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- ▌ Design Tokens · itsualDefine and manage design tokens (color, typography, space, elevation, etc.) as the single source of truth between design and engineering. Use when building design systems, theming products, or improving design-dev consistency at scale.
- ▌ Motion Design · itsualDesign purposeful motion and animation that improves understanding, feedback, and delight without harming usability or accessibility. Use when specifying transitions, micro-interactions, loading patterns, or motion guidelines for a product.
- ▌ Onboarding UX · itsualDesign product onboarding experiences that get users to value quickly and build confidence in the first sessions. Use when creating first-run experiences, checklists, empty-state guidance, or activation-oriented UI.
- ▌ Visual Design · itsualApply visual design principles — typography, color, layout, imagery, and style — to create polished, coherent, and brand-aligned interfaces. Use when refining visual quality, establishing aesthetic direction, or ensuring brand consistency in product UI.
- ▌ Faq · itsualCreate useful FAQs that answer real questions concisely and reduce repetitive inquiries. Use when compiling frequently asked questions for products, services, events, policies, or internal processes.
- ▌ PDF · itsualCreate, read, and manipulate PDF documents — including reports, forms, invoices, and combined documents — with attention to layout, text extraction, and compatibility. Use when the user asks for a PDF, needs to merge/split/rotate PDFs, extract text/tables, or produce a non-editable final deliverable.
- ▌ Idea Refine · itsualRefine vague ideas through structured divergent and convergent thinking before committing to a direction. Use when the user has a rough concept, is exploring options, or when requirements are still fuzzy.
- ▌ Audit Readiness · itsualPrepare for external audit with organized support, clean reconciliations, and responsive PBC (prepared by client) management. Use when approaching year-end audit, first-time audits, or improving audit cycle efficiency.
- ▌ Cost Accounting · itsualApply cost accounting methods to understand product/service costs, margins, and cost behavior for pricing and profitability decisions. Use when analyzing product margins, allocating overhead, or improving cost visibility.
- ▌ Debt Management · itsualManage debt facilities — drawdowns, covenants, amortization, and refinancing — to maintain compliance and optimize cost of capital. Use when monitoring credit facilities, preparing covenant certificates, or planning refinancing.
- ▌ Fx And Currency · itsualManage foreign exchange exposure — transaction, translation, and economic — with policy, measurement, and appropriate hedging. Use when operating multi-currency businesses or evaluating FX risk and hedge programs.
- ▌ Kpi And Metrics · itsualDefine and govern financial and operational KPIs that drive the right behavior and reflect true performance. Use when designing scorecards, management dashboards, or metric dictionaries for the business.
- ▌ Using Agent Skills · itsualDiscover and apply the right Agent Skills for the current task. Use at the start of a session or whenever you need to decide which skill(s) apply to the work at hand. This is the meta-skill that helps route work to specialized skills.
- ▌ Design Handoff · itsualPrepare and deliver design handoffs that give engineering everything needed to implement accurately — specs, states, assets, and intent. Use when transitioning designs into development, reducing implementation ambiguity, or improving design-dev collaboration.
- ▌ Design Systems · itsualCreate, evolve, and govern design systems that enable consistent, scalable product interfaces across teams. Use when building component libraries, defining design tokens, establishing contribution models, or improving design-dev consistency.
- ▌ DOCX · itsualCreate, edit, and structure professional Word documents (.docx) with clean formatting, styles, tables, headers, and consistent layout. Use when the user asks for a Word document, report, proposal, memo, letter, contract draft, or any .docx file. Prefer this over plain text or markdown when a proper document is requested.
- ▌ PPTX · itsualCreate clean, professional PowerPoint / presentation decks (.pptx) with strong visual hierarchy, consistent layout, and clear storytelling. Use when the user asks for slides, a presentation, a deck, pitch, or .pptx file. Prioritize clarity and scannability over decoration.
- ▌ XLSX · itsualCreate well-structured, usable Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx) with clear data layout, formulas, formatting, and analysis-ready tables. Use when the user asks for a spreadsheet, Excel file, tracker, model, dashboard data, or .xlsx. Prefer clean data tables over purely visual formatting.
- ▌ Service Mesh · itsualUnderstand when and how to use a service mesh for traffic management, security, and observability between services. Use when evaluating or implementing Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or similar technologies.
