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115 skills
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decloudz
skill-writer
Guide users through creating Agent Skills for Claude Code.
Plan
Addy Osmani
api-and-interface-design
Guides stable API and interface design.
Verify
Addy Osmani
browser-testing-with-devtools
Tests in real browsers via Chrome DevTools MCP.
Ship
Addy Osmani
ci-cd-and-automation
Automates CI/CD pipeline setup.
Review
Addy Osmani
code-review-and-quality
Conducts multi-axis code review.
Review
Addy Osmani
code-simplification
Simplifies code for clarity.
Define
Addy Osmani
constraint-driven-development
Establishes a project's quality bar as a written contract and stops agents quietly lowering it.
Meta
Addy Osmani
context-engineering
Optimizes agent context setup.
Verify
Addy Osmani
debugging-and-error-recovery
Guides systematic root-cause debugging.
Ship
Addy Osmani
deprecation-and-migration
Manages deprecation and migration.
Ship
Addy Osmani
documentation-and-adrs
Records decisions and documentation.
Verify
Addy Osmani
doubt-driven-development
Subjects every non-trivial decision to a fresh-context adversarial review before it stands.
Build
Addy Osmani
frontend-ui-engineering
Builds production-quality, accessible, responsive user-facing UIs.
Ship
Addy Osmani
git-workflow-and-versioning
Structures git workflow practices.
Define
Addy Osmani
idea-refine
Refines raw ideas into sharp, actionable concepts through structured divergent and convergent thinking.
Build
Addy Osmani
incremental-implementation
Delivers changes incrementally in thin, verifiable slices.
Define
Addy Osmani
interview-me
Extracts what the user actually wants instead of what they think they should want.
Ship
Addy Osmani
observability-and-instrumentation
Instruments code so production behavior is visible and diagnosable.
Review
Addy Osmani
performance-optimization
Optimizes application performance across frontend, backend, queries, and databases.
Plan
Addy Osmani
planning-and-task-breakdown
Breaks work into ordered tasks.
Review
Addy Osmani
security-and-hardening
Hardens code against vulnerabilities.
Ship
Addy Osmani
shipping-and-launch
Prepares production launches.
Build
Addy Osmani
source-driven-development
Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation.
Define
Addy Osmani
spec-driven-development
Creates specs before coding.
Build
Addy Osmani
test-driven-development
Drives development with tests using the red-green-refactor loop.
Meta
Addy Osmani
using-agent-skills
Discovers and invokes agent skills.
Meta
Matt Pocock
ask-matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation.
Review
Matt Pocock
code-review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and…
Plan
Matt Pocock
codebase-design
Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules.
Verify
Matt Pocock
diagnosing-bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions.
Define
Matt Pocock
domain-modeling
Build and sharpen a project's domain model.
Ship
Matt Pocock
git-guardrails-claude-code
Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute.
Define
Matt Pocock
grill-me
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Define
Matt Pocock
grill-with-docs
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
Define
Matt Pocock
grilling
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea.
Meta
Matt Pocock
handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
Build
Matt Pocock
implement
Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.
Build
Matt Pocock
implement-spec
Implement the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code.
Plan
Matt Pocock
improve-codebase-architecture
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
Build
Matt Pocock
migrate-to-shoehorn
Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.
Ship
Matt Pocock
pr
Use when writing a PR body.
Plan
Matt Pocock
prototype
Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
Define
Matt Pocock
research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
Review
Matt Pocock
retro
Conduct a retrospective on a coding session.
Build
Matt Pocock
scaffold-exercises
Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting.
Meta
Matt Pocock
setup-matt-pocock-skills
Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout.
Ship
Matt Pocock
setup-pre-commit
Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo.
Build
Matt Pocock
tdd
Test-driven development.
Meta
Matt Pocock
teach
Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
Define
Matt Pocock
to-questionnaire
Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
Define
Matt Pocock
to-spec
Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker: no interview, just synthesis of what you've already discussed.
Plan
Matt Pocock
to-tickets
Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published to the configured tracker (edges as tex…
Plan
Matt Pocock
triage
Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
Meta
Matt Pocock
wait-what
Stop.
Plan
Matt Pocock
wayfinder
Plan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way…
Define
Matt Pocock
wizard
Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform.
Meta
Matt Pocock
writing-for-agents
Writing documents for agents.
Plan
Lauren Tan
architect
Sketch types, signatures, and module structure before code, then stay in the loop while implementation fills in.
Build
Lauren Tan
arena
Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it.
Meta
Lauren Tan
automate-me
Use for "automate me", "create/update/refresh my -mode skill", "turn/capture my preferences or working style into a skill", or wanting agents to follow how the user work…
Verify
Lauren Tan
benchmark-checklist
Vet a perf measurement (limiter, tuning, limits, errors, repeatability, relevance, and whether the work happened) before you report or act on it.
Review
Lauren Tan
blast-radius
Find what a change could break somewhere else before it ships, beyond the diff, and prove the one fact it's safe because of by running real code instead of writing it up.
Meta
Lauren Tan
bro
Restate the last message in plain human language, with no jargon.
Review
Lauren Tan
correct
Find the mistakes agents keep repeating in this repo and make each one impossible.
