Top Agent Skills

Put the user in the hot seat — one question at a time until their plan, decision, or idea actually holds up. Use whenever the user says "hot seat me", "grill me", "stress-test this", "poke holes in this", "am I missing anything", or drops a plan and wants it challenged before anyone acts on it — even if they never say the words. Also used as a sub-procedure by the whiteboard and connotation-cop skills.

Break a stuck or complex problem into the smallest sub-question that, if answered, unlocks the next step — then answer it and repeat until the path forward is clear. Load when a problem feels genuinely stuck, when reasoning keeps circling, or when deep-thinking diagnoses a Socratic frame. Also triggers on "I keep going in circles", "what is the real question here", "help me reason through this step by step", "unstick my thinking", "recursive questioning", "what is the root question". Based on the recursive Socratic questioning method (EMNLP 2023) which outperforms CoT and Tree-of-Thought on complex reasoning tasks.

Orchestrator for the learn-from suite - auto-detects source type (academic paper, GitHub repo, blog/web article, or in-conversation learnings) and routes to the correct sub-skill for credibility check, security scan, insight extraction, and application. Load when the user says "learn from", "learn from this", "extract insights from", "apply learnings from", "what can we learn from", or provides a URL, file path, or pasted content that should be ingested as knowledge. Single entry point for all learning workflows.

Critically audit agent skills and remove content that is outdated, disproven, model-specific, or based on poorly cited sources. Load when improve-skills runs its per-skill cycle, when the user asks to prune skills, remove outdated techniques, check if skills are still valid, verify citations in skills, audit skill sources, or update skills for a new model release. Also triggers on "are these skills still valid", "check for obsolete techniques", "verify skill citations", or "update skills for GPT-5/Claude 4/Gemini 2". Runs before split-skill and compress-skill — removing bad content first means the remaining content is worth preserving.

Audit project and global memory for bloat, stale decisions, duplicates, contradictions, unsafe content, missing provenance, broken routing, and over-budget global files. Load when the user asks to audit memory, clean memory, check memory health, or verify memory quality.

Find the right skill for a capability. Load when a user or skill needs to check if a skill exists for a given task, when process-decomposer assigns skills to steps, or when agent-builder checks skill availability. Triggers on "what skill does this need", "find a skill for", "is there a skill that", "which skill handles", "does a skill exist for", "skill lookup", "check skill library". Prevents skill sprawl by always checking existing skills before creating new ones. The gatekeeper for all skill creation.

Orchestrate one or more thinking frameworks to work through any problem, decision, document, or idea rigorously. Diagnoses which frameworks fit — inversion, pre-mortem, assumption-mapping, socratic, adversarial-hat — then guides the user through them in the right sequence. Load when the user asks for deep thinking, says "help me think through this properly", "apply your best thinking frameworks", "I need to think carefully before deciding", or "what thinking tools should I use here". Also the entry point for any complex problem where the right framework is unclear. Covers product decisions, engineering tradeoffs, personal decisions, strategy, creative challenges — any domain.

Delete, redact, or archive project and global memories when the user says forget this, delete memory, remove that preference, do not remember, redact sensitive information, or retire stale memory.

Match a user request to the right skill using trigger matching, project context, and conversation history. Score ambiguity 1–10 and resolve it using context signals or a single clarifying question. Load when project-orchestrator needs to route a request, or when multiple skills could match and the right one is unclear. Also triggers on "which skill should handle this", "route this request", "I'm not sure which skill to use", "disambiguate this", "skill routing". Called by project-orchestrator for request routing. For finding whether a skill exists for a capability, use skill-finder instead.

Audit, improve, and compress every skill in the repo using live research. Load when the user asks to improve skills, audit the skill library, upgrade existing skills, refresh with new research, do a skill health check, or says "improve all skills", "update the skill library", "skill audit", or "run an improvement pass". Applies live domain research, fixes structural gaps, checks for skill linking opportunities, then rewrites and resizes each skill. Supports TARGETED mode (`TARGET=<skill> [SKIP_RESEARCH=true]`) for single-skill fixes, including learn-from-chat restructure escalations. All skills are in scope including meta skills.

