Popular DevOps & Cloud Skills

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K8s Security Policies

Implement Kubernetes security policies including NetworkPolicy, PodSecurityPolicy, and RBAC for production-grade security. Use when securing Kubernetes clusters, implementing network isolation, or enforcing pod security standards.

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Kpi Dashboard Design

Design effective KPI dashboards with metrics selection, visualization best practices, and real-time monitoring patterns. Use this skill when building an executive SaaS metrics dashboard tracking MRR, churn, and LTV/CAC ratios; designing an operations center with live service health and request throughput; creating a cohort retention analysis view for a product team; or debugging a dashboard where metrics contradict each other due to inconsistent calculation methodology.

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Linkerd Patterns

Implement Linkerd service mesh patterns for lightweight, security-focused service mesh deployments. Use when setting up Linkerd, configuring traffic policies, or implementing zero-trust networking with minimal overhead.

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Ml Pipeline Workflow

Build end-to-end MLOps pipelines from data preparation through model training, validation, and production deployment. Use when creating ML pipelines, implementing MLOps practices, or automating model training and deployment workflows.

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Mtls Configuration

Configure mutual TLS (mTLS) for zero-trust service-to-service communication. Use when implementing zero-trust networking, certificate management, or securing internal service communication.

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Multi Cloud Architecture

Design multi-cloud architectures using a decision framework to select and integrate services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Use when building multi-cloud systems, avoiding vendor lock-in, or leveraging best-of-breed services from multiple providers.

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Nextjs App Router Patterns

Master Next.js 14+ App Router with Server Components, streaming, parallel routes, and advanced data fetching. Use when building Next.js applications, implementing SSR/SSG, or optimizing React Server Components.

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Nodejs Backend Patterns

Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. Use when creating Node.js servers, REST APIs, GraphQL backends, or microservices architectures.

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Pci Compliance

Implement PCI DSS compliance requirements for secure handling of payment card data and payment systems. Use when securing payment processing, achieving PCI compliance, or implementing payment card security measures.

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Prometheus Configuration

Set up Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, storage, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications. Use when implementing metrics collection, setting up monitoring infrastructure, or configuring alerting systems.

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Quantized Export

Export a promoted fine-tuned model in the right deployment format — merged safetensors, LoRA-only, GGUF with imatrix, or FP8. Use after a checkpoint passes promotion, when choosing a quantization format for a target device, or when an exported model fails its smoke test.

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React State Management

Master modern React state management with Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Jotai, and React Query. Use when setting up global state, managing server state, or choosing between state management solutions.

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Risk Metrics Calculation

Calculate portfolio risk metrics including VaR, CVaR, Sharpe, Sortino, and drawdown analysis. Use when measuring portfolio risk, implementing risk limits, or building risk monitoring systems.

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Sast Configuration

Configure Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools for automated vulnerability detection in application code. Use when setting up security scanning, implementing DevSecOps practices, or automating code vulnerability detection.

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Screen Reader Testing

Test web applications with screen readers including VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS. Use when validating screen reader compatibility, debugging accessibility issues, or ensuring assistive technology support.

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Secrets Management

Implement secure secrets management for CI/CD pipelines using Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or native platform solutions. Use when handling sensitive credentials, rotating secrets, or securing CI/CD environments.

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Security Requirement Extraction

Derive security requirements from threat models and business context. Use when translating threats into actionable requirements, creating security user stories, or building security test cases.

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Service Mesh Observability

Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes including distributed tracing, metrics, and visualization. Use when setting up mesh monitoring, debugging latency issues, or implementing SLOs for service communication.

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Shellcheck Configuration

Master ShellCheck static analysis configuration and usage for shell script quality. Use when setting up linting infrastructure, fixing code issues, or ensuring script portability.

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Slo Implementation

Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with error budgets and alerting. Use when establishing reliability targets, implementing SRE practices, or measuring service performance.

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Solidity Security

Master smart contract security best practices to prevent common vulnerabilities and implement secure Solidity patterns. Use when writing smart contracts, auditing existing contracts, or implementing security measures for blockchain applications.

