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rysweet/amplihack
Framework for agentic coding supporting many popular agent coding tools.
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context-management
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Proactive context window management via token monitoring, intelligent extraction, and selective rehydration. Features predictive budget monitoring, context health indicators, and priority-based retention. Use when approaching token limits or needing to preserve essential context. Complements /transcripts and PreCompact hook with proactive optimization.
skill-builder
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Creates, refines, and validates Claude Code skills following amplihack philosophy and official best practices. Automatically activates when building, creating, generating, or designing new skills.
learning-path-builder
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Creates personalized learning paths for technologies, frameworks, or concepts. Use for user-interactive session only for onboarding new technologies, hackathon skill-building, or personal development planning. Not for use in automated development or investigation. Sequences resources (docs, tutorials, exercises) based on current skill level and learning goals. Adapts to learning style: hands-on, theory-first, project-based.
creating-pull-requests
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Creates high-quality pull requests with comprehensive descriptions, test plans, and context. Activates when user wants to create PR, says 'ready to merge', or has completed feature work. Analyzes commits and changes to generate meaningful PR descriptions.
architecting-solutions
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Analyzes problems and designs system architecture before implementation. Activates when user asks design questions, discusses architecture, or needs to break down complex features. Creates clear specifications following the brick philosophy of simple, modular, regeneratable components.
setting-up-projects
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Automates project setup with best practices including pre-commit hooks, linting, formatting, and boilerplate. Activates when creating new projects, missing configuration files, or setting up development environment. Ensures quality tooling from the start.
testing-code
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Generates and improves tests following TDD principles. Activates when new features are implemented, test coverage is low, or user requests tests. Ensures comprehensive test coverage with unit, integration, and edge case tests.
agent-sdk
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Comprehensive knowledge of Claude Agent SDK architecture, tools, hooks, skills, and production patterns. Auto-activates for agent building, SDK integration, tool design, and MCP server tasks.
azure-devops
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Complete Azure DevOps automation - boards, repos, pipelines, artifacts
goal-seeking-agent-pattern
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Guides architects on when and how to use goal-seeking agents as a design pattern. This skill helps evaluate whether autonomous agents are appropriate for a given problem, how to structure their objectives, integrate with goal_agent_generator, and reference real amplihack examples like AKS SRE automation, CI diagnostics, pre-commit workflows, and fix-agent pattern matching.
ultrathink-orchestrator
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Auto-invokes ultrathink workflow for any work request (default orchestrator)
sociologist-analyst
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Analyzes events through sociological lens using social structures, institutions, stratification, culture, norms, collective behavior, and multiple theoretical perspectives (functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist). Provides insights on social patterns, group dynamics, inequality, socialization, social change, and collective action. Use when: Social movements, inequality, cultural trends, group behavior, institutions, identity, social change. Evaluates: Social structures, power relations, inequality, norms, group dynamics, cultural patterns, social change.
poet-analyst
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Analyzes events through poetic lens using close reading, metaphor analysis, imagery, rhythm, form analysis, and attention to language's emotional and aesthetic dimensions. Provides insights on emotional truth, symbolic meaning, human experience, aesthetic impact, and expressive depth. Use when: Understanding emotional dimensions, symbolic meaning, communication impact, cultural resonance, human experience. Evaluates: Imagery, metaphor, rhythm, emotional truth, symbolic depth, aesthetic power, resonance, ambiguity.
pr-review-assistant
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Philosophy-aware PR reviews checking alignment with amplihack principles. Use when reviewing PRs to ensure ruthless simplicity, modular design, and zero-BS implementation. Suggests simplifications, identifies over-engineering, verifies brick module structure. Posts detailed, constructive review comments with specific file:line references.
anthropologist-analyst
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Analyzes events through anthropological lens using cultural analysis, ethnographic methods, kinship and social organization, symbolic systems, ritual and practice, and comparative ethnology. Provides insights on cultural meanings, social practices, symbolic structures, cultural change, and cross-cultural patterns. Use when: Cultural conflicts, identity issues, ritual significance, symbolic meanings, cultural change, cross-cultural comparison. Evaluates: Cultural systems, symbolic meanings, social practices, kinship structures, cultural adaptation, power-culture nexus.
