Act on external systems through connected MCP servers — query or write a database, search a vector store, call a payment or webhook API, hit a third-party service — instead of only advising about them. Use whenever a task needs live data or a real external action performed through a connected MCP server, or when…
Instrument a self-hosted backend so you can see what it's doing in production — structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, health-check monitoring, and SLO/burn-rate alerting. Use whenever the user wants to "make this service observable", "add observability", set up "structured logging" / "JSON logs", add…
Front-door router for this skill set — read FIRST on any non-trivial coding request, then dispatch to the right skill(s) in the right order. Use whenever a request spans more than one step or you're unsure which skill fits — building, fixing, scheduling, acting on an external system, or chaining multi-step plans…
Build and maintain persistent, repo-local memory of a codebase so the other skills stop re-discovering the same facts. Use this on the FIRST substantial task in any repo (study the project before doing the work), whenever project facts seem missing or stale, and whenever the user says "set up project memory", "onboard…
Turn a raw prompt into a sharpened, optimized brief before any work runs on it — classify the task, fill or ask about missing components, pick the technique, and prepend the matching expert persona, without changing what the user asked for. Use whenever truestack-orchestrate hands a request to a downstream skill…
Run a deep quality-control sweep after ANY code change before the work is considered done — automatically once a feature or bugfix is implemented, and whenever the user asks to "check", "QC", or "verify" a code change or the work just done, or says "make sure it's solid". Use only AFTER the change exists — verifies…
Build or reshape React UI to a professional bar — distinctive visual design AND sound front-end engineering. Use whenever the user is building a React component, page, screen, or app, or styling or improving an existing React interface — even if they only say "build the dashboard" or "make this page nicer" (whole-app…
Reverse-engineer a reference — a repo, code snippet, doc/spec, or a legacy system — into a verified model of how it works, then derive a safe upgrade path for the user's own system. Use whenever the user shares, or points at a concrete artifact you can obtain and open (a path, a repo URL, pasted code), and asks how it…
Investigate a bug, error, crash, failing test, regression, or unexpected/slow behavior that is a DEFECT, and fix it at the root (slowness owned by a specific discipline — a slow migration, deploy-time downtime — routes to that skill). Use the moment something is reported broken or an error/stack trace is pasted — even…
Evaluate and score Agent Skills — this set or any skill — on triggering accuracy, scope, token efficiency, structure, anti-patterns, and honesty-contract adherence. Use whenever the user asks to "score", "evaluate", "rate", "audit", "grade", or "improve" (score first; fixes are a follow-up edit, then re-run the eval)…
Set up work that runs automatically later or on a recurring cadence — a daily check, a weekly report, a periodic sync, a deferred run — instead of doing it once now. Use whenever the user says "every day", "each morning", "weekly", "nightly", "cron", "schedule this", "remind me", "run this at", or wants a task to…