Use when exploring before committing, thinking through trade-offs, or digesting sketches and diagrams. Triggers include "let's brainstorm", "what if we...", and "explore options". Bad ideas welcome, questions over answers, mistakes on purpose.
Use to add validation criteria to a spec or plan. Triggers include "define validation", "how will we validate", "what should the AI check", and "add validation to this".
Use when the user has a specific architecture, tool, or technique in mind and wants to explore whether and how it applies. Not full-feature design but a focused technical investigation of one element. Triggers include "design this", "I want to use X for this", "how should this work technically", and "explore this…
Use when ready to build from a spec, design, or plan, or to resume from notes. Triggers include "implement this", "build this", "implement the spec/design/plan", "continue implementation", and "resume where we left off".
Use when a plan exists and needs validation gates added to each step before implementation begins. Produces task files that implement can consume. Triggers include "break down this plan", "add validation to the plan steps", "plan-breakdown", and "gate this plan".
Use when a spec, plan, design, or idea needs adversarial review to find what's wrong rather than what's right. Triggers include "poke holes in this", "tear this apart", "what am I missing", "stress test this", "find what's wrong", "challenge this", and "what could go wrong".
Use when ready to build a reviewable implementation plan as a lore artifact. Input can be a spec, design, brainstorm, research, or a well-defined prompt. Triggers include "prep plan", "prepare a plan", "plan this", "make a plan", "plan the implementation", and "break this into steps".
Use when specifics matter more than general training knowledge, or when details are newer than the training cutoff. Triggers include "research this", "find documentation for", "look up how X works", "what's the current state of", and "what's the prior art".
Use when completed work needs to be recorded as a lore artifact covering what happened, what surprised, what broke, and what drifted. Observation only, not interpretation. Triggers include "let's do a retro", "/retro", "review what happened", "capture what happened", and "write up the session".
This skill should be used when the user wants to clean up code without changing behavior. Dispatches cleanup agents, runs tests to verify behavior is preserved, then runs code review. Triggers include "simplify this", "clean up this code", "refactor without changing behavior", "reduce complexity".
This skill should be used when the user wants to define the requirements of a feature or project. Produces numbered requirements and validation criteria. Triggers include "write a spec for", "define the requirements", "what should this do", "capture the requirements".
This skill should be used when the user wants to define the north star for a project — why it exists, what problems it solves, what it would never become. Suited for the start of a project or when direction feels unclear. Triggers include "define the project vision", "what should this project become", "create a vision…