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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…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Deploy the system-bus-worker to the joelclaw Kubernetes cluster from local machine. Use when syncing changes in packages/system-bus to k8s, especially because the GitHub Actions deploy job targets a non-existent self-hosted runner and cannot complete deploys automatically.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Canonical joelclaw topology, Central/Relay vocabulary, and wiring map. Use when reasoning about architecture, Panda/Flagg Central migration, satellites, run capture, tracing event flow, debugging why something ran/didn't run, identifying which worker executes a function, checking what listens on a port, or following…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Develop, deploy, and debug the system-bus worker — joelclaw's 110+ Inngest durable function engine, webhook gateway, and observability pipeline. Triggers on 'add a function', 'new inngest function', 'system-bus', 'worker', 'add a webhook', 'deploy worker', 'restart worker', 'function failed', 'worker not working'…
Skill Claude Code
Design and review system prompts for any joelclaw agent surface (gateway, codex workers, content review, loops, etc.). Codifies the canonical principles that every system prompt must follow. Use when writing new system prompts, reviewing existing ones, or when any agent needs to generate instructions for another…
Skill Claude Code
Operate Talon, the Rust infrastructure watchdog daemon that supervises the system-bus worker and monitors k8s. ADR-0159.
Skill Claude Code
Build full-stack React apps with TanStack Start — server functions, type-safe routing, loaders, middleware, SSR/streaming, and deployment patterns. Use when working on TanStack Start apps, server functions, TanStack Router, or any gremlin-cms development.
Skill Codex
Manage Joel's task system in Todoist. Triggers on: 'add a task', 'create a todo', 'what's on my list', 'today's tasks', 'what do I need to do', 'remind me to', 'inbox', 'complete', 'mark done', 'weekly review', 'groom tasks', 'what's next', or when actionable items emerge from other work. Also triggers when Joel…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Operate the joelclaw Telegram channel — primary mobile interface between Joel and the gateway. Covers grammy Bot API, text/media/reactions, inline buttons, callbacks, and streaming.
Skill Claude Code
Operate Joel's ASUSTOR NAS host three-body safely. Use when Joel mentions three-body, ASUSTOR, NAS instability, SMB/NFS mounts, mounted drives disappearing, /share, /volume1, /volume2, TMBackup-Joel, joelclaw, data, Flagg NAS mounts, or asks to SSH into the NAS.
Skill Claude Code
Guidelines and examples for UI motion and animation. Use when designing, implementing, or reviewing motion, easing, timing, reduced-motion behaviour, CSS transitions, keyframes, framer-motion, or spring animations.
Skill Claude Code
Operate Joel's Obsidian Vault through the joelclaw CLI. Use when reading ADRs/projects, searching notes, listing PARA sections, or auditing ADR hygiene with vault adr commands. Triggers on: 'check the vault', 'read ADR', 'find this note', 'vault search', 'ADR collisions', 'ADR audit', 'decision inventory', or any…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Download, transcribe, and summarize videos via the Inngest pipeline. Use when the user asks to grab/download/transcribe/ingest a video, save a YouTube video, or process any video URL. Also handles batch ingest of multiple URLs. This skill triggers the durable Inngest workflow — do NOT run yt-dlp, mlx-whisper, or scp…
Skill Codex
Transform Obsidian video notes from the Vault into published notes on joelclaw.com. Use when publishing video notes, converting vault video content to the site, or when asked to 'publish a video note,' 'turn this video into a note,' 'publish from vault/videos,' or any task involving /Vault/Resources/videos → joelclaw…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create or revise a scoped vision document for external actors: who the work serves, why it exists, what outcomes matter, and what boundaries guide decisions. Use when the user asks to draft a vision, VISION.md, project constitution, CEO doc, product charter, external contributor guidance, or agent/loop governance that…
Skill Codex
Add, debug, and manage webhook providers in the joelclaw webhook gateway. Use when: adding a new webhook integration (GitHub, Stripe, Vercel, etc.), debugging webhook signature failures, checking webhook delivery, testing webhook endpoints, registering webhooks with external services, or reviewing webhook provider…
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