Claude Skills by pjt222

AI multi-path reasoning coherence using bee democracy — independent evaluation of competing approaches, waggle dance as reasoning-out-loud, quorum sensing for confidence thresholds, and deadlock resolution. Use when forage-solutions has identified multiple valid approaches and a selection must be made, when oscillating between options without committing, when justifying an architecture or tool choice with structured reasoning, or before an irreversible action where the cost of the wrong choic...

Achieve distributed agreement without central authority using bee democracy, threshold voting, and quorum sensing. Covers proposal generation, advocacy dynamics, commitment thresholds, deadlock resolution, and consensus quality assessment. Use when a group must decide between options without a designated leader, when centralized decision-making is a bottleneck, when stakeholders have different perspectives to integrate, or when designing automated systems that must reach consensus such as dis...

Build a custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes domain-specific tools to AI assistants. Covers server implementation in Node.js or R, tool definitions, transport configuration, and testing with Claude Code. Use when you need to expose custom functionality beyond what mcptools provides, when building specialized domain-specific AI integrations, or when wrapping existing APIs or services as MCP tools.

Build a feature store using Feast for centralized feature management, configure offline and online stores for batch and real-time serving, define feature views with transformations, and implement point-in-time correct joins for ML pipelines. Use when managing features for multiple ML models, ensuring training-serving consistency, serving low-latency features for real-time inference, reusing feature definitions across projects, or building a feature catalog for discovery and governance.

Create production-ready Grafana dashboards with reusable panels, template variables, annotations, and provisioning for version-controlled dashboard deployment. Use when creating visual representations of Prometheus, Loki, or other data source metrics, building operational dashboards for SRE teams, migrating from manual dashboard creation to version-controlled provisioning, or establishing executive-level SLO compliance reporting.

Create parameterized Quarto or R Markdown reports that can be rendered with different inputs to generate multiple variations. Covers parameter definitions, programmatic rendering, and batch generation. Use when generating the same report for different departments, regions, or time periods; creating client-specific reports from a single template; building dashboards that filter to specific subsets; or automating recurring reports with varying inputs.

Build and deploy a pkgdown documentation site for an R package to GitHub Pages. Covers _pkgdown.yml configuration, theming, article organization, reference index customization, and deployment methods. Use when creating a documentation site for a new or existing package, customizing layout or navigation, fixing 404 errors on a deployed site, or migrating between branch-based and GitHub Actions deployment methods.

Build sequential (stateful) logic circuits including latches, flip-flops, registers, counters, and finite state machines. Covers SR latch, D and JK flip-flops, binary/BCD/ring counters, and Mealy/Moore FSM design with clock signal and timing analysis. Use when a circuit must remember past inputs, count events, or implement a state-dependent control sequence.

Build reusable Shiny modules with proper namespace isolation using NS(). Covers module UI/server pairs, reactive return values, inter-module communication, and nested module composition. Use when extracting a reusable component from a growing Shiny app, building a UI widget used in multiple places, encapsulating complex reactive logic behind a clean interface, or composing larger applications from smaller, testable units.

Build a competitive or casual trading card game deck. Covers archetype selection, mana/energy curve analysis, win condition identification, meta-game positioning, and sideboard construction for Pokemon TCG, Magic: The Gathering, Flesh and Blood, and other TCGs. Use when building a new deck for a tournament format or casual play, adapting an existing deck to a changed meta-game, evaluating whether a new set warrants a deck change, or converting a deck concept into a tournament-ready list.

Catalog and classify materials using standard library systems. Covers descriptive cataloging, subject headings, call number assignment using Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress Classification, MARC record basics, shelf organization, and authority control for consistent access points. Use when organizing a personal, institutional, or community library from scratch, assigning call numbers and subject headings to new acquisitions, reclassifying a collection that has outgrown its original syste...

AI dynamic reasoning balance — maintaining grounded reasoning under cognitive pressure, smooth chain-of-thought coordination, and weight-shifting cognitive load across subsystems. Use at the beginning of a complex task requiring multiple coordinated reasoning threads, after a sudden context shift or tool failure, when chain-of-thought feels jerky, or when preparing for sustained focused work that requires all subsystems in alignment.

Generate and verify a hiking gear checklist optimized for season, duration, difficulty, and group size with weight management. Covers the ten essentials, layering systems, navigation tools, emergency kit, and group gear distribution. Use when preparing for a day hike or multi-day trekking tour, packing for a group and distributing shared gear, adapting a standard gear list to specific conditions, reviewing gear before departure, or managing pack weight for long or technical routes.

Verify document completeness for each bureaucratic step of an EU/DACH relocation, flagging missing items and translation requirements. Use after creating a relocation plan and before beginning bureaucratic procedures, when preparing for a specific appointment (Buergeramt, Finanzamt), when unsure which documents need certified translation or apostille, after receiving a rejection or request for additional documents, or as a periodic check during the relocation process to ensure nothing has bee...

