Claude Skills by joelhooks

Create new joelclaw skills with the idiomatic process — repo-canonical, symlinked, git-tracked, slogged. Triggers on 'add a skill', 'create skill', 'new skill', 'canonical skill', 'make a skill for', or any request to formalize a process or domain into a reusable skill.

Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) optimized for agentic coding workflows. Use when you need to propose, write, update, accept/reject, deprecate, or supersede an ADR; bootstrap an adr folder and index; consult existing ADRs before implementing changes; or enforce ADR conventions. This skill uses Socratic questioning to capture intent before drafting, and validates output against an agent-readiness checklist.

Optimize websites, docs, and product surfaces for agent discoverability and operator UX. Use when working on agent SEO/AEO/GEO, crawl policy, markdown or JSON projections, llms.txt, sitemap.md, AGENTS.md guidance, content negotiation, accessibility for browser agents, or any request to make a site easier for pi, OpenCode, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or other agent harnesses to find and use.

Start, monitor, and cancel durable multi-agent coding loops via Inngest. Use when the user wants to run autonomous coding workloads, execute a PRD with multiple stories, kick off an AFK coding session, have agents implement features from a plan, or manage running loops. Triggers on "start a coding loop", "run this PRD", "implement these stories", "go AFK and code this", "check loop status", "cancel the loop", "joelclaw loop", or any request for autonomous multi-story code execution.

Backward-compatible alias for the canonical clawmail protocol. Use when older prompts mention 'agent-mail'. For full, current coordination rules load the `clawmail` skill.

Compatibility alias for the canonical `workflow-rig` front door. Use when older prompts mention `agent-workloads` or when you need the legacy workload-planning guidance; for new work, load `workflow-rig` first.

Query Ahrefs SEO data via their MCP server — keyword research, site explorer, SERP analysis, competitor research, backlink analysis, and Brand Radar AI visibility. Use when researching keywords, analyzing competitors, checking backlinks, auditing sites, or any SEO data task. Triggers on 'keyword research', 'check backlinks', 'competitor analysis', 'ahrefs', 'search volume', 'keyword difficulty', 'domain rating', 'SERP analysis', 'SEO data', 'brand radar', or any request needing search engine ...

Vercel AI Gateway expert guidance. Use when configuring model routing, provider failover, cost tracking, or managing multiple AI providers through a unified API.

Turn ephemeral discussion into durable truth in the right artifact. Use when Joel says "capture this", "note this", "write this down", "make this durable", "put this in the doc", or whenever a conversation conclusion should be preserved in project docs, launch plans, lat.md, ADRs, tasks, or memory.

Canonical joelclaw mail coordination protocol for all agents. Use when announcing work, checking inboxes, reserving files, releasing locks, handling task handoffs, triaging stale reservations, or auditing coordination quality. Triggers on: 'clawmail', 'agent mail', 'joelclaw mail', 'reserve files', 'release locks', 'handoff', 'agent coordination', 'mail status', or any multi-agent collaboration workflow.

Design and build agent-first CLIs with HATEOAS JSON responses, context-protecting output, and self-documenting command trees. Use when creating new CLI tools, adding commands to existing CLIs (joelclaw, slog), or reviewing CLI design for agent-friendliness. Triggers on 'build a CLI', 'add a command', 'CLI design', 'agent-friendly output', or any task involving command-line tool creation.

Use this skill for any request to trigger, coordinate, or craft prompts for Codex. Use when user says 'send to codex', 'use codex', 'prompt codex', 'ask codex', 'delegate to codex', 'run in codex', or asks for a Codex-first execution handoff.

Add, enrich, and manage contacts in Joel's Vault. Fire the Inngest enrichment pipeline for full multi-source dossiers, or create quick contacts manually. Use when: 'add a contact', 'enrich this person', 'who is X', 'VIP contact', 'update contact', or any task involving the Vault/Contacts directory.

Publish content to joelclaw.com via the Convex-first pipeline. Covers the full lifecycle: draft → review → publish → revalidate → verify. Handles secret leasing, tag conventions, content types (article, tutorial, note, essay), and verification gates. Use when: 'write article about X', 'publish article <slug>', 'draft a tutorial', 'publish this', 'push to convex', or any content publishing task.

Contribute fixes, bug reports, and upstream discussions to badlogic/pi-mono without wasting maintainer time. Use when filing pi issues, preparing pi PRs, debugging whether a bug belongs upstream, or responding to maintainer pushback. Triggers on: 'contribute to pi', 'pi-mono issue', 'upstream pi fix', 'open a pi issue', 'why did Mario reject this', or any work in ~/Code/badlogic/pi-mono meant for upstream.

Generate a daily system activity summary across all joelclaw subsystems. Triggers on 'daily summary', 'what happened today', 'system report', 'today's tally', 'activity summary', 'what did we do', 'daily report'.

