Claude Skills by curiositech

Choosing and operating an HTTP API versioning strategy that doesn't break clients — Stripe's date-based pinned versions, the Deprecation/Sunset header pair (RFC 9745 + RFC 8594), URI vs header vs media-type approaches, and the version-transformer pattern. Grounded in Stripe's published architecture and IETF RFCs.

Design decisions for when and what sounds to use in web apps, mobile apps, and desktop native apps — plus how to create them with AI. Covers UI sound vocabulary (confirms, alerts, transitions, errors), platform conventions (iOS, macOS, Material), creating sounds with AI tools (ElevenLabs, AudioCraft, Stable Audio), Web Audio API for procedural sounds, haptic-audio pairing, and the psychology of satisfying vs. annoying UI sounds. Activate on 'app sounds', 'UI sounds', 'notification sound', 'so...

App Store and Google Play submission automator with Fastlane, screenshot automation, metadata management, and TestFlight/internal testing. Activate on: app store submission, Fastlane, TestFlight, Google Play Console, screenshot automation, metadata management, app review, code signing, provisioning profiles. NOT for: CI/CD pipeline setup (use github-actions-pipeline-builder), app architecture (use react-native-architect), analytics (use mobile-analytics-crash-reporting-expert).

Systematic methodology for eliciting, representing, and operationalizing expert cognitive skills—pattern recognition, situation assessment, mental simulation—from practitioners without requiring research training. Bridges academic rigor and practical usability.

Use when building content-heavy sites with Astro, deciding between SSG/SSR/hybrid, choosing client directives (idle/visible/load/media), structuring content collections with type-safe schemas, integrating React/Vue/Solid/Svelte components in the same project, or migrating from Next.js for marketing/docs. Triggers: client:idle vs client:load tradeoffs, content collections schema with zod, image optimization via @astrojs/image, view transitions, server islands, MDX layouts. NOT for SPA-style ap...

Build audio transcription pipelines with Whisper, Deepgram, and AssemblyAI including speaker diarization and real-time streaming. Activate on: transcription, speech-to-text, diarization, audio processing, meeting transcripts. NOT for: text-to-speech synthesis (voice-audio-engineer), music generation (ai-engineer).

Automatically intercepts and optimizes prompts using the prompt-learning MCP server. Learns from performance over time via embedding-indexed history. Uses APE, OPRO, DSPy patterns. Activate on "optimize prompt", "improve this prompt", "prompt engineering", or ANY complex task request. Requires prompt-learning MCP server. NOT for simple questions (just answer them), NOT for direct commands (just execute them), NOT for conversational responses (no optimization needed).

Design roadside signs and large-format ads for businesses, especially automotive dealers. Use for pylon signs, monument signs, lot banners, highway billboards, digital roadside boards, service-lane

AWS CDK infrastructure builder using TypeScript with L2/L3 constructs and Well-Architected patterns. Activate on: AWS CDK, CDK construct, CDK stack, CDK pipeline, AWS infrastructure as code TypeScript, L2 construct, CDK patterns. NOT for: Terraform IaC (use terraform-module-builder), Kubernetes manifests (use kubernetes-manifest-generator), serverless framework (use devops-automator).

Refactor apps so backend owns runtime truth and UI only projects snapshots. Use when tools have split authority. NOT for cosmetic UI work or new features before drift is removed.

Expert in background job processing with Bull/BullMQ (Redis), Celery, and cloud queues. Implements retries, scheduling, priority queues, and worker management. Use for async task processing, email campaigns, report generation, batch operations. Activate on "background job", "async task", "queue", "worker", "BullMQ", "Celery". NOT for real-time WebSocket communication, synchronous API calls, or simple setTimeout operations.

Use when designing a background-job system, choosing between BullMQ / Sidekiq / RQ / Temporal / SQS, deciding queue-vs-workflow, sizing concurrency vs rate limits, building dead-letter queues, or making handlers idempotent. Triggers: jobs running twice on retry, lost jobs after worker crash, DLQ filling up, Redis OOM from job backlog, exactly-once requested, "do we need Temporal?", visibility timeout / lockDuration confusion, exponential backoff vs jitter, fan-out fan-in workflows. NOT for ou...

Describe patterns that may indicate bad-faith or manipulative communication including gish gallop, whataboutism, tone policing, motte-and-bailey, sealioning, lying by omission, deflection, and strategic evasion. Use when the user suspects manipulation, notices repeated non-engagement, wants to analyze debate tactics, or mentions 'bad faith', 'deflection', 'manipulation', 'dodging the question', 'avoiding the issue', 'gaslighting', 'moving goalposts'. Describes behavioral patterns without maki...

Spark, pandas, polars, DuckDB optimization for batch data processing. Activate on: batch processing, Spark optimization, polars, DuckDB, pandas performance, data frame, shuffle, partition, memory optimization. NOT for: streaming pipelines (use streaming-pipeline-architect), warehouse queries (use data-warehouse-optimizer).

