Top Agent Skills

Apply operations across multiple files simultaneously. Pattern-based bulk modifications, search-and-replace across codebases, consistent changes to many files at once.

AI operational modes (brainstorm, implement, debug, review, teach, ship, orchestrate). Use to adapt behavior based on task type.

Advanced multi-agent orchestration with parallel workers, synthesis protocols, and coordinator lifecycle. Use when complex tasks require multiple agents working in parallel with intelligent result synthesis.

Red team tactics principles based on MITRE ATT&CK. Attack phases, detection evasion, reporting.

Server management principles and decision-making. Process management, monitoring strategy, and scaling decisions. Teaches thinking, not commands.

Tailwind CSS v4 principles. CSS-first configuration, container queries, modern patterns, design token architecture.

4-phase systematic debugging methodology with root cause analysis and evidence-based verification. Use when debugging complex issues.

Node.js development principles and decision-making. Framework selection, async patterns, security, and architecture. Teaches thinking, not copying.

VR/AR development principles. Comfort, interaction, performance requirements.

Documentation templates and structure guidelines. README, API docs, code comments, and AI-friendly documentation.

2D game development principles. Sprites, tilemaps, physics, camera.

Web browser game development principles. Framework selection, WebGPU, optimization, PWA.

Game audio principles. Sound design, music integration, adaptive audio systems.

Mobile game development principles. Touch input, battery, performance, app stores.

Use when triaging a study before any writing — stress-tests whether it clears Cell's bar (a complete, mechanistic, hypothesis-driven story with multiple converging lines of evidence) or belongs at a sibling. Use this first to decide Cell vs Molecular Cell vs Cell Reports vs Cell Reports Medicine before investing in framing or figures.

Use this first, before any writing, to stress-test whether a clinical study clears NEJM's bar — practice-changing clinical impact, methodological rigor, and generalizability. Decides NEJM vs Lancet/JAMA vs a specialty journal.

Use to build PNAS's Data Availability Statement and deposition plan — mandatory deposition of data in an approved repository at submission, accession numbers/DOIs, public + archived code, and materials sharing. "Available on request" is not sufficient for primary data.

Use to choose the PNAS submission track — Direct Submission (standard, editor-assigned, peer reviewed) vs Contributed Submission (an NAS member communicates their own paper). Covers eligibility, the editor/member role, the discontinued and legacy tracks, and how to pick. Unique to PNAS.

Use before any writing to stress-test whether a result clears Science's (AAAS) desk-reject filter — broad significance and general interest across disciplines. Decides Science vs Science Advances vs a specialist journal before you invest in prose.

Use when planning a CAV (Computer Aided Verification) project timeline from venue and category selection through submission, the two-stage review with early reject and rebuttal, artifact evaluation by the AEC, and the LNCS open-access camera-ready, with backward-planning offsets for a verification-tool paper and honest handling of the single-annual-deadline cycle.

Use when planning an ACM CHI submission cycle end to end — the single September deadline, two-round review with a five-week revise-and-resubmit window, December decisions, the TAPS and publication-ready chain, and the May conference — with owners and risk buffers for each stage.

Use to plan an ACM/IEEE HRI campaign backward from the full-paper deadline through the abstract-then-paper two-step, the rebuttal, the program-committee meeting, camera-ready, and the March conference, coordinating the parallel alt.HRI, Late-Breaking Reports, video, and Student Design deadlines.

Use when planning an ACM IMC campaign end to end, covering the choice between the two annual deadlines, backward planning from the target cutoff, the registration step, the One-Shot-Revision path across deadlines, availability shepherding, the camera-ready and dataset release, and the Replicability Track calendar.

Use when planning a KDD project calendar across the venue's two submission cycles per year, including cycle choice, abstract-then-paper deadline pairs a week apart, rebuttal capacity planning, the Resubmit-to-next-cycle loop, ADS evidence lead times, and ACM e-rights/TAPS camera-ready scheduling for SIGKDD.

Use to build Science's data, code, and materials availability — mandatory deposition in approved repositories, accession numbers, a compliant data-availability statement, and materials/reagent sharing.