Load bounded working context at the start of a coding session. FIRES ON EVERY FIRST USER MESSAGE in a fresh session, regardless of content — including bare greetings ("hi", "hello", "hey"), task-only openers, or "let's start". Also triggers on: "fresh session", "session start", "first message in a new thread", "new chat", "cold start", "begin work in this repo", "starting work", "continue from prior session", "what were we working on", "resume", "what happened last time", "load memory", "recall context", "create a handoff", "prior session context", "latest handoff", "current state", "decision context". Skip ONLY if the user explicitly says "fresh start" or "ignore prior context". Self no-ops if invoked mid-session when context is already loaded.

Deploy with unified build/test/deploy intent across providers using .agent-loom/deploy.yml and per-provider adapters. Load when the user asks to deploy, ship to preview, release to production, or run a provider-agnostic deploy flow. Also triggers on "deploy anywhere", "deploy to Vercel", "deploy with GitHub Actions", "preview deploy", or "ship this". Runs preflight before any deploy — stops on missing secrets. Pairs with ci-cd-and-automation for pipeline design. Ships vercel and github-actions adapters; extensible adapter interface.

Orchestrator + builder for distinctive, production-grade frontends that don't look AI-generated. Derives stack and design context from product-soul/PRD/specs, then runs the anti-slop chain — explore distinct directions, lock a DESIGN.md system, build from golden examples with mandatory polish + every interactive/empty/loading/error state, then review. Load when the user asks to build a UI, design a frontend, build a landing page or dashboard or web app, beautify or redesign a page, make a UI look premium/playful/editorial, says "build me a frontend", "make this not look AI-generated", "design this interface", "give this real polish", or "frontend design". Routes to design-direction, design-system, design-review.

Extract actionable patterns, architecture decisions, code conventions, and skill-relevant insights from GitHub/GitLab repositories. Assess repo credibility, run the full security scan pipeline, and apply findings to existing skills, new skills, or the current project. Load when the user asks to learn from a repo, extract patterns from a codebase, study a repository, or analyze a repo for reusable techniques. Also triggers on "learn from this repo", "learn from this repository", "what can we learn from this codebase", "extract patterns from this repo", "study this repo".

Run a fast, read-only health check across all skills in the library and produce a structured quality report — without modifying anything. Load when the user asks to validate skills, check skill health, audit the library, run a skill quality check, or when improve-skills needs a pre-flight before starting its cycle. Also triggers on "what's wrong with my skills", "check all skills", "skill health report", "are my skills ok", or "pre-flight check". Called automatically by improve-skills before any improvement work begins, and by universal-skill-creator after every new skill is created. Never modifies any file — only reads and reports.

Build Motion (Framer Motion) React animations — declarative motion components, variants, AnimatePresence, layout transitions, scroll effects, and inline SVG pathLength. Load when the user asks to animate with Motion, Framer Motion, motion.div, AnimatePresence, layout animation, whileInView, or React enter/exit transitions. Also triggers on "framer-motion", "motion/react", "useReducedMotion", or "React animation library". React/Next only — not README embeds or non-React.

Improve agent reliability over time — diagnose why agents fail and fix the setup. Triggers on: agent keeps failing, same mistake again, agent not improving, make agent smarter, agent quality plateau, agents ignore skills, agent skips tests, fix agent behavior, agent unreliable, improve agent setup, self-improving harness, agents worse over time, tune agent instructions, agent going in circles, agent ignores AGENTS.md, repeated agent errors. Requires harness v0 and eval harness. AUTO-ROUTED from harness-engineering on symptoms. Not first setup — harness-generation first.

Turn assumptions, funnel opportunities, and product questions into a prioritised, feasibility-checked experiment backlog. Filters by traffic reality, metric latency, and method feasibility — not just ICE/RICE scoring. Maintains a living portfolio with status (idea → designed → running → readout → archived). Load when the user says "what should we test next", "build an experiment backlog", "prioritise our tests", "where should we experiment", "what's worth testing", or when the experimentation orchestrator routes here.

