Joelclaw

Design and review system prompts for any joelclaw agent surface (gateway, codex workers, content review, loops, etc.). Codifies the canonical principles that every system prompt must follow. Use when writing new system prompts, reviewing existing ones, or when any agent needs to generate instructions for another agent. Triggers on: 'write a system prompt', 'review this prompt', 'agent instructions', 'prompt design', 'system prompt', or when building prompts for content review, gateway, codex delegation, or any LLM-driven pipeline.

Publish static files, directories, or quick review pages to wzrrd.sh. Use when the user asks for a wzrrd link/share link/review link, or wants to share plans, work, demos, receipts, docs, diagrams, or static artifacts at https://<slug>.wzrrd.sh/.

Export Google Docs as clean markdown via native URL parameter. No auth needed for public docs. Use when fetching Google Doc content for vault ingestion, runbook building, or any doc-to-markdown pipeline.

Diagnose and fix stalled agent loops using the joelclaw CLI. Use when loops appear stuck, stories aren't progressing, or the event chain broke. Triggers on "loop stalled", "why isn't the loop progressing", "diagnose loops", "fix stuck loop", "loop not moving", "what happened to the loop", "stories stuck at pending", or any request to debug loop infrastructure.

Build and update person dossiers from communication history. Use when a person is discussed for strategy, follow-up, opportunities, relationship context, or decisions. Use relevant authorized evidence from Front email, Granola summaries, scoped memory, and event metadata; then write/update a structured dossier in Vault/Resources/.

Build full-stack React apps with TanStack Start — server functions, type-safe routing, loaders, middleware, SSR/streaming, and deployment patterns. Use when working on TanStack Start apps, server functions, TanStack Router, or any gremlin-cms development.

Optimize websites, docs, and product surfaces for agent discoverability and operator UX. Use when working on agent SEO/AEO/GEO, crawl policy, markdown or JSON projections, llms.txt, sitemap.md, AGENTS.md guidance, content negotiation, accessibility for browser agents, or any request to make a site easier for pi, OpenCode, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or other agent harnesses to find and use.

Compatibility alias for the canonical `workflow-rig` front door. Use when older prompts mention `agent-workloads` or when you need the legacy workload-planning guidance; for new work, load `workflow-rig` first.

Use this skill for any request to trigger, coordinate, or craft prompts for Codex. Use when user says 'send to codex', 'use codex', 'prompt codex', 'ask codex', 'delegate to codex', 'run in codex', or asks for a Codex-first execution handoff.

Publish content to joelclaw.com via the Convex-first pipeline. Covers the full lifecycle: draft → review → publish → revalidate → verify. Handles secret leasing, tag conventions, content types (article, tutorial, note, essay), and verification gates. Use when: 'write article about X', 'publish article <slug>', 'draft a tutorial', 'publish this', 'push to convex', or any content publishing task.

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, captures long-form rationale, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs, skills, TA notes) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, explain why a tool/guardrail was chosen, build teacher-assistant material, or align work with their project's language and documented decisions.

Monitor ADR-0217 real workloads across Redis queue, Restate, Dkron, and transitional Inngest using joelclaw CLI plus the pi TUI monitor extension. Use when asked to monitor jobs, watch runtime health, keep an eye on async work, run a workload dashboard, or report back on system state. Always pair with `pi-tui-design` for TUI work and `system-architecture` for topology truth.

Deploy the system-bus-worker to the joelclaw Kubernetes cluster from local machine. Use when syncing changes in packages/system-bus to k8s, especially because the GitHub Actions deploy job targets a non-existent self-hosted runner and cannot complete deploys automatically.

Manage Joel's task system in Todoist. Triggers on: 'add a task', 'create a todo', 'what's on my list', 'today's tasks', 'what do I need to do', 'remind me to', 'inbox', 'complete', 'mark done', 'weekly review', 'groom tasks', 'what's next', or when actionable items emerge from other work. Also triggers when Joel mentions something he needs to do in passing — capture it.

