
Analyzes code diffs and files to identify bugs, security vulnerabilities (SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization), code smells, N+1 queries, naming issues, and architectural concerns, then produces a structured review report with prioritized, actionable feedback. Use when reviewing pull requests, conducting code quality audits, identifying refactoring opportunities, or checking for security issues. Invoke for PR reviews, code quality checks, refactoring suggestions, review code, code quality. Complements specialized skills (security-reviewer, test-master) by providing broad-scope review across correctness, performance, maintainability, and test coverage in a single pass.
Use when building C# applications with .NET 8+, ASP.NET Core APIs, or Blazor web apps. Builds REST APIs using minimal or controller-based routing, configures database access with Entity Framework Core, implements async patterns and cancellation, structures applications with CQRS via MediatR, and scaffolds Blazor components with state management. Invoke for C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework, EF Core, Minimal API, MAUI, SignalR.
Validate markdown files against formatting standards. Auto-detects and installs markdownlint-cli if missing. Checks project config or falls back to sensible defaults. Supports auto-fix mode. Use when creating or modifying markdown files, validating documentation, or enforcing markdown conventions.
Best practices for using Pulumi Automation API to programmatically orchestrate infrastructure operations. Covers multi-stack orchestration, embedding Pulumi in applications, architecture choices, and common patterns.
Creates Pulumi infrastructure-as-code projects in Python, defines cloud resources (AWS, Azure, GCP), configures ESC environments for secrets management, sets up OIDC authentication for secure deployments, and builds multi-language component resources. Use when creating Pulumi Python projects, writing infrastructure code, configuring cloud providers, managing secrets with Pulumi ESC, setting up OIDC for Pulumi, automating infrastructure deployments with Python, creating reusable Pulumi components in Python, or configuring Python toolchains (pip, poetry, uv) for Pulumi. Also use when the user mentions pyproject.toml with Pulumi, component_provider_host, or Python virtual environments for infrastructure code.
Use when building Python 3.11+ applications requiring type safety, async programming, or robust error handling. Generates type-annotated Python code, configures mypy in strict mode, writes pytest test suites with fixtures and mocking, and validates code with black and ruff. Invoke for type hints, async/await patterns, dataclasses, dependency injection, logging configuration, and structured error handling.
Writes, reviews, and debugs idiomatic Rust code with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions. Implements ownership patterns, manages lifetimes, designs trait hierarchies, builds async applications with tokio, and structures error handling with Result/Option. Use when building Rust applications, solving ownership or borrowing issues, designing trait-based APIs, implementing async/await concurrency, creating FFI bindings, or optimizing for performance and memory safety. Invoke for Rust, Cargo, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust, tokio, zero-cost abstractions, memory safety, systems programming.
Implements advanced TypeScript type systems, creates custom type guards, utility types, and branded types, and configures tRPC for end-to-end type safety. Use when building TypeScript applications requiring advanced generics, conditional or mapped types, discriminated unions, monorepo setup, or full-stack type safety with tRPC.
Atomic, semantic-boundary git commit workflow
Convert an AWS CloudFormation stack or template to Pulumi. This skill MUST be loaded whenever a user requests migration or conversion of CloudFormation to Pulumi.
Three-agent adversarial debate protocol for strategic decisions. Two advocates steelman opposing positions while a moderator identifies risks and synthesizes a binding consensus. Use when choosing between alternatives, evaluating tradeoffs, or making high-stakes decisions.
Safe systematic dependency upgrade with vulnerability scanning and rollback capability. Detects project ecosystem, audits outdated and vulnerable packages, presents a prioritized upgrade plan, and executes upgrades one at a time with test verification after each. Use when updating dependencies, fixing vulnerability alerts, or performing periodic dependency maintenance.
Audit Go nolint directives for staleness and lazy justifications. Mechanically verifies each suppression with golangci-lint, then runs adversarial Red/Blue/White debates on the top candidates for removal. Use when inheriting a Go codebase, during periodic cleanup, or when nolint count is growing unchecked.
