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Building Agents · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or restructuring an LLM agent — provider adapter, tool calling, structured output, RAG, agent loop, eval gate, cost routing, tracing, MCP server — model-agnostic across OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/OSS so a model swap is a config change. NOT vector-store SQL alone (that is `postgresdb`) or service deployment (that is `deployment`).

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Email Connector · ericrisco bundle
Use when wiring server code to send transactional or bulk email via Resend, SendGrid, or Postmark: a provider-agnostic sendEmail() seam, idempotent retries, 100-cap batches with partial failures, transactional-vs-broadcast streams, bounce webhooks feeding a suppression list. NOT SPF/DKIM/DMARC inbox reputation (that is `email-deliverability`).

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Financial Model · ericrisco bundle
Use when a founder needs the driver-based 18–36 month projection: revenue, cost and headcount builds resolving to net burn, runway, cash-out date, scenarios and the raise size. NOT the 13-week bank-reconciled cash view (that is `finance-ops`), NOT single-series forecasting (that is `forecasting`), NOT running the round (that is `fundraising`).

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Gamedev Pathing · ericrisco bundle
Use when making NPCs, enemies, or units navigate a level — grid vs waypoint vs navmesh, A*/JPS, navmesh baking and agent radius, off-mesh links, steering, RVO crowd avoidance, and flow fields in Godot 4.x, Unity, Unreal. NOT collision response or character controllers (that is gamedev-physics), NOT aggro or difficulty design (that is game-design).

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Gamedev Physics · ericrisco bundle
Use when working with a game engine's physics — rigid bodies, colliders, collision layers and masks, character controllers, joints, forces versus impulses, raycasts and shapecasts, or when a simulation is unstable (tunnelling, jitter, missed overlaps). Covers the Godot, Unity and Unreal equivalents. NOT rendering or shader-driven visual jitter (that is `gamedev-shaders`), NOT navigation, pathfinding or navmesh (that is `gamedev-pathing`).

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Gamedev Shaders · ericrisco bundle
Use when authoring or debugging a shader, material, VFX, or full-screen post-process in a game engine — Godot 4.x `.gdshader`, Unity 6 URP/HDRP, Unreal 5.x Materials, effect recipes, shader performance. NOT gameplay or engine-API code (that is `godot`/`unity`/`unreal`), NOT physics (`gamedev-physics`), NOT build variant stripping (`gamedev-shipping`).

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Idea Refinement · ericrisco bundle
Use when a rough product, service, workflow or feature idea needs divergent options and assumption pressure-testing before it becomes a spec. Produces a decision brief with alternatives, evidence gaps, Not Now and a cheap experiment. NOT requirements or acceptance criteria (`specify`), NOT market sizing (`market-research`).

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Market Research · ericrisco bundle
Use when a MARKET as a whole needs a defensible picture — TAM/SAM/SOM sized top-down AND bottom-up until the two converge, cut into reachable segments with one named beachhead, demand proven real, and a dated source behind every figure. NOT profiling named rivals and their moves (that is `competitor-watch`), NOT building a list of accounts to sell to (that is `lead-gen`).

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Medium Strategy · ericrisco bundle
Use when planning Medium as a growth and revenue system over months rather than one post — the Partner Program, solo profile versus starting or pitching a publication, engineering for Boost and the distribution tiers, tag and topic choices for reach, and a canonical cross-posting plan, read from and written back to the wiki so each session compounds. NOT writing the article's hook, structure or prose (that is `medium-writing`), NOT the mechanical format-and-submit step (that is `medium-publishing`).

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Spreadsheet Ops · ericrisco bundle
Use when working a spreadsheet programmatically — writing or repairing a formula, generating an .xlsx with Python including charts and conditional formats, driving Google Sheets from a script, building a read-transform-write pipeline, or writing an in-sheet macro or trigger. Covers formula errors, Sheets API quota, service-account permissions, and formulas that read back blank. NOT pure dedupe or normalisation with no sheet output (that is `data-cleaning`), NOT scraping a web table into rows (that is `data-scraper`), NOT multi-app event wiring (that is `automation-flows`).

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Automation Flows · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or fixing a no-code automation on n8n, Make, or Zapier — trigger to multi-app steps with data mapping, dedup, retries and an error path — or picking the platform by billing unit (task vs credit vs execution). NOT a typed API client in code (that is api-connector-builder), NOT a webhook receiver in your own app (that is webhooks).

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Chrome Extension · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or shipping a Manifest V3 browser extension and hitting its quirks — service worker dying and losing state, permission warnings, a Chrome Web Store rejection, content-script/worker/popup messaging, or an MV2-to-V3 migration. NOT a generic web app (that is `nextjs`), NOT a desktop shell (that is `electron`).

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Competitor Watch · ericrisco bundle
Use when an already-named set of rivals is watched on a cadence — pricing, features, positioning and changelog diffed into a maintained tracker plus an append-only, classified change log. NOT sizing the market or choosing who the rivals are (that is `market-research`), NOT one-off page extraction (that is `data-scraper`).