Turn ephemeral discussion into durable truth in the right artifact. Use when Joel says "capture this", "note this", "write this down", "make this durable", "put this in the doc", or whenever a conversation conclusion should be preserved in project docs, launch plans, lat.md, ADRs, tasks, or memory.

Ingest PDF/Markdown/TXT files into joelclaw's docs memory pipeline with Inngest durability, durable NAS artifacts, and OTEL verification. Use when adding docs, running batch reindex, reconciling coverage, or recovering stuck runs. Triggers on: 'ingest pdf', 'ingest markdown', 'docs add', 'pdf-brain ingest', 'backfill books', 'docs reconcile', 'reindex docs', 'batch reindex'.

Compatibility alias for substrate-specific ADR-0217 runtime bridge work. For new work, load `workflow-rig` first; use this skill only when the task is explicitly about external-repo bridging, queue-family contracts, or low-level runtime submission mechanics.

Contribute fixes, bug reports, and upstream discussions to badlogic/pi-mono without wasting maintainer time. Use when filing pi issues, preparing pi PRs, debugging whether a bug belongs upstream, or responding to maintainer pushback. Triggers on: 'contribute to pi', 'pi-mono issue', 'upstream pi fix', 'open a pi issue', 'why did Mario reject this', or any work in ~/Code/badlogic/pi-mono meant for upstream.

Create and use Inngest middleware for cross-cutting concerns. Covers the middleware lifecycle, creating custom middleware, dependency injection with dependencyInjectionMiddleware, encryption via @inngest/middleware-encryption, Sentry error tracking via @inngest/middleware-sentry, and custom middleware patterns.

Run, monitor, cancel, and resume the durable media transcription pipeline (media-transcription-pipeline-v2) for raw meeting media on /Volumes/badass-media. Use when the user asks to transcribe a meeting or media file from the NAS, check transcription progress, cancel a transcription, resume a failed/partial run, or debug ASR/diarization actors. Flagg-host-only execution.

Canonical joelclaw topology, Central/Relay vocabulary, and wiring map. Use when reasoning about architecture, Panda/Flagg Central migration, satellites, run capture, tracing event flow, debugging why something ran/didn't run, identifying which worker executes a function, checking what listens on a port, or following an event end-to-end.

Static-first Next.js 16 architecture patterns: cached shells with dynamic slots, provider islands, 'use cache' boundaries, and link preloading strategy. Use when building or refactoring Next.js routes to maximize static rendering, implementing 'use cache' with dynamic personalization, splitting entry vs static renderers, scoping client providers, or tuning prefetch behavior. Triggers on 'static shell', 'use cache pattern', 'dynamic slots', 'provider island', 'prefetch strategy', 'static first', 'cache boundary', 'route goes dynamic unexpectedly', or any Next.js architecture work involving mixed static/dynamic rendering.

Scan recent agent sessions for repeated friction, corrections, approvals, workflow patterns, and packaging candidates. Use when asked to find signals, friction, recurring manual workflows, missing skills, prompt improvements, or automation opportunities from recent Codex/Pi work.

Run comprehensive joelclaw health checks, including postboot/daily checks for NAS, MinIO, Convex, Postgres, Typesense, Inngest, Panda/Flagg authority split, k8s, worker, Redis, OTEL, tests, repo sync, memory pipeline, and disk. Use when: 'system health', 'postboot check', 'daily system check', 'health check', 'is everything working', 'system status', 'how's the system', 'check everything', or at session start to orient.

Build, debug, and maintain Pi extensions safely. Use when editing ~/.pi/agent/extensions, joelclaw/pi/extensions, pi-tools extensions, or any code that uses the Pi ExtensionAPI, hooks, tools, commands, widgets, session replacement, reload, custom messages, or extension package updates.

Create and configure Inngest durable functions. Covers triggers (events, cron, invoke), step execution and memoization, idempotency, cancellation, error handling, retries, logging, and observability.

Verify, repair, backfill, and back up Pi/Claude/Codex session capture across Flagg, Blaine, and Panda. Use when checking whether agent activity is captured, clearing joelclaw outbox backlogs, backing transcripts up to three-body NAS, or scheduling capture verification.