- ▌ Ma Due Diligence · itsualConduct financial due diligence for M&A — quality of earnings, working capital, debt-like items, and risk identification. Use when buying or investing in a company, or preparing sell-side diligence readiness.
- ▌ Research Design · itsualDesign research studies with clear questions, appropriate methods, sampling logic, and success criteria before data collection begins. Use when scoping any primary or secondary research effort, choosing methods, or writing a research plan.
- ▌ Objection Handling · itsualHandle sales objections with empathy, clarity, and evidence — turning concerns into progress or clean decisions. Use when prospects raise price, timing, competition, risk, or status-quo objections.
- ▌ Aml Kyc Basics · itsualApply AML/KYC fundamentals — customer due diligence, monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and recordkeeping — for financial crime compliance. Use when designing onboarding controls, transaction monitoring concepts, or AML program components in financial services.
- ▌ Design Thinking · itsualApply design thinking methods — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — to solve problems in a human-centered, iterative way. Use when framing ambiguous problems, facilitating workshops, or driving cross-functional innovation sessions.
- ▌ Accounting Basics · itsualApply core accounting principles — double-entry, accruals, matching, and chart of accounts design — so books remain accurate and decision-useful. Use when setting up books, training non-accountants, or diagnosing accounting quality issues.
- ▌ Capital Structure · itsualAnalyze and plan capital structure — debt, equity, and hybrid financing — to support growth, risk tolerance, and cost of capital goals. Use when raising capital, refinancing, or evaluating leverage and dilution trade-offs.
- ▌ Data Contracts · itsualDefine and enforce explicit data contracts between data producers and consumers to improve reliability and reduce breaking changes. Use when multiple teams share datasets, pipelines, or analytical tables.
- ▌ Event Sourcing · itsualPersist state as a sequence of events rather than mutable current-state only, enabling audit, replay, and temporal queries. Use when auditability, time-travel, or complex domain event history is a core requirement.
- ▌ Policy As Code · itsualEncode organizational, security, and operational policies as code so they can be versioned, tested, and automatically enforced. Use when implementing automated guardrails for infrastructure, deployments, or configuration.
- ▌ Cs Metrics · itsualDefine and operate Customer Success metrics — retention, NRR, GRR, adoption, health, and leading indicators — that drive the right behaviors. Use when building CS scorecards, forecasting retention, or aligning leadership on success performance.
- ▌ Usability Testing · itsualPlan and run usability tests that reveal friction, validate design decisions, and produce actionable findings. Use when evaluating prototypes or live product experiences with real or representative users.
- ▌ Browser Testing · itsualVerify UI behavior using browser automation, visual checks, and DevTools-style inspection. Use for end-to-end flows, visual regressions, accessibility in the browser, or when unit tests are insufficient for user-facing behavior.
- ▌ Schema Registry · itsualManage evolving data and event schemas with a schema registry to ensure compatibility and safe evolution. Use when multiple producers and consumers share event or data contracts that change over time.
- ▌ Threat Modeling · itsualSystematically identify and prioritize security threats to a system and decide on mitigations. Use when designing new systems, reviewing architecture, or improving security posture of existing systems.
- ▌ Meddicc Qualification · itsualApply MEDDICC (Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion, Competition) to qualify and advance complex deals. Use when selling into multi-stakeholder B2B deals that need rigorous qualification and deal control.
- ▌ Email Security · itsualHarden email as a control plane — authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), filtering, BEC controls, and secure handling of high-risk messages. Use when reducing phishing success, business email compromise, or spoofing risk.
- ▌ Interaction Design · itsualDesign interactions, behaviors, and micro-experiences that feel responsive, predictable, and human. Use when defining how users interact with controls, transitions, feedback, gestures, or complex workflows.
- ▌ Contract Testing · itsualUse consumer-driven or bidirectional contract tests to keep service interfaces compatible across independent deployability. Use when multiple services or teams share APIs and need confidence that changes won’t break consumers.
- ▌ Testing Strategy · itsualDefine a balanced testing strategy across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests. Use when setting up test approach for a project, reviewing test quality, or deciding what kinds of tests to write.
- ▌ Financial Statements · itsualRead, interpret, and explain the three primary financial statements — income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement — and how they connect. Use when analyzing company performance, preparing reports, or explaining results to non-finance stakeholders.
