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Design habit-forming product loops using the Hook Model (Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, Investment). Use when the user mentions "users arent coming back", "engagement loops", "habit formation", "push notifications", "variable rewards", "daily active users", "habit zone", or "user retention loops". Also trigger when designing notification strategies, building streaks or progress systems, or analyzing why users stop using a product after initial signup. Covers ethics evaluation and onboarding for habits. For friction reduction and B=MAP, see improve-retention. For viral sharing, see contagious.

UI/UX design intelligence and implementation guidance for building polished interfaces. Use when the user asks for UI design, UX flows, information architecture, visual style direction, design systems/tokens, component specs, copy/microcopy, accessibility, or to generate/critique/refine frontend UI (HTML/CSS/JS, React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Tailwind). Includes workflows for (1) generating new UI layouts and styling, (2) improving existing UI/UX, (3) producing design-system tokens and component guidelines, and (4) turning UX recommendations into concrete code changes.

Establish CSS/Tailwind baseline quality — font smoothing, line-height defaults, box-sizing, focus rings, color contrast, Tailwind anti-patterns, and CSS containment. Use when asked to "set up CSS baseline", "Tailwind best practices", "fix font rendering", "global CSS foundation", "typography defaults", "CSS anti-patterns", "improve CSS quality", "line-height reset", "normalize styles", or reviewing a new project's base styles for correctness. Do NOT use for: full design system token architecture — see design-system-gen. Do NOT use for: component-level animation — see motion-design.

Encodes Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy — UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great. Use as the reference/philosophy layer for interaction craft. For the narrower, task-specific pieces of this same philosophy, see `animate` (build one animation), `review-animations` (review a diff), `improve-animations` (audit a codebase), `find-animation-opportunities` (find what's missing motion), `animation-vocabulary` (name an effect), `apple-design` (gesture/spring physics), `ask-sonner` (the Sonner toast library). Source: github.com/emilkowalski/skills.

Read BEFORE troubleshooting or enhancing camera image quality. Diagnoses and enhances image quality from cameras connected via Image Acquisition Toolbox or USB Webcams support package. Discovers camera capabilities at runtime, analyzes captured images for quality issues (brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise, color balance, backlighting), suggests hardware setting adjustments tailored to the specific camera, and applies Image Processing Toolbox enhancement functions. Use when a user wants to improve camera image quality, troubleshoot dark/blurry/noisy/grainy/ overexposed/washed out/color cast images, or optimize camera settings.

Diagnose and fix retention problems using behavior design (B=MAP). Use when the user mentions "users drop off", "activation rate", "onboarding friction", "retention metrics", "why users dont complete", "churn analysis", "user activation", or "aha moment". Also trigger when analyzing cohort retention curves, designing activation milestones, reducing time-to-value for new users, or investigating why users stop after their first session. Covers the Ability Chain, prompt design, and tiny behaviors that compound. For habit loops and variable rewards, see hooked-ux. For intrinsic motivation, see drive-motivation.

Repair and verify cross-references between SKILL.md files after a skill is created, renamed, removed, or restructured. Ensures every skill that calls another skill references the correct name, and every skill that is called has accurate "Called by" context. Load after universal-skill-creator creates a skill, after improve-skills completes a cycle, after a skill is renamed or removed, or when the user asks to fix cross-references, sync skill links, repair broken skill references, update skill cross-links, check skill references, or "are cross-links correct".

Close the gap between "you corrected me" and "it never happens again." Scan a work session for the corrections you made, the things you approved, and the patterns that held up, then propose specific edits to your skills, playbooks, and docs, high-confidence corrections separated from medium-confidence patterns, with nothing changed until you approve. Trigger on "learn from this session", "what should we update", "turn this into a rule", "close the loop", "improve the playbook", or the end of any session where you corrected or approved the work.

When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them. Use when the user mentions 'cold email,' 'cold outreach,' 'prospecting emails,' 'SDR emails,' 'sales emails,' 'first touch email,' 'follow-up sequence,' or 'email prospecting.' Also use when they share an email draft that sounds too sales-y and needs to be humanized. Distinct from email-sequence (lifecycle/nurture to opted-in subscribers) — this is unsolicited outreach to new prospects. NOT for lifecycle emails, newsletters, or drip campaigns (use email-sequence).

