Claude Skills by paulasilvatech

Prepare, implement, validate, and document contributions to backstage/backstage or a close fork using targeted tests, exact root typechecking, formatting, linting, API reports, changesets, DCO, and Apache headers. Use when changing Backstage core packages, plugins, docs, or contributor workflows.

Configure, secure, and validate Backstage technical integrations with GitHub, Azure and Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow across catalog discovery, events, software templates, CI/CD views, incidents, and provider credentials. Use when setting up or troubleshooting integrations outside user sign-in.

Choose and implement Backstage framework extension points, core backend services, frontend blueprints, service refs, modules, lifecycle, auth, permissions, schedulers, tracing, metrics, and generated API references. Use when designing plugin architecture or selecting supported framework APIs.

Apply Backstage external integration conventions for GitHub, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow. Use when editing provider credentials, discovery, events, scaffolder modules, or entity annotations.

Install, configure, authorize, and troubleshoot Backstage Kubernetes frontend and backend plugins, cluster discovery, entity annotations, authentication, permissions, proxies, custom resources, and service-owner views. Use when working with Kubernetes tabs, clusters, pods, or integration errors.

Register typed Backstage backend actions and expose selected actions as authenticated MCP tools with schemas, attributes, permissions, filters, server instructions, and well-known action validation. Use when configuring the Actions Registry, Actions Service, MCP Actions Backend, or AI tool exposure.

Install, configure, emit, process, route, and troubleshoot Backstage notifications and optional real-time signals. Use when handling user or group notifications, external emitters, email or Slack processors, scaffolder notifications, settings, topics, or delivery failures.

Operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and harden production Backstage services, databases, schedulers, integrations, health endpoints, logs, and deployments. Use when handling startup failures, readiness problems, database errors, provider refresh issues, performance incidents, or production runbooks.

Design, implement, test, and troubleshoot Backstage permission policies, basic and resource permissions, conditional decisions, rules, frontend authorization, and plugin integration. Use when implementing RBAC, ABAC, resource filtering, action visibility, or fixing authorization failures.

Plan, architect, scaffold, validate, and prepare custom Backstage plugins and modules using official Backstage documentation. Use when the user asks for new, legacy, or dual frontend plugins, backend plugins, backend modules, catalog processors, entity providers, scaffolder actions, search collators, auth providers, permission policies, TechDocs addons, common packages, node packages, plugin ADRs, architecture, validation, or community publication preparation.

Apply Backstage plugin and module boundaries for frontend, backend, common, node, and extension-point code. Use when editing plugin or Backstage package TypeScript.

Install, configure, extend, operate, and troubleshoot Backstage Search frontends, engines, collators, indices, result extensions, filters, schedules, and permissions. Use when working with search pages, Catalog or TechDocs indexing, custom collators, Postgres or Elasticsearch, or missing results.

Design, implement, validate, and troubleshoot Backstage Software Templates, custom actions, Golden Paths, skeleton rendering, repository publication, and catalog registration. Use when working with template.yaml, scaffolder actions, parameters, step outputs, or template execution failures.

Configure, build, preview, publish, migrate, and troubleshoot Backstage TechDocs and MkDocs content. Use when handling techdocs-ref annotations, mkdocs.yml, local or external builders, object-storage publishers, CI generation, broken docs, or wiki-to-TechDocs migration.

Plan, execute, and validate Backstage application or plugin dependency upgrades with release-aware package alignment, migrations, config review, changesets, and rollback. Use when bumping Backstage versions, resolving package skew, adopting new systems, or preparing an upgrade PR.

Plan, apply, inspect, or uninstall the Backstage Expert repository workspace kit for adopter or core profiles. Use when publishing bundled instructions, VS Code prompts, and the optional Backstage safety hook into a target repository.

Migrate Backstage app or plugin UI from Material-UI to Backstage UI with version-checked component mappings, CSS setup, accessibility, analytics, styling, and visual validation. Use when replacing @material-ui imports, MUI icons, makeStyles, or adopting BUI.

Migrate Backstage plugins from Material-UI (MUI) to Backstage UI (BUI). Use this skill when migrating components, updating imports, replacing styling patterns, or converting MUI components to their BUI equivalents.

