Claude Skills by bouclem

LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG systems, LangChain, and AI application development

PyTorch, TensorFlow, neural networks, CNNs, transformers, and deep learning for production

PyTorch, TensorFlow, neural networks, CNNs, transformers, and deep learning for production

Supervised & unsupervised learning, scikit-learn, XGBoost, model evaluation, feature engineering for production ML

MLflow, model versioning, experiment tracking, model registry, and production ML systems

Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native deployment for data applications

Prometheus, Grafana, logging, alerting, and data pipeline observability

Data pipeline architecture, ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling, and production data platform design

Performs numerical and symbolic mathematics using NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, and mpmath. Use when the user needs linear algebra, arrays, optimization, integration, ODEs, symbolic expressions, equation solving, or arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Statistics, probability, linear algebra, and mathematical foundations for data science

MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and distributed database patterns for scalable applications

SQL query optimization, schema design, indexing strategies, and relational database mastery for production data systems

Analyze MSBuild binary logs to diagnose build failures. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: build errors that are unclear from console output, diagnosing cascading failures across multi-project builds, tracing MSBuild target execution order, and generally any MSBuild build issues. Requires an existing .binlog file. DO NOT USE FOR: generating binlogs (use binlog-generation), non-MSBuild build systems. INVOKES: binlog MCP server tools (overview, errors, search, items, properti...

Guide for optimizing MSBuild build parallelism and multi-project scheduling. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: builds not utilizing all CPU cores, speeding up multi-project solutions, evaluating graph build mode (/graph), build time not improving with -m flag, understanding project dependency topology. Note: /maxcpucount default is 1 (sequential) — always use -m for parallel builds. Covers /maxcpucount, graph build for better scheduling and isolation, BuildInParallel on MS...

Establish build performance baselines and apply systematic optimization techniques. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: diagnosing slow builds, establishing before/after measurements (cold, warm, no-op scenarios), applying optimization strategies like MSBuild Server, static graph builds, artifacts output, and dependency graph trimming. Start here before diving into build-perf-diagnostics, incremental-build, or build-parallelism. DO NOT USE FOR: non-MSBuild build systems, det...

Diagnose MSBuild build performance bottlenecks using binary log analysis. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: identifying why builds are slow by analyzing binlog performance summaries, detecting ResolveAssemblyReference (RAR) taking >5s, Roslyn analyzers consuming >30% of Csc time, single targets dominating >50% of build time, node utilization below 80%, excessive Copy tasks, NuGet restore running every build. Covers timeline analysis, Target/Task Performance Summary interpr...

Detects MSBuild projects with conflicting OutputPath or IntermediateOutputPath. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: builds failing with 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists', 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process', intermittent build failures that succeed on retry, missing outputs in multi-project builds, multi-targeting builds where project.assets.json conflicts. Diagnoses when multiple projects or TFMs write to the s...

Guide for organizing MSBuild infrastructure with Directory.Build.props, Directory.Build.targets, Directory.Packages.props, and Directory.Build.rsp. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: structuring multi-project repos, centralizing build settings, implementing NuGet Central Package Management (CPM) with ManagePackageVersionsCentrally, consolidating duplicated properties across .csproj files, setting up multi-level Directory.Build hierarchy with GetPathOfFileAbove, understandin...

Guide for diagnosing and improving MSBuild project evaluation performance. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: builds slow before any compilation starts, high evaluation time in binlog analysis, expensive glob patterns walking large directories (node_modules, .git, bin/obj), deep import chains (>20 levels), preprocessed output >10K lines indicating heavy evaluation, property functions with file I/O ($([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText(...))), multiple evaluations per project. Co...

Fix MSBuild targets that generate files during the build but those files are missing from compilation or output. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: generated source files not compiling (CS0246 for a type that should exist), custom build tasks that create files but they are invisible to subsequent targets, globs not capturing build-generated files because they expand at evaluation time before execution creates them, ensuring generated files are cleaned by the Clean target. C...

Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing why targets re-execute unnecessarily, fixing broken no-op builds. Covers 8 common causes: missing Inputs/Outputs on custom targets, volatile properties in output paths (timestamps/GUIDs), file writes outside tracked Outputs, missing FileWrites registration, glob changes, Visual Studio Fast Up...

Guide for using MSBuild Server to improve CLI build performance. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Activate when developers report slow incremental builds from the command line, or when CLI builds are noticeably slower than IDE builds. Covers MSBUILDUSESERVER=1 environment variable for persistent server-based caching. Do not activate for IDE-based builds (Visual Studio already uses a long-lived process).

Guide for interpreting ResolveProjectReferences time in MSBuild performance summaries. Only activate in MSBuild/.NET build context. Activate when ResolveProjectReferences appears as the most expensive target and developers are trying to optimize it directly. Explains that the reported time includes wait time for dependent project builds and is misleading. Guides users to focus on task self-time instead. Do not activate for general build performance -- use build-perf-diagnostics instead.

