Explore ideas and working methods through focused conversation, one question at a time. Identify recurring patterns, surprising contradictions, and distinctive approaches, then turn discoveries into named concepts and a documented session summary.
- Exploring an early idea through conversation
- Explaining what makes a working method distinctive
- Naming a concept that is difficult to describe
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Verify code changes before committing or shipping by running tests, builds, and checks against requirements. Use fresh command output to support completion reports, confirm bug fixes, and check work reported by other agents.
- Checking changes before a commit
- Confirming a bug fix by reproducing the original issue
- Checking regression tests before and after a fix
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Turn a multi-step feature into an implementation plan that another engineer can follow without prior context. The plan includes exact file paths, complete code, test commands, expected results, and small, verifiable steps.
- Planning a feature with multiple implementation steps
- Handing development work to another engineer or agent
- Breaking a complex refactor into verifiable tasks
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Organize multi-step work into tasks, track dependencies and status, and save progress checkpoints. Record completed work, unfinished steps, and decision context so an agent can review the saved state and continue in a later session.
- Adding tasks with prerequisites to a TODO list
- Saving progress at the end of the day
- Resuming interrupted work in another session
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Develop behavior changes by first observing an expected test failure, then making the smallest passing implementation. Refactor with tests passing, and document preserved behavior and measured runtime whenever tests are consolidated.
- Add behavior through a failing test
- Fix a bug with a test that reproduces it
- Refactor while keeping affected tests passing
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Turn an agreed plan into small work tickets, each covering a complete, testable feature across the necessary layers. Identify dependencies and available starting points so people or future agent sessions can pick up clearly bounded work.
- Turn an agreed specification into actionable tickets
- Split a large epic into smaller tasks
- Define work boundaries for multiple contributors
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Examine an existing plan, decision, or design through one question at a time, each with a suggested answer. Clarify assumptions, contradictions, and dependencies, then summarize agreed decisions, needed changes, and unresolved blockers.
- Examine a plan before committing
- Untangle decisions that depend on each other
- Clarify an uncertain project scope
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Test one risky assumption through a prototype with an agreed deadline, hypothesis, and success signal. Record observations and the source revision, then return a keep, discard, or inconclusive verdict with the status of each artifact.
- Testing one uncertain assumption before implementation
- Setting a deadline and success signal for a prototype
- Deciding whether to keep or discard prototype results
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Run repeated rounds of code fixes, performance improvements, or other refinements with defined goals and progress tracking. Evaluate each round, stop when appropriate, and optionally use numeric measurements to keep improvements or roll back regressions.
- Repeat fixes and tests until all tests pass
- Improve response time toward a target
- Refine error messages against clarity criteria
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Review a pull request or feature in two stages: first check implementation against recorded requirements, then examine code quality. Identify unfinished code, logic and security issues, and changes needed before merging in a combined report.
- Review a completed feature against its requirements
- Check whether a pull request exceeds agreed boundaries
- Find unfinished code and quality issues
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Turn a rough request into a structured AI prompt with a clear goal, output format, and constraints. For complex work, add smaller tasks, separate creator and reviewer roles, and explicit checks for accuracy and uncertainty.
- Refining a vague AI request
- Designing prompts for API documentation
- Adding verification steps to code generation
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Write or review skills for a consistent process across runs. Check activation conditions, ordered steps, completion criteria, and reference placement, then identify unclear instructions, overlapping triggers, and content that belongs in an existing skill.
- Define clear steps and completion criteria for a new skill
- Investigate inconsistent behavior across skill runs
- Check for overlapping skill activation conditions
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Gather advice from multiple language models assigned different roles, then combine their proposals and critiques into a recommendation. Set budget and depth limits while retaining disagreements, minority views, and risks for decisions or implementation planning.
- Comparing options before a decision
- Reviewing code or strategy from several perspectives
- Preparing an implementation plan with risks
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Create a product requirements document for a new feature or product. Clarify users, problems, goals, and constraints, then organize prioritized requirements, acceptance criteria, implementation phases, and risks into a structured document for AI-assisted development.
- Defining the scope of a new feature
- Turning a product idea into written requirements
- Documenting acceptance criteria and priorities
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Compare technical choices through structured discussions among available AI providers. Use independent reviews or rounds of cross-critique to examine risks and trade-offs, then receive a synthesis of agreement, disagreement, recommended decisions, and concrete next steps.
- Comparing technology options before making a decision
- Reviewing authentication code for risks
- Examining database schema design from multiple perspectives
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Evaluate feedback from reviewers, CI bots, or other AI agents against the actual code and requirements. Apply valid fixes one at a time, verify each change, and explain disagreements using evidence from callers, tests, or existing conventions.
- Assess whether a review comment requires a code change
- Respond to feedback from CI bots or AI reviewers
- Explain disagreements with evidence from the code
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Restore project files from a previous Git checkpoint after previewing affected files and receiving explicit confirmation. Create a safety tag before restoration, preserve recorded lessons, and keep the current branch and commit history in place.
- Listing available project checkpoints
- Restoring files after an unsuccessful change
- Previewing files affected by a rollback
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Finish a development branch by running tests and reviewing changes, then choose whether to create a pull request, merge locally, keep the branch, or discard it. Optional version and changelog updates support release preparation.
- Create a pull request after implementation is complete
- Merge a tested branch into the base branch locally
- Update the version and changelog before shipping
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Analyze reference articles and social posts to uncover structure, persuasive techniques, and writing patterns. Turn the findings into reusable templates, opening patterns, and interview questions for planning new content.
- Compare the structure of reference articles
- Extract opening patterns from social posts
- Build a reusable newsletter template
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An early-stage framework for documenting an existing product’s design and architecture. Command parsing, output setup, and metadata generation are implemented; extracting colors, components, APIs, and architecture remains in progress or planned.
- Plan documentation for an undocumented application
- Define output formats for colors and spacing
- Plan component and API inventories
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Investigate reproducible bugs by recreating symptoms, testing one possible cause at a time, and checking fixes in both a simplified test case and the original scenario. Retry limits keep unsuccessful fixes from continuing unchecked.
- Investigating a reproducible bug
- Checking a fix in the original scenario
- Reconsidering causes after failed fixes
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Detects whether a task concerns software development or research and strategy by examining the request and project files. Workflow skills can use the result to choose agents, output formats, and review criteria suited to the work.
- Switching between coding and strategy work in one project
- Choosing output formats for research or implementation
- Overriding an incorrect automatic context detection
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Audit an application or selected features with a structured checklist. Record evidence for broken behavior, incomplete implementations, and inconsistent patterns, then organize findings by severity and propose a prioritized repair plan.
- Check application features before release
- Find recurring implementation problems
- Review button and form consistency
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Compare two to four viable approaches against your requirements and constraints. See each option’s benefits, drawbacks, effort, risk, and ease of reversal, alongside a reasoned recommendation and next steps for the option you choose.
- Choosing between a quick fix and a broader refactor
- Comparing caching approaches
- Deciding between TypeScript and JavaScript
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