- ▌ Investment Appraisal · itsualEvaluate capital and strategic investments using NPV, IRR, payback, and strategic fit — with disciplined assumptions and kill criteria. Use when assessing projects, capex, new markets, or major initiatives for go/no-go decisions.
- ▌ Copywriting · itsualWrite clear, persuasive marketing and product copy that drives action while staying credible and on-brand. Use when writing headlines, landing pages, ads, emails, product pages, or campaign messaging.
- ▌ Accessibility Audit · itsualAudit interfaces for accessibility issues using standards, tools, and manual checks — then prioritize and remediate effectively. Use when evaluating existing products for WCAG conformance, preparing for compliance, or improving inclusive quality.
- ▌ One Pager · itsualCreate concise one-page documents that communicate a project, proposal, status, or idea with extreme clarity and prioritization. Use when the audience needs a single-page overview, briefing sheet, or leave-behind.
- ▌ Chaos Engineering · itsualDeliberately inject failures to discover weaknesses and improve system resilience in a controlled way. Use when validating resilience mechanisms or building confidence in production reliability.
- ▌ Grpc And Protobuf · itsualDesign and evolve gRPC services and Protocol Buffer contracts with compatibility and clarity in mind. Use when defining internal or external RPC APIs using gRPC/Protobuf.
- ▌ AI Model Compliance · itsualApply compliance controls to AI and automated decision systems — transparency, fairness, human oversight, documentation, and regulatory alignment. Use when deploying AI in regulated processes (credit, fraud, customer decisions) or responding to AI governance expectations.
- ▌ Complaints Handling · itsualOperate complaints-handling processes that meet regulatory standards — logging, timely resolution, root-cause analysis, and fair outcomes. Use when designing or improving regulated complaints frameworks or analyzing complaint themes for conduct risk.
- ▌ Sanctions Screening · itsualDesign and operate sanctions screening controls for customers, payments, and counterparties — including list management, alert handling, and escalation. Use when building or reviewing sanctions compliance processes in banking, fintech, or cross-border business.
- ▌ Tiber Style Tlpt · itsualApply intelligence-led, threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) approaches in the spirit of TIBER-EU/CBEST — critical functions, CTI scenarios, controlled live testing, and structured closure. Use when designing or preparing for regulatory-style red teaming in financial or critical-entity contexts.
- ▌ Data Governance · itsualEstablish data governance — ownership, policies, decision rights, and accountability — so data is trusted, compliant, and usable across the organization. Use when designing governance operating models, assigning data owners, or fixing chronic trust and access problems.
- ▌ Accessibility Design · itsualDesign inclusive interfaces that work for people with diverse abilities, meeting accessibility standards and real user needs. Use when creating or auditing designs for keyboard use, screen readers, contrast, motion sensitivity, and inclusive patterns.
- ▌ Heuristic Evaluation · itsualEvaluate interfaces against established usability heuristics to find issues quickly without a full user study. Use when auditing existing products, reviewing competitor UX, or prioritizing usability fixes with limited research time.
- ▌ Board Pack · itsualPrepare concise, decision-oriented board packs and governance reports that respect directors’ time and focus on material issues. Use when creating board meeting materials, governance updates, or high-level leadership packs.
- ▌ Case Study · itsualWrite compelling case studies that show the customer problem, solution, and measurable results. Use for marketing, sales enablement, websites, proposals, or internal knowledge sharing.
- ▌ Pitch Deck · itsualCreate focused, persuasive pitch decks for fundraising, sales, partnerships, or internal buy-in. Use when building investor pitches, sales decks, partnership proposals, or high-stakes presentation narratives.
- ▌ Whitepaper · itsualWrite authoritative whitepapers that educate the reader on a problem space and position a thoughtful point of view or solution. Use for thought leadership, technical marketing, or in-depth explanatory documents.
- ▌ Caching Strategies · itsualDesign appropriate caching layers and invalidation strategies to improve performance without creating consistency nightmares. Use when adding caches, facing performance issues related to repeated computation or data fetching, or reviewing cache usage.
- ▌ Clean Architecture · itsualStructure code so that business logic is independent of frameworks, UI, and external details. Use when organizing larger codebases, defining layer boundaries, or fighting framework lock-in.