Scans .NET code for ~50 performance anti-patterns across async, memory, strings, collections, LINQ, regex, serialization, and I/O with tiered severity classification. Use when analyzing .NET code for optimization opportunities, reviewing hot paths, or auditing allocation-heavy patterns.

Diagnoses .NET Framework CLR activation issues using CLR activation logs (CLRLoad logs) produced by mscoree.dll. Use when: the shim picks the wrong runtime, fails to load any runtime, shows unexpected .NET 3.5 Feature-on-Demand (FOD) dialogs, unexpectedly does NOT show FOD dialogs, loads both v2 and v4 into the same process causing failures, or any time someone is wondering "what is happening with .NET Framework activation?"

Diagnose devcontainer configuration problems and guide development environment setup. This skill should be used when the user asks to 'set up devcontainer', 'fix container startup', 'configure VS Code dev container', 'Codespaces setup', or has Docker development environment issues. Keywords: devcontainer, docker, VS Code, Codespaces, container, development environment, Dockerfile.

Git workflows, branching strategies, collaboration, and code management

Analyzes the variety and depth of assertions across .NET test suites. Use when the user asks to evaluate assertion quality, find shallow testing, identify assertion-free tests (no assertions or only trivial ones like Assert.IsNotNull), flag self-referential or tautological assertions (output equals input on identity/round-trip operations), measure assertion coverage diversity, or audit whether tests verify different facets of correctness. Produces metrics and actionable recommendations. Works...

Generates and writes new unit tests for any programming language using a Research-Plan-Implement pipeline. Use when asked to generate tests, write unit tests, add tests, improve test coverage, create test project, achieve high coverage, comprehensive tests, or asked to scaffold a new test project for an app, service, or library. Supports C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, and more. Orchestrates the code-testing-generator sub-agent through research, planning, and implementatio...

Provides file paths to language-specific extension files for the code-testing pipeline. Call this skill to discover available extension guidance files (e.g., dotnet.md for .NET, cpp.md for C++). Do not use directly — invoked by code-testing agents and skills that need language-specific references.

Project-wide code coverage and CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) score analysis for .NET projects. Calculates CRAP scores per method and surfaces risk hotspots — complex code with low coverage that is dangerous to modify. Use to diagnose why coverage is stuck or plateaued, identify what methods block improvement, or get project-wide coverage analysis with risk ranking. USE FOR: coverage stuck, coverage plateau, can't increase coverage, what's blocking coverage, coverage gap, CRAP scores, risk ...

Calculates targeted CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) scores for a named .NET method, class, or single source file. Use when the user explicitly asks to compute CRAP scores or assess risky untested code for a specific target, combining Cobertura coverage data with cyclomatic complexity analysis. DO NOT USE FOR: project-wide coverage analysis, coverage plateau or "stuck coverage" diagnosis, what's blocking coverage, or where to add tests across a project (use coverage-analysis); writing tests; ...

Scan C# source files for hard-to-test static dependencies — DateTime.Now/UtcNow, File.*, Directory.*, Environment.*, HttpClient, Console.*, Process.*, and other untestable statics. Produces a ranked report of static call sites by frequency. USE FOR: find untestable statics, scan for static dependencies, testability audit, identify hard-to-mock code, find DateTime.Now usage, detect static coupling, testability report, static analysis for testability. DO NOT USE FOR: generating wrappers (use ge...

Reference data for .NET test framework detection patterns, assertion APIs, skip annotations, setup/teardown methods, and common test smell indicators across MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, and TUnit. Loaded by test analysis skills (test-anti-patterns) as framework-specific lookup tables.

Detects duplicate boilerplate, copy-paste tests, and structural maintainability issues across .NET test suites. Use when the user asks to reduce repetition, consolidate similar test methods, convert copy-paste tests to data-driven parameterized tests, suggest a better test structure, or identify refactoring opportunities. Identifies repeated construction, assertion patterns, copy-paste methods convertible to DataRow/Theory/TestCase, redundant setup/teardown, and shared infrastructure. Produce...

Reference data for test filter syntax across all platform and framework combinations: VSTest --filter expressions, MTP filters for MSTest/NUnit/xUnit v3/TUnit, and VSTest-to-MTP filter translation. DO NOT USE directly — loaded by run-tests, mtp-hot-reload, and migrate-vstest-to-mtp when they need filter syntax.

Generate wrapper interfaces and DI registration for hard-to-test static dependencies in C#. Produces IFileSystem, IEnvironmentProvider, IConsole, IProcessRunner wrappers, or guides adoption of TimeProvider and IHttpClientFactory. USE FOR: generate wrapper for static, create IFileSystem wrapper, wrap DateTime.Now, make static testable, make class testable, create abstraction for File.*, generate DI registration, TimeProvider adoption, IHttpClientFactory setup, testability wrapper, mock-friendl...