Select a `delaySeconds` value when scheduling a loop wakeup via the `ScheduleWakeup` tool or the `/loop` slash command. Covers the three-tier cache-aware decision (cache-warm under 5 minutes, cache-miss 5 minutes to 1 hour, idle default 20 to 30 minutes), the 300-second anti-pattern, the [60, 3600] runtime clamp, the minute-boundary rounding quirk, and writing a telemetry-worthy `reason` field. Use when designing an autonomous loop, when a heartbeat cadence is being planned, when polling cade...

Extract maximum value from existing code — performance optimization, API surface refinement, and dead weight elimination. The art of turning base code into gold through systematic identification and amplification of value-bearing patterns. Use when optimizing a working but sluggish codebase, refining an API surface that has accumulated cruft, reducing bundle size or memory footprint, or preparing code for open-source release — when code works correctly but doesn't shine and needs polish rathe...

Implement circuit breaker logic for agentic tool calls — tracking tool health, transitioning between closed/open/half-open states, reducing task scope when tools fail, routing to alternatives via capability maps, and enforcing failure budgets to prevent error accumulation. Separates orchestration (deciding what to attempt) from execution (calling tools), following the expeditor pattern. Use when building agents that depend on multiple tools with varying reliability, designing fault-tolerant a...

Remove dead code, unused imports, fix lint warnings, and normalize formatting across a codebase without changing business logic or architecture. Use when lint warnings have piled up during rapid development, unused imports and variables clutter files, dead code paths were never removed, formatting is inconsistent, or static analysis tools report fixable hygiene issues.

Collect and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards including legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Covers permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with localit...

Stage, commit, and amend changes with conventional commit messages. Covers reviewing changes, selective staging, writing descriptive commit messages using HEREDOC format, and verifying commit history. Use when saving a logical unit of work to version control, creating a commit with a conventional message, amending the most recent commit, or reviewing staged changes before committing.

Compose or analyze sacred music in Hildegard von Bingen's distinctive modal style. Covers modal selection, melodic contour (wide-range melodies), text-setting (syllabic and melismatic), neumatic notation, and liturgical context for antiphons, sequences, and responsories. Use when composing a new piece in Hildegardian style, analyzing an existing chant for structure and mode, researching medieval modal music, preparing to perform or teach Hildegard's music, or setting Latin sacred texts.

Capture outbound HTTP and telemetry from a CLI harness at runtime. Covers capture-channel selection (transcript file vs verbose-fetch stderr vs outbound proxy vs on-disk state), hook-driven per-event capture vs long-running session capture, JSONL output format for diff-friendly artifacts, and the observability table that maps each target to the cheapest channel that captures it. Use when a static finding needs runtime confirmation, when a payload shape is needed for a client re-implementation...

Conduct a GxP audit of computerized systems and processes. Covers audit planning, opening meetings, evidence collection, finding classification (critical/major/minor), CAPA generation, closing meetings, report writing, and follow-up verification. Use for scheduled internal audits, supplier qualification audits, pre-inspection readiness assessments, for-cause audits triggered by deviations or data integrity concerns, or periodic compliance posture reviews of validated systems.

Conduct a blameless post-mortem analysis after an incident. Build timeline reconstruction, identify contributing factors, and generate actionable improvements. Focus on systemic issues rather than individual blame. Use after any production incident or service degradation, following a near-miss, when investigating recurring issues, or to share systemic learnings across teams.

Conduct a project or sprint retrospective by gathering data from status reports and velocity metrics, structuring what went well and what needs improvement, and generating actionable improvement items with owners and due dates. Use at the end of a sprint, after a project phase or milestone, following a significant incident or success, at a quarterly review of ongoing processes, or before starting a similar project to capture lessons learned.

Configure Prometheus Alertmanager with routing trees, receivers (Slack, PagerDuty, email), inhibition rules, silences, and notification templates for actionable incident alerting. Use when implementing proactive monitoring with automated incident detection, routing alerts to the appropriate team by severity, reducing alert fatigue through grouping and deduplication, integrating with on-call systems like PagerDuty, or migrating from legacy alerting to Prometheus-based alerting.

Deploy and configure an API gateway (Kong or Traefik) to handle API traffic management, authentication, rate limiting, request/response transformation, and routing. Covers plugin configuration, upstream services, consumer management, and integration with existing infrastructure. Use when multiple backend services need a unified API endpoint, when centralized authentication or rate limiting is required, when implementing API versioning, or when needing detailed analytics and load balancing for...

Configure a Git repository with proper .gitignore, branch strategy, commit conventions, hooks, and remote setup. Covers initial setup and common patterns for R, Node.js, and Python projects. Use when initializing version control for a new project, adding a .gitignore for a specific language or framework, setting up branch protection and conventions, or configuring commit hooks.