Capture interesting finds to the Vault via Inngest. Triggers when the user shares a URL, repo, or idea with signal words like \"interesting\", \"cool\", \"neat\", \"check this out\", \"look at this\", \"came across\", or when sharing content with minimal context that implies it should be remembered. Also triggers on bare URL drops with no explicit ask. Fires a discovery/noted event and continues the conversation — the pipeline handles everything else.

Create, manage, and execute agent tools (claude, codex) inside Docker sandboxes for isolated code execution. Use when running agent loops, spawning tool subprocesses, or any task requiring process isolation. Triggers on "sandbox", "isolated execution", "docker sandbox", "safe agent execution", or when working on agent loop infrastructure.

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.

Joel's private egghead.io Slack integration — channel taxonomy, token config, passive monitoring, and message intelligence pipeline.

Triage Joel's email inboxes via the joelclaw email CLI. Scan, categorize, archive noise, surface actionable items, and draft replies. Use when: 'check my email', 'scan inbox', 'triage email', 'what needs a reply', 'clean up inbox', 'archive junk', 'email summary', 'anything important in email', or any request involving email inbox review or cleanup.

Generate emoji-based favicons, Apple touch icons, and OG images using emojico. Use when adding or updating favicons for any project. Never use a default emoji — always ask Joel which emoji to use.

Diagnose gateway failures by reading daemon logs, session transcripts, Redis state, and OTEL telemetry. Full Telegram path triage: daemon process → Redis channel → command queue → pi session → model API → Telegram delivery. Use when: 'gateway broken', 'telegram not working', 'why is gateway down', 'gateway not responding', 'check gateway logs', 'what happened to gateway', 'gateway diagnose', 'gateway errors', 'review gateway logs', 'fallback activated', 'gateway stuck', or any request to unde...

Set up a persistent AI agent gateway on macOS with Redis event bridge, heartbeat monitoring, and multi-session routing. Interactive Q&A to match your intent — from minimal (Redis + extension) to full (embedded daemon + Telegram + watchdog). Use when: 'set up a gateway', 'I want my agent always on', 'event bridge', 'heartbeat monitoring', 'agent notifications', or any request to make an AI agent persistent and reachable.

Operate the joelclaw gateway daemon — the always-on pi session that receives events, notifications, and messages. Use the joelclaw CLI for ALL gateway operations. Use when: 'restart gateway', 'gateway status', 'is gateway healthy', 'push to gateway', 'gateway not responding', 'telegram not working', 'messages not going through', 'gateway stuck', 'gateway debug', 'check gateway', 'drain queue', 'test gateway', 'stream events', or any task involving the gateway daemon.

Interact with the GitHub API as the joelclawgithub[bot] app. Use when creating PRs, pushing commits, managing issues, checking CI status, listing repos, or any GitHub API operation. Triggers on "create a PR", "push to GitHub", "open an issue", "check CI", "list repos", "merge PR", "GitHub API", or any task requiring programmatic GitHub access. All actions appear as joelclawgithub[bot], not as @joelhooks.

Google Workspace CLI for agents. Use gog to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Tasks, Sheets, Docs, Slides, Forms, Chat, and more. Triggers on: 'check my email', 'what's on my calendar', 'search gmail', 'list calendar events', 'send email', 'check tasks', 'search drive', 'list contacts', 'create event', 'upload to drive', 'read spreadsheet', or any Google Workspace task.

Export Google Docs as clean markdown via native URL parameter. No auth needed for public docs. Use when fetching Google Doc content for vault ingestion, runbook building, or any doc-to-markdown pipeline.

Access and process Granola meeting notes and transcripts via the granola CLI (MCP-backed). Use when pulling meeting data, analyzing transcripts, backfilling meetings, or any task involving Granola meeting content.

Bootstrap Gremlin work from the joelclaw side. Use when a task mentions gremlin from outside the repo and you need to locate the repo, load its shipped repo-local skill, or understand which guidance belongs to gremlin versus joelclaw.

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.

Set up, maintain, and debug the imsg-rpc Unix socket daemon that gives the gateway iMessage access via JSON-RPC. Covers FDA setup, code signing, launchd service, and the imsg source repo.

iMessage/SMS CLI for listing chats, reading message history, watching for new messages, and sending messages. Triggers on: check messages, read imessage, send text, imsg, message history, sms, who texted me.

Create and configure Inngest durable functions. Covers triggers (events, cron, invoke), step execution and memoization, idempotency, cancellation, error handling, retries, logging, and observability.

Design and send Inngest events. Covers event schema and payload format, naming conventions, IDs for idempotency, the ts param, fan-out patterns, and system events like inngest/function.failed.

Configure Inngest flow control for functions. Covers concurrency limits with keys, throttling, rate limiting, debounce, priority, singleton, and event batching.