Migrate MSTest v1 or v2 test project to MSTest v3. Use when user says "upgrade MSTest", "upgrade to MSTest v3", "migrate to MSTest v3", "update test framework", "modernize tests", "MSTest v3 migration", "MSTest compatibility", "MSTest v2 to v3", or build errors after updating MSTest packages from 1.x/2.x to 3.x. USE FOR: upgrading from MSTest v1 assembly references (Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework) or MSTest v2 NuGet (MSTest.TestFramework 1.x-2.x) to MSTest v3, fixing as...

Fix build errors and breaking changes after upgrading MSTest from v3 to v4, or plan a complete MSTest v3-to-v4 migration. Use when user says "upgrade to MSTest v4", "MSTest 4 migration", "MSTest v4 breaking changes", "tests don't compile after upgrading MSTest", or has errors CS0507, CS0103, CS1061, CS1615 after updating MSTest packages from 3.x to 4.x. USE FOR: Execute to ExecuteAsync, CallerInfo constructor on TestMethodAttribute, sealed custom attributes, ClassCleanupBehavior removal, Test...

Migrates .NET test projects from VSTest to Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP). Use when user asks to "migrate to MTP", "switch from VSTest", "enable Microsoft.Testing.Platform", "use MTP runner", or mentions EnableMSTestRunner, EnableNUnitRunner, or UseMicrosoftTestingPlatformRunner. USE FOR: MTP behavioral differences vs VSTest (exit code 8, zero tests discovered), --ignore-exit-code, TESTINGPLATFORM_EXITCODE_IGNORE. Supports MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net v2 (via YTest.MTP.XUnit2), and xUnit.net v3...

Migrates .NET test projects from xUnit.net v2 to xUnit.net v3. USE FOR: upgrading xunit to xunit.v3. DO NOT USE FOR: migrating between test frameworks (MSTest/NUnit to xUnit.net), migrating from VSTest to Microsoft.Testing.Platform (use migrate-vstest-to-mtp). For xUnit v3 MTP filter syntax (--filter-class, --filter-trait, --filter-query), also load migrate-vstest-to-mtp.

Suggests using Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP) hot reload to iterate fixes on failing tests without rebuilding. Use when user says "hot reload tests", "iterate on test fix", "run tests without rebuilding", "speed up test loop", "fix test faster", or needs to set up MTP hot reload to rapidly iterate on test failures. Covers setup (NuGet package, environment variable, launchSettings.json) and the iterative workflow for fixing tests. DO NOT USE FOR: writing test code, diagnosing test failures, ...

Reference data for detecting the test platform (VSTest vs Microsoft.Testing.Platform) and test framework (MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, TUnit) from project files. DO NOT USE directly — loaded by run-tests, mtp-hot-reload, and migrate-vstest-to-mtp when they need detection logic.

Detection-focused review of .NET test code for anti-patterns that undermine reliability and diagnostic value. USE FOR: audit test quality, review test code, find test anti-patterns, tests pass but don't verify anything, flaky tests, ordering dependency, duplicate tests, magic values, missing/no assertions, swallowed exceptions, always-true assertions, over-mocking, test coupling, coverage touching, coverage inflation. DO NOT USE FOR: writing new tests (use writing-mstest-tests), direct MSTest...

Performs pseudo-mutation analysis on .NET production code to find gaps in existing test suites. Use when the user asks to find weak tests, discover untested edge cases, check if tests would catch a bug, or evaluate test effectiveness through mutation-style reasoning. Analyzes production code for mutation points (boundary conditions, boolean flips, null returns, exception removal, arithmetic changes) and checks whether existing tests would detect each mutation. Works with MSTest, xUnit, NUnit,...

Deep formal test smell audit based on academic research taxonomy (testsmells.org). Detects 19 categorized smell types — conditional logic, mystery guests, sensitive equality, eager tests, and more — with calibrated severity and research-backed remediation. Use for comprehensive test suite health assessments. For a quick pragmatic review, use test-anti-patterns instead. DO NOT USE FOR: writing new tests (use writing-mstest-tests), evaluating assertion quality specifically (use assertion-qualit...

Analyzes test suites and tags each test with a standardized set of traits (e.g., positive, negative, critical-path, boundary, smoke, regression). Use when the user wants to categorize, audit, or label tests with traits. Do not use for writing new tests, running tests, or migrating test frameworks.

pytest, data validation, Great Expectations, and quality assurance for data systems

Write new MSTest unit tests and implement concrete fixes in existing MSTest code using MSTest 3.x/4.x modern APIs and best practices. USE FOR: write unit tests for a class, write MSTest tests, create test class, fix test assertions, MSTest assertion APIs (StartsWith, EndsWith, MatchesRegex, IsGreaterThan, IsInRange, HasCount, IsNull), something seems off with my tests, review tests and fix issues, fix swapped Assert.AreEqual arguments, replace ExpectedException with Assert.Throws, modernize t...

Guide AI agents through Electron app development with React including security patterns, type-safe IPC, React integration, packaging with code signing, and testing. Keywords: electron, electron-vite, electron-forge, contextBridge, IPC, security, react, packaging, code signing, notarization, playwright, desktop app.