Instructions for lossless-group/lossless-agent-skills, covering agent instructions for lossless-agent-skills, symlink sync — opening & closing habit, public skills, private config, vendored upstream submodules — do not overlay them and browser-drive verification (playwright mcp + claude chrome).
The Lossless Group's Astro Knots conventions — vision, tech hierarchy, approved frameworks, and hard prohibitions for the family of 10+ Astro sites and the Lossless Flavored Markdown ecosystem. Use whenever working on an Astro project in the lossless-monorepo (or any sibling repo), scaffolding new sites, choosing…
How The Lossless Group writes and structures changelog/ entries across all repos (projects, true monorepos, pseudomonorepos). Use whenever shipping or pushing a coherent chunk of work, when scaffolding a new repo's changelog/ directory, when authoring a product release message, when the user says "log this", "write a…
Classify a target company's competitors on two orthogonal axes — the stage ring (concentric circles outward from the target's own stage) and the competitor type (direct / adjacent / indirect / noisewashing). Use whenever writing or reviewing the competitive landscape section of an investment memo; whenever asked "who…
Lossless Group's framework for managing context-v/ directories in any project. Use whenever creating, updating, or organizing files in any context-v/ folder (specs, plans, prompts, blueprints, reminders, agent-skills, explorations, issues — plus the universal extra/ and sitemap/, and the experimental loops/…
The Lossless Group's workflow for filling in team and portfolio metadata for VC firms and the operating companies they back — crawl a firm's site, fetch structured data + brand assets for people and companies referenced in a deck/PDF, ingest as canonical .md files with YAML frontmatter. Supports two starting anchors …
How augment-it (and any Lossless VC-client workspace) talks to the Decile Hub API — the first per-client custom connector. Use whenever pulling from or pushing to Decile Hub (people, organizations, pipeline prospects, deal shares, deal memos, funds/entities, portfolio companies, capital accounts, notes, tasks, files…
The Lossless Group's workflow for developing slides-only Astro sites for fundraise processes, aligned with the calmstorm-decks project patterns and the iterative approach from the "Develop a Slides-only Astro Site for a Fundraise Process" specification. Use when creating or modifying slide decks, managing slide…
How to turn raw card and bank statement downloads into a defensible, client-ready expense report. Use whenever the user asks to build an expense report, reconcile AmEx or bank statements, work out "what is this charge for", aggregate reimbursables for a client or trip, split a claim by month, or render an expense PDF…
How to generate share-imagery (OpenGraph banners, portraits, squares, tall WhatsApp/iMessage cards) for any Lossless site or splash page so the resulting images form a coherent visual family — via two coexisting techniques: Ideogram illustration, or rasterizing the project's own hero/specimen component with macOS's…
How The Lossless Group uses the gh CLI for GitHub issues and Projects v2 tasks across the pseudomonorepo tree. Use whenever creating, editing, or listing GitHub Project tasks via gh project item-create, gh project item-add, or gh project item-edit; whenever creating repo issues via gh issue create; whenever the user…
The Lossless Group's git commit message conventions — structured headers with action verbs and effort groupings, paragraph-spaced bodies that explain impact before implementation, and "Also included" riders for minor changes. Use when writing commit messages, reviewing commits, or when the user mentions "commit…
Conventions for reading and writing the operator's Twenty CRM instances (Lossless, Palmer AI, The Water Foundation) via MCP. Use whenever adding or enriching a company, person, deal, thesis, event, or portfolio relationship; when triaging a list or export into the CRM; or when extending the CRM schema. Encodes…
The Lossless Group's extended-markdown flavor — what LFM is, when to use it, how its directives normalize across syntaxes (CommonMark, GFM, Obsidian callouts, remark-directive, Markdoc), how citations and link previews work, and how sites extend it via trigger maps and theme tokens. Use whenever authoring or rendering…
How to author and maintain a DESIGN.md file at the root of any Lossless project (site, splash page, plugin landing, fundraise deck) following Google Stitch's open spec. Use whenever a project is missing a DESIGN.md and an agent needs the project's visual identity in machine-readable form; whenever the user mentions…
Use whenever the directory shape of a Lossless pseudomonorepo (or any child repo) changes — a new top-level directory is added, a submodule is mounted or unmounted, a major subsystem is renamed — or on a weekly cadence, or before any release that would land on GitHub, to regenerate the FILEMAP.md at each affected…
The Lossless Group's pattern for repo-level splash pages — small Astro sites at /splash/ that ship to GitHub Pages on push to main, render the repo's changelog/ + context-v/ alongside curated marketing copy, and stay isolated from any package the repo also publishes. Use proactively whenever scaffolding a noteworthy…
Answer the first foundational VC question — how big can it get? — by walking revenue and EBITDA across penetration steps of TAM / SAM / SOM at the company's existing pricing and business model. Use whenever sizing a market or an opportunity; whenever asked "how big is this", "what's the TAM", "what's the size of the…
How to make a page unfurl reliably in iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, LinkedIn, and X; surface to search engines via sitemap.xml + robots.txt; and stay legible to generative engines (GEO), including the llms.txt standard for LLM corpus ingest. Use when adding or debugging OpenGraph / Twitter Card metadata, picking…
How to overlay on-brand SVG text on Lossless OG / share imagery — Hack Bold gradient-filled h1, thin sans eyebrow, Poor Story handwritten note. Use whenever a generated OG image needs title/eyebrow/sub text composited on top before it ships (the empty-region zone from generate-consistent-og-images is the canvas this…
Turn raw screenshots into embeddable, CDN-hosted images with real alt text — rename, resize, strip metadata, stage in a gitignored folder, upload to ImageKit, and emit SEO-correct markdown or HTML. Use whenever the user drops screenshots and wants them in a changelog entry, splash page, spec, or any markdown surface…
The Lossless Group's coined term and pattern — parent repos that aggregate child repos (often as git submodules) primarily to host a parent-level context-v/. Use whenever working anywhere in lossless-monorepo or its descendants, when starting any new task that might overlap with prior work, when scaffolding a new…
Use whenever the user asks a question that prior work might already have answered — "what did we decide about X", "when did we ship X", "why did we choose X over Y", "has this failed before", "where did we put X" — and generally to ground answers in The Lossless Group's own corpus instead of training-data folklore.…
Load the full working context for ONE DidiDecks slide (deck/variant/slot) so an agent can iterate on it slide-by-slide without re-explaining where things live. The first of the slide- skill family (target → improve → rank → decompose). Use whenever the user wants to work on a specific slide of a DidiDecks/Astro deck …