Agent Skills Directory

Builds and operates data pipelines — ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality testing, and reliability of data delivery. Use this to design or debug a pipeline, decide batch versus streaming, add data quality checks, handle late or duplicate data, or work out why a dashboard's numbers changed without anyone changing the dashboard.

Establishes ownership, definitions, quality, access, and lineage for the organization's data. Use this when metrics disagree between teams, when nobody knows which dataset is authoritative, when setting up data ownership or access policy, when data quality is unreliable, or before opening a dataset to a wider audience.

Designs the warehouse and semantic layer — source-to-mart structure, dimensional modeling, grain, slowly changing dimensions, and the metric layer analytics reads through. Use this to design or restructure a warehouse, model a new source, decide on grain or table structure, build a semantic or metric layer, or diagnose why queries are slow, wrong, or impossible to write.

Protects data itself rather than the systems around it — classifying what you hold, encrypting in transit and at rest and understanding what each actually defends against, managing keys and their rotation, handling secrets in applications and pipelines, minimizing and de-identifying, and deleting on purpose. Use this to design data protection for a system, assess an encryption claim, set up key or secret management, or work out what a stolen backup would actually expose.

Negotiates a commercial deal without giving away the terms that matter — preparing your walk-away and theirs, trading concessions rather than conceding them, recognizing the tactics that create false urgency, protecting price by moving other variables, and closing on terms someone can actually deliver. Use this to prepare for a negotiation, respond to a demand mid-deal, work out why discounts keep landing at quarter end, or review terms before they are signed.

Manages delivery risk and cross-team dependencies — identifying, sizing, mitigating and escalating what could stop the work. Use this to build a risk register that gets used, manage dependencies between teams, decide what to escalate and when, or work out why the same risks keep materializing unmanaged.

Applies a deliberate visual direction to an interface — minimalist editorial, industrial utilitarian, or high-polish commercial — each with its own type scale, palette behavior, surface treatment, and motion. Use this when a product needs a point of view rather than defaults, when choosing between visual directions, when an interface reads as generic, or when restyling something without changing its structure.

Builds and maintains the design system a product is assembled from — tokens for color, type, spacing and elevation, component contracts, and the rules that keep them coherent as the product grows. Use this when starting a new interface, when screens have drifted apart visually, when the same component exists three times in slightly different forms, or when a token or component needs adding without breaking what exists.

Builds the capability to notice an attack in progress — deciding what to log and retain, centralizing it somewhere tamper-resistant, writing detections that fire on attacker behavior rather than on individual events, tuning out the noise that trains people to ignore alerts, and defining what happens when something fires. Use this to design or assess monitoring coverage, work out why an incident went unnoticed, cut alert volume without losing signal, or decide what a detection capability should cost.

Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds relevant material, preserving privilege, managing outside counsel and cost, and evaluating settlement against the real cost of continuing. Use this to respond to a claim or demand letter, issue a hold, work out which systems the hold has to reach, or decide whether to fight.

Handles the difficult human situations — grievances, complaints, investigations, conflict, and separations conducted properly. Use this to respond to a complaint or grievance, structure an investigation, handle a conflict between colleagues, prepare for a difficult conversation, or work out what a manager can and cannot do in a given situation.

Covers the employment rules that carry real penalties — exempt and non-exempt classification, overtime and hours, employee versus contractor status, work authorization and recordkeeping, accommodation requests, and the notices and retention obligations that go with them. Use this to classify a role, review a contractor arrangement, respond to an accommodation request, work out what records to keep and for how long, or sanity-check a practice you inherited.

Manages laptops, desktops and mobile devices — enrollment, configuration, patching, software distribution, and lost or compromised devices. Use this to set up device management, standardize builds, roll out software or an OS upgrade, handle a lost device, or bring an unmanaged fleet under control.

Identifies, assesses, and tracks organizational risk — building and maintaining a risk register, scoring exposure, assigning owners and treatments, and preparing for audit. Use this to stand up a risk program, assess the risk in a decision or initiative, prepare for a certification or audit, decide whether a risk should be accepted, mitigated, transferred, or avoided, or report risk posture to leadership.

Handles customer situations that have exceeded normal support — severity assessment, incident communication, executive escalation, and recovering a relationship after a failure. Use this when a customer issue is escalating or has gone to leadership, during a customer-affecting outage, when a major account is at risk, when a relationship needs repairing after a failure, or to design the escalation path itself.