Extract actionable insights from blog posts, web articles, and practitioner content - assess credibility, run security checks, and either improve existing skills or apply to the current project. Load when the user asks to learn from an article, extract insights from a blog post, apply a practitioner's findings, or process engineering blog content. Also triggers on "learn from this article", "learn from this blog post", "extract insights from this post", "what can we learn from this article", "apply this article", or when the user links to a blog, Medium, Substack, dev.to, or engineering blog post.

Create focused role prompts for agents in multi-agent topologies. Load when agent-builder needs role prompts for agents, or when a user asks to "create an agent prompt", "write a role prompt", "define agent identity", "write an agent role", "prompt for this agent", "write instructions for this agent", "agent persona". Scope: agent role prompts only (v1). System prompts, task prompts, and skill invocation prompts are future TODOs.

Imported skill types from vercel

Imported skill config from vercel

Imported skill pptx from anthropic

Imported skill migrate from vercel

Imported skill agent from langchain

Imported skill state from langchain

Imported skill tsconfig from vercel

Imported skill unpack from anthropic

Imported skill citations from openai

Imported skill analyze from langchain

Imported skill runloop from langchain

Imported skill errors from agentskills

Imported skill jura_ofl from anthropic

Imported skill messages from langchain

Imported skill html2pptx from anthropic

Imported skill thumbnail from anthropic

Imported skill subagents from langchain

Imported skill spec_parsing from openai

Imported skill evaluation from anthropic

Imported skill chat_input from langchain

Generate a pull request title and well-structured markdown summary from the commits on the current branch. Use when the user wants to create or draft a PR description, asks for a PR summary, or says "suggest PR".

Expert knowledge for Azure Maps development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when using map rendering/tiles, search & routing APIs, weather data, Spatial IO, or migrating from Bing/Google Maps, and other Azure Maps related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Search (use azure-cognitive-search), Azure Digital Twins (use azure-digital-twins), Azure IoT (use azure-iot), Azure IoT Hub (use azure-iot-hub).

Expert knowledge for Azure Local development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when planning Azure Local racks, SDN networking, Arc/AKS VMs, Hyper‑V/VMware migrations, or disconnected ops, and other Azure Local related development tasks. Not for Azure Stack Edge (use azure-stack-edge), Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials (use azure-aks-edge-essentials), Microsoft Foundry Local (use microsoft-foundry-local), Azure IoT Edge (use azure-iot-edge).

Expert knowledge for Azure Backup development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when protecting Azure VMs, SQL/SAP HANA, AKS, Files/Blobs, or automating backup via CLI/PowerShell/REST, and other Azure Backup related development tasks. Not for Azure Site Recovery (use azure-site-recovery), Azure Virtual Machines (use azure-virtual-machines), Azure Blob Storage (use azure-blob-storage), Azure Files (use azure-files).

Expert knowledge for Azure Portal development including troubleshooting, security, and configuration. Use when managing portal RBAC sharing, Intune/Entra mobile access, dashboard JSON, portal policies, or HAR diagnostics, and other Azure Portal related development tasks. Not for Azure Cloud Shell (use azure-cloud-shell), Azure Resource Manager (use azure-resource-manager), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Security (use azure-security).

Ensure that C# types are documented with XML comments and follow best practices for documentation.

Expert knowledge for Azure Dev Box development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when designing Dev Box images, catalogs, policies, schedules, RBAC/SSO access, or VS Code dev tunnel workflows, and other Azure Dev Box related development tasks. Not for Azure DevTest Labs (use azure-devtest-labs), Azure Virtual Machines (use azure-virtual-machines), Azure Lab Services (use azure-lab-services), Azure Virtual Desktop (use azure-virtual-desktop).

Best practices and patterns for C# async/await programming including Task and ValueTask usage, CancellationToken propagation, IAsyncDisposable and await using, ConfigureAwait, async streams (IAsyncEnumerable), parallel task execution, and common pitfalls like deadlocks and async void. Use this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring asynchronous C# code — including when the user mentions async methods, Task-returning APIs, cancellation, deadlocks, blocking on async code, or resource disposal in async contexts, even if they do not explicitly say "async best practices."