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Spark Memory Thermal Ops

Manage unified memory and thermals during long-running ML jobs on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Use when planning memory headroom for a training run on GB10, when a job OOMs on unified memory, or when monitoring temperature and power during multi-hour training.

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Task Coordination Strategies

Decompose complex tasks, design dependency graphs, and coordinate multi-agent work with proper task descriptions and workload balancing. Use this skill when breaking down work for agent teams, managing task dependencies, or monitoring team progress.

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Team Composition Patterns

Design optimal agent team compositions with sizing heuristics, preset configurations, and agent type selection. Use this skill when deciding how many agents to spawn for a task, when choosing between a review team versus a feature team versus a debug team, when selecting the correct subagent_type for each role to ensure agents have the tools they need, when configuring display modes (tmux, iTerm2, in-process) for a CI or local environment, or when building a custom team composition for a non-standard workflow such as a migration or security audit.

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Terraform Module Library

Build reusable Terraform modules for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI infrastructure following infrastructure-as-code best practices. Use when creating infrastructure modules, standardizing cloud provisioning, or implementing reusable IaC components.

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Visual Edit Precision

Use when making UI/frontend changes guided by visual context, when the user selects elements visually, draws annotations, or provides screenshots alongside change requests. Also use when editing components where spatial context (element identity, DOM references, layout data) supplements text instructions.

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E2e Testing Patterns

Master end-to-end testing with Playwright and Cypress to build reliable test suites that catch bugs, improve confidence, and enable fast deployment. Use when implementing E2E tests, debugging flaky tests, or establishing testing standards.

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Deploy To Vercel

Deploy applications and websites to Vercel. Use when the user requests deployment actions like "deploy my app", "deploy and give me the link", "push this live", or "create a preview deployment".

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Vercel Cli With Tokens

Deploy and manage projects on Vercel using token-based authentication. Use when working with Vercel CLI using access tokens rather than interactive login — e.g. "deploy to vercel", "set up vercel", "add environment variables to vercel".

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Vercel React Best Practices

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

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Vercel React View Transitions

Guide for implementing smooth, native-feeling animations using React's View Transition API (`<ViewTransition>` component, `addTransitionType`, and CSS view transition pseudo-elements). Use this skill whenever the user wants to add page transitions, animate route changes, create shared element animations, animate enter/exit of components, animate list reorder, implement directional (forward/back) navigation animations, or integrate view transitions in Next.js. Also use when the user mentions view transitions, `startViewTransition`, `ViewTransition`, transition types, or asks about animating between UI states in React without third-party animation libraries.

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Web Design Guidelines

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".

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Writing Guidelines

Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", or "check this page against the writing handbook".

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Metrics Dashboard

Define and design a product metrics dashboard with key metrics, data sources, visualization types, and alert thresholds. Use when creating a metrics dashboard, defining KPIs, setting up product analytics, or building a data monitoring plan.

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Cloud Build Basics

Teaches the fundamentals of Google Cloud Build (GCB). Covers core concepts, API enablement, console navigation to the Build History page, and the end-to-end workflow for creating and manually running a basic build trigger. Do not use for managing private pools or complex pipeline architectures.

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Cloud Databases Onboarding

Guides users through discovering their database requirements, recommends a Google Cloud database based on a recommendation matrix, and assists in database creation. Use when a user asks 'What database service should I use?', 'Help me pick a database', or when a user wants to create a new database on Google Cloud. Don't use for general Google Cloud maintenance, managing existing databases, or database migrations.

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Cloud Monitoring Promql Query

Generates valid PromQL queries from Cloud Monitoring metric descriptors and resource parameters. Use when asked to create, generate, write, or format PromQL queries, PromQL strings, or PromQL aggregations for Cloud Monitoring metrics and resources. Don't use for raw metric discovery or metric selection.

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Developing Genkit Js

Develop AI-powered applications using Genkit in Node.js/TypeScript. Use when the user asks about Genkit, AI agents, flows, or tools in JavaScript/TypeScript, or when encountering Genkit errors, validation issues, type errors, or API problems.

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Developing Genkit Python

Develop AI-powered applications using Genkit in Python. Use when the user asks about Genkit, AI agents, flows, or tools in Python, or when encountering Genkit errors, import issues, or API problems.