Use when planning a UAI cycle end to end, from venue-fit confirmation through the winter submission deadline, the spring review and author-response phases, the June decision, the July PMLR camera-ready, and the August conference, as one backward-planned calendar with named owners for anonymity, evidence, and packaging tasks.

Use when planning an IEEE VIS project timeline from area fit through the abstract and full-paper deadlines, the two-phase review, the conditional-accept second round, the IEEE TVCG camera-ready, the Graphics Replicability Stamp, and presentation, with backward-planning offsets for a visualization paper and honest handling of the annual cycle and the second-round revision window.

Use to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable by a general life-scientist. Late-stage polish.

Use to structure a Cell Article and hold its length — Summary, Introduction, Results, Discussion, STAR Methods, figure legends, references — with main-text length and display-item budgets, and Results subheadings driving the single arc.

Use when scoping a project and before any writing, to stress-test whether a study clears The Lancet's bar — clinically or public-health important, globally relevant, and likely to change practice or policy, often with an equity lens. Decides The Lancet vs a Lancet family title vs another general medical journal.

Use to structure a PNAS main text and hold its length — Title, Significance Statement, Abstract, Introduction, Results, Discussion, in-text Materials and Methods, references — and to choose the required Classification (Biological/Physical/Social Sciences + minor subject) and keywords at submission.

Use when planning an AAAI project timeline from topic selection through abstract, OpenReview submission, two-phase review, rebuttal, decision, camera-ready, registration, presentation, and public artifact release.

Use when auditing an ACL submission before an ACL Rolling Review cycle deadline, covering long/short paper page budgets, the mandatory Limitations section, Responsible NLP checklist, anonymized PDFs and supplements, preprint declarations, dual-submission rules, resubmission linking, and ARR desk-reject triggers on OpenReview.

Use when auditing a CAV (Computer Aided Verification) submission for portal readiness, covering the four submission categories (Regular / Short Tool / Short Application / Industrial Experience & Case Studies), the LNCS page limits, the per-category anonymization matrix, the artifact-intent declaration, and desk-reject triage before the AoE paper deadline.

Use to convert references to Cell Press author–date style — in-text "(Smith et al., 2021)", an alphabetical reference list by first author with full author lists, journal names spelled out. This is the OPPOSITE of Science's numbered-by-appearance style.

Use after Cell reviews arrive to triage the decision, prioritize the (often substantial) new experiments by impact × feasibility, and draft a point-by-point response that is respectful, evidence-led, and closes the "completeness" gaps reviewers demand. Do not run before the experiments and revision are actually done.

Use when planning a CIKM project calendar across the May abstract/paper gates, June short-track gates, August notification and camera-ready, and the November conference, including the post-submission phase now live in the 2026 cycle, multi-track coordination, and fallback planning toward CIKM 2027 or sibling venues.

Use when planning a COLM submission campaign across the calendar — working backward from the late-March abstract and paper deadlines through the May-June rebuttal, July decisions, August camera-ready, and October conference, coordinating co-authors, compute, and reciprocal-reviewing duties, and slotting COLM into a multi-venue LM-research pipeline.

Use when planning a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) submission calendar backward from the single AoE paper deadline — proof-completion and verification milestones, writing and appendix-assembly passes, CMT logistics, the rebuttal window, decision aftermath, and PMLR camera-ready with conference presentation in early summer.

Use when planning a CVPR submission campaign end to end, covering the November abstract/paper/supplement deadline chain, coauthor reviewer-duty scheduling, the January rebuttal sprint, February decisions, camera-ready and June conference logistics, and the resubmission ladder across ICCV, ECCV, and the next CVPR.

Use when auditing an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research-Manuscript submission for Softconf readiness, covering the two-stage abstract-then-manuscript deadline, the 6+1-page ACM double-column page budget with its references-only last page, the double-blind anonymization sweep, TPC conflict-of-interest declaration, and desk-reject triage before the mid-to-late-November cutoff.

Use when planning an EACL project timeline through ACL Rolling Review, covering the single viable ARR cycle with no fallback, backward planning from the one deadline, the rebuttal window, the commitment decision to EACL, notification, and camera-ready through ACL Anthology publication, plus re-routing since the next chance is another conference.