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Customer Support · ericrisco bundle
Use when a live support ticket needs triage (intent, P1–P4 priority, SLA clock), an on-voice reply, not a raw template, de-escalation of an angry or churn-risk customer, or escalation with a handoff packet. NOT the help-center article it links to (that is `technical-writing`), a win-back program (`retention`), or the auto-answer bot (`chatbot`).

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Decision Records · ericrisco bundle
Use when a hard-to-reverse choice (database, framework, vendor, auth model) must be frozen as an immutable numbered ADR — the context that forced it, the options weighed, the decision, consequences both ways — or superseded without erasing history. NOT a meeting recap (that is meeting-notes), NOT standing project principles (that is constitution).

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Gamedev Shipping · ericrisco bundle
Use when exporting, packaging, signing, or publishing a game — export presets per engine, macOS notarization, cross-origin isolation for threaded web builds, Android AAB/keystore, iOS provisioning, store submission (Steam, Play, App Store, itch.io), headless build CI. NOT gameplay code inside the artifact (that is `godot`, `unity`, `unreal`), NOT hosting a web app or container (that is `deployment`).

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Google Workspace · ericrisco bundle
Use when server-side code reads or writes Gmail, Drive, Calendar, or Sheets with a GCP service account and no human in the OAuth loop: picking the auth mode (app-owned vs domain-wide delegation vs keyless), scoping to least privilege, building the authed Node/Python client, staying under per-user quota, and debugging unauthorized_client / 403 / 429. NOT SMTP providers or deliverability (that is `email-connector`), NOT slot-finding and booking UX (that is `calendar-scheduling`).

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Linkedin Content · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing the actual words of one LinkedIn feed post — turning a raw idea, story or asset into ready-to-paste copy: a text post, a document/carousel cover with slide copy and caption, or a short native-video script. Covers fixing a weak hook, reformatting a wall of text for the mobile feed, and a CTA that provokes a real comment. NOT planning what or when to post (that is `linkedin-strategy`), NOT designing the carousel slides and PDF export (that is `linkedin-carousels`), NOT DM sequences (that is `linkedin-outreach`), NOT programmatic publishing (that is `linkedin-api`).

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Machine Learning · ericrisco bundle
Use when predicting a column from rows of tabular features with classic models — scikit-learn pipelines, RandomForest, XGBoost/LightGBM, leak-free cross-validation, metrics for imbalanced classes, or a model that aced CV then collapsed in production. NOT PyTorch neural nets (that is `deep-learning`), NOT cleaning the dirty table first (that is `data-cleaning`), NOT forecasting a dated series (that is `forecasting`), NOT text/token modeling (that is `nlp`).

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Notion Connector · ericrisco bundle
Use when wiring server code or a cron job to Notion as an ops backend over its HTTP API: pushing or mirroring database rows, two-way sync without duplicates, page blocks, or an integration broken by the 2025-09-03 data-source split. NOT generic REST wiring (that is `api-connector-builder`), NOT inbound Notion webhook events (that is `webhooks`).

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Replicate Images · ericrisco bundle
Use when generating or editing images through the Replicate API, or when a modern image model keeps ignoring the prompt — choosing aspect ratio, resolution, seed and output format, image-to-image, multi-reference composition, text-driven inpainting, readable text inside a generated image, and structuring prompts per model family. NOT general Replicate platform, auth or non-image models (that is `replicate`).

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Social Publisher · ericrisco bundle
Use when planning a posting schedule, building a multi-platform content calendar, or reshaping one source asset into channel-native posts across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok, Facebook or YouTube — cadence, best-time slots, per-platform format limits, API publish caps, and a dated CSV or JSON calendar a scheduler can import. NOT the brand voice the posts speak in (that is `brand-voice`), NOT the editorial strategy of what to make (that is `content-engine`).

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Terms Conditions · ericrisco bundle
Use when drafting the one-to-many legal documents a product publishes to its users — Terms of Service, an Acceptable Use Policy, a EULA for installed software, and the standing notices a site must display — plus AI-feature terms covering output ownership and accuracy, auto-renewal disclosure, and making acceptance actually binding. NOT a negotiated two-party agreement you sign with another business (that is `contracts`), NOT the privacy policy or how personal data is handled (that is `gdpr-privacy`).

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Translation L10n · ericrisco bundle
Use when adding a second or Nth language to a web or app product — i18n plumbing (string extraction, ICU messages, locale routing), fixing broken plurals or date formats, and making a UI survive other languages through right-to-left layout and text expansion. NOT defining the brand's tone in one language (that is `brand-voice`).

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Variant Explorer · ericrisco bundle
Use when someone wants OPTIONS rather than an answer — 'show me a few versions', picking between approaches by seeing them. Genuinely different candidates, cheap to throw away, trade-off named. NOT the critique that judges one (`design-loop`), NOT the spec (`specify`).