BDI (Beliefs-Desires-Intentions) agency framework for designing autonomous agents with mental state architectures

Design patterns for BDI agents using the MORA methodology for practical multi-agent system development

Model organizations as BDI systems with filtered perception, discourse-shaped desires, accommodations, and abstraction-level hierarchy. Use for socio-technical coordination and organizational modeling. NOT for mechanistic workflows, individual psychology, or non-social domains.

Implement executable BDI reasoning with explicit negation, paraconsistent revision, trigger-based commitment updates, and abduction. Use for runtime agent semantics and conflicting desires. NOT for purely axiomatic modal logic, black-box planners, or classical logic without operational semantics.

Integration of BDI agent architecture with soft systems methodology for complex organizational problem-solving

Expert in making CLI tools visually stunning and delightful — not just functional. Covers ANSI color systems (16/256/truecolor with graceful degradation), Unicode box drawing, progress indicators, tables, animated output, ASCII art, rich text, interactive prompts, and full TUI frameworks (Ink, Bubble Tea, Ratatui, Rich, Clack). Activate on: "make this CLI beautiful", "terminal UI", "CLI design", "pretty output", "progress bar", "spinner", "CLI table", "terminal colors", "TUI framework", "inte...

Design and build beautiful, accessible graphical interfaces — web, desktop (Electron/Tauri), and native (iOS/macOS/Android). Use for visual hierarchy and layout, color and theming (light/dark, semantic tokens, WCAG contrast), typography systems, motion and micro-interactions, accessibility, component systems and design tokens, responsive/adaptive layout, and platform-native idioms. The GUI counterpart to beautiful-cli-design. NOT for terminal/CLI output (use beautiful-cli-design) or API/data ...

JADE platform for building FIPA-compliant multi-agent systems with standardized agent communication

Blue-green and canary deployment orchestrator with traffic shifting and automated rollback. Activate on: blue-green deployment, canary release, rolling deployment, traffic shifting, rollback automation, progressive delivery, Argo Rollouts, Flagger. NOT for: K8s manifest generation (use kubernetes-manifest-generator), CI/CD pipeline setup (use github-actions-pipeline-builder), monitoring (use monitoring-stack-deployer).

Jason multi-agent platform implementing AgentSpeak(L) for practical BDI agent programming and deployment

Expert bot developer specializing in Discord, Telegram, Slack automation with deep knowledge of rate limiting, state machines, event sourcing, moderation systems, and conversational AI integration. Activate on 'Discord bot', 'Telegram bot', 'Slack bot', 'chat automation', 'moderation system'. NOT for web APIs (use backend-architect), general automation scripts (use python-pro), or frontend chat widgets (use frontend-developer).

Use for bounded reasoning, partial planning, commitment policy, deliberation cost, and reconsideration-threshold design instead of assuming free deliberation. NOT for exhaustive planning, static optimization, or domains where reconsideration cost is irrelevant.

Capstone/orchestration skill — build an M-Agent + N-Human cooperative IDE in Rust gpui (the Harbor): many agents and humans co-editing the same files as co-equal CRDT replicas, governed by claims/guard/salvage, across LAN/shared/remote harbors. The INDEX that dispatches into the sibling rust skills. Use when building the collaborative editor, the agent-fleet console, multiplayer editing with agents-as-peers, or any slice of the Harbor. Trigger on: cooperative IDE, collaborative editor, multip...

Verifies build output integrity after code changes. Runs builds, validates artifact structure, checks for regressions in bundle size, asset references, and static export completeness. The last line of defense before a bad deploy ships.

Redis caching patterns, cache-aside, write-through, TTL strategies, and invalidation. Activate on: caching, Redis, cache invalidation, cache-aside, write-through, TTL, CDN cache, stale-while-revalidate. NOT for: CDN/reverse proxy setup (use api-gateway-reverse-proxy-expert), database query optimization (use data-warehouse-optimizer).

Design multi-tier caching architectures for web applications — cache-aside vs write-through vs write-behind, TTL design, cache invalidation, Redis patterns, CDN configuration, browser caching, and stampede prevention. Use when choosing a caching pattern, designing cache invalidation strategies, implementing Redis caching, configuring Cache-Control headers, or preventing cache stampedes. Activate on "cache invalidation", "cache-aside", "write-through", "TTL", "Redis cache", "CDN caching", "cac...

AI-powered career biographer that conducts empathetic interviews, extracts structured career narratives, and transforms professional stories into portfolios, CVs, and personal brand assets. This skill should be used when users want to document their career journey, create professional portfolios, generate CVs, or craft compelling career narratives.

Naturalistic causal reasoning for failures and disputed attribution. Use when postmortems or root-cause debates need reframing. NOT for causal inference, fault trees, or fully observed failures.

Expert causal reasoning and mental model construction for diagnosis and prediction in complex domains

Designing HTTP cache headers that work correctly across browsers, CDNs, and shared proxies — `Cache-Control` directives per RFC 9111, `stale-while-revalidate` and `stale-if-error` per RFC 5861, the Vary header for varying responses, and surrogate keys for tag-based purging. Grounded in IETF RFCs and Cloudflare/Fastly docs.

