All Agent Skills

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Claude Handoff

Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.

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Codebase Design

Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another skill needs the deep-module vocabulary.

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Diagnosing Bugs

Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.

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Domain Modeling

Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a CONTEXT.md, or recording or editing an ADR.

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Git Guardrails Claude Code

Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to prevent destructive git operations, add git safety hooks, or block git push/reset in Claude Code.

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Grill Me

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.

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Grill With Docs

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.

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Grilling

Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

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Handoff

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.

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Implement

Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.

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Improve Codebase Architecture

Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

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Loop Me

Grill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.

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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 Spec (does the code match what the originating issue/spec asked for?). Runs both reviews in parallel sub-agents and reports them side by side. Use when the user wants to review a branch, a PR, work-in-progress changes, or asks to \"review since X\".

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Migrate To Shoehorn

Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.

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Prototype

Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore what a UI should look like.

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Research

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

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Resolving Merge Conflicts

Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.

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Scaffold Exercises

Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course section.

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Setup Matt Pocock Skills

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

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Setup Pre Commit

Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or add commit-time formatting/typechecking/testing.

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Setup Ts Deep Modules

Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module, with implementation hidden in subfolders and reachable only through its entry-point files. User-invoked.

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Tdd

Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.

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Teach

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

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To Questionnaire

Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.

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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.

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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 text in one file per ticket locally, or native blocking links on a real tracker).

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Triage

Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

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Wait What

Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.

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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 to the destination is clear.

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Wizard

Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can perform itself.

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Writing Beats

Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.

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Writing For Agents

Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.

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Writing Fragments

Writing, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.

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Writing Shape

Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.

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Dsh Ci Test Reliability

Design, review, and diagnose DeepSeek Harness tests and fixtures that can fail nondeterministically under CI concurrency, shared host resources, clocks, process-global state, subprocesses, network listeners, or asynchronous teardown. Use when adding or changing tests with those risks, investigating flaky CI, or reviewing test isolation; use dsh-pre-push-checks separately to select outgoing commands.

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Dsh Doc

Create, restructure, review, audit, or migrate DeepSeek Harness Markdown documentation, package READMEs, and the documentation website using audience-first hierarchy, kind-mapped YAML metadata, bilingual line alignment, summary/contents navigation, progressive user-to-developer detail, executed-operation fact-checking, and repository validation. Use for new or revised DSH docs, docs-tree organization, documentation-quality audits and budgets, website page publishing, and bilingual documentation structure changes.

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Cordis Plugin Development

Create, modify, debug, or extend dynamic Cordis Plugins, including Host Services and Events, Client Slot and theme UI, Package-private Client-to-Host calls, dynamic Tools, version updates, approval failures, and runtime diagnostics. Use this Skill to route a user request to the correct platform and Inspect Provider, then define, run, repair, or roll back the Plugin.

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Dsh Archive Agent Notes

Use when adding, auditing, pruning, archiving, restoring, or reviewing Agent Notes in deepseek-harness; checks every new note for superseded active records, classifies implemented notes by future decision value, deletes rejected notes that no longer prevent a tempting fallacy, and applies the frozen archived/{kind} triplet and manifest rules.

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Dsh Code Review

Use when reviewing a pull request in the deepseek-harness repo — orients the reviewer to this codebase's standards (AGENTS.md conventions, defensive patterns, ADRs, quality gates) and the review-specific checks that code alone can't show

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Dsh Doc Site Sync

Use when publishing, updating, moving, or removing DeepSeek Harness documentation website pages; editing website/docs.ts mappings or navigation; diagnosing a page missing from the VitePress site; fixing projected documentation links; or running the docs:dev, docs:check, and doc-sync workflow after website-content changes.

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Dsh Doc Standards

Use when writing, moving, reviewing, or auditing documentation in the deepseek-harness repo — choosing hierarchy and detail, separating tutorials from references, checking tutorial progression, trimming doc slop, responding to a verify-doc-budgets failure, or requests like "improve the docs", "audit the docs", "where should this be documented", or "this doc is too long".

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Dsh Find Simplifications

Use when working in the deepseek-harness repo to find non-obvious simplification candidates, write proposed Agent Notes or inline TODO/FIXME/XXX notes, audit or coalesce superseded Agent Notes, or fold worthwhile simplification ideas from another PR; especially for dead, duplicated, speculative, over-built, added-then-removed, or hand-rolled-where-a-dependency-exists surfaces.

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Dsh Merging Stacked Prs

Use when landing a stack of dependent GitHub PRs (A ← B ← C, where each bases on the one below) onto master, merging a PR whose base is another open PR's branch, or whenever a request mentions "stacked PRs", "PR stack", "dependent PRs", or merging several related PRs in sequence. Requires every same-repository dependency chain to use GitHub's official stacked-PR feature before landing so GitHub owns stack-wide rules, CI, ordering, retargeting, and merge state.

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Dsh Pre Push Checks

Use before pushing, force-pushing, marking ready for review, or claiming checks pass on a deepseek-harness branch, and immediately after gh stack sync publishes rewritten branches, to select the smallest tests and checks that cover the outgoing or just-published diff without reflexively running the full repository suite.

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Dsh Prose Standard

Use when writing, reviewing, restoring, trimming, or auditing prose in the deepseek-harness repo, including deciding where documentation or comments are required across Markdown, JSDoc, code and test comments, prompts, descriptions, diagnostics, and CLI or UI strings.

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Dsh Translate Docs

Manually run the extended DeepSeek Harness bilingual-document workflow, including generated briefings, delegated prose translation, whole-document translation, and scoped pairing verification.

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Dsh Trim Cot Leakage

Use when auditing or fixing prose that reads like a leaked reasoning transcript — dead design-session citations such as (decision N), audit item codes, or §N of uncommitted drafts; change narration such as "used to", "no longer", "this cut"; stack or review vantage ("a later PR in this stack", "rejected in review"); reviewer-addressed justifications; control-flow narration; or hedged planning residue in comments, JSDoc, docs, or Agent Notes.

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Editing Cordis Compositions

Use when creating, changing, or validating a Cordis composition for this harness — writing or editing an agent preset, adding or removing a plugin row, deciding whether something belongs to the host composition or to one session, checking whether a preset you authored actually mounts, or diagnosing a row that mounted but contributed nothing.