Migrate a Backstage backend plugin from a hand-written Express router to the repository's typed OpenAPI server tooling while preserving routes, auth, permissions, errors, tests, and optional client generation. Use when onboarding createOpenApiRouter or modernizing a router with OpenAPI.

Use this skill when the user wants to migrate an existing Backstage backend plugin's hand-written Express router to the typed OpenAPI tooling. Optionally, can also add typed client generation and migrate router tests to the OpenAPI test wrapper.

Instrument Backstage frontend plugins with meaningful Analytics API events and tests while avoiding duplicate BUI navigation events or UI noise. Use when adding or reviewing captureEvent, AnalyticsContext, event taxonomy, noTrack overrides, or analytics behavior.

Instrument a Backstage frontend plugin with analytics events using the Backstage Analytics API. Use this skill when adding, reviewing, or extending event capture (`captureEvent`, `AnalyticsContext`) in plugin components, deciding whether an interaction warrants an event, or writing tests for analytics behavior.

Fully migrate a Backstage frontend plugin to the new frontend system and remove legacy support. Use when performing internal or intentionally breaking migrations from createPlugin to createFrontendPlugin, new route refs, blueprints, PageLayout, and legacy dependency removal.

Fully migrate a Backstage plugin to the new frontend system, dropping all old system support. Use this skill for internal plugins that only need to run in a single app, or when you are ready to remove backward compatibility entirely.

Add new frontend-system support to an existing Backstage plugin while retaining its legacy entry point. Use when published or shared plugins need dual compatibility, alpha exports, PageBlueprint extensions, route reuse, and both old and new app consumers.

Add new frontend system support to an existing Backstage plugin while keeping the old system working. Use this skill for published or shared plugins that need to work in both old and new frontend system apps.

Turn vague work-history prompts into evidence-backed impact statements for performance reviews, self-reviews, promotion packets, weekly updates, status reports, and accomplishments. Use when the user says "brag", "what did I do", "backfill my work history", "review prep", "what did I ship", "track my wins", or documenting engineering impact from Copilot CLI sessions, git commits, and GitHub PRs.

Prepare a structured HTML day-prep file for tomorrow or a requested date by pulling Outlook calendar details through WorkIQ, classifying meetings, detecting conflicts and day-fit issues, cross-referencing workspace tasks, finding learning and deep-work slots, and producing productivity recommendations. Use this skill when the user says "prepare me for tomorrow", "prep me for Friday", asks what a date looks like, or requests weekly planning.

Draft and review professional emails that match the user's established writing style by analyzing recipient context, tone, greeting, structure, sign-off, and language patterns when WorkIQ is available, then saving markdown drafts. Use this skill when the user asks to draft email, write email, compose email, reply email, follow-up email, proposal email, analyze email tone, or perform context-aware email review.

Prepare a student for an exam from provided study material and syllabus only. Use when the user shares notes, a PDF, or syllabus topics and asks what to study, to explain a topic from notes, prepare with limited time, generate exam-ready definitions, key points, keywords, diagram notes, MCQ tricks, or practice questions.

Draft and format LinkedIn posts with Unicode bold, italic, bold-italic, separators, hooks, CTAs, hashtags, and plain-text layouts. Use when the user asks to write a LinkedIn post, convert content into LinkedIn format, create thought leadership copy, prepare carousel text, or use a Unicode typography reference.

Generate concise, actionable meeting minutes for short internal meetings from notes, transcripts, recordings, or agendas. Use this skill when the user asks for minutes for syncs, standups, design reviews, triage, planning, ad-hoc meetings, decisions, action items, or follow-ups.

Draft self-assessments, peer reviews, 360 reviews, upward feedback, annual reviews, mid-year reviews, and performance appraisals in the user's voice. Use when asked to write or improve review-cycle feedback using WorkIQ evidence, STAR examples, constructive tone, and markdown drafts saved under outputs/<year>/<month>/.

Help software engineers perform active job-search tasks: analyze job descriptions, tailor resumes, write concise cover letters, evaluate offers, and draft interview follow-ups. Use when the user asks to parse a JD, match a CV to a role, write application material, compare compensation, assess offer risk, or prepare post-interview outreach.

Remind the agent to work as an interactive programmer against a live system or REPL, using evaluated behavior as the source of truth, explaining hidden evaluations to the human, preferring structural editing, and maintaining a todo list. Use when a user wants REPL-driven programming guidance, especially for Clojure or Backseat Driver workflows.

