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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Run, monitor, cancel, and resume the durable media transcription pipeline (media-transcription-pipeline-v2) for raw meeting media on /Volumes/badass-media. Use when the user asks to transcribe a meeting or media file from the NAS, check transcription progress, cancel a transcription, resume a failed/partial run, or…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Debug, maintain, and use the joelclaw memory system — observer capture/dreams, Brain .svx stores, neat-memory curation, Telegram delivery, reaction grading, wiki rendering. Load whenever work touches the memory system, the curator, dreams, observations, grading, or a memory surface misbehaves.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Send facts to Joel through the Agent Comms Gateway, trace decisions by flowId, and preserve single-owner transport safety. Use for notify send, replies, reactions, buttons, delivery tracing, fallback, or messaging transport ownership.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Manage feed subscriptions that track blogs, repos, and living pages for changes. Use when adding, listing, removing, or checking monitored resources. Also use when the discovery skill flags a resource as monitorable. Triggers on: 'monitor this', 'subscribe to', 'track this repo', 'watch this blog', 'what are we…
Skill Claude Code
RETIRED 2026-07-15 — the Mux pipeline was replaced by wzrrd-video (fully Cloudflare-native). Use skills/wzrrd-video instead. Kept for historical Mux asset management only. Covers direct uploads, API asset management, webhook event flow, playback embedding, and the Mux CLI. Use when uploading video, creating assets…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Static-first Next.js 16 architecture patterns: cached shells with dynamic slots, provider islands, 'use cache' boundaries, and link preloading strategy. Use when building or refactoring Next.js routes to maximize static rendering, implementing 'use cache' with dynamic personalization, splitting entry vs static…
Skill Codex needs its repo
Implement and verify joelclaw observability on every change so failures cannot stay silent. Use when adding/updating Inngest functions, gateway channels, webhook providers, APIs, workers, or any pipeline step. Enforces canonical OTEL contract, storage path, and verification gates. Triggers on: 'o11y', 'observability'…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Ingest PDF/Markdown/TXT files into joelclaw's docs memory pipeline with Inngest durability, durable NAS artifacts, and OTEL verification. Use when adding docs, running batch reindex, reconciling coverage, or recovering stuck runs. Triggers on: 'ingest pdf', 'ingest markdown', 'docs add', 'pdf-brain ingest', 'backfill…
Skill Claude Code
Research and library synthesis from the docs/PDF corpus, mapped to joelclaw system philosophy and concrete operational actions (especially k8s reliability). Trigger on: 'research this', 'from the library', 'from the books', 'pdf brain', 'correlate this', 'synthesize', or any request to derive practical…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Operate the AT Protocol Personal Data Server in the joelclaw k8s cluster. Use when checking PDS health, reading or writing dev.joelclaw. records, restoring the service after a rebuild, or debugging session auth / repo DID drift.
Skill Codex
Build and update person dossiers from communication history. Use when a person is discussed for strategy, follow-up, opportunities, relationship context, or decisions. Use relevant authorized evidence from Front email, Granola summaries, scoped memory, and event metadata; then write/update a structured dossier in…
Skill Claude Code
Build, debug, and maintain Pi extensions safely. Use when editing /.pi/agent/extensions, joelclaw/pi/extensions, pi-tools extensions, or any code that uses the Pi ExtensionAPI, hooks, tools, commands, widgets, session replacement, reload, custom messages, or extension package updates.
Skill Codex
Fan-out search across all memory sources when context is unclear or vaguely referenced. Triggers on: 'from earlier', 'remember when', 'what we discussed', 'that thing with', 'the conversation about', 'did we ever', 'what happened with', 'you mentioned', 'we talked about', 'earlier today', 'last session', 'the other…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Compatibility alias for substrate-specific ADR-0217 runtime bridge work. For new work, load workflow-rig first; use this skill only when the task is explicitly about external-repo bridging, queue-family contracts, or low-level runtime submission mechanics.
Skill Claude Code
Monitor ADR-0217 real workloads across Redis queue, Restate, Dkron, and transitional Inngest using joelclaw CLI plus the pi TUI monitor extension. Use when asked to monitor jobs, watch runtime health, keep an eye on async work, run a workload dashboard, or report back on system state. Always pair with pi-tui-design…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Standard operating procedures for writing Rust in joelclaw. Covers idiomatic patterns, async/tokio, error handling, project structure, testing, and clawnode-specific conventions. Use when writing Rust code, reviewing Rust PRs, scaffolding Rust projects, debugging ownership/lifetime errors, or working on clawnode.…
Skill Claude Code
Set up and repair thin joelclaw satellite Machines such as blaine/Dark-Tower. Use when adding joelclaw CLI, Typesense access, session search/capture, Central relay, or satellite health on non-Panda machines. Triggers: satellite, blaine, Dark-Tower, setup joelclaw on another machine, Typesense access on satellite…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Search captured agent Runs and raw local/remote Pi sessions, especially flagg sessions, using the joelclaw sessions bridge. Use when the user asks to search sessions, find prior flagg/Panda/pi/codex/claude context, recover conversation history, verify session indexing, or bypass stale ragsearchsessions/Typesense…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Scan recent agent sessions for repeated friction, corrections, approvals, workflow patterns, and packaging candidates. Use when asked to find signals, friction, recurring manual workflows, missing skills, prompt improvements, or automation opportunities from recent Codex/Pi work.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Audit Joel's Pi/joelclaw skills: loaded roots, duplicates, stale or unused skills, prompt-budget cost, and compact descriptions. Use when trimming skill prompt budget, finding duplicate skills, or deciding which skill copy should be canonical.
Skill Claude Code
Audit and maintain the joelclaw skill inventory. Use when checking skill health, fixing broken symlinks, finding stale skills, or running the skill garden. Triggers: 'skill audit', 'check skills', 'stale skills', 'skill health', 'skill garden', 'broken skill', 'skill review', 'fix skills', 'garden skills', or any task…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Design, apply, and maintain SKOS taxonomies for joelclaw agent workflows. Use when defining concept schemes, classifying agent inputs/outputs, mapping to external vocabularies, or integrating taxonomy metadata with Typesense retrieval.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Fetch Slack message context. Use immediately whenever Joel pastes a Slack message permalink (.slack.com/archives/ /p ), drops a bare Slack link, or asks what a Slack link says. The first action is always jc-slack context ' '.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Stacking the Bricks reviewer — Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman persona for reviewing business decisions, pitches, emails, copy, and product strategy. Use when reviewing sales copy, marketing emails, business plans, product pitches, or any entrepreneurial decision. Triggers on: 'review this pitch', 'is this copy good', 'STB…
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