Creates or updates a repo's CLAUDE.md by exploring the code and adding the standard workflow sections (git/PR rules, changes that require human review, non-obvious context). Use whenever the user is starting in a new repo, says "set up the CLAUDE.md", "onboard this repo", "there's no CLAUDE.md here", or asks to complete or improve an existing CLAUDE.md — or in Spanish "armá el CLAUDE.md", "iniciá este repo", "falta el CLAUDE.md acá". Also run it before the first time `plan` runs in a repo that has no CLAUDE.md yet.

Reduce an oversized SKILL.md by checking whether an existing skill already covers the excess sub-workflow before creating a new child skill only when none fits. Load when a skill exceeds 200 lines and compress-skill determines excess content is genuinely CORE, when the same sub-workflow appears in multiple skills, or when universal-skill-creator or improve-skills identifies a coherent sub-capability. Also triggers on "split this skill", "extract a sub-skill", "this skill is doing too much", or "make this skill reusable". Always checks for an existing home before creating a new skill.

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.

Expert prompt optimization system for the prompts INSIDE an AI product you are building — system prompts, LLM feature prompts, chatbot/agent instructions. Use when the user wants to write or improve a system prompt for an AI feature they're shipping, review/critique an LLM prompt, apply prompt-engineering techniques (chain-of-thought, few-shot, structured output, hard constraints) to a product prompt, or optimize cost/latency of a production prompt. Do NOT use this to clarify or structure the user's own vague request to Claude Code — that is `prompt-clarifier`'s job, not this skill's.

Automatically maintain skill library consistency whenever a structural change occurs — new skill added, skill renamed, skill deprecated, call graph rewired, or category changed. Updates SKILL-INDEX.md, AGENTS.md, README.md, skill graph, docs/prd/PRD.md, and docs/architecture.md. Load when universal-skill-creator finishes creating a skill, split-skill extracts a child, deprecate-skill retires a skill, improve-skills makes a structural change, or the user manually renames or restructures skills. Also triggers on "update the skill index", "sync skill references", "refresh the skill graph", "fix broken skill cross-references", or "update docs after skill change".

When the user wants to set up, improve, or audit analytics tracking and measurement. Also use when the user mentions "set up tracking," "GA4," "Google Analytics," "conversion tracking," "event tracking," "UTM parameters," "tag manager," "GTM," "analytics implementation," "tracking plan," "how do I measure this," "track conversions," "Mixpanel," "Segment," "are my events firing," or "analytics isn't working." Use this whenever someone asks how to know if something is working or wants to measure marketing results. For choosing attribution models, comparing multi-touch/MMM/incrementality, or reconciling conflicting numbers across tools, see attribution. For A/B test measurement, see ab-testing.

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.

Score, evaluate, and iteratively improve any content or strategy using an auto-assembled panel of domain experts. Handles copy, sequences, landing pages, strategy docs, titles, charts, recruiting evaluations, or anything else that needs a quality gate. Recursively iterates until all scores hit 90+ (max 3 rounds). Use when asked to: "expert panel this", "score this", "rate these variants", "quality check this", "panel review", "which version is better", "expert score", "evaluate this copy/strategy/page", or when another skill needs a quality gate on its output. Also triggers on: "score this landing page", "expert panel these email variants", "rate this headline", "panel these charts".

Create distinctive, production-ready frontend interfaces with high visual quality. Use this skill whenever the user asks to build, design, or improve any web UI — including landing pages, dashboards, components, app screens, forms, or interactive widgets. Also trigger when the user says "make this look better", "redesign this", "add polish", "build a UI", "create a page", "style this", or references HTML/CSS/JS, React, Vue, Svelte, or any frontend framework. If the request involves any visible output rendered in a browser, use this skill — even if the user hasn't explicitly said "design." This skill produces intentional, memorable interfaces that avoid generic AI patterns.

Analyze raw prompts, identify intent and gaps, match ECC components (skills/commands/agents/hooks), and output a ready-to-paste optimized prompt. Advisory role only — never executes the task itself. TRIGGER when: user says "optimize prompt", "improve my prompt", "how to write a prompt for", "help me prompt", "rewrite this prompt", or explicitly asks to enhance prompt quality. Also triggers on Chinese equivalents: "优化prompt", "改进prompt", "怎么写prompt", "帮我优化这个指令". DO NOT TRIGGER when: user wants the task executed directly, or says "just do it" / "直接做". DO NOT TRIGGER when user says "优化代码", "优化性能", "optimize performance", "optimize this code" — those are refactoring/performance tasks, not prompt optimization.