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Gke Ai Troubleshooting Tpu Dynamic Slices Monitoring

Monitors, troubleshoots, and manages GKE TPU Dynamic Slices custom resources. Use when checking TPU slice lifecycle states, troubleshooting slice provisioning failures, validating single-slice or multi-slice (JobSet) workload manifests, or safely patching stuck finalizers and disabling the slice controller. Don't use for generic GKE cluster node pool creation or standard non-TPU workload management (use gke-basics or gke-cluster-creation instead).

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Gke Ai Troubleshooting Tpu Metrics Monitoring

Monitors and troubleshoots GKE TPU workloads, nodes, and node pools using GKE system metrics and PromQL. Use when monitoring TensorCore duty cycle, TPU memory, node readiness, multi-host TPU node pool availability, host maintenance or preemption interruptions, and calculating MTTR or MTBI metrics for GKE TPUs. Don't use for general non-TPU GKE workload monitoring or non-metric TPU debugging.

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Gke Alert Configuration

Configures alerting policies in Terraform for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, workloads, and services using PromQL and Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. Use when writing, analyzing, validating, or deploying Terraform alerting policies to monitor GKE service latency, traffic, error rates using Multi-Window Multi-Burn-Rate SLO alerts, memory saturation, and cluster health such as CrashLoopBackOff and Node NotReady conditions. Don't use for non-GKE compute runtimes such as standalone Compute Engine VMs or standalone Cloud Run services without GKE.

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Google Cloud Solution Hybrid Search Alloydb

Discovers requirements and generates architectural, design, and deployment guidance for dynamic hybrid search systems by combining semantic search and keyword search. Optimized for AlloyDB hybrid search use cases in Google Cloud. Use when users need vector search combined with structured SQL filtering, faceted attributes, semantic reranking, in-database AI validation, or serverless hosting across transactional relational databases, analytical data warehouses, or managed database engines. DON'T use this skill for simple keyword-only search, or when a standalone non-relational vector database is required.

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Google Cloud Solution Multi Agent Security

Designs, deploys, and secures Google Cloud Agent Gateway solutions. Use when the user needs to configure multi-agent security, ingress (CLIENT_TO_AGENT), or egress (AGENT_TO_ANYWHERE) patterns involving Model Armor, IAP, and Agent Registry. Don't use for general Cloud Load Balancing or basic VPC setup not related to Agent Gateways.

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Gcloud

Provides safety-critical validation, guardrails, and data reduction for gcloud CLI operations across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and infrastructure. Use when planning, generating, constructing, proposing, describing, or executing any gcloud CLI commands - including when answering questions about gcloud syntax, or formatting flags. Don't use when writing Google Cloud client library code or raw REST/gRPC API requests.

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Managed Airflow Dag Troubleshooting

Provides guidance for troubleshooting Apache Airflow DAGs (failed DAG runs and task instances) in Managed Service for Apache Airflow (MSAA; formerly Cloud Composer). Use when figuring out reasons for DAG run or task instance failures. Don't use when looking for overall recommendations for Managed Airflow environment performance.

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Agent Platform Deploy

Deploy open models or custom weights from Model Garden to Agent Platform endpoints, check the status of an in-progress deployment operation, or clean up resources by undeploying models and deleting endpoints. Use when asked to actively deploy a model, list the Model Garden CATALOG of available models, check if a specific model is deployable (`gcloud ai model-garden models list-deployment-config`), query deployment cost, troubleshoot deployment errors (like quota limits), or undeploy/clean up endpoints. Also use when copying and deploying a 1P Tuned Model. Don't use for pure listing/discovery questions of the form "is X deployed?", "list my endpoints", or "which regions have models running?" — for those use `agent-platform-endpoint-management`. Don't use for public Vertex AI deployments (use the `vertex-deploy` skill) or for running model evaluations (use the `agent-platform-eval-flywheel` skill).

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Agent Platform Endpoint Management

Manages Agent Platform serving endpoints. Use when you need to create, list, describe, update, or delete serving endpoints for model deployment on Agent Platform. Also use when troubleshooting endpoint permission, quota, or resource busy errors. Don't use for deploying models to endpoints or for running model evaluations.