Expert knowledge for Azure Security development including best practices, decision making, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when securing AKS images, CMK/Key Vault encryption, Notation signing, SBOM workflows, or Customer Lockbox, and other Azure Security related development tasks. Not for Azure Defender For Cloud (use azure-defender-for-cloud), Azure Firewall (use azure-firewall), Azure DDos Protection (use azure-ddos-protection), Azure Web Application Firewall (use azure-web-application-firewall).

Create, update, and manage GitHub issues using MCP tools. Use this skill when users want to create bug reports, feature requests, or task issues, update existing issues, add labels/assignees/milestones, set issue fields (dates, priority, custom fields), set issue types, or manage issue workflows. Triggers on requests like "create an issue", "file a bug", "request a feature", "update issue X", "set the priority", "set the start date", or any GitHub issue management task.

Expert knowledge for Azure Functions development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when building trigger/binding workflows, Durable Functions, containerized apps, Flex/Consumption plans, or CI/CD deploys, and other Azure Functions related development tasks. Not for Azure App Service (use azure-app-service), Azure Logic Apps (use azure-logic-apps), Azure Container Apps (use azure-container-apps), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service).

Expert knowledge for Azure Sre Agent development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when wiring SRE Agent to Azure DevOps/GitHub, Log Analytics/App Insights, AKS Java workloads, or Key Vault, and other Azure Sre Agent related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency), Azure Service Health (use azure-service-health).

Expert knowledge for Azure Api Center development including best practices, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when automating API linting/registration, syncing with API gateways, customizing the portal, or managing API inventory, and other Azure Api Center related development tasks. Not for Azure API Management (use azure-api-management), Azure App Service (use azure-app-service), Azure Functions (use azure-functions).

Expert knowledge for Azure Health Bot development including best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when wiring Health Bot to channels/APIs, configuring scenarios/cards, securing PHI, using orchestrator, or estimating costs, and other Azure Health Bot related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Bot Service (use azure-bot-service), Azure Communication Services (use azure-communication-services), Azure Functions (use azure-functions).

Expert knowledge for Azure Stack Edge development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when deploying IoT Edge modules, Kubernetes/GPU apps, DeepStream pipelines, Arc GitOps, or local ARM workloads, and other Azure Stack Edge related development tasks. Not for Azure Data Box (use azure-data-box-family), Azure IoT Edge (use azure-iot-edge), Azure Local (use azure-local), Azure Virtual Machines (use azure-virtual-machines).

Generate a comprehensive repository summary and narrative story from commit history

Expert knowledge for Azure Cache for Redis development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring geo-replicated caches, Private Link access, persistence, CLI/PowerShell automation, or ARM/Bicep deployments, and other Azure Cache for Redis related development tasks. Not for Azure Managed Redis (use azure-managed-redis), Azure HPC Cache (use azure-hpc-cache), Azure Blob Storage (use azure-blob-storage), Azure Table Storage (use azure-table-storage).

Expert knowledge for Azure NAT Gateway development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and deployment. Use when managing SNAT ports, outbound IPs, NAT Gateway V2 deployments, flow logs, or Azure Firewall integration, and other Azure NAT Gateway related development tasks. Not for Azure Virtual Network (use azure-virtual-network), Azure Virtual Network Manager (use azure-virtual-network-manager), Azure Virtual WAN (use azure-virtual-wan), Azure Load Balancer (use azure-load-balancer).

Expert knowledge for Azure Virtual WAN development including troubleshooting, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when designing Virtual WAN hubs, P2S VPN, hub routing/BGP, NVAs/SD‑WAN, or ExpressRoute/Private Link integration, and other Azure Virtual WAN related development tasks. Not for Azure Virtual Network (use azure-virtual-network), Azure VPN Gateway (use azure-vpn-gateway), Azure ExpressRoute (use azure-expressroute), Azure Traffic Manager (use azure-traffic-manager).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a feature", "create PRD", "interview me about requirements", "define stories", "write a spec", "break down feature into tasks", "create implementation plan", "help me scope this feature", "what questions should I answer", or discusses feature planning. Covers the PRD interview process, spec structure, story atomization, and 4-phase workflow from idea to Dex tasks.