Gracefully retire a skill that is redundant, superseded, or no longer earning its place in the context window. Load when improve-skills finds a skill scoring 0-5/14 AND research confirms the domain is now handled natively by current models, when two skills have overlapping triggers and one subsumes the other, when the user asks to remove a skill, retire a skill, delete a skill, or clean up redundant skills, or when validate-skills flags a skill as a duplicate trigger risk. Handles removal cleanly: updates all callers, removes from AGENTS.md, updates README, and archives rather than deletes so the skill can be recovered if needed.

UI/UX design intelligence. 50 styles, 21 palettes, 50 font pairings, 20 charts, 9 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, mobile app, .html, .tsx, .vue, .svelte. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, flat design. Topics: color palette, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, hover, shadow, gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.

UI/UX design intelligence. 50 styles, 21 palettes, 50 font pairings, 20 charts, 9 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, mobile app, .html, .tsx, .vue, .svelte. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, flat design. Topics: color palette, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, hover, shadow, gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.

UI/UX design intelligence. 50 styles, 21 palettes, 50 font pairings, 20 charts, 9 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, mobile app, .html, .tsx, .vue, .svelte. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, flat design. Topics: color palette, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, hover, shadow, gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.

UI/UX design intelligence. 50 styles, 21 palettes, 50 font pairings, 20 charts, 9 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, mobile app, .html, .tsx, .vue, .svelte. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, flat design. Topics: color palette, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, hover, shadow, gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.

Sharpens and stress-tests an existing plan file through multiple codebase-grounded review passes, editing it in place and recording every finding and iteration in cross-referenced companion files. Use this skill whenever the user wants to iterate on, refine, tighten, or improve a plan. Also use it when the user asks to verify, validate, or confirm feasibility of an approach. Does not implement plan steps, write test plans, review code, or investigate bugs, and does not generate new plans from scratch — use plan-a-feature for a new plan. Runs its review rounds to completion without pausing between them; to review each round as it lands, use pairing.

Analyze and optimize X (Twitter) posts for viral potential and reach using heuristics inspired by X's published open-source recommendation architecture. Use when user wants to: (1) Check if a post will go viral, (2) Score a tweet for engagement potential, (3) Optimize or rewrite a tweet for algorithmic reach, (4) Understand why a tweet underperformed, (5) Build audience in a specific niche. Triggers: "Check if this will go viral", "Make this post buzz", "Will this tweet perform well?", "Optimize my tweet", "How can I make this viral?", "rewrite this tweet", "improve my tweet engagement", "twitter algorithm", "tweet reach", "debug underperforming tweet", "バズるかチェックして", "Xでバズる投稿にして", "伸びるかチェックして", "この投稿を伸ばして", "投稿を改善して", "ツイートを最適化して"

When the user wants to conduct, analyze, or synthesize customer research. Use when the user mentions "customer research," "ICP research," "talk to customers," "analyze transcripts," "customer interviews," "survey analysis," "support ticket analysis," "voice of customer," "VOC," "build personas," "customer personas," "jobs to be done," "JTBD," "what do customers say," "what are customers struggling with," "Reddit mining," "G2 reviews," "review mining," "digital watering holes," "community research," "forum research," "competitor reviews," "customer sentiment," or "find out why customers churn/convert/buy." Use for both analyzing existing research assets AND gathering new research from online sources. For writing copy informed by research, see copywriting. For acting on research to improve pages, see cro.

Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to improve prose quality, tighten writing, reduce clutter, or apply Zinsser's writing principles to a draft. For grammar and punctuation, use the proofread skill. For APSA style rules, use the apsa-style skill. Supports an optional output-file argument and an optional @sec-label argument to restrict checking to one section.

Set up worker environment and per-worker state for parallel pools. Use when code needs paths, environment variables, database connections, loaded libraries, or expensive objects available on workers before parfor/parfeval runs. Teaches parallel.pool.Constant, parfevalOnAll, and parpool name-value pairs. Also use when refactoring existing code that uses spmd for side-effect setup (an anti-pattern). Triggers: worker setup, pool constant, per-worker state, non-serializable, loadlibrary on workers, database connection parfor, addpath workers, spmd before parfor, worker environment, reduce parfor overhead, parfor setup, resource creation in parallel loop, cannot serialize error, undefined function or variable on workers error, load data per worker, reduce data transfer, parallelize setup, improve parallel code.