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Youtube Ideation · ericrisco bundle
Use when deciding which videos a channel should make next and tracking whether each bet beat baseline — generating, scoring and prioritising candidate ideas from the channel's own performance log plus outlier and search-trend research, then recording each promoted idea as a dated hypothesis with its measured outcome. NOT writing the title or thumbnail text for a chosen idea (that is `youtube-packaging`).

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Youtube Strategy · ericrisco bundle
Use when a YouTube channel needs a system-level decision — positioning and niche, upload cadence, how videos chain into playlists and series, end-screen routing, or a what-is-working review — read from and written back to the channel's own learning wiki rather than one video's choices. NOT generating next-video topics (that is `youtube-ideation`), NOT per-video titles or thumbnail text (that is `youtube-packaging`), NOT designing the thumbnail image (that is `youtube-thumbnails`), NOT fetching metrics from the Data API (that is `youtube-api`).

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Client Onboarding · ericrisco bundle
Use when a deal closed or a user signed up and the first 30 days need an activation plan: sales→delivery handoff, one verifiable activation event, kickoff, and a 30/60/90 or day-0→14 plan with owners, dates and a measurable exit. NOT reactive ticket triage (that is `customer-support`), NOT renewals/churn past the onboarded gate (that is `retention`).

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Embeddings Search · ericrisco bundle
Use when choosing an embedding model, chunk size, or query form, when semantic search returns irrelevant results, when adding hybrid BM25+vector or a reranker, or when a retrieval change needs a number (recall@k, nDCG, MRR). NOT operating the store — index tuning, quantization (that is `vector-db`) — nor the retrieve-to-answer loop (that is `rag`).

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Game Storytelling · ericrisco bundle
Use when a game's story is the work: premise and pillars, branching topology, meaningful choice, dialogue state, quests, environmental storytelling, ludonarrative harmony. Author portable — engine wiring is `godot`/`unity`/`unreal`. NOT the mechanics and economy the story serves (that is `game-design`), NOT level layout (that is `level-design`).

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Linkedin Outreach · ericrisco bundle
Use when running LinkedIn social selling as a repeatable motion — Sales Navigator saved searches and trigger alerts, weekly request budgets, fixing a low acceptance rate, turning profile views and post engagers into warm threads, logging every touch. NOT the note or DM copy (that is `cold-outreach`), NOT the deal after a reply (that is `sales-pipeline`).

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Linkedin Strategy · ericrisco bundle
Use when a LinkedIn presence — personal brand or company page — needs an account-level decision spanning months: positioning and point of view, three to five content pillars, posting cadence, whether content lives on the founder's profile or the company page, and the social-selling rhythm, read from and written back to the presence's own learning wiki. NOT writing the post copy or hook (that is `linkedin-content`), NOT building a carousel deck (that is `linkedin-carousels`), NOT sending DMs (that is `linkedin-outreach`), NOT pulling raw analytics (that is `linkedin-api`).

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Medium Publishing · ericrisco bundle
Use when a finished article has to land on Medium correctly — profile vs publication, cross-posting under a canonical link so your own site keeps the SEO credit, import-tool failures, the 5-tag cap, pseudo-Markdown gotchas. NOT writing or headlining the piece (that is `medium-writing`), NOT cadence or earnings (that is `medium-strategy`).

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Review Management · ericrisco bundle
Use when a public review needs an on-voice reply, when you need to earn more reviews legally, or when an aggregate rating is slipping across Google Business Profile, Trustpilot, the App Store or Google Play — including deciding reply versus flag, getting an unfair one-star removed rather than merely answered, and wiring programmatic replies. NOT a private support ticket against an SLA (that is `customer-support`), NOT churn, NPS or save plays (that is `retention`).

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Shortform Editing · ericrisco bundle
Use when you have raw 9:16 footage and need it cut into a post-ready vertical short — dead air removed, fast jump cuts, karaoke word-by-word burned-in captions from a transcript, cuts and zooms snapped to the music beat, safe-area placement so captions clear the platform UI, and a platform-correct MP4 export. NOT writing the script, hook, beats or caption text (that is `video-shorts`), NOT building a Remotion React composition codebase (that is `remotion-video`), NOT deciding when or where to post (that is `social-publisher`).

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Technical Writing · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing or fixing user-facing technical docs — a README, a getting-started tutorial, a how-to guide, or API/CLI/config reference — especially when a page tries to teach, explain and enumerate at once, a tutorial branches, a reference is padded with opinions, a README reads like a sales pitch, samples are stale, or weasel words have crept in. NOT an SEO blog article (that is `article-writing`), NOT the content calendar or pipeline (that is `content-engine`).

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Whatsapp Telegram · ericrisco bundle
Use when wiring an app or agent to message customers over the WhatsApp Cloud API or a Telegram bot — order updates, OTP codes, reminders, alerts and broadcasts — or when debugging undelivered messages, 24-hour-window errors, rejected templates, webhook signature verification, or rate limits and their retry headers. NOT the reply content you send (that is `customer-support`).