- ▌ GRAPHQL API Design · itsualDesign well-structured, evolvable, and performant GraphQL APIs with clear schemas, pagination, and error handling. Use when building or reviewing GraphQL endpoints, schemas, or resolvers.
- ▌ Secrets Management · itsualHandle secrets (API keys, credentials, certificates, tokens) securely throughout their lifecycle. Use whenever secrets are created, stored, injected, rotated, or accessed by applications.
- ▌ Landing Pages · itsualDesign and write landing pages that convert targeted traffic through focused messaging, proof, and a clear call to action. Use when launching campaigns, capturing leads, or improving conversion on key entry pages.
- ▌ Prd Writing · itsualWrite clear Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) that define the problem, goals, scope, requirements, and success criteria for a product or feature. Use when specifying what to build, aligning product/design/engineering, or creating the source of truth for a delivery effort.
- ▌ Product Ops · itsualBuild product operations practices that improve decision quality, reduce friction, and scale product management effectiveness. Use when creating product processes, tooling, rituals, or support systems for PM teams.
- ▌ Form Design · itsualDesign clear, usable forms (digital or document-based) that minimize friction and error while collecting the necessary information. Use when creating intake forms, applications, surveys, request forms, or PDF/Word forms.
- ▌ Style Guide · itsualCreate practical style guides that enforce consistency in writing, terminology, tone, and formatting across documents or products. Use when establishing content standards for a team, product, brand, or documentation set.
- ▌ Architecture Review · itsualEvaluate system or component design for scalability, maintainability, security, and alignment with goals. Use when proposing or reviewing significant architectural changes, new services, or major refactors.
- ▌ Change Data Capture · itsualCapture and propagate database changes reliably using Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns. Use when synchronizing data between systems, building event streams from databases, or implementing cache invalidation based on DB changes.
- ▌ Code Simplification · itsualReduce unnecessary complexity while preserving behavior. Use when code is hard to understand, overly abstracted, or when a simpler design would suffice.
- ▌ Context Engineering · itsualDeliberately manage what context is loaded, retained, and passed to the model for better reasoning and lower noise. Use when working on large codebases, long sessions, or when the agent seems to be missing important information or getting distracted by irrelevant details.
- ▌ Distributed Locking · itsualImplement safe distributed locks and coordination primitives when mutual exclusion is required across processes or services. Use when preventing double-processing, leader election, or coordinating work in a distributed system.
- ▌ Release Engineering · itsualDesign reliable release processes including versioning, changelogs, release notes, artifacts, and promotion across environments. Use when improving how software is packaged, versioned, and released to users or production.
- ▌ Reproducible Builds · itsualMake builds deterministic so the same source inputs always produce bit-for-bit identical artifacts when desired. Use when strengthening supply-chain security, enabling verification, or debugging “works on my machine” build differences.
- ▌ Resilience Patterns · itsualApply proven resilience patterns (retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, bulkheads, fallbacks) so systems degrade gracefully under failure. Use when designing distributed systems, integrating external services, or improving production robustness.
- ▌ Sbom And Provenance · itsualGenerate, maintain, and consume Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and build provenance to improve transparency and security. Use when implementing supply-chain transparency, compliance requirements, or vulnerability management at scale.
- ▌ Shipping And Launch · itsualPrepare and execute safe releases with checklists for monitoring, rollback, and communication. Use when deploying to production, launching a feature, or preparing a release.
- ▌ Lease Accounting Basics · itsualApply lease accounting basics (ASC 842 / IFRS 16 concepts) — recognizing lease assets and liabilities and understanding P&L impacts. Use when entering facility or equipment leases or implementing lease accounting processes.
- ▌ Transfer Pricing Basics · itsualUnderstand transfer pricing basics for intercompany transactions — arm’s length principle, methods, and documentation needs — to manage cross-border tax risk. Use when setting intercompany pricing, expanding internationally, or preparing TP documentation with advisors.
- ▌ Brand Strategy · itsualDefine brand strategy — purpose, identity, personality, and expression — that guides consistent marketing and product communication. Use when building or refreshing a brand, aligning teams on identity, or ensuring campaigns reinforce a coherent whole.
- ▌ Go To Market · itsualPlan go-to-market (GTM) activities so launches reach the right users with the right message through the right channels. Use when preparing product launches, feature releases, pricing changes, or market entries.
