Agent Skills Directory

Parses error messages, traces execution flow through stack traces, correlates log entries to identify failure points, and applies systematic hypothesis-driven methodology to isolate and resolve bugs. Use when investigating errors, analyzing stack traces, finding root causes of unexpected behavior, troubleshooting crashes, or performing log analysis, error investigation, or root cause analysis.

Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.

Use when building Django web applications or REST APIs with Django REST Framework. Invoke when working with settings.py, models.py, manage.py, or any Django project file. Creates Django models with proper indexes, optimizes ORM queries using select_related/prefetch_related, builds DRF serializers and viewsets, and configures JWT authentication. Trigger terms: Django, DRF, Django REST Framework, Django ORM, Django model, serializer, viewset, Python web.

Use when configuring Django to store static and media files on AWS S3 with django-storages. Invoke when working with the STORAGES setting, S3 buckets, presigned URLs, CloudFront, or boto3-backed file storage in settings.py. Configures the Django 4.2+ STORAGES dict, public/private custom backends, presigned GET/POST URLs, IAM policies, and S3 mocking for tests. Trigger terms: django-storages, S3, boto3, S3Boto3Storage, STORAGES, presigned URL, CloudFront, media files, collectstatic, AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME.

Use when building .NET 8 applications with minimal APIs, clean architecture, or cloud-native microservices. Invoke for Entity Framework Core, CQRS with MediatR, JWT authentication, AOT compilation.

Use when developing firmware for microcontrollers, implementing RTOS applications, or optimizing power consumption. Invoke for STM32, ESP32, FreeRTOS, bare-metal, power optimization, real-time systems, configure peripherals, write interrupt handlers, implement DMA transfers, debug timing issues.

Use when building high-performance async Python APIs with FastAPI and Pydantic V2. Invoke to create REST endpoints, define Pydantic models, implement authentication flows, set up async SQLAlchemy database operations, add JWT authentication, build WebSocket endpoints, or generate OpenAPI documentation. Trigger terms: FastAPI, Pydantic, async Python, Python API, REST API Python, SQLAlchemy async, JWT authentication, OpenAPI, Swagger Python.

Conducts structured requirements workshops to produce feature specifications, user stories, EARS-format functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation checklists. Use when defining new features, gathering requirements, or writing specifications. Invoke for feature definition, requirements gathering, user stories, EARS format specs, PRDs, acceptance criteria, or requirement matrices.

Use when fine-tuning LLMs, training custom models, or adapting foundation models for specific tasks. Invoke for configuring LoRA/QLoRA adapters, preparing JSONL training datasets, setting hyperparameters for fine-tuning runs, adapter training, transfer learning, finetuning with Hugging Face PEFT, OpenAI fine-tuning, instruction tuning, RLHF, DPO, or quantizing and deploying fine-tuned models. Trigger terms include: LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, finetuning, fine-tuning, adapter tuning, LLM training, model training, custom model.

Use when building cross-platform applications with Flutter 3+ and Dart. Invoke for widget development, Riverpod/Bloc state management, GoRouter navigation, platform-specific implementations, performance optimization.

Builds security-focused full-stack web applications by implementing integrated frontend and backend components with layered security at every level. Covers the complete stack from database to UI, enforcing auth, input validation, output encoding, and parameterized queries across all layers. Use when implementing features across frontend and backend, building REST APIs with corresponding UI, connecting frontend components to backend endpoints, creating end-to-end data flows from database to UI, or implementing CRUD operations with UI forms. Distinct from frontend-only, backend-only, or API-only skills in that it simultaneously addresses all three perspectives—Frontend, Backend, and Security—within a single implementation workflow. Invoke for full-stack feature work, web app development, authenticated API routes with views, microservices, real-time features, monorepo architecture, or technology selection decisions.

Use when building game systems, implementing Unity/Unreal Engine features, or optimizing game performance. Invoke to implement ECS architecture, configure physics systems and colliders, set up multiplayer networking with lag compensation, optimize frame rates to 60+ FPS targets, develop shaders, or apply game design patterns such as object pooling and state machines. Trigger keywords: Unity, Unreal Engine, game development, ECS architecture, game physics, multiplayer networking, game optimization, shader programming, game AI.