engineer-analyst
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Analyzes technical systems and problems through engineering lens using first principles, systems thinking, design methodologies, and optimization frameworks. Provides insights on feasibility, performance, reliability, scalability, and trade-offs. Use when: System design, technical feasibility, optimization, failure analysis, performance issues. Evaluates: Requirements, constraints, trade-offs, efficiency, robustness, maintainability.
pptx
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Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks
epidemiologist-analyst
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Analyzes disease patterns and health events through epidemiological lens using surveillance systems, outbreak investigation methods, and disease modeling frameworks. Provides insights on disease spread, risk factors, prevention strategies, and public health interventions. Use when: Disease outbreaks, health policy evaluation, risk assessment, intervention planning. Evaluates: Transmission dynamics, risk factors, causality, population health impact, intervention effectiveness.
futurist-analyst
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Analyzes events through futures lens using scenario planning, trend analysis, weak signals, drivers of change, and forecasting methods (exploratory, normative, backcasting). Provides insights on possible futures, emerging trends, disruptive forces, strategic foresight, and alternative scenarios. Use when: Strategic planning, emerging trends, technology assessment, long-term planning, uncertainty navigation. Evaluates: Trends, weak signals, drivers of change, plausible futures, strategic options, uncertainty ranges.
code-visualizer
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Auto-generates code flow diagrams from Python module analysis. Detects when architecture diagrams become stale (code changed, diagram didn't). Use when: creating new modules, reviewing PRs for architecture impact, or checking diagram freshness. Generates mermaid diagrams showing imports, dependencies, and module relationships.
philosopher-analyst
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Analyzes fundamental questions and concepts through philosophical lens using logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and critical analysis frameworks. Provides insights on meaning, truth, knowledge, existence, reasoning, and conceptual clarity. Use when: Conceptual ambiguity, logical arguments, foundational assumptions, meaning questions. Evaluates: Validity, soundness, coherence, assumptions, implications, conceptual clarity.
urban-planner-analyst
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Analyzes urban development through planning lens using zoning, land use, comprehensive planning, and transit-oriented development frameworks. Provides insights on spatial organization, infrastructure, sustainability, and livability. Use when: Urban development projects, zoning decisions, transportation planning, sustainability initiatives. Evaluates: Land use patterns, density, accessibility, environmental impact, community needs.
knowledge-extractor
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Extracts key learnings from conversations, debugging sessions, and failed attempts. Use at session end or after solving complex problems to capture insights. Stores discoveries in memory (via amplihack.memory.discoveries), suggests PATTERNS.md updates, and recommends new agent creation. Ensures knowledge persists across sessions via Kuzu memory backend.
environmentalist-analyst
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Analyzes events through environmental lens using ecological principles, systems thinking, sustainability frameworks, and conservation biology to assess ecosystem health, biodiversity impacts, and long-term environmental sustainability. Provides insights on climate change, resource management, pollution, habitat conservation, and human-nature relationships. Use when: Environmental policy, climate decisions, conservation planning, resource extraction, pollution assessment. Evaluates: Ecosystem health, biodiversity, sustainability, climate impacts, carrying capacity, environmental justice.
remote-work
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Execute amplihack work on remote Azure VMs with automatic region and resource selection
psychologist-analyst
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Analyzes events through psychological lens using cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience. Provides insights on behavior, cognition, emotion, motivation, group dynamics, decision-making biases, mental health, and individual differences. Use when: Behavioral patterns, decision-making, group behavior, mental health, leadership, persuasion, trauma, development. Evaluates: Cognitive processes, emotional responses, motivations, biases, group dynamics, personality, mental states.
novelist-analyst
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Analyzes events through narrative lens using story structure, character arc analysis, dramatic tension, thematic development, and narrative theory (three-act structure, hero's journey, conflict-resolution). Provides insights on narrative coherence, character motivations, dramatic stakes, plot development, and thematic resonance. Use when: Complex human stories, leadership analysis, organizational narratives, crisis narratives, cultural moments. Evaluates: Character development, narrative arc, dramatic tension, thematic depth, symbolic meaning, narrative coherence.
pm-architect
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Expert project manager orchestrating backlog-curator, work-delegator, workstream-coordinator, and roadmap-strategist sub-skills. Coordinates complex software projects through delegation and strategic oversight. Activates when managing projects, coordinating work, or tracking overall progress.