Best practices for writing reliable Pulumi programs. Covers Output handling, resource dependencies, component structure, secrets management, safe refactoring with aliases, and deployment workflows.
Convert an AWS CDK application to Pulumi. This skill MUST be loaded whenever a user requests migration or conversion of a CDK application to Pulumi.
Use for hands-on Pulumi CLI work: running deployments, fixing broken stacks, and managing infrastructure state. Handles: recovering from stuck or interrupted `pulumi up` with pending operations, cleaning orphaned resources from state after out-of-band cloud deletions, protecting critical resources from accidental `pulumi destroy`, moving resources between stacks without recreating them, targeting specific resources during deployment, migrating between backends (local file to Pulumi Cloud, S3), stack lifecycle management, state export/import/repair, CI/CD pipeline setup, and importing existing cloud resources. Use this skill — not the language-specific Pulumi skills — whenever the user's question is about operating, troubleshooting, or recovering Pulumi infrastructure rather than writing program code.
Guidance for working with Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration). Use when users ask about managing secrets, configuration, environments, short-term credentials, configuring OIDC for AWS, Azure, GCP, integrating with secret stores (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, 1Password), or using ESC with Pulumi stacks.
Creates Pulumi infrastructure-as-code projects in Go, configures OIDC authentication, integrates with Pulumi ESC for centralized secrets and configuration management, and builds multi-language component resources. Use when setting up Pulumi Go projects, writing infrastructure code with Go, configuring OIDC for Pulumi, using Pulumi ESC with Go, automating cloud infrastructure with Golang, creating reusable Pulumi components in Go, or working with pulumi-go-provider. Also use when the user mentions Pulumi with Go/Golang, AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure in Go, or Go-based ComponentResource patterns.
Manages cloud infrastructure through natural language conversations with Pulumi Neo, an AI agent for platform engineers. Enables infrastructure analysis, resource provisioning, stack deployment, and configuration management via conversational AI. Use when creating Neo tasks, requesting infrastructure analysis, automating cloud deployments, managing infrastructure as code (IaC), provisioning AWS/Azure/GCP resources, managing infrastructure through natural language prompts, reviewing PRs with Neo, handling Neo approval workflows, or checking Neo task status and events. Also use when the user mentions "Pulumi Neo", "Neo task", "Neo agent", or wants AI-assisted infrastructure management.
Migrate Terraform projects to Pulumi. Use when users need to move infrastructure from Terraform to Pulumi, translate HCL configurations, or convert Terraform modules to Pulumi components.
Review code changes for quality, security, and correctness
Master Rust async programming with Tokio, async traits, error handling, and concurrent patterns. Use when building async Rust applications, implementing concurrent systems, or debugging async code.
Install and configure Tailscale across platforms. Detects OS, distro, and environment (including WSL2 and containers). Verifies existing installations, performs platform-appropriate install, and guides initial connection. Use when setting up Tailscale on a new machine, onboarding a server to a tailnet, or verifying an existing install.
Use when challenging ideas, plans, decisions, or proposals using structured critical reasoning. Invoke to play devil's advocate, run a pre-mortem, red team, or audit evidence and assumptions.
Systematic technical debt analysis across architecture, testing, documentation, and infrastructure. Investigates the codebase, scores findings by impact and effort, and generates a prioritized TECH_DEBT.md remediation plan. Delegates to specialized skills for code quality (scout) and linting (lint-fix). Use when assessing overall project health, planning cleanup sprints, or onboarding to an unfamiliar codebase.
Sync the yaah marketing website (website/index.html) with the current project state — features, CLI commands, skills, agents, hooks, and installation instructions. Use this skill whenever the user adds, removes, or changes a feature, CLI command, hook, skill, agent, MCP server, or LSP provider AND the website should reflect that change. Also use when the user explicitly asks to update, sync, or refresh the website, or says things like 'update the site', 'keep the website current', 'reflect this on the website', or 'the website is out of date'.
Defines service level objectives, creates error budget policies, designs incident response procedures, develops capacity models, and produces monitoring configurations and automation scripts for production systems. Use when defining SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, building reliable systems at scale, incident management, chaos engineering, toil reduction, or capacity planning.