Produces a cost or effort estimate someone can defend — decomposing the work, choosing between analogous, parametric and bottom-up methods, documenting the basis and its assumptions, expressing confidence as a range, and sizing contingency and management reserve separately. Use this to build an estimate, challenge one you have been handed, work out why estimates keep coming in low, or decide how much reserve a portfolio actually needs.

Plans and runs events that produce pipeline — conferences, trade shows, webinars, field programs, and measuring whether any of it worked. Use this to decide whether to sponsor an event, plan a conference presence or webinar, design a field program, or work out why event spend is not producing pipeline.

Designs, runs, and reads A/B tests and growth experiments — hypothesis, sample size, duration, and honest interpretation. Use this to plan a test, judge whether a result is real, build an experimentation program, decide what to test next, or diagnose why tests keep producing inconclusive or non-replicating results.

Runs the physical and hybrid workplace — space planning, leases, health and safety, office services, and the operational side of where people work. Use this to plan space, evaluate a lease or office move, set up a hybrid workplace, handle facilities incidents, or decide what office services are worth funding.

Builds and stress-tests financial models for forecasting, scenario planning, and decision support — revenue build, cost structure, driver logic, and the sensitivities that show where a plan breaks. Use this to model a decision's financial consequence, build a forecast or long-range plan, evaluate an investment or hire, or pressure-test someone else's model before relying on it.

Runs the period-end close and produces reporting — close calendar, reconciliations, accruals, variance analysis, and reporting that gets read. Use this to shorten or stabilize a monthly close, design a close checklist, investigate a variance, structure management reporting, or work out why the numbers keep changing after close.

Reads a set of financial statements and establishes what changed and why — fluctuation analysis against prior period and against budget, profitability, liquidity, solvency and efficiency ratios, benchmarking, and the non-GAAP measures presented alongside them. Use this to interpret results, review a counterparty's or target's financials, diagnose a deteriorating trend, explain a variance to someone who will act on it, or test whether an adjusted number is honest.

Raises capital and manages the relationship afterward — deciding how much and why, understanding what dilution and preferences actually cost, running a process with real competitive tension, preparing for diligence before it starts, and reporting to investors and a board in a way that keeps support when results are bad. Use this to plan a raise, evaluate a term sheet beyond the valuation, prepare a data room, or fix reporting that is producing surprises.

The EPMO lead's remit — what the PMO governs, what it must never become, and how it earns standing rather than compliance. Use this to stand up or reform a PMO, decide what it should and should not control, judge whether it is adding value or overhead, or work out why teams route around it.

Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself. Use this to open a role, write a job description or scorecard, design an interview process, prepare interview questions, calibrate a hiring decision, or diagnose why a hiring process produces poor outcomes.

Executes joiner, mover and leaver processes — provisioning, group membership, access changes on role change, and complete deprovisioning. Use this to set up or fix joiner-mover-leaver, deprovision someone completely, clean up accumulated access, audit group membership, or find accounts that outlived their owners.

Runs an operational incident from detection to closed action — declaring it and naming a commander, separating the people restoring service from the people communicating, keeping a timeline as it happens, deciding when it is over, and running a review that produces a small number of changes someone actually completes. Use this to set up an incident process, run one, work out why the same failure keeps recurring, or fix a review practice that generates findings nobody closes.

Runs a security incident from detection to closure — triage, containment, investigation, communication, and the review afterward. Use this when a compromise is suspected or confirmed, when preparing an incident response plan or running an exercise, when deciding whether something is an incident, or when a breach may trigger notification obligations.

Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements. Use this to check whether a name is usable, establish that you own work you paid for, decide how to handle a license obligation in a dependency, or respond to an infringement claim.

Raises the visual and interaction quality of an interface — layout, hierarchy, type, spacing, density, and the details that separate a considered product from a generic one. Use this when a screen works but looks unfinished or default, when a layout feels crowded or arbitrary, when a page has no clear focal point, or when an interface needs to feel trustworthy rather than merely functional.

Upgrades an existing interface to a higher standard without rebuilding it — auditing what is there, identifying what reads as generic or unfinished, and sequencing changes by impact. Use this when a product works but looks dated or default, when a redesign is being considered, when deciding whether to restyle or rebuild, or when a screen needs to look substantially better with limited effort.

Designs and tests controls over financial reporting — segregation of duties, approval limits, evidence, and preparing for audit. Use this to design controls for a process, prepare for an external audit, respond to an audit finding, set approval thresholds, or assess where a small team's segregation of duties is genuinely broken.