Configure Kubernetes Ingress networking with NGINX Ingress Controller, cert-manager for automated TLS certificate management, path-based routing, rate limiting, and multi-domain hosting with SSL termination and load balancing. Use when exposing multiple Kubernetes services via a single load balancer, implementing path-based or host-based routing, automating TLS certificate issuance with Let's Encrypt, or setting up blue-green and canary deployments with traffic splitting.

Set up centralized log aggregation with Loki and Promtail (or ELK stack), including log parsing, label extraction, retention policies, and integration with metrics for correlation. Use when consolidating logs from multiple services into a searchable system, replacing local log files with centralized queryable storage, correlating logs with metrics and traces, implementing structured logging with label extraction, or troubleshooting production incidents requiring cross-service log analysis.

Configure MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. Covers mcptools setup, Hugging Face integration, WSL path handling, and multi-client configuration. Use when setting up Claude Code to connect to R via mcptools, configuring Claude Desktop with MCP servers, adding Hugging Face or other remote MCP servers, or troubleshooting MCP connectivity between clients and servers.

Configure Nginx as a web server and reverse proxy. Covers static file serving, reverse proxy to upstream services, SSL/TLS termination with Let's Encrypt, location blocks, load balancing, rate limiting, and security headers. Use when serving static files in production, reverse proxying to backend services (Node.js, Python, R/Shiny), terminating SSL/TLS, load balancing across instances, or adding rate limiting and security headers to harden an endpoint.

Configure the putior MCP server to expose 16 workflow visualization tools to AI assistants. Covers Claude Code and Claude Desktop setup, dependency installation (mcptools, ellmer), tool verification, and optional ACP server configuration for agent-to-agent communication. Use when enabling AI assistants to annotate and visualize workflows interactively, setting up a new development environment with putior MCP integration, or configuring agent-to-agent communication via ACP for automated pipeli...

Configure reverse proxy patterns across multiple tools including Nginx, Traefik, and ShinyProxy. Covers WebSocket proxying, path-based and host-based routing, SSL termination, and Docker label auto-discovery. Use when routing multiple services behind a single entry point, proxying WebSocket connections (Shiny, Socket.IO), auto-discovering Docker services with Traefik labels, or adding SSL termination to services that don't handle TLS natively.

Thoroughness and diligence in execution — systematic checking, completeness verification, follow-through on commitments, and the discipline of finishing well. Maps the personality trait of conscientiousness to AI task execution: not cutting corners, verifying results, and ensuring that what was promised is what was delivered. Use before marking a task as complete, when a response feels "good enough" but deserves better, after a complex multi-step operation where steps may have drifted, or whe...

Perform a ruler-and-compass construction with step-by-step justification for each operation, producing a constructible geometric figure from given elements. Covers classical Euclidean constructions including perpendicular bisectors, angle bisectors, parallel lines, regular polygons, and tangent lines. Use when given geometric elements (points, segments, angles) and asked to produce a Euclidean construction, verify constructibility, or generate ordered construction steps for educational or doc...

Reference Hildegard von Bingen's Physica natural history knowledge. Covers classification of plants, stones, animals, fish, birds, elements, and trees with their medicinal, symbolic, and practical properties. Enables cross- referencing between categories and application guidance. Use when exploring a specific plant, stone, or animal from Hildegard's perspective, researching medieval natural history and cosmology, cross-referencing properties across categories, or integrating Physica knowledge...

Containerize an R-based MCP (Model Context Protocol) server using Docker. Covers mcptools integration, port exposure, stdio vs HTTP transport, and connecting Claude Code to the containerized server. Use when deploying an R MCP server without requiring a local R installation, creating a reproducible MCP server environment, running MCP servers alongside other containerized services, or distributing an MCP server to other developers.

AI internal coordination using stigmergic signals — managing information freshness in context and memory, decay rates for assumption staleness, and emergent coherent behavior from simple local protocols. Use during complex tasks where multiple sub-tasks must coordinate, when context has grown long and information freshness is uncertain, after context compression when information may have been lost, or when sub-task outputs need to feed into each other cleanly without degradation.

Apply collective intelligence coordination patterns — stigmergy, local rules, and quorum sensing — to organize distributed systems, teams, or workflows without centralized control. Covers signal design, agent autonomy boundaries, emergent behavior cultivation, and feedback loop tuning. Use when designing distributed systems without a coordination bottleneck, organizing teams that must self-coordinate, building event-driven architectures with shared state communication, or replacing fragile ce...

Unify metrics, logs, and traces for cohesive debugging. Implement exemplars for log-to-trace linking, build unified dashboards using RED/USE methods, and enable rapid root cause analysis across observability signals. Use when investigating complex incidents spanning multiple systems, reducing mean time to resolution, implementing distributed tracing, or moving from siloed tools to a unified observability platform.

Compose 2D graphics programmatically using SVG generation, diagram layout algorithms, image