historian-analyst
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Analyzes events through historical lens using source analysis, comparative history, periodization, causation, continuity/change, and contextualization frameworks. Provides insights on historical patterns, precedents, path dependency, and long-term trends. Use when: Understanding historical context, identifying precedents, analyzing change over time, comparative history. Evaluates: Causation, continuity, change, context, historical parallels, long-term patterns.
investigation-workflow
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6-phase investigation workflow for understanding existing systems. Auto-activates for research tasks. Optimized for exploration and understanding, not implementation. Includes parallel agent deployment for efficient deep dives and automatic knowledge capture to prevent repeat investigations.
consensus-voting
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Multi-agent consensus voting with domain-weighted expertise for critical decisions requiring structured validation
module-spec-generator
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Generates module specifications following amplihack's brick philosophy template. Use when creating new modules or documenting existing ones to ensure they follow the brick & studs pattern. Analyzes code to extract: purpose, public contract, dependencies, test requirements.
economist-analyst
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Analyzes events through economic lens using supply/demand, incentive structures, market dynamics, and multiple schools of economic thought (Classical, Keynesian, Austrian, Behavioral). Provides insights on market impacts, resource allocation, policy implications, and distributional effects. Use when: Economic events, policy changes, market shifts, financial crises, regulatory decisions. Evaluates: Incentives, efficiency, opportunity costs, market failures, systemic risks.
model-evaluation-benchmark
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Automated reproduction of comprehensive model evaluation benchmarks following the Benchmark Suite V3. Auto-activates for model benchmarking, comparison evaluation, or performance testing between AI models.
dependency-resolver
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Automated dependency conflict detection and resolution. Detects local vs CI environment mismatches, compares versions, and generates pinning recommendations. Run as pre-push check to catch issues early.
mermaid-diagram-generator
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Converts architecture descriptions, module specs, or workflow docs into Mermaid diagrams. Use when visualizing brick module relationships, workflows (DDD, investigation), or system architecture. Supports: flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state machines, entity relationship diagrams, and Gantt charts. Generates valid Mermaid syntax for embedding in markdown docs.
pdf
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Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
philosophy-compliance-workflow
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Philosophy compliance guardian - ensures code aligns with amplihack's ruthless simplicity, brick philosophy, and Zen-like minimalism through systematic review
documentation-writing
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Writing clear, discoverable software documentation following the Eight Rules and Diataxis framework. Use when creating README files, API docs, tutorials, how-to guides, or any project documentation. Automatically enforces docs/ location, linking requirements, and runnable examples.
roadmap-strategist
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Expert strategist managing project roadmaps, goals, milestones, and strategic direction. Tracks goal progress, ensures alignment, and provides strategic recommendations. Activates when planning roadmaps, setting goals, tracking milestones, or discussing strategic direction.
code-smell-detector
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Identifies anti-patterns specific to amplihack philosophy. Use when reviewing code for quality issues or refactoring. Detects: over-abstraction, complex inheritance, large functions (>50 lines), tight coupling, missing __all__ exports. Provides specific fixes and explanations for each smell.
docx
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Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes support
xlsx
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Comprehensive spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization. When Claude needs to work with spreadsheets (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, .tsv, etc) for: (1) Creating new spreadsheets with formulas and formatting, (2) Reading or analyzing data, (3) Modify existing spreadsheets while preserving formulas, (4) Data analysis and visualization in spreadsheets, or (5) Recalculating formulas
backlog-curator
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Expert backlog manager that prioritizes work using multi-criteria scoring, analyzes dependencies, and recommends optimal next tasks. Activates when managing backlogs, prioritizing work, adding items, or analyzing what to work on next.
cybersecurity-analyst
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Analyzes events through cybersecurity lens using threat modeling, attack surface analysis, defense-in-depth, zero-trust architecture, and risk-based frameworks (CIA triad, STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK). Provides insights on vulnerabilities, attack vectors, defense strategies, incident response, and security posture. Use when: Security incidents, vulnerability assessments, threat analysis, security architecture, compliance. Evaluates: Confidentiality, integrity, availability, threat actors, attack patterns, controls, residual risk.
dynamic-debugger
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Interactive debugging via DAP-MCP for multiple languages with natural language commands
email-drafter
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Generates professional emails from bullet points or conversation summaries. Use when you need to draft emails quickly with consistent style and tone. Supports multiple tones: formal, casual, technical Supports contexts: status updates, requests, announcements, follow-ups
analyzing-deeply
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Performs deep structured analysis on complex or ambiguous problems. Activates when problems are unclear, have multiple perspectives, or require careful thinking before proceeding. Uses ultrathink methodology for systematic exploration of problem space.