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Youtube Packaging · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing or fixing the text that ships with a YouTube upload — title, description, tags, hashtags and chapters — when click-through is weak and the words are the suspect, or when closing the loop on what last performed. NOT designing the thumbnail image (that is `youtube-thumbnails`), NOT inventing the idea or angle (that is `youtube-ideation`), NOT the channel growth plan (that is `youtube-strategy`), NOT pushing the fields via the Data API (that is `youtube-api`).

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Decision Challenge · ericrisco bundle
Use when a high-impact plan, migration or architecture claim needs a bounded adversarial challenge before commitment. Isolates claims from persuasion, attacks assumptions, reconciles doubts with evidence and emits proceed/hold/stop. NOT a finished-diff review (`review`/`code-review`), NOT SDD artifact consistency (`analyze`).

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Investor Materials · ericrisco bundle
Use when packaging or circulating the documents an investor reads outside the meeting — setting up or cleaning a data room, writing the one-pager or teaser that earns the first meeting, or drafting the recurring monthly investor update. NOT the slide narrative (that is `pitch-deck`), NOT the projection spreadsheet (that is `financial-model`), NOT round strategy and the investor pipeline (that is `fundraising`).

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Linkedin Carousels · ericrisco bundle
Use when building a LinkedIn carousel / document post — the swipeable multi-page PDF — slide by slide: cover hook, narrative arc, one idea per slide, CTA closer, PDF export spec. NOT the account/format plan (that is `linkedin-strategy`), NOT a text or single-image feed post (that is `linkedin-content`), NOT a 16:9 talk deck (that is `presentations`).

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Prompt Engineering · ericrisco bundle
Use when one prompt must give the same right answer across reruns, models, and pasted-in hostile input: forcing a fixed schema, picking the few-shot set, ordering the prompt blocks, or the inline cases you run while tuning. NOT the agent loop, tools, or retrieval (that is `building-agents`), NOT a standing CI eval harness (that is `agent-eval`).

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Shortform Ideation · ericrisco bundle
Use when a Reels/TikTok/Shorts account needs its next video ideas scored into a ranked backlog, grounded in its own performance log plus dated trending sounds, each bet logged so its outcome feeds the next batch. NOT scripting a chosen idea (that is `video-shorts`), NOT pillars or cadence (that is `shortform-strategy`), NOT packaging a finished cut (that is `shortform-packaging`).

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Shortform Strategy · ericrisco bundle
Use when the unit of work is a TikTok/Reels account, not one clip: positioning, sustainable cadence and format mix, ride-or-skip on a trend or sound, recurring series, diagnosing a flat account, and the dated learning loop. NOT the single script or hook variants (that is `video-shorts`), NOT the idea backlog (that is `shortform-ideation`).

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Together Fireworks · ericrisco bundle
Use when calling open-weight LLMs on Together AI or Fireworks AI's OpenAI-compatible endpoints — `base_url` plus namespaced model id, the cheapest model that clears the bar, per-1M-token cost math, serverless vs batch vs dedicated. NOT renting GPUs to self-host weights (that is `runpod`), NOT running a model locally for free (that is `ollama`).

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Youtube Thumbnails · ericrisco bundle
Use when designing or fixing a YouTube thumbnail, making variants for an A/B test, or working out which thumbnail style wins on a channel — including the trap where CTR looks fine but the test keeps selecting the duller image on watch-time share. NOT pairing the title with the thumbnail as one click-promise (that is `youtube-packaging`), NOT channel positioning or niche (that is `youtube-strategy`), NOT setting a thumbnail through the Data API (that is `youtube-api`).

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Automation Strategy · ericrisco bundle
Use when deciding whether a process is worth automating, sizing ROI and build-vs-buy, choosing an automation platform, or diagnosing why a fleet of automations keeps breaking — the decision layer before anyone builds. NOT building the flow (that is `automation-flows`, or `n8n` / `make` / `zapier` / `power-automate` to drive a live platform).

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Calendar Scheduling · ericrisco bundle
Use when a product needs a booking surface — a pick-a-slot page, a Cal.com/Calendly embed, or real availability plus the confirmed meeting written to Google/Outlook — or when fixing double-booking, DST drift, or orphaned reschedule events. NOT calendar CRUD with no booking surface (that is `google-workspace`), NOT the payment (that is `stripe`).

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Codebase Onboarding · ericrisco bundle
Use when you land in an unfamiliar or inherited codebase and must get productive fast: a breadth-first map of entry points, request flow, module ownership, hidden side effects (cron, webhooks, workers) and churn hotspots, committed as CODEBASE-MAP.md. NOT a deep audit of one module (that is `analyze`) or chasing one failure (that is `debug`).

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Continuous Learning · ericrisco bundle
Use when a mistake, correction, or surprise taught the workspace something that must stick — a retro or postmortem, the same agent error corrected twice, a resolved bug's root cause, scattered notes-to-self — and route that lesson to the durable surface that fires next time. NOT a forward choice with alternatives (that is `decision-records`).

