive security testing pipelines and validate controls across SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration testing.
threat-modeling-techniques
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This skill helps you identify, assess, and mitigate security threats in system design using STRIDE, attack trees, and DREAD risk scoring.
kubernetes-deployment-patterns
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This skill guides production-ready Kubernetes deployments by applying strategies, workload patterns, and autoscaling best practices across configurations,
documentation-production
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This skill provides a structured workflow to generate, update, and organize documentation across formats, ensuring consistency with project conventions.
evaluator-optimizer
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This skill guides iterative refinement of code, docs, or designs through structured evaluation and targeted improvements to production-grade quality.
feature-implementation
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This skill guides feature implementation with a structured workflow, clarifies requirements, plans changes, and validates through tests.
git-ops
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This skill helps you manage git operations safely, generate conventional commit messages, and provide workflow guidance for branching and merges.
github-actions-workflows
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This skill helps you design and optimize GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows with matrix builds, reusable patterns, caching, and secure deployment.
gitops-workflows
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This skill helps you implement production-grade GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux for declarative, multi-environment Kubernetes deployments.
helm-chart-patterns
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This skill helps you design, validate, and package production-grade Helm charts for multi-environment deployments and reusable templates.
implementation-workflow
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This skill converts PRDs or feature specs into actionable implementation workflows with task breakdowns, dependencies, and validation gates.
incident-response
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This skill guides incident triage, containment, and postmortems to reduce outages and accelerate recovery with structured playbooks.
interaction-design
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This skill helps design natural interactions with clear feedback across states, improving user flows, micro-interactions, and recovery patterns.
internal-comms
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This skill helps craft internal communications like 3P updates, newsletters, and incident reports by following guided templates and tone.
mermaid-diagramming
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This skill helps you create clear Mermaid diagrams for flowcharts, sequences, ERDs, and more to document systems effectively.
microservices-patterns
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This skill guides designing and operating resilient microservices, helping you decompose monoliths, define boundaries, and implement robust communication.
openapi-specification
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This skill helps you design, validate, and maintain OpenAPI 3.x specs, enabling robust contracts, reusable schemas, and automated documentation.
playwright
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This skill automates browser interactions and testing workflows using playwright-cli to navigate, fill forms, capture screenshots, and extract data.
prompt-engineering
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This skill helps you craft, test, and iterate prompts for reliable LLM outputs using structured design and synthetic data.
python-performance-optimization
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This skill helps you profile and optimize Python code to reduce latency and resource usage through proven techniques.
react-performance-optimization
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This skill helps you optimize React performance by applying memoization, code splitting, and virtualization to speed renders and reduce bundle size.
reasoning-controls
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This skill helps you manage reasoning depth, budgets, and metrics visibility by guiding safe, consistent controls across tasks.
secure-coding-practices
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This skill helps you implement secure coding practices and defensive patterns across authentication, input handling, data protection, and secure reviews.
socratic-questioning
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This skill guides developers through discovery using strategic questions on Clean Code, GoF patterns, and architectural trade-offs.
subagent-driven-development
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This skill accelerates development by dispatching fresh subagents for each task with inter-task reviews to ensure fast, high-quality iteration.
super-saiyan
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This skill elevates user interfaces with accessible, high-performance visual design and delightful micro-interactions across web, TUI, CLI, and docs.
task-orchestration
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This skill coordinates complex multi-step tasks with structured orchestration, enabling discovery, parallel spawning, delegation, and validated outputs.
template-skill
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This skill helps you bootstrap new AI skills by enforcing structure, metadata, and starter templates for rapid, consistent skill creation.
tool-selection
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This skill helps you select the optimal MCP tool by evaluating task complexity and performance trade-offs with a structured decision workflow.
tutorial-design
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This skill helps you craft hands-on tutorials with progressive disclosure, exercises, and troubleshooting to boost learning outcomes.
typescript-advanced-patterns
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This skill helps you master TypeScript advanced patterns to build type-safe APIs, complex domain models, and reusable libraries with compile-time guarantees.
ui-design-aesthetics
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This skill helps you craft distinctive, high-performance UI designs with progressive disclosure and API-aligned frontend components.
user-journey-mapping
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This skill helps you map end-to-end user journeys, identify pain points, and reveal emotions across touchpoints to inform improvements.
using-superpowers
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This skill enforces mandatory brainstorming, skill usage, and TodoWrite checklists to structure conversations and improve task accuracy.
ux-review
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This skill provides a multi-perspective UX review evaluating usability, accessibility, and interaction design to improve components and flows.
visual-modes
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This skill activates visual enhancement modes for UI showcases and provides mode-specific checklists to ensure performance and accessibility.
webapp-testing
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This skill guides you to test local web apps with Playwright, manage servers, waiting for networkidle, and capture diagnostics.
workflow-feature
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This skill guides teams through feature development from design to deployment, outlining steps, agents, and documents to ensure quality.
workflow-feature-development
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This skill guides end-to-end feature development from design to deployment, ensuring architecture, planning, testing, and documentation are aligned with
agent-loops
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This skill guides implementer agents through code and test loops, coordinating reviews, remediation, and escalation to Claude for quality assurance.
a10-brand
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This skill enforces and embodies A10 Networks brand visuals across outputs, ensuring bold, clean, square-corner designs with Rubik typography.
api-design-patterns
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This skill helps you design scalable REST and GraphQL APIs with versioning, pagination, and consistent error handling for production-grade service contracts.
api-gateway-patterns
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This skill helps you design and implement API gateway patterns for routing, security, and traffic management across microservices.
canvas-design
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This skill lets you design and generate museum-grade visual canvases by applying a crafted design philosophy and delivering pristine PDF or PNG artifacts.
assumption_buster
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This skill helps you bust assumptions to unlock new solution angles by transforming beliefs and generating reframed ideas with quick tests.
code-quality-workflow
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This skill standardizes code quality analysis and improvements, helping you reliably review, optimize, and validate changes across codebases.
concept_forge
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This skill helps teams quickly evaluate ideas by scoring impact, delight, and effort to pick a 1-day spike.
executing-plans
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This skill locks in the plan and drives its execution through cortex orchestration and verification, turning strategy into tracked tasks and progress.
constructive-dissent
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This skill systematically challenges proposals using structured dissent protocols to expose weaknesses and generate superior alternatives.
receiving-code-review
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This skill helps you receive code review feedback rigorously, verify changes before implementing, and push back with technical reasoning.