Implements concurrent Go patterns using goroutines and channels, designs and builds microservices with gRPC or REST, optimizes Go application performance with pprof, and enforces idiomatic Go with generics, interfaces, and robust error handling. Use when building Go applications requiring concurrent programming, microservices architecture, or high-performance systems. Invoke for goroutines, channels, Go generics, gRPC integration, CLI tools, benchmarks, or table-driven testing.

Use when designing GraphQL schemas, implementing Apollo Federation, or building real-time subscriptions. Invoke for schema design, resolvers with DataLoader, query optimization, federation directives.

Use when building, configuring, or debugging enterprise Java applications with Spring Boot 3.x, microservices, or reactive programming. Invoke to implement WebFlux endpoints, optimize JPA queries and database performance, configure Spring Security with OAuth2/JWT, or resolve authentication issues and async processing challenges in cloud-native Spring applications.

Writes, debugs, and refactors JavaScript code using modern ES2023+ features, async/await patterns, ESM module systems, and Node.js APIs. Use when building vanilla JavaScript applications, implementing Promise-based async flows, optimising browser or Node.js performance, working with Web Workers or Fetch API, or reviewing .js/.mjs/.cjs files for correctness and best practices.

Provides idiomatic Kotlin implementation patterns including coroutine concurrency, Flow stream handling, multiplatform architecture, Compose UI construction, Ktor server setup, and type-safe DSL design. Use when building Kotlin applications requiring coroutines, multiplatform development, or Android with Compose. Invoke for Flow API, KMP projects, Ktor servers, DSL design, sealed classes, suspend function, Android Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform.

Use when deploying or managing Kubernetes workloads. Invoke to create deployment manifests, configure pod security policies, set up service accounts, define network isolation rules, debug pod crashes, analyze resource limits, inspect container logs, or right-size workloads. Use for Helm charts, RBAC policies, NetworkPolicies, storage configuration, performance optimization, GitOps pipelines, and multi-cluster management.

Build and configure Laravel 10+ applications, including creating Eloquent models and relationships, implementing Sanctum authentication, configuring Horizon queues, designing RESTful APIs with API resources, and building reactive interfaces with Livewire. Use when creating Laravel models, setting up queue workers, implementing Sanctum auth flows, building Livewire components, optimising Eloquent queries, or writing Pest/PHPUnit tests for Laravel features.

Designs incremental migration strategies, identifies service boundaries, produces dependency maps and migration roadmaps, and generates API facade designs for aging codebases. Use when modernizing legacy systems, implementing strangler fig pattern or branch by abstraction, decomposing monoliths, upgrading frameworks or languages, or reducing technical debt without disrupting business operations.

Use when building, debugging, or extending MCP servers or clients that connect AI systems with external tools and data sources. Invoke to implement tool handlers, configure resource providers, set up stdio/HTTP/SSE transport layers, validate schemas with Zod or Pydantic, debug protocol compliance issues, or scaffold complete MCP server/client projects using TypeScript or Python SDKs.

Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.

Designs and implements production-grade ML pipeline infrastructure: configures experiment tracking with MLflow or Weights & Biases, creates Kubeflow or Airflow DAGs for training orchestration, builds feature store schemas with Feast, deploys model registries, and automates retraining and validation workflows. Use when building ML pipelines, orchestrating training workflows, automating model lifecycle, implementing feature stores, managing experiment tracking systems, setting up DVC for data versioning, tuning hyperparameters, or configuring MLOps tooling like Kubeflow, Airflow, MLflow, or Prefect.

Configures monitoring systems, implements structured logging pipelines, creates Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, defines alerting rules, and instruments distributed tracing. Implements Prometheus/Grafana stacks, conducts load testing, performs application profiling, and plans infrastructure capacity. Use when setting up application monitoring, adding observability to services, debugging production issues with logs/metrics/traces, running load tests with k6 or Artillery, profiling CPU/memory bottlenecks, or forecasting capacity needs.

Creates and configures NestJS modules, controllers, services, DTOs, guards, and interceptors for enterprise-grade TypeScript backend applications. Use when building NestJS REST APIs or GraphQL services, implementing dependency injection, scaffolding modular architecture, adding JWT/Passport authentication, integrating TypeORM or Prisma, or working with .module.ts, .controller.ts, and .service.ts files. Invoke for guards, interceptors, pipes, validation, Swagger documentation, and unit/E2E testing in NestJS projects.

