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Generate emoji-based favicons, Apple touch icons, and OG images using emojico. Use when adding or updating favicons for any project. Use the supplied or established project emoji; ask only when that choice is missing.
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Inspect JoelClaw Mac fleet harness drift safely. Use for fleet status/diff, role-aware Pi and skill-policy checks, or planning a reviewed fleet change.
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Operate Joel's Garage S3-compatible object storage on three-body. Use for Garage, Convex Garage, Garage S3, three-body Garage, port 39100, Garage buckets, and MinIO-to-Garage migration.
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Diagnose gateway failures by reading daemon logs, session transcripts, Redis state, and OTEL telemetry. Full Telegram path triage: daemon process → Redis channel → command queue → pi session → model API → Telegram delivery. Use when: 'gateway broken', 'telegram not working', 'why is gateway down', 'gateway not…
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Set up a persistent AI agent gateway on macOS with Redis event bridge, heartbeat monitoring, and multi-session routing. Interactive Q&A to match your intent — from minimal (Redis + extension) to full (embedded daemon + Telegram + watchdog). Use when: 'set up a gateway', 'I want my agent always on', 'event bridge'…
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Operate the joelclaw gateway daemon — the always-on pi session that receives events, notifications, and messages. Use the joelclaw CLI for ALL gateway operations. Use when: 'restart gateway', 'gateway status', 'is gateway healthy', 'push to gateway', 'gateway not responding', 'telegram not working', 'messages not…
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Interact with the GitHub API as the joelclawgithub[bot] app. Use when creating PRs, pushing commits, managing issues, checking CI status, listing repos, or any GitHub API operation. Triggers on "create a PR", "push to GitHub", "open an issue", "check CI", "list repos", "merge PR", "GitHub API", or any task requiring…
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Google Workspace CLI for agents. Use gog to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Tasks, Sheets, Docs, Slides, Forms, Chat, and more. Triggers on: 'check my email', 'what's on my calendar', 'search gmail', 'list calendar events', 'send email', 'check tasks', 'search drive', 'list contacts', 'create event', 'upload…
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Export Google Docs as clean markdown via native URL parameter. No auth needed for public docs. Use when fetching Google Doc content for vault ingestion, runbook building, or any doc-to-markdown pipeline.
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Access and process Granola meeting notes and transcripts via the granola CLI (MCP-backed). Use when pulling meeting data, analyzing transcripts, backfilling meetings, or any task involving Granola meeting content.
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Bootstrap Gremlin work from the joelclaw side. Use when a task mentions gremlin from outside the repo and you need to locate the repo, load its shipped repo-local skill, or understand which guidance belongs to gremlin versus joelclaw.
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Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, captures long-form rationale, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs, skills, TA notes) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, explain why a tool/guardrail was chosen, build…
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Set up, maintain, and debug the imsg-rpc Unix socket daemon that gives the gateway iMessage access via JSON-RPC. Covers FDA setup, code signing, launchd service, and the imsg source repo.
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Read and send iMessages and SMS from the terminal via the imsg CLI.
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Create and configure Inngest durable functions. Covers triggers (events, cron, invoke), step execution and memoization, idempotency, cancellation, error handling, retries, logging, and observability.
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Design and send Inngest events. Covers event schema and payload format, naming conventions, IDs for idempotency, the ts param, fan-out patterns, and system events like inngest/function.failed.
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Configure Inngest flow control for functions. Covers concurrency limits with keys, throttling, rate limiting, debounce, priority, singleton, and event batching.
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Set up self-hosted Inngest on macOS as a durable background task manager for AI agents. Interactive Q&A to match intent — from Docker one-liner to full k8s deployment with persistent state. Use when: 'set up inngest', 'background tasks', 'durable workflows', 'self-host inngest', 'event-driven functions', 'cron jobs'…
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Create and use Inngest middleware for cross-cutting concerns. Covers the middleware lifecycle, creating custom middleware, dependency injection with dependencyInjectionMiddleware, encryption via @inngest/middleware-encryption, Sentry error tracking via @inngest/middleware-sentry, and custom middleware patterns.
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Set up Inngest in a TypeScript project. Install the SDK, create a client, configure environment variables, serve endpoints or connect as a worker, and run the local dev server.
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Use Inngest step methods to build durable workflows. Covers step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent, step.waitForSignal, step.sendEvent, step.invoke, step.ai, and patterns for loops and parallel execution.
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Run comprehensive joelclaw health checks, including postboot/daily checks for NAS, MinIO, Convex, Postgres, Typesense, Inngest, Panda/Flagg authority split, k8s, worker, Redis, OTEL, tests, repo sync, memory pipeline, and disk. Use when: 'system health', 'postboot check', 'daily system check', 'health check', 'is…
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Update and maintain joelclaw.com — the Next.js web app at apps/web/. Use when writing blog posts, editing pages, updating the network page, changing layout/header/footer, adding components, or fixing anything on the site. Hard content triggers: 'write article about X' (draft in Convex), 'publish article ' (set…
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Operate the joelclaw event bus, gateway, observability, and agent loop infrastructure via the joelclaw CLI. Use for: sending events, checking runs, starting/monitoring/cancelling agent loops, debugging failed runs, checking health, restarting the worker, inspecting step traces, managing subscriptions, gateway…
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