Use when planning an EDBT project timeline across the multiple-cycle rolling model — choosing a submission cycle, backward-planning through the author-feedback phase and the in-cycle revise-and-resubmit window, and handling the cycle-to-conference roll — for a database-systems paper published open access on OpenProceedings.

Use when planning a USENIX FAST project timeline from venue fit through choosing a Spring or Fall deadline, double-blind submission, the author-response period, shepherding or a one-shot revision, artifact evaluation, and the open-access camera-ready, with backward-planning offsets tuned to storage evaluation and honest handling of the two-deadline cycle.

Use when planning a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) cycle end to end — working backward from the April 1 deadline, managing the live post-submission summer of the 2026 cycle, coordinating with the STOC beat, preparing the November conference, and scheduling a FOCS 2027 attempt.

Use when auditing an ACM/IEEE HRI full-paper submission for PCS readiness — the mandatory abstract-then-paper two-step deadline, choosing the correct one of the five tracks, the 8-page acmart anonymous format, the double-blind sweep across PDF and video, the human-participants ethics acknowledgment, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

Use when project-managing an ICCV campaign across the odd-year cycle, covering the autumn fork between CVPR and ICCV, the early-March registration and single submission deadline, May rebuttal week, late-June decisions, the October conference with international travel and visa lead times, and the ECCV/CVPR fallback ladder if the paper misses.

Use when planning an IEEE ICDE project timeline around the two-round-per-edition calendar, choosing between the June and November research deadlines, budgeting for a possible revise-and-resubmit window, and backward-planning a data-engineering systems paper from CMT submission through review, camera-ready, and IEEE Xplore publication.

Use when planning an ICLR project timeline from topic selection through OpenReview submission, discussion, revision, decision, camera-ready, poster, video, and public artifact release. Use when sequencing milestones against the current cycle's OpenReview deadlines, budgeting time for the long public discussion phase, or assigning owners for anonymity audits and reviewer-verifiable evidence paths.

Use when planning or sequencing an ICML manuscript workflow end to end - from topic selection and drafting through OpenReview submission, double-blind review, author response, camera-ready, PMLR publication, public original-submission release, and rerouting decisions. Use when you need the next ICML skill, the official page to reopen, or the blocking gap for the current stage.

Use when planning an ICRA submission calendar end to end — the September paper deadline, the two video-attachment windows, winter review silence, late-January notification, March camera-ready, and the May/June conference — or when interleaving a fallback RA-L or IROS plan around the single annual ICRA shot.

Use when planning an IPSN-lineage project timeline from track/venue selection through the CPS-IoT Week deadline, double-blind submission, deployment and hardware logistics, rebuttal, the Best Research Artifact Award, and the dual ACM/IEEE camera-ready — with honest handling of the fact that IPSN merged into SenSys.

Use when planning an IROS project timeline from venue fit through the spring paper deadline, the separate video deadline, the summer review silence, the June notification, the July camera-ready, IEEE Xplore publication, registration, and presentation, with backward-planning offsets for a real-robot paper on the fall IEEE/RSJ calendar.

Use when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing the winter two-round review wait, preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window, and branching to camera-ready, artifacts, and the June conference.

Use as the entry point for any Mind (philosophy journal) article. Routes to the right Mind sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and whether the piece is an article, discussion note, book review, or critical notice. Mind is analytic philosophy — argument, not data — so the router's first job is to confirm there is a sharp thesis and a sound argument. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Use when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification, camera-ready, and the Seoul symposium, and placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year.

Use after NEJM reviews arrive — often including a dedicated statistical reviewer and an editor letter — to triage the decision, answer statistical comments rigorously, and draft a point-by-point response that quotes each comment, the response, and the revised manuscript text. Do not run before the main text is actually revised.

Use when deciding which nejm-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a clinical manuscript from significance test through response to reviewers for The New England Journal of Medicine. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Use as the entry point for any PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) manuscript. Routes to the right PMLA sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and which venue fits — a regular blind-reviewed article or a special feature (Theories and Methodologies, The Changing Profession, Criticism in Translation, Little-known Documents). It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Use to convert references to PNAS's numbered citation style — cited in order of appearance, a numbered reference list, full author lists, abbreviated journal titles. Provides formats for article/book/chapter/dataset/preprint and an author-date → PNAS conversion table. Late-stage style pass.