Use when the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, clarify, distill, harden, optimize, adapt, animate, colorize, extract, or otherwise improve a frontend interface. Covers websites, landing pages, dashboards, product UI, app shells, components, forms, settings, onboarding, and empty states. Handles UX review, visual hierarchy, information architecture, cognitive load, accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, theming, anti-patterns, typography, fonts, spacing, layout, alignment, color, motion, micro-interactions, UX copy, error states, edge cases, i18n, and reusable design systems or tokens. Also use for bland designs that need to become bolder or more delightful, loud designs that should become quieter, live browser iteration on UI elements, or ambitious visual effects that should feel technically extraordinary. Not for backend-only or non-UI tasks.

Use when the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, clarify, distill, harden, optimize, adapt, animate, colorize, extract, or otherwise improve a frontend interface. Covers websites, landing pages, dashboards, product UI, app shells, components, forms, settings, onboarding, and empty states. Handles UX review, visual hierarchy, information architecture, cognitive load, accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, theming, anti-patterns, typography, fonts, spacing, layout, alignment, color, motion, micro-interactions, UX copy, error states, edge cases, i18n, and reusable design systems or tokens. Also use for bland designs that need to become bolder or more delightful, loud designs that should become quieter, live browser iteration on UI elements, or ambitious visual effects that should feel technically extraordinary. Not for backend-only or non-UI tasks.

Use when the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, clarify, distill, harden, optimize, adapt, animate, colorize, extract, or otherwise improve a frontend interface. Covers websites, landing pages, dashboards, product UI, app shells, components, forms, settings, onboarding, and empty states. Handles UX review, visual hierarchy, information architecture, cognitive load, accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, theming, anti-patterns, typography, fonts, spacing, layout, alignment, color, motion, micro-interactions, UX copy, error states, edge cases, i18n, and reusable design systems or tokens. Also use for bland designs that need to become bolder or more delightful, loud designs that should become quieter, live browser iteration on UI elements, or ambitious visual effects that should feel technically extraordinary. Not for backend-only or non-UI tasks.

Use when the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, clarify, distill, harden, optimize, adapt, animate, colorize, extract, or otherwise improve a frontend interface. Covers websites, landing pages, dashboards, product UI, app shells, components, forms, settings, onboarding, and empty states. Handles UX review, visual hierarchy, information architecture, cognitive load, accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, theming, anti-patterns, typography, fonts, spacing, layout, alignment, color, motion, micro-interactions, UX copy, error states, edge cases, i18n, and reusable design systems or tokens. Also use for bland designs that need to become bolder or more delightful, loud designs that should become quieter, live browser iteration on UI elements, or ambitious visual effects that should feel technically extraordinary. Not for backend-only or non-UI tasks.

Expert YouTube scriptwriting skill for creators who want to write videos that hold attention, deliver value, and grow a channel. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write or improve a YouTube video script, craft a stronger hook or intro, structure a video idea, write a YouTube title or description, or plan a video outline. Triggers: "write a YouTube script", "help me script my video", "I'm making a video about", "write an intro for my video", "help me with my hook", "write a YouTube description", "how should I structure this video", "make my script more engaging", or any request related to YouTube video content. Do NOT limit to obvious script requests — if the user has a topic or idea and mentions YouTube, use this skill.

UI/UX design intelligence for web and mobile. Includes 50+ styles, 161 color palettes, 57 font pairings, 161 product types, 99 UX guidelines, and 25 chart types across 10 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, and HTML/CSS). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, and check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, and mobile app. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, and chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, and flat design. Topics: color systems, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, interaction states, shadow, and gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.

Use BEFORE generating, refactoring, reviewing, or debugging code. Trigger phrases include "write a function/script/class for X", "review this code/diff/PR", "refactor this", "debug this error", "is this implementation correct", "what's wrong with this code", "improve this code", "translate from X to Y", or any prompt with a code block the user wants you to act on. Also fires when planning architectural changes, picking algorithms or data structures, or evaluating dependency upgrades. Calls the code MCP tool to retrieve an engineering scaffold (failure pattern, procedure, correct-pattern example, verification step) before generating. Catches hallucinated APIs, lost edge cases, premature algorithm commitment, silent contract violations, refactors that change behavior masked by passing tests. Do NOT trigger for pure code reading with no action requested, simple syntax questions, file...