Tracks hardware and software assets through their life — procurement, ownership, licensing, refresh, and disposal. Use this to build an asset register, prepare for a software audit, plan a refresh cycle, control license spend, or dispose of equipment safely.

Audits and rewrites landing pages, homepages, and sales pages to increase conversion — diagnosing why a page is not converting, rewriting headlines, hero copy and calls to action, and prioritizing which changes to test first. Use this when a page underperforms, when someone pastes a URL or screenshot asking what is wrong, when writing a new page, or when deciding which conversion changes are worth testing.

Converts anonymous traffic into known contacts — lead magnets, gated content, free tools, popups, and the forms behind them. Use this to design or improve a lead magnet, plan a free tool, add or fix popups and overlays, improve form conversion, or decide what is worth gating and what should stay open.

Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility. Use this to design a career ladder, close a capability gap, decide whether to build or hire a skill, structure onboarding into a role, or work out why training keeps failing to change anything.

Designs automated email and SMS programs — welcome and onboarding sequences, nurture, re-engagement, transactional messaging, and the timing and segmentation behind them. Use this to build or fix an email sequence, plan lifecycle automation, improve open or click performance, set up SMS flows, or decide what messages a customer should receive and when.

Gets a product listed where buyers and crawlers look — directories, marketplaces, review sites, comparison pages, and aggregators. Use this to plan a submission push, choose which directories are worth the effort, prepare listing assets, build comparison and alternative pages, or manage presence on review platforms.

Decides whether and how to enter a new market — sizing demand from the bottom up rather than from a market report, testing whether your advantage transfers, choosing between organic entry, partnership and acquisition, sequencing the operational and regulatory work that entry actually requires, and setting the criteria that would tell you to stop. Use this to evaluate a new geography, segment or vertical, pressure-test an entry plan, or work out why a launched market never reached scale.

Sets up, audits, and reports on marketing measurement — tracking plans, event schemas, attribution models, and the dashboards built on them. Use this to instrument a site or product, audit tracking nobody trusts, choose or interpret an attribution model, build reporting that answers a specific question, or reconcile numbers that disagree between tools.

Designs a coordinated multi-channel campaign or product launch around one story — objective, message, channel sequencing, timeline, assets, and the checklist that gets it out the door. Use this to plan a launch or campaign, sequence a go-to-market push, pressure-test a campaign before committing budget, or turn a product change into a coordinated set of activity. For ongoing channel programs rather than a bounded push, use `marketing-planning`.

Writes and edits marketing copy for any surface — homepage, product and pricing pages, ads, emails, and collateral — and sharpens existing copy that is not working. Use this to write or rewrite page copy, tighten a draft, fix copy that is vague or feature-led, adapt one message across formats, or review copy before it ships.

Builds the marketing plan of record — objectives, channel mix, budget allocation, sequencing, and the measurement that says whether it worked. Use this for annual or quarterly planning, when budget must be allocated or defended, when marketing activity feels busy but undirected, or when a plan needs pressure-testing before commitment.

Runs corporate development — deal thesis, target screening, valuation framing, diligence, and integration planning. Use this when considering an acquisition or being approached about one, when evaluating build-versus-buy at company scale, when running or reviewing diligence, or when planning how an acquired business will actually be integrated.

Designs and operates the corporate network — segmentation, remote access, wireless, DNS and addressing, and diagnosing network problems. Use this to segment a network, set up or fix remote access, diagnose intermittent connectivity, plan addressing or DNS, or assess whether the network's trust assumptions still hold.

Writes and edits newsletters and marketing emails people actually open — subject lines, opening, structure, voice, and the conversion turn where there is one. Use this to draft or rewrite a newsletter or email, sharpen weak email copy, plan a newsletter's structure and cadence, write a sequence, or repurpose an issue into other formats. For automated lifecycle and SMS programs, use `lifecycle-messaging`.

Designs the joining and leaving experience — first-day readiness, ramp to productivity, knowledge capture, and clean exits. Use this to design or fix onboarding, shorten time to productivity, structure a leaver process, capture knowledge before someone leaves, or coordinate the access and asset steps around a joiner or leaver.

Designs the rhythm an organization runs on — which reviews happen weekly, monthly and quarterly, what each one decides, who owns the numbers presented, and how a signal at the front line reaches the people who can act on it. Use this to set up a management operating system, fix a meeting calendar that produces no decisions, work out where a recurring problem keeps failing to surface, or cut a review structure that has grown past what it informs.