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Course Storytelling · ericrisco bundle
Use when lesson or course content is correct but forgettable and a concept has to LAND: profiles the learner, breaks the blocking false belief, then rebuilds it as epiphany story → named model → grounded analogy → proof → so-what. NOT outcomes, assessment or module order (that is `course-builder`), NOT slide visuals (that is `presentations`).

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Document Processing · ericrisco bundle
Use when the deliverable is a document's bytes or its literal content — text/tables out of PDFs, AcroForm fill and flatten, page merge/split, PDF/DOCX from templates, OCR of image-only scans. NOT schema-typed fields pulled from text (that is structured-extraction), NOT signature routing (e-signature) or spreadsheet cells/formulas (spreadsheet-ops).

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Gamedev Multiplayer · ericrisco bundle
Use when adding multiplayer or netcode to a game — client-server vs P2P, server authority and anti-cheat, state replication vs RPCs, prediction and reconciliation, lag compensation, plus Godot 4 / Unity NGO / Unreal wiring. NOT single-player gameplay (that is `godot`, `unity`, `unreal`), NOT matchmaking or server hosting (that is `deployment`).

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Shortform Packaging · ericrisco bundle
Use when a vertical short is shot or scripted and you need the upload-form copy and cover that win the feed — the hook line, the first-frame on-screen text, the search-led caption, a tight hashtag set, and the cover frame; it learns from what performed via the 02-DOCS log. NOT inventing the idea (that is `shortform-ideation`), NOT scripting or directing the cuts (that is `video-shorts`), NOT executing the edit (that is `shortform-editing`), NOT scheduling the post (that is `social-publisher`).

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Clickhouse Analytics · ericrisco bundle
Use when running a ClickHouse server for high-volume OLAP: choosing a MergeTree engine and ORDER BY/PARTITION BY keys, ingesting billions of event/log/metric rows, pre-aggregating with materialized views, or fixing a query that scans instead of pruning. NOT in-process file analytics (that is `duckdb`), NOT OLTP CRUD indexing (that is `postgresdb`).

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Email Deliverability · ericrisco bundle
Use when mail already sent lands in spam, is rejected, or fails the Gmail/Yahoo bulk-sender checks and the fix is authentication and reputation, not the sending code: SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, domain warmup, spam-complaint rate, one-click unsubscribe, BIMI. NOT putting mail on the wire through a provider API (that is `email-connector`).

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API Connector Builder · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing a client for someone else's REST or GraphQL API: auth flow choice and token refresh, pagination to exhaustion, retry-with-jitter on transient failures only, rate-limit-aware throttling. NOT inbound callbacks (that is `webhooks`), NOT chaining services (that is `automation-flows`), NOT designing your own API (that is `api-design`).

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Business Intelligence · ericrisco bundle
Use when a metric (revenue, MRR, margin) needs defining once in a governed semantic layer so every dashboard, report and agent returns the same number, or when an LLM must answer data questions in plain language without hallucinating SQL. NOT chart layout (that is `dashboard`), NOT which KPIs to track (that is `kpi-framework`), NOT a hand-written query (that is `sql`).

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Compose Multiplatform · ericrisco bundle
Use when building one shared Compose UI in Kotlin across Android, iOS, and desktop — commonMain @Composables, expect/actual, source-set placement, native interop, multiplatform ViewModel/navigation/Koin. NOT a single-platform native build (that is kotlin-android / swift-ios), and NOT Dart/Flutter cross-platform UI (that is flutter).

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Structured Extraction · ericrisco bundle
Use when text must become a typed, schema-conformant object you can trust — pulling fields into a fixed JSON shape, extracting line items as typed records, classifying into enums, and building the Pydantic or Zod model plus the validate-and-retry loop. Covers extractors that throw parse errors, leak markdown fences, or fabricate a value where the field is absent instead of returning null. NOT getting the text out of a PDF, scan or DOCX first (that is `document-processing`), NOT general prompt craft untied to a schema (that is `prompt-engineering`).

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Source Grounded Development · ericrisco bundle
Use when implementation or review depends on current version-specific framework, SDK, protocol or platform behaviour and memory is unsafe. Detects exact local versions, verifies primary sources, tests applicability and marks unknowns. NOT a standalone cited memo (`research-ops`), NOT diagnosis of a reproduced failure (`debug`).

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Eli5 · ericrisco bundle
Use when a topic must be explained from zero to someone who knows nothing about it: one page, big pictures, very few words, everyday analogies, no jargon and nothing assumed. NOT the smallest in-conversation visual for someone already following (that is `show-me`), NOT a course with exercises (that is `course-builder`).