mcp-manager
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Conversational interface for managing MCP (Model Context Protocol) server configurations in Claude Code
n-version-workflow
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N-version programming for critical implementations - generates N independent solutions and selects the best through comparison
researching-topics
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Performs quick research using web search and synthesis when user asks about unfamiliar topics, new technologies, or needs current information. Activates on questions like 'how does X work', 'what is Y', or when encountering unknown concepts. For deep comprehensive research, suggests knowledge-builder command.
smart-test
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Intelligent test selection based on code changes. Maps source files to tests via import analysis, implements tiered testing (fast < 1 min, impacted < 5 min, full suite), and tracks test reliability. Use when running tests after code changes to optimize feedback loops and CI time.
reviewing-code
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Performs systematic code review checking for correctness, maintainability, security, and best practices. Activates when user requests review, before creating PRs, or when significant code changes are ready. Ensures quality gates are met before code proceeds to production.
session-learning
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Cross-session learning system that extracts insights from session transcripts and injects relevant past learnings at session start. Uses simple keyword matching for relevance. Complements DISCOVERIES.md/PATTERNS.md with structured YAML storage.
session-replay
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Analyze claude-trace JSONL files for session health, patterns, and actionable insights. Use when debugging session issues, understanding token usage, or identifying failure patterns.
storytelling-synthesizer
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Converts technical work into compelling narratives for demos, blog posts, or presentations. Use when preparing hackathon demos, writing technical blog posts, or creating marketing content. Transforms: PR descriptions, commit histories, feature implementations into structured stories. Formats: demo scripts, blog posts, presentation outlines, marketing copy.
workstream-coordinator
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Expert workstream coordinator managing multiple concurrent tasks, tracking progress, detecting conflicts and stalls, analyzing dependencies, and ensuring smooth parallel execution. Activates when coordinating workstreams, tracking progress, checking status, or managing concurrent work.
context_management
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Proactive context window management via token monitoring, intelligent extraction, and selective rehydration. Use when approaching token limits or needing to preserve essential context. Complements /transcripts and PreCompact hook with proactive optimization.
outside-in-testing
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Generates agentic outside-in tests using gadugi-agentic-test framework for CLI, TUI, Web, and Electron apps. Use when you need behavior-driven tests that verify external interfaces without internal implementation knowledge. Creates YAML test scenarios that AI agents execute, observe, and validate against expected outcomes. Supports progressive complexity from simple smoke tests to advanced multi-step workflows.
indigenous-leader-analyst
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Analyzes events through indigenous knowledge systems using relational thinking, seven generations principle, reciprocity, holistic integration, and traditional ecological knowledge frameworks. Provides insights on interconnectedness, long-term sustainability, collective wisdom, and decolonial perspectives. Use when: Environmental decisions, resource stewardship, community governance, decolonization, intergenerational planning. Evaluates: Relationships, sustainability, collective impact, indigenous rights, traditional knowledge integration.
cascade-workflow
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Graceful degradation through cascading fallback strategies - ensures system always completes while maintaining acceptable functionality
journalist-analyst
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Analyzes events through journalistic lens using 5 Ws and H, investigative methods, source evaluation, fact-checking, newsworthiness criteria, and ethical journalism principles. Provides insights on story angles, information gaps, credibility, public interest, and media framing. Use when: Breaking news, information verification, source analysis, story development, media criticism. Evaluates: Factual accuracy, source credibility, completeness, newsworthiness, bias, public interest.
debate-workflow
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Structured multi-perspective debate for important architectural decisions and complex trade-offs
microsoft-agent-framework
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Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Agent Framework for building production AI agents and workflows. Auto-activates for agent building, workflow design, AutoGen migration, and enterprise AI tasks.
multi-repo
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Multi-repository orchestration for coordinating atomic changes across dependent repositories. Tracks dependency graphs, coordinates cross-repo PRs, and detects breaking changes.
work-delegator
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Expert delegation specialist that creates comprehensive context packages for coding agents, analyzes requirements, identifies relevant files, and generates clear instructions. Activates when delegating work, assigning tasks, creating delegation packages, or preparing agent instructions.