Comprehensive security audit covering OWASP Top 10, secrets detection, supply chain security, threat modeling, and language-specific vulnerability patterns. Investigates actual code paths rather than grep-matching keywords. Generates a scored SECURITY_AUDIT.md with prioritized remediation. Use when assessing application security, preparing for a security review, or onboarding to a codebase with security concerns.
Scout Rule — identify the top 3 highest-impact improvement opportunities in files you're already touching. Analyzes entire file content, not just changed lines. Focuses on pre-existing code quality, not PR bugs. Use when preparing a PR, during code review, or after completing a feature.
Guide for writing idiomatic Rust code based on Apollo GraphQL's best practices handbook. Use this skill when: (1) writing new Rust code or functions, (2) reviewing or refactoring existing Rust code, (3) deciding between borrowing vs cloning or ownership patterns, (4) implementing error handling with Result types, (5) optimizing Rust code for performance, (6) writing tests or documentation for Rust projects.
Strategic roadmap management for GitHub repositories. Syncs ROADMAP.md with GitHub Issues and labels, bootstraps roadmap files from scratch, runs brainstorming sessions with boundary checking, and provides quick status summaries. Use when managing project planning, syncing roadmap state, or exploring feature ideas.
Scaffolds Pulumi TypeScript infrastructure-as-code projects, writes IaC code with proper resource configuration, manages Pulumi ESC environments for centralized secrets and configuration, configures OIDC authentication for cloud providers, and builds multi-language component resources. Use when the user asks to create Pulumi TypeScript projects, write Pulumi infrastructure code, set up ESC environments, configure OIDC for Pulumi, implement infrastructure automation with Node.js/TypeScript, create reusable Pulumi components, or work with stack references. Also use when the user mentions Pulumi with TypeScript, AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure in TypeScript, or PulumiPlugin.yaml for multi-language components.
Guide for authoring Pulumi ComponentResource classes. Use when creating reusable infrastructure components, designing component interfaces, setting up multi-language support, or distributing component packages.
Convert or migrate Azure ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates, Bicep templates, or code to Pulumi, including importing existing Azure resources. This skill MUST be loaded whenever a user requests migration, conversion, or import of ARM templates, Bicep templates, ARM code, Bicep code, or Azure resources to Pulumi.
Generate a PR_MESSAGE.md file from session context using GitHub CLI. Detects related issues via branch-keyword search, writes a structured PR description with commit subject, summary, test plan, and changelog. Validates with commitlint and markdownlint. Use when preparing a pull request on GitHub.
Detect project linting and validation tools, build an execution pipeline, run all tools to zero errors, and fix issues using an atomic fix protocol. Auto-detects Makefile targets, package.json scripts, Go tools, Python tools, and other common linters. Use when fixing linting errors, running validation pipelines, or ensuring code quality before committing.
Use when deploying or managing Kubernetes workloads. Invoke to create deployment manifests, configure pod security policies, set up service accounts, define network isolation rules, debug pod crashes, analyze resource limits, inspect container logs, or right-size workloads. Use for Helm charts, RBAC policies, NetworkPolicies, storage configuration, performance optimization, GitOps pipelines, and multi-cluster management.
Writes, debugs, and refactors JavaScript code using modern ES2023+ features, async/await patterns, ESM module systems, and Node.js APIs. Use when building vanilla JavaScript applications, implementing Promise-based async flows, optimising browser or Node.js performance, working with Web Workers or Fetch API, or reviewing .js/.mjs/.cjs files for correctness and best practices.
Implements concurrent Go patterns using goroutines and channels, designs and builds microservices with gRPC or REST, optimizes Go application performance with pprof, and enforces idiomatic Go with generics, interfaces, and robust error handling. Use when building Go applications requiring concurrent programming, microservices architecture, or high-performance systems. Invoke for goroutines, channels, Go generics, gRPC integration, CLI tools, benchmarks, or table-driven testing.