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Expo · ericrisco bundle
Use when shipping a React Native app with Expo — EAS Build/Submit/Update, eas.json profiles and channels, config plugins, prebuild/CNG, runtime-version policy, OTA updates that never land, SDK upgrades, the New Architecture. NOT RN UI, navigation or native-module authoring (that is `react-native`), NOT a Dart app (that is `flutter`).

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Htmx · ericrisco bundle
Use when adding interactivity to a server-rendered app (FastAPI/Jinja, Django, Rails, Laravel, Go templates, Express) without adopting a JS framework — hx-get/post/put/delete with hx-target, hx-swap and hx-trigger, returning HTML fragments instead of JSON, out-of-band swaps, active search, infinite scroll, inline edit and polling. NOT a client-state SPA with routing and a store (that is `react` or `nextjs`).

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Init · ericrisco bundle
Use when starting from nothing or pointing rsc at an existing project — the front door. Gauges technical level and the accompaniment dial first (non-technical by default), discovers what the user wants to build or govern (any stack, or a non-code harness: company/ops, research, knowledge, content), writes the profile to 02-DOCS, and installs the skills discovery justified. NOT the scaffolder (that is `harness`), NOT a stack skill.

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Java · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing, reviewing or refactoring modern Java (21+, 25 LTS) — records and sealed interfaces as algebraic data types, exhaustive pattern-matching switch over instanceof ladders, virtual-thread concurrency, structured concurrency and ScopedValue replacing ThreadLocal, Stream and Optional pipelines, compact-constructor validation, parametrized JDBC, and the Maven/Gradle build surface. NOT Spring framework wiring (that is `spring-boot`).

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Make · ericrisco bundle
Use when operating Make.com (formerly Integromat) programmatically — driving its REST API v2 or the Make MCP server from code or an agent to create, read, update, activate, run, clone or delete scenarios, connections, hooks and data stores. NOT designing what the flow should do (that is `automation-flows`), NOT choosing between Make, n8n and Zapier by billing model (that is `automation-strategy`), NOT a generic typed REST client (that is `api-connector-builder`), NOT receiving inbound webhooks in your own app (that is `webhooks`).

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Neon · ericrisco bundle
Use when you have picked Neon (serverless Postgres) and need to connect correctly from a serverless or edge runtime, wire database branching into dev, preview and CI, or stop being burned by scale-to-zero cold starts and pooler limits — including choosing HTTP versus WebSocket connections and pooled versus direct endpoints for migrations. NOT generic Postgres schema, index, EXPLAIN, RLS or migration-engine work (that is `postgresdb`).

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Plan · ericrisco bundle
Use when an approved, clarified spec must become a technical blueprint before any code — the SDD phase between clarify and tasks: architecture, contracts, data flow, testing strategy, sequencing and risks, at structure altitude, never framework syntax. NOT the what/why spec (that is `specify`), NOT the ambiguity sweep (that is `clarify`), NOT the task breakdown (that is `tasks`), NOT the code (that is `implement`).

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Ruby · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing or refactoring plain Ruby outside Rails — scripts, CLIs, gems, libraries: Enumerable chains and blocks, module mixins and value objects, Bundler/gemspec packaging, whether metaprogramming earns its keep, Minitest or RSpec, Ruby 3.4/4.0 frozen-string hygiene. NOT Rails, ActiveRecord, or ActiveSupport idioms (that is `rails`).

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Rust · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing, reviewing, testing, or shipping Rust — ownership and the borrow checker (move/borrow/clone, Arc/RefCell, lifetimes), errors with Result/`?`/thiserror/anyhow, async on tokio, axum 0.8 services, cargo test, and sqlx + cargo-audit hardening. NOT the same service in Go (that is `go`), NOT a desktop webview shell (that is `tauri`).

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Ship · ericrisco bundle
Use when a verified, review-approved branch has to land — the close of the rsc SDD chain: safety checks, then three landing options (merge, PR, park/discard), authorship always Eric and never an AI trailer. NOT running the gates (that is `verify`), NOT reading the diff for defects (that is `review`), NOT shipping to a server (that is `deployment`).

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Vllm · ericrisco bundle
Use when self-hosting an open-weight LLM for high-throughput concurrent serving with vLLM — running an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, splitting a model across GPUs with tensor or pipeline parallelism, loading quantized weights, serving one or many LoRA adapters, and debugging KV-cache OOM from memory-utilisation and context-length flags. NOT renting or provisioning the GPU box (that is `runpod` or `modal`), NOT single-user laptop inference (that is `ollama`), NOT a hosted inference API you do not operate (that is `together-fireworks` or `huggingface`).

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Astro · ericrisco bundle
Use when building a content-driven or marketing site with Astro 6: static-first pages, islands and partial hydration, content collections, server islands, per-route on-demand rendering, deploy adapters, and Astro 5→6 migration. NOT app-router React with server actions and heavy client interactivity (that is `nextjs`).

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Debug · ericrisco bundle
Use when something is broken — a failing or flaky test, crash, wrong result or regression — and the root cause must be reproduced and proven before any fix. On-demand; callable mid-`implement`. NOT a feature to spec or build (that is `specify`/`implement`), NOT the lint/test gate (that is `verify`), NOT adversarial diff reading (that is `review`).