- ▌ Growth Loops · itsualDesign and optimize growth loops (viral, content, sales, usage) where outputs of one cycle feed the next for compounding growth. Use when moving beyond one-off funnels toward sustainable, product-integrated growth systems.
- ▌ Model Risk Governance · itsualGovern model risk — inventory, validation, monitoring, and challenge — for credit, pricing, AML, and other decision models. Use when establishing model risk management (MRM) frameworks or preparing models for regulatory scrutiny.
- ▌ Regulatory Compliance · itsualBuild and operate regulatory compliance programs that map obligations to controls, owners, and evidence — across jurisdictions and product lines. Use when designing compliance frameworks, preparing for regulatory exams, or clarifying accountability for legal requirements.
- ▌ Decision Log · itsualCapture important decisions with context, options considered, rationale, and consequences so future readers understand why choices were made. Use for architecture decisions, product decisions, project trade-offs, or any significant choice that should not be lost to time.
- ▌ API Gateway Patterns · itsualDesign and use API gateways effectively for routing, cross-cutting concerns, and backend aggregation. Use when introducing or evolving an API gateway, BFF, or edge layer.
- ▌ CI CD And Automation · itsualDesign and improve CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and automation so that every change is validated consistently. Use when working on build pipelines, GitHub Actions, deployment automation, or developer experience tooling.
- ▌ Continuous Profiling · itsualUse continuous profiling to understand where production CPU, memory, and other resources are spent over time. Use when optimizing performance, investigating resource usage, or building a culture of efficiency.
- ▌ Domain Driven Design · itsualApply Domain-Driven Design tactical and strategic patterns to model complex business domains clearly. Use when building complex business logic, defining bounded contexts, aggregates, or ubiquitous language.
- ▌ Multi Tenancy Design · itsualDesign systems that safely serve multiple tenants with proper isolation, configuration, and scaling characteristics. Use when building SaaS products or any system that hosts multiple customers in a shared environment.
- ▌ Platform Engineering · itsualBuild internal platforms and self-service capabilities that reduce cognitive load for product teams while maintaining standards. Use when creating developer platforms, golden paths, or internal tooling for engineering organizations.
- ▌ Progressive Delivery · itsualRelease changes safely using progressive delivery techniques (canaries, progressive rollouts, feature flags, A/B testing). Use when deploying risky changes or when you want fast feedback with limited blast radius.
- ▌ Adversary Emulation · itsualPlan and run adversary emulation — CTI-driven scenarios mapped to MITRE ATT&CK TTPs, executed under controls, and measured for prevention and detection outcomes. Use when testing defenses against specific threat actors or technique chains rather than generic vulnerability hunting.
- ▌ Rules Of Engagement · itsualDesign and enforce Rules of Engagement (RoE) for offensive security tests — scope, allowed TTPs, safety stops, deconfliction, and legal authority. Use before any red team, adversary emulation, or high-impact offensive exercise.
- ▌ Business Case · itsualWrite clear, decision-ready business cases that justify investment with problem, options, costs, benefits, risks, and recommendation. Use when requesting funding, proposing a major initiative, or evaluating build-vs-buy or strategic options.
- ▌ Press Release · itsualWrite clear, newsworthy press releases that communicate announcements in a format journalists and stakeholders can quickly use. Use for product launches, funding announcements, partnerships, executive appointments, or other official news.
- ▌ Resume And Cv · itsualCreate clear, achievement-focused resumes and CVs tailored to the target role and reader. Use when writing or improving a resume, CV, or professional summary for job applications.
- ▌ Status Report · itsualProduce clear, scannable status reports that communicate progress, risks, decisions needed, and outlook. Use for project updates, weekly/monthly reports, steering committee packs, or any recurring status communication.
- ▌ Anti Corruption Layer · itsualProtect your domain model from external systems by translating between external models and your own. Use when integrating with legacy systems, third-party APIs, or other bounded contexts that should not leak into your core model.
- ▌ Blameless Postmortems · itsualRun blameless post-incident reviews that focus on systemic learning and concrete follow-up actions rather than individual blame. Use after incidents, near-misses, or significant production issues.
- ▌ Dependency Management · itsualManage third-party dependencies safely: minimize surface area, keep lockfiles honest, audit regularly, and upgrade deliberately. Use when adding, updating, or reviewing dependencies, or when addressing vulnerability reports.