quality-audit-workflow
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Comprehensive codebase quality audit with parallel agent orchestration, GitHub issue creation, automated PR generation per issue, and PM-prioritized recommendations. Use for code review, refactoring audits, technical debt analysis, module quality assessment, or codebase health checks.
default-workflow
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Development workflow for features, bugs, refactoring. Auto-activates for multi-file implementations.
test-gap-analyzer
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Analyzes code to identify untested functions, low coverage areas, and missing edge cases. Use when reviewing test coverage or planning test improvements. Generates specific test suggestions with example templates following amplihack's testing pyramid (60% unit, 30% integration, 10% E2E). Can use coverage.py for Python projects.
workflow-enforcement
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Workflow step compliance guidance with mandatory step reminders and visual progress tracking. Reminds Claude to complete all workflow steps before PR creation.
eval-recipes-runner
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Run Microsoft's eval-recipes benchmarks to validate amplihack improvements against baseline agents. Auto-activates when testing improvements, running evals, or benchmarking changes.
github-copilot-cli-expert
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Expert knowledge of GitHub Copilot CLI - installation, configuration, usage, custom agents, MCP servers, and version management. Use when asking about copilot cli, copilot commands, installing copilot, updating copilot, copilot features.
chemist-analyst
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15
Analyzes events through chemistry lens using molecular structure, reaction mechanisms, thermodynamics, kinetics, and analytical techniques (spectroscopy, chromatography, mass spectrometry). Provides insights on chemical processes, material properties, reaction pathways, synthesis, and analytical methods. Use when: Chemical reactions, material analysis, synthesis planning, process optimization, environmental chemistry. Evaluates: Molecular structure, reaction mechanisms, yield, selectivity, safety, environmental impact.
design-patterns-expert
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Comprehensive knowledge of all 23 Gang of Four design patterns with progressive disclosure (Quick/Practical/Deep), pattern recognition for problem-solving, and philosophy-aligned guidance to prevent over-engineering.
lawyer-analyst
rysweet/amplihack
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Analyzes events through legal lens using statutory interpretation, case law analysis, legal reasoning, constitutional principles, and multiple legal frameworks (common law, civil law, international law). Provides insights on legal rights, obligations, liabilities, remedies, and compliance requirements. Use when: Legal disputes, contracts, regulations, compliance, rights analysis, liability assessment. Evaluates: Legal obligations, rights, liabilities, remedies, precedent, statutory authority, constitutionality.
biologist-analyst
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Analyzes living systems and biological phenomena through biological lens using evolution, molecular biology, ecology, and systems biology frameworks. Provides insights on mechanisms, adaptations, interactions, and life processes. Use when: Biological systems, health issues, evolutionary questions, ecological problems, biotechnology. Evaluates: Function, structure, heredity, evolution, interactions, molecular mechanisms.
computer-scientist-analyst
rysweet/amplihack
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Analyzes events through computer science lens using computational complexity, algorithms, data structures, systems architecture, information theory, and software engineering principles to evaluate feasibility, scalability, security. Provides insights on algorithmic efficiency, system design, computational limits, data management, and technical trade-offs. Use when: Technology evaluation, system architecture, algorithm design, scalability analysis, security assessment. Evaluates: Computational complexity, algorithmic efficiency, system architecture, scalability, data integrity, security.
ethicist-analyst
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Analyzes moral dimensions and value conflicts through ethical frameworks using deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics, and applied ethics methodologies. Provides insights on moral obligations, rights, justice, and ethical decision-making. Use when: Ethical dilemmas, policy decisions, technology ethics, professional conduct issues. Evaluates: Moral principles, stakeholder interests, consequences, rights, justice, virtues.
meeting-synthesizer
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Processes meeting notes or transcripts to extract structured information. Use after meetings to quickly generate action items, capture decisions, and create follow-up tasks. Extracts: action items with owners, decisions made, key discussion points, follow-up tasks with priorities.
political-scientist-analyst
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Analyzes events through political science lens using IR theory (Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism), comparative politics, institutional analysis, and power dynamics. Provides insights on governance, security, regime change, international cooperation, and policy outcomes. Use when: Political events, international crises, elections, regime transitions, policy changes, conflicts. Evaluates: Power distributions, institutional effects, actor interests, strategic interactions, norms.