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Godot · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing, reviewing, or debugging Godot 4.x games in GDScript or C# — scenes, nodes, custom Resources, autoload/EventBus signals, typed GDScript, CharacterBody2D/3D movement, GUT/gdUnit4 — or porting Godot 3 APIs to 4. NOT Unity/Unreal (that is `unity`/`unreal`), NOT `.gdshader` code (`gamedev-shaders`), NOT GDExtension C++ tooling (`cpp`).

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Modal · ericrisco bundle
Use when running Python or GPU workloads serverlessly on Modal — modal.App, inline container Images, gpu= on @app.function, Volumes for weight caching, Cron schedules, ASGI endpoints, modal run vs serve vs deploy. NOT managed prediction APIs with no container of your own (that is replicate); NOT SSH-able GPU boxes rented by the hour (that is runpod).

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Mysql · ericrisco bundle
Use when designing, querying, indexing or operating a MySQL or MariaDB database and engine-specific behaviour matters — schema and type choices, index design, reading EXPLAIN, online schema change, replication and replica lag, locking and InnoDB deadlocks, charset traps, and server config. NOT portable SELECT/JOIN/window-function craft (that is `sql`), NOT PostgreSQL engine behaviour like VACUUM or JSONB (that is `postgresdb`), NOT the PlanetScale/Vitess branch-and-deploy workflow (that is `planetscale`).

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Rails · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or maintaining a Ruby on Rails app — models, controllers, views, routes and migrations; ActiveRecord associations, scopes and query performance; Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus) UI; Active Job or Solid Queue background work; and Rails tests. Covers N+1 queries, migration safety on live tables, and flaky system tests around Turbo Frames. NOT plain Ruby scripts, gems or CLIs with no Rails loaded (that is `ruby`).

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React · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or reviewing a client-side React SPA bundled by Vite (React 19.2): components, where state lives, hooks, server data fetching, client routing, re-render and effect bugs. NOT App Router / server components / SSR (that is `nextjs`); NOT native screens (that is `react-native`).

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Redis · ericrisco bundle
Use when using Redis or any Redis-protocol store (Valkey, ElastiCache, Upstash, Dragonfly, Memorystore) as a cache, queue, rate limiter or distributed lock and it has to be CORRECT rather than merely connected — stampede-proof caching, locks that cannot release someone else's hold, race-free rate limits, and jobs that survive a worker crash. NOT durable SQL queues with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED (that is `postgresdb`), NOT vector similarity search over embeddings (that is `vector-db`).

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Tasks · ericrisco bundle
Use when an approved plan needs slicing into an ordered task list before any code — the SDD `tasks` phase. Each row carries a literal done-check, dependencies, a parallel-safe marker and a spec trace, appended to the plan artifact. NOT writing the plan (that is `plan`), NOT the consistency gate (that is `analyze`), NOT executing the tasks (that is `implement`).

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Tauri · ericrisco bundle
Use when building a lightweight cross-platform desktop (or v2 mobile) app with Tauri — a Rust core plus the OS-native WebView: Rust commands and IPC, streaming to the frontend, the default-deny capabilities/permissions ACL, bundling and signed auto-updates. NOT a Chromium+Node shell needing Node APIs in a main process (that is electron).

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Unity · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing, reviewing or structuring Unity game code in C# for Unity 6 LTS — GameObjects and the Transform hierarchy, the MonoBehaviour lifecycle, prefabs and variants, ScriptableObjects for data, scenes and additive loading, the Input System, coroutines versus async and Awaitable, Addressables, and build settings for 2D and 3D. NOT Godot or GDScript (that is `godot`), NOT Unreal Blueprint or C++ engine work (that is `unreal`), NOT the netcode wire protocol (that is `gamedev-multiplayer`).

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Design · ericrisco bundle
Use when designing or refreshing a web UI or landing page — visual concept, type/color/spacing/motion tokens, composition, rescuing a UI that reads AI-generic, or a graded design review. Brand-grounded and research-first; ships Tailwind v4 + Next.js 15 under WCAG 2.2 AA and Core Web Vitals budgets. NOT the words on the page (that is `marketing`), NOT the App Router build (that is `nextjs`).

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Django · ericrisco bundle
Use when building, reviewing, securing, testing or shipping a Django app — models, migrations, QuerySets/managers, FBV/CBV views, forms, the admin, settings split, and Django REST Framework (serializers, ModelViewSet, permissions). NOT async FastAPI/Pydantic services (that is `fastapi`), NOT Postgres schema/index work (that is `postgresdb`).

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Docker · ericrisco bundle
Use when authoring or auditing a Dockerfile, shrinking a bloated image, hardening a container that runs as root, picking a base image, or wiring a Compose dev loop with hot reload. NOT CI builds or deploy-to-host (that is `deployment`), NOT k8s autoscaling (that is `scaling`), NOT app-level injection or secrets-in-code (that is `secure-coding`).