Use when building Next.js 14+ applications with App Router, server components, or server actions. Invoke to configure route handlers, implement middleware, set up API routes, add streaming SSR, write generateMetadata for SEO, scaffold loading.tsx/error.tsx boundaries, or deploy to Vercel. Triggers on: Next.js, Next.js 14, App Router, RSC, use server, Server Components, Server Actions, React Server Components, generateMetadata, loading.tsx, Next.js deployment, Vercel, Next.js performance.

Performs pandas DataFrame operations for data analysis, manipulation, and transformation. Use when working with pandas DataFrames, data cleaning, aggregation, merging, or time series analysis. Invoke for data manipulation tasks such as joining DataFrames on multiple keys, pivoting tables, resampling time series, handling NaN values with interpolation or forward-fill, groupby aggregations, type conversion, or performance optimization of large datasets.

Use when building PHP applications with modern PHP 8.3+ features, Laravel, or Symfony frameworks. Invokes strict typing, PHPStan level 9, async patterns with Swoole, and PSR standards. Creates controllers, configures middleware, generates migrations, writes PHPUnit/Pest tests, defines typed DTOs and value objects, sets up dependency injection, and scaffolds REST/GraphQL APIs. Use when working with Eloquent, Doctrine, Composer, Psalm, ReactPHP, or any PHP API development.

Use when writing E2E tests with Playwright, setting up test infrastructure, or debugging flaky browser tests. Invoke to write test scripts, create page objects, configure test fixtures, set up reporters, add CI integration, implement API mocking, or perform visual regression testing. Trigger terms: Playwright, E2E test, end-to-end, browser testing, automation, UI testing, visual testing, Page Object Model, test flakiness.

Use when optimizing PostgreSQL queries, configuring replication, or implementing advanced database features. Invoke for EXPLAIN analysis, JSONB operations, extension usage, VACUUM tuning, performance monitoring.

Writes, refactors, and evaluates prompts for LLMs — generating optimized prompt templates, structured output schemas, evaluation rubrics, and test suites. Use when designing prompts for new LLM applications, refactoring existing prompts for better accuracy or token efficiency, implementing chain-of-thought or few-shot learning, creating system prompts with personas and guardrails, building JSON/function-calling schemas, or developing prompt evaluation frameworks to measure and improve model performance.

Use when building Python 3.11+ applications requiring type safety, async programming, or robust error handling. Generates type-annotated Python code, configures mypy in strict mode, writes pytest test suites with fixtures and mocking, and validates code with black and ruff. Invoke for type hints, async/await patterns, dataclasses, dependency injection, logging configuration, and structured error handling.

Designs and implements production-grade RAG systems by chunking documents, generating embeddings, configuring vector stores, building hybrid search pipelines, applying reranking, and evaluating retrieval quality. Use when building RAG systems, vector databases, or knowledge-grounded AI applications requiring semantic search, document retrieval, context augmentation, similarity search, or embedding-based indexing.

Rails 7+ specialist that optimizes Active Record queries with includes/eager_load, implements Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams for partial page updates, configures Action Cable for WebSocket connections, sets up Sidekiq workers for background job processing, and writes comprehensive RSpec test suites. Use when building Rails 7+ web applications with Hotwire, real-time features, or background job processing. Invoke for Active Record optimization, Turbo Frames/Streams, Action Cable, Sidekiq, RSpec Rails.

Use when building React 18+ applications in .jsx or .tsx files, Next.js App Router projects, or create-react-app setups. Creates components, implements custom hooks, debugs rendering issues, migrates class components to functional, and implements state management. Invoke for Server Components, Suspense boundaries, useActionState forms, performance optimization, or React 19 features.

Builds, optimizes, and debugs cross-platform mobile applications with React Native and Expo. Implements navigation hierarchies (tabs, stacks, drawers), configures native modules, optimizes FlatList rendering with memo and useCallback, and handles platform-specific code for iOS and Android. Use when building a React Native or Expo mobile app, setting up navigation, integrating native modules, improving scroll performance, handling SafeArea or keyboard input, or configuring Expo SDK projects.

Writes, reviews, and debugs idiomatic Rust code with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions. Implements ownership patterns, manages lifetimes, designs trait hierarchies, builds async applications with tokio, and structures error handling with Result/Option. Use when building Rust applications, solving ownership or borrowing issues, designing trait-based APIs, implementing async/await concurrency, creating FFI bindings, or optimizing for performance and memory safety. Invoke for Rust, Cargo, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust, tokio, zero-cost abstractions, memory safety, systems programming.