Set up self-hosted Inngest on macOS as a durable background task manager for AI agents. Interactive Q&A to match intent — from Docker one-liner to full k8s deployment with persistent state. Use when: 'set up inngest', 'background tasks', 'durable workflows', 'self-host inngest', 'event-driven functions', 'cron jobs', or any request for a local workflow engine.

Create and use Inngest middleware for cross-cutting concerns. Covers the middleware lifecycle, creating custom middleware, dependency injection with dependencyInjectionMiddleware, encryption via @inngest/middleware-encryption, Sentry error tracking via @inngest/middleware-sentry, and custom middleware patterns.

Set up Inngest in a TypeScript project. Install the SDK, create a client, configure environment variables, serve endpoints or connect as a worker, and run the local dev server.

Use Inngest step methods to build durable workflows. Covers step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent, step.waitForSignal, step.sendEvent, step.invoke, step.ai, and patterns for loops and parallel execution.

Joel's writing voice and style guide for joelclaw.com content. Use when writing, editing, or reviewing any blog post, essay, book chapter, or prose content for joelclaw.com. Also use when asked to 'write like Joel,' 'match Joel's voice,' 'draft a post,' 'write content for the blog,' or 'review this for voice.' This skill captures Joel's specific writing patterns derived from ~90,000 words of published content spanning 2012–2026. Cross-reference with copy-editing and copywriting skills for mar...

Run a comprehensive health check of the joelclaw system — k8s cluster, worker, Inngest, Redis, Typesense/OTEL, tests, TypeScript, repo sync, memory pipeline, pi-tools, git config, active loops, disk, stale tests. Outputs a 1-10 score with per-component breakdown. Use when: 'system health', 'health check', 'is everything working', 'system status', 'how's the system', 'check everything', or at session start to orient.

Update and maintain joelclaw.com — the Next.js web app at apps/web/. Use when writing blog posts, editing pages, updating the network page, changing layout/header/footer, adding components, or fixing anything on the site. Hard content triggers: 'write article about X' (draft in Convex), 'publish article <slug>' (set draft=false + revalidate tags/paths). Also triggers on: 'update the site', 'write a post', 'fix the blog', 'joelclaw.com', 'update network page', 'add a page', 'change the header'...

Operate the joelclaw event bus, gateway, observability, and agent loop infrastructure via the joelclaw CLI. Use for: sending events, checking runs, starting/monitoring/cancelling agent loops, debugging failed runs, checking health, restarting the worker, inspecting step traces, managing subscriptions, gateway operations, OTEL queries, semantic recall. Triggers: 'joelclaw', 'send an event', 'check inngest', 'start a loop', 'loop status', 'why did this fail', 'debug run', 'check worker', 'resta...

Operate the joelclaw Kubernetes cluster — Talos Linux on Colima (Mac Mini). Deploy services, check health, debug pods, recover from restarts, add ports, manage Helm releases, inspect logs, fix networking. Triggers on: 'kubectl', 'pods', 'deploy to k8s', 'cluster health', 'restart pod', 'helm install', 'talosctl', 'colima', 'nodeport', 'flannel', 'port mapping', 'k8s down', 'cluster not working', 'add a port', 'PVC', 'storage', any k8s/Talos/Colima infrastructure task. Also triggers on service...

Develop and extend Koko — the Elixir/OTP agent living alongside joelclaw. Covers OTP patterns, Redis bridge protocol, shadow execution, and workload implementation.

Instrument joelclaw LLM calls with Langfuse tracing. Covers the @langfuse/tracing SDK, observation hierarchy (spans, generations, tools, agents), propagateAttributes for userId/sessionId/tags, the pi-session extension (langfuse-cost), and the system-bus OTEL integration. Use when adding Langfuse traces, debugging missing/broken traces, checking cost data, or improving observability on any LLM surface.

Diagnose and fix stalled agent loops using the joelclaw CLI. Use when loops appear stuck, stories aren't progressing, or the event chain broke. Triggers on "loop stalled", "why isn't the loop progressing", "diagnose loops", "fix stuck loop", "loop not moving", "what happened to the loop", "stories stuck at pending", or any request to debug loop infrastructure.

Monitor running agent loops, triage failures, clean up after completion, and decide when to intervene. Use when a loop is running and needs babysitting, when a loop just finished and needs post-merge verification, when stories are skipping/failing and need diagnosis, or when stale test artifacts need cleanup. Triggers on: 'check the loop', 'what happened with the loop', 'loop finished', 'clean up after loop', 'why did that story skip', 'monitor loop', 'nanny the loop', or any post-start loop ...

Operate and extend the joelclaw agent memory system — observation pipeline, write gates, vector store, retrieval, reflection, and nightly maintenance. Use when working on memory functions, debugging recall, tuning observation quality, or evolving the memory architecture.