Builds Flux manifests locally, diffs YAML files, patches FluxInstance upgrades, creates authentication secrets, traces GitOps delivery pipelines, and bootstraps clusters with the Flux Operator. Use this skill whenever the user mentions flux-operator, FluxInstance, FluxReport, ResourceSet, ResourceSetInputProvider, Flux CD operator management, or asks about GitOps CLI tooling for Kubernetes with Flux. Also trigger when users ask about building Flux manifests, diffing YAML, patching Flux instances, creating Flux secrets, tracing GitOps delivery pipelines, or bootstrapping clusters with Flux. Even if the user just says "flux operator" or "flux-operator cli" without details, this skill has the authoritative reference.
Bootstraps Flux CD on Kubernetes clusters, creates and manages GitOps sources (Git/Helm/OCI/Bucket), configures kustomizations and Helm releases, reconciles resources, sets up image automation and alerting, and pushes OCI artifacts. Use this skill whenever the user mentions the flux CLI, flux bootstrap, flux create source, flux create kustomization, flux create helmrelease, flux reconcile, flux get, Flux CD, GitOps with Flux, or asks about managing Kubernetes deployments via GitOps. Also trigger when users ask about creating Git/Helm/OCI/Bucket sources, building or diffing kustomizations, pushing OCI artifacts, setting up image automation, creating Flux alerts/receivers, or bootstrapping Flux on GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Bitbucket. Even if the user just says "flux" in a Kubernetes context, this skill applies.
Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
Audit a codebase against well-known software design principles: SOLID, DRY, YAGNI, KISS, Law of Demeter, Separation of Concerns, Composition over Inheritance, and the code-relevant 12-Factor subset. Scores findings by impact and effort, runs adversarial debate on contested violations, and generates a prioritized DESIGN_AUDIT.md. Use when reviewing code quality beyond what linters catch, assessing design health before a refactor, or onboarding to an unfamiliar codebase. Can be invoked standalone or delegated from tech-debt.
Validate commit messages against the Conventional Commits specification. Auto-detects and installs commitlint CLI if missing. Checks project config or falls back to sensible defaults. Use when validating commit messages, preparing PRs, or enforcing commit conventions.
Use when building CLI tools, implementing argument parsing, or adding interactive prompts. Invoke for parsing flags and subcommands, displaying progress bars and spinners, generating bash/zsh/fish completion scripts, CLI design, shell completions, and cross-platform terminal applications using commander, click, typer, or cobra.
Use when designing new high-level system architecture, reviewing existing designs, or making architectural decisions. Invoke to create architecture diagrams, write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), evaluate technology trade-offs, design component interactions, and plan for scalability. Use for system design, architecture review, microservices structuring, ADR authoring, scalability planning, and infrastructure pattern selection — distinct from code-level design patterns or database-only design tasks.
Use when creating or updating AGENTS.md files, .github/copilot-instructions.md, or other AI agent rule files, onboarding AI agents to a project, standardizing agent documentation, or when anyone mentions AGENTS.md, agent rules, project onboarding, or codebase documentation for AI agents.
Prepares Go applications to work effectively with AI coding agents. Use when setting up a new Go project or retrofitting an existing one to ensure: structured JSON logging (slog/Zap/ZeroLog/Logrus), machine-readable command output, thorough golangci-lint configuration, non-interactive CLI design with --yes flags, structured error handling with meaningful exit codes, proper context.Context propagation, graceful shutdown, health check endpoints, and a standardized Makefile. Triggers when a user asks to make their Go app "agent-ready," "AI-friendly," wants to improve agent tooling/observability in a Go project, or needs to audit an existing Go project against agent-readiness best practices.
Generates Spring Boot 3.x configurations, creates REST controllers, implements Spring Security 6 authentication flows, sets up Spring Data JPA repositories, and configures reactive WebFlux endpoints. Use when building Spring Boot 3.x applications, microservices, or reactive Java applications; invoke for Spring Data JPA, Spring Security 6, WebFlux, Spring Cloud integration, Java REST API design, or Microservices Java architecture.
Create pull requests with structured description