Writes and debugs Apex code, builds Lightning Web Components, optimizes SOQL queries, implements triggers, batch jobs, platform events, and integrations on the Salesforce platform. Use when developing Salesforce applications, customizing CRM workflows, managing governor limits, bulk processing, or setting up Salesforce DX and CI/CD pipelines.

Use when implementing authentication/authorization, securing user input, or preventing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities — including custom security implementations such as hashing passwords with bcrypt/argon2, sanitizing SQL queries with parameterized statements, configuring CORS/CSP headers, validating input with Zod, and setting up JWT tokens. Invoke for authentication, authorization, input validation, encryption, OWASP Top 10 prevention, secure session management, and security hardening. For pre-built OAuth/SSO integrations or standalone security audits, consider a more specialized skill.

Identifies security vulnerabilities, generates structured audit reports with severity ratings, and provides actionable remediation guidance. Use when conducting security audits, reviewing code for vulnerabilities, or analyzing infrastructure security. Invoke for SAST scans, penetration testing, DevSecOps practices, cloud security reviews, dependency audits, secrets scanning, or compliance checks. Produces vulnerability reports, prioritized recommendations, and compliance checklists.

Builds and debugs Shopify themes (.liquid files, theme.json, sections), develops custom Shopify apps (shopify.app.toml, OAuth, webhooks), and implements Storefront API integrations for headless storefronts. Use when building or customizing Shopify themes, creating Hydrogen or custom React storefronts, developing Shopify apps, implementing checkout UI extensions or Shopify Functions, optimizing performance, or integrating third-party services. Invoke for Liquid templating, Storefront API, app development, checkout customization, Shopify Plus features, App Bridge, Polaris, or Shopify CLI workflows.

Use when writing Spark jobs, debugging performance issues, or configuring cluster settings for Apache Spark applications, distributed data processing pipelines, or big data workloads. Invoke to write DataFrame transformations, optimize Spark SQL queries, implement RDD pipelines, tune shuffle operations, configure executor memory, process .parquet files, handle data partitioning, or build structured streaming analytics.

Reverse-engineering specialist that extracts specifications from existing codebases. Use when working with legacy or undocumented systems, inherited projects, or old codebases with no documentation. Invoke to map code dependencies, generate API documentation from source, identify undocumented business logic, figure out what code does, or create architecture documentation from implementation. Trigger phrases: reverse engineer, old codebase, no docs, no documentation, figure out how this works, inherited project, legacy analysis, code archaeology, undocumented features.

Generates Spring Boot 3.x configurations, creates REST controllers, implements Spring Security 6 authentication flows, sets up Spring Data JPA repositories, and configures reactive WebFlux endpoints. Use when building Spring Boot 3.x applications, microservices, or reactive Java applications; invoke for Spring Data JPA, Spring Security 6, WebFlux, Spring Cloud integration, Java REST API design, or Microservices Java architecture.

Optimizes SQL queries, designs database schemas, and troubleshoots performance issues. Use when a user asks why their query is slow, needs help writing complex joins or aggregations, mentions database performance issues, or wants to design or migrate a schema. Invoke for complex queries, window functions, CTEs, indexing strategies, query plan analysis, covering index creation, recursive queries, EXPLAIN/ANALYZE interpretation, before/after query benchmarking, or migrating queries between database dialects (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).

Defines service level objectives, creates error budget policies, designs incident response procedures, develops capacity models, and produces monitoring configurations and automation scripts for production systems. Use when defining SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, building reliable systems at scale, incident management, chaos engineering, toil reduction, or capacity planning.

Builds iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS applications, implements SwiftUI views and state management, designs protocol-oriented architectures, handles async/await concurrency, implements actors for thread safety, and debugs Swift-specific issues. Use when building iOS/macOS applications with Swift 5.9+, SwiftUI, or async/await concurrency. Invoke for protocol-oriented programming, SwiftUI state management, actors, server-side Swift, UIKit integration, Combine, or Vapor.

Use when implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Invoke for module development (create reusable modules, manage module versioning), state management (migrate backends, import existing resources, resolve state conflicts), provider configuration, multi-environment workflows, and infrastructure testing.