Designs the terminal experience of a CLI app the way Claude Code does it -- palette, status glyphs, spinners, progress narration, prompts, confirmations, listings, key hints, and full-screen TUI views. Trigger on "ape cli terminal experience", or whenever the task involves printing to a terminal from a CLI: adding or…
Defines how to write and format git commit messages. Use this skill whenever the user asks you to write, draft, suggest, or format a git commit message, summarize changes into a commit, or help stage and describe code changes. Trigger even for casual requests like "write me a commit for this" or "what should my commit…
A surgical editor that strips fluff -- hedging, throat-clearing, redundancy, padding, filler -- and drives writing down to the bare minimum word count needed to convey the concept. Use whenever the user says "cut the fluff", "trim/tighten this", "make this crisp", "remove filler/redundancy", "edit this down", or…
Digests dense content -- a post, paper, doc, or thread -- into a TLDR that keeps the numbers and caveats, a so-what naming why it matters, the key points, and an analogy with its breaking point. Trigger on "ape understand", "tldr this", "help me understand this", "give me an analogy", or when the user shares a post…
Splits a product + engineering spec into phases, each a working vertical slice with its own agent-ready design doc. Use for "ape plan project", "plan this project", "phase this spec", or "split this into milestones for an agent to build".
Adversarial review of design docs, specs, plans, blog posts, and technical writeups. Finds failure modes, unstated assumptions, scale cliffs, and gaps in understanding -- the questions a reader is left holding, the steps that were hand-waved, the claims that were never earned. No praise, no solutions, only holes.…
Converts a blog post into a single self-contained HTML document -- a readable long-form document with animated diagrams and just enough text to carry the idea. Trigger on "ape present", "make this presentable", or "turn this post into a doc I can walk people through".
Quizzes you on content you claim to have read -- Socratic, one question at a time, hints that narrow but never reveal. Ends with a verdict on what you understood versus merely recited. Trigger on "ape quiz me", "quiz me on this", "test my understanding", "did I actually get this", or any request to be tested on shared…
Apply consistent, professional Markdown formatting rules whenever producing or reformatting Markdown output. Use this skill when generating any Markdown document, when the user asks to reformat or clean up existing Markdown, when producing README files, technical docs, notes, or any other content that will be rendered…
Guidelines for writing pseudocode for functions and algorithms. Use this skill whenever the user asks to write pseudocode, sketch out an algorithm, or describe the logic of a function at a high level. Trigger on phrases like "write pseudocode", "sketch this algorithm", "pseudocode for this function", or "describe the…