Build and modify content management systems by locating the correct theme, plugin, module, editor, content model, media, render, or export seam before changing code. Use this skill when working on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Drupal, WooCommerce, Joomla, HubSpot CMS Hub, Webflow, Adobe Experience Manager, headless CMS work, CMS themes, plugins, apps, modules, admin panels, uploads, markdown pipelines, and static export workflows.

Convert Markdown files to HTML similar to `marked.js`, `pandoc`, `gomarkdown/markdown`, or similar tools; or writing custom script to convert markdown to html and/or working on web template systems like `jekyll/jekyll`, `gohugoio/hugo`, or similar web templating systems that utilize markdown documents, converting them to html. Use when asked to "convert markdown to html", "transform md to html", "render markdown", "generate html from markdown", or when working with .md files and/or web a temp...

Expert 10x engineer skill for interpreting and implementing code from shorthand, quasi-code, and natural language descriptions. Use when collaborators provide incomplete code snippets, pseudo-code, or descriptions with potential typos or incorrect terminology. Excels at translating non-technical or semi-technical descriptions into production-quality code.

Review C# and .NET code for design pattern quality, SOLID principles, dependency injection, repository/provider abstractions, ResourceManager usage, async practices, testability, and maintainability. Use this skill when asked for a .NET or C# design pattern review, architecture critique, or pattern-focused code review without modifying code.

Generate or update a comprehensive .editorconfig from repository file types and formatting preferences, including indentation, line endings, charset, whitespace, final newline, language globs, and rule-by-rule explanations. Use when asked to create, standardize, or explain EditorConfig.

Review and rewrite code, comments, documentation, and data files to avoid em dashes and en dashes by default. Use this skill when the user asks to remove em dashes, replace Unicode dashes with hyphens, review punctuation in code comments, or enforce ASCII-safe punctuation.

Run a complete quality engineering audit on any codebase. Derives behavioral requirements from the code, generates spec-traced functional tests, runs a three-pass code review with regression tests, executes a multi-model spec audit (Council of Three), and produces a consolidated bug report with TDD-verified patches. Finds the 35% of real defects that structural code review alone cannot catch. Works with any language. Trigger on 'quality playbook', 'spec audit', 'Council of Three', 'fitness-to...

Refactor a specified method to reduce cognitive complexity to a requested threshold or below by extracting focused helper methods while preserving behavior. Use when the user asks to reduce method complexity, simplify nested conditionals, split large if-else or switch chains, extract validation or type-specific handlers, and verify tests show failed=0.

Improve existing code through surgical behavior-preserving refactoring. Use this skill when code is hard to understand or maintain, functions or classes are too large, code smells need addressing, adding features is difficult due to structure, or the user asks to clean up, refactor, or improve code without changing behavior.

Review project code against repository instructions, identify maintainability issues, make focused refactorings without splitting existing files, and validate tests when available. Use this skill when the user asks for code cleanup, maintainability review, best-practice refactoring, standards-driven improvements, or a senior engineering pass over existing code.

Run Ruff checks with optional scope and rule overrides, apply safe and unsafe autofixes iteratively, review each change, and resolve remaining findings with targeted edits or user decisions. Use this skill when the user asks for inputs.

Guide careful implementation through the smallest meaningful change, validation, feedback, and commit-sized increments. Use when the user asks for tiny steps, iterative development, continuous validation, reviewable changes, or a workflow that pauses for feedback before continuing.

Map, document, and onboard into an existing codebase by producing seven evidence-backed docs in docs/codebase/. Use when the user explicitly asks to map this codebase, document this architecture, onboard me to this repo, create codebase docs, or perform repository-level discovery; do not use for routine feature work or narrow edits.

Generate a comprehensive Project_Architecture_Blueprint.md by analyzing a codebase, detecting technology stacks and architectural patterns, documenting components, dependencies, diagrams, implementation patterns, testing, deployment, and governance. Use when asked to create an architecture blueprint, document project architecture, map layers, produce C4/UML/component diagrams, or guide new development consistency.

Generate a configurable prompt blueprint for scanning a codebase and producing an exemplars.md catalog of high-quality, real code examples. Use this skill when the user asks for code exemplars, exemplar blueprint prompts, coding standard examples, repository pattern catalogs, or configuration variables for exemplar generation.