Implement AI chatbot analytics and conversation monitoring. Use when adding conversation metrics, tracking AI usage, measuring user engagement with chat, or building conversation dashboards. Activates for AI analytics, token tracking, conversation categorization, and chat performance.

Design and implement systematic checklists that reduce errors by 30-50% in complex, high-stakes domains (medicine, aviation, construction, finance). NOT for simple tasks or when comprehensive instruction is needed.

license: Apache-2.0 NOT for unrelated tasks outside this domain.

CI/CD caching optimizer for dependency caching, Docker layer caching, and build speed improvements. Activate on: CI cache, build speed, dependency caching, Docker layer cache, turbo remote cache, GitHub Actions cache, pnpm store cache. NOT for: CI/CD pipeline creation (use github-actions-pipeline-builder), deployment strategy (use blue-green-deployment-orchestrator), Docker image building (use docker-multi-stage-optimizer).

Interprets GitHub Actions run status and logs, diagnoses CI failure patterns, and suggests targeted fixes. Handles dependency install failures, test timeouts, build OOM, flaky tests, and workflow misconfigurations. Activate on: 'CI failing', 'build broken', 'workflow error', 'GitHub Actions debug', 'flaky CI', 'pipeline timeout', 'CI red'. NOT for: writing new workflows from scratch (use github-actions-pipeline-builder), CI caching strategy (use ci-cache-optimizer), deployment orchestration (...

Building resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries with full-jitter exponential backoff, retry budgets (per-request 3-attempt + per-client 10% ratio per Google SRE), deadline propagation, and the cascading-failure math (4 layers × 3 retries = 64x amplification). Grounded in Resilience4j, Microsoft Cloud Patterns, AWS Architecture Blog (Marc Brooker), and Google SRE Book.

Marketing and promotion specialist for Claude ecosystem technology - MCP servers, skills, plugins, and agents. Expert in community engagement, registry submissions, content marketing, and developer relations. Activate on 'promote MCP', 'share skill', 'market plugin', 'launch agent', 'developer marketing', 'MCP registry'. NOT for creating MCPs/skills (use agent-creator), general marketing (use content-marketer), or SEO optimization (use seo-visibility-expert).

Identify and counteract cognitive biases in medical decision-making through systematic error analysis and contextual algorithm application. For diagnostic reasoning, treatment decisions, and clinical judgment improvement. NOT for basic medical knowledge, technical procedures, or non-clinical healthcare domains.

Semantic image-text matching with CLIP and alternatives. Use for image search, zero-shot classification, similarity matching. NOT for counting objects, fine-grained classification (celebrities, car models), spatial reasoning, or compositional queries. Activate on "CLIP", "embeddings", "image similarity", "semantic search", "zero-shot classification", "image-text matching".

Cloudflare Pages CI/CD with preview environments, edge functions, and Wrangler automation. Activate on: Cloudflare Pages, Wrangler deploy, preview environment, edge function, Pages project, Cloudflare Workers integration, custom domain on Pages. NOT for: Worker-specific development (use cloudflare-worker-dev), DNS management (use devops-automator), full-stack app frameworks (use vercel-deployment).

Cloudflare Workers, KV, Durable Objects, and edge computing development. Use for serverless APIs, caching, rate limiting, real-time features. Activate on "Workers", "KV", "Durable Objects", "wrangler", "edge function", "Cloudflare". NOT for Cloudflare Pages configuration (use deployment docs), DNS management, or general CDN settings.

Use when wrangler deploys silently fail or produce wrong artifacts, secrets upload as empty strings, custom domain DNS is not resolving, route assignment broke after rename, observability/tail logs are needed, D1/KV/R2 bindings are missing, OAuth scope errors block a command, cookies on a redirect are not attaching, or the worker exceeds CPU time. Triggers: "Tenant or user not found", "Authentication error" on wrangler d1 push, secret length is 0 after upload, route returns origin not worker,...

Expert in cluttering -- the lesser-known fluency disorder characterized by rapid/irregular speech rate, excessive disfluencies, and frequent ADHD comorbidity. Covers differential diagnosis from stuttering, assessment protocols, therapy approaches (rate control, self-monitoring, pragmatic awareness), technology-assisted intervention, and AI tools for people who clutter. Activate on 'cluttering', 'rapid speech disorder', 'speech rate too fast', 'speech disfluency not stuttering', 'disorganized ...

Application architecture patterns and code organization — clean architecture, hexagonal architecture, feature-based structure, dependency inversion, module boundaries, SOLID principles at module scale. Activate on "clean architecture", "hexagonal architecture", "feature-based structure", "dependency inversion", "module boundaries", "architecture pattern", "folder structure", "fat controller", "circular dependency", "IoC container". NOT for microservice decomposition (use microservices-pattern...

Systematic framework for resurrecting and modernizing legacy codebases through archaeology, resurrection, and rejuvenation phases. Activate on "legacy code", "inherited codebase", "no documentation", "technical debt", "resurrect", "modernize". NOT for greenfield projects or well-documented active codebases.

Generates comprehensive, context-aware code review checklists tailored to the specific codebase, programming language, and team standards. Analyzes PR diffs and suggests what reviewers should focus on.