Verify
Lauren Tan
create-formal-verification-skill
Generate a project-local skill that formally verifies the code where a bug costs the most and tests reach the least, in any language, with whichever verification tool fi…
Verify
Lauren Tan
create-verification-skill
Generate a project-local verification skill that drives your app the way a user does — any language, framework, or platform.
Plan
Lauren Tan
figure-it-out
Design an auditable playbook when no narrower one fits: a large migration, an ambitious multi-part change, or work a human reviews after stepping away.
Meta
Lauren Tan
how
Use for "how does X work", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering questions ("where should this live", "which package owns thi…
Meta
Lauren Tan
in-your-own-words
Restate in your own words what you think the user's goals are and what problem they're trying to solve.
Review
Lauren Tan
interrogate
Use for "interrogate", "adversarial review", "multi-model review", "challenge this", "stress test this code", "find blind spots", or "tear this apart".
Meta
Lauren Tan
ketchup
Catch the user up on what changed in this chat since their last message, in plain words and small visuals.
Meta
Lauren Tan
ketchup-video
Catch the user up like /ketchup, with a short subtitled video of slides for what happened and the waiting calls as text under it.
Verify
Lauren Tan
maintain-formal-verification-skill
Bring a project's formal verification back in line with the code after the code changes: find the commits that touched verified code, update the model, harness, or prope…
Verify
Lauren Tan
maintain-verification-skill
Periodic pass that keeps a project's verification skill and feature map honest: parallel source readers per feature, one live session driving every feature, at most one…
Build
Lauren Tan
make-bot-ui
Use when building a custom UI (page, dashboard, buttons) that should wake a Grok Bot over a webhook, when the user must provide a webhook sender key, or when exposing th…
Review
Lauren Tan
no-comments
Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.
Meta
Lauren Tan
poteto-help
Guides users through pstack setup, /poteto-mode, and picking the skill, playbook, or principle for a task.
Meta
Lauren Tan
poteto-mode
poteto's agent style for concise, detailed responses, deliberate subagents, unslopped prose, simple code, and verified work.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-attack-the-premise
Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-boundary-discipline
Apply when wiring validation, error handling, or framework adapters.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-build-the-lever
Apply to any non-trivial work, not just bulk work: edits, migrations, analyses, checks.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-encode-lessons-in-structure
Apply when you catch yourself writing the same instruction a second time, or notice a recurring correction.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-exhaust-the-design-space
Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-experience-first
Apply when product, UX, or feature-scope tradeoffs come up.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-explain-the-number
Apply before you measure, and before you trust, report, or act on a number you measured: a speedup, a regression, a throughput, a latency, or an eval result.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-fix-root-causes
Apply when debugging.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-foundational-thinking
Apply before writing logic: choosing core types and data structures, sequencing scaffold-vs-feature work, asking what concurrent actors share.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-guard-the-context-window
Apply when context is filling up: large outputs, long files, repeated reads, fan-out planning.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-laziness-protocol
Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-make-operations-idempotent
Apply when designing commands, lifecycle steps, or processing loops that run amid crashes, restarts, and retries.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis
Apply when introducing a new internal API while old callers still exist.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-minimize-reader-load
Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-model-the-domain
Apply when writing stateful logic, or when code branches a lot or repeats a shape assumption across files.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-never-block-on-the-human
Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-outcome-oriented-execution
Apply during planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-prove-it-works
Apply after completing a task, before declaring done.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-redesign-from-first-principles
Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-separate-before-serializing-shared-state
Apply when concurrent actors might write to the same file, branch, key, or state object.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-sequence-verifiable-units
Apply to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-subtract-before-you-add
Apply when sequencing an addition, refactor, or rewrite.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-test-behavior-not-implementation
Apply when you write, change, or keep a test.
Principles
Lauren Tan
principle-type-system-discipline
Apply when designing types, reviewing a function signature, or writing code in any statically-typed language.
Meta
Lauren Tan
recall
Reconstruct your recent working context from your own chat history, live state, and the shared record (user reports, prior fixes, incidents), then hand back a tight curr…
Meta
Lauren Tan
reflect
Spawn three parallel review subagents over the active transcript, surface learnings, and route each to a concrete edit on an existing skill.
Meta
Lauren Tan
setup-pstack
Configure which models pstack uses per role and at what reasoning budget.
Define
Lauren Tan
sharpen
Make a task deeper, not bigger, then rewrite the prompt.
Build
Lauren Tan
show-me-your-work
Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why, evidence, result).
Plan
Lauren Tan
statechart
Check a TLA+ model of a system that moves between states, such as a product flow, a protocol, or a service, and draw it as a Mermaid statechart.
Build
Lauren Tan
swarm
Fan out N parallel workers, drain them, and return one report.
Build
Lauren Tan
tdd
Use only when the user explicitly asks for TDD, a failing test, or a regression test, OR when the bug has an obvious cheap local test target.
Meta
Lauren Tan
teach
Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it.
Meta
Lauren Tan
technical-writing
Layered technical-writing standard: Diátaxis structure, Google developer style sentences, STE instruction rules, Global English syntax.
Build
Lauren Tan
typescript-best-practices
TypeScript best practices.
Meta
Lauren Tan
unslop
Cut AI tells from any writing.
Meta
Lauren Tan
why
Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds.
Nothing matches those filters.