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Duckdb · ericrisco bundle
Use when analytical SQL must run in-process with no server: Parquet/CSV/JSON/Arrow queried in place, OLAP embedded in an app or notebook, a slow pandas groupby on multi-GB data, or S3/lakehouse data read without downloading. NOT a multi-user analytics server (that is clickhouse-analytics), NOT an app's transactional CRUD store (that is postgresdb).

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Elixir · ericrisco bundle
Use when writing or refactoring Elixir/OTP on the BEAM — GenServers, supervision trees and restart strategies, pattern matching, mix projects and releases — or when processes misbehave (restart loops, mailbox growth, call timeouts). NOT a Phoenix web app, LiveView, Ecto or channels (that is `phoenix`).

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Fly Io · ericrisco bundle
Use when deploying or operating an app on Fly.io — writing fly.toml, placing Machines in regions near users, attaching Volumes, managing secrets, or picking a scaling lever (autostop/autostart, scale count, fly-replay). NOT choosing which host to deploy on (that is `deployment`), NOT a git-push PaaS with no regions model (that is `railway`).

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Grants · ericrisco bundle
Use when pursuing non-dilutive public or foundation funding — money you neither repay nor give equity for: finding a fit call, go/no-go, registration (UEI/PIC/BDNS), or writing the rubric-scored application, logic model, budget justification, or LOI. NOT an equity round (that is `fundraising`), NOT a paying-customer SOW (that is `proposals`).

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Hiring · ericrisco bundle
Use when a role is open and you must write the job post, screen inbound candidates, structure the interview loop, or score them to a defensible Hire / On-Hold / No-Hire — including whether an AI résumé filter is legal. NOT after the offer is accepted — onboarding, payroll, performance (that is `people-ops`), NOT offer terms (that is `contracts`).

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Nestjs · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or structuring a NestJS backend — feature modules, providers and DI wiring, provider scopes and request-lifecycle order, where to bind guards/pipes/interceptors/filters, and testing with Test.createTestingModule. NOT a bare Express/Fastify service with no DI (that is `nodejs`), NOT framework-agnostic REST design (that is `api-design`).

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Nextjs · ericrisco bundle
Use when building, reviewing, testing, securing, or optimizing a Next.js App Router app: Server vs Client boundaries, `use server` actions, route handlers, the v15 vs v16 `use cache` caching model, metadata/SEO, auth, and Core Web Vitals. NOT framework-agnostic React or a Vite SPA (that is `react`), and NOT visual/UI design (that is `design`).

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Nodejs · ericrisco bundle
Use when building or operating a plain Node.js / Express 5 backend service: project layout, async correctness, central error middleware, fail-fast config, graceful shutdown on SIGTERM. NOT DI modules/providers/guards (that is `nestjs`), NOT the type system or tsconfig (that is `typescript`), NOT REST contract design (that is `api-design`).

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Ollama · ericrisco bundle
Use when running open-weight LLMs locally with Ollama — pulling and tagging models, calling the local API, picking a quantization or GGUF, writing Modelfiles, and sizing VRAM and RAM for the machine at hand. NOT remote or managed GPU serving and autoscaling (that is `runpod`), NOT downloading raw weights or datasets (that is `huggingface`), NOT retrieval pipeline design (that is `rag`).

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Orient · ericrisco bundle
Always-on. The brújula: close every turn by situating the person — where they are, what just happened, why it mattered, and the next step as a question, never a dead end. Reads the accompaniment and technical dials from 02-DOCS and calibrates how much it explains, rewriting the dial when the user asks for more or less. NOT the missing-skill installer (that is `suggest`).

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Python · ericrisco bundle
Use when the task is Python itself, in any framework or none: PEP 695 generics, mypy --strict typing, dataclass/Protocol/TypedDict/Enum choices, asyncio.TaskGroup, stdlib idioms, src/ layout + pyproject.toml with uv, ruff+mypy+pytest gate. NOT a FastAPI/ASGI service (that is fastapi), NOT a deep pytest suite (that is testing-py).

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Render · ericrisco bundle
Use when deploying or fixing an app on Render — web services, background workers, cron jobs, private services, managed Postgres and Key-Value, and especially the render.yaml Blueprint. Covers deploys that fail with no open ports detected, 502s on first deploy, free-tier cold starts, and a free Postgres about to expire with its data. NOT the generic ship and release flow (that is `deployment`), NOT another PaaS such as `railway` or `fly-io`.

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Review · ericrisco bundle
Use when a green diff needs adversarial judgment in the rsc SDD chain, between verify and ship — give a review keyed to the spec/plan/constitution in 02-DOCS/wiki/sdd/, or receive one and verify each comment before agreeing. NOT running lint/type/tests (that is `verify`), NOT the spec-less standalone pass (that is `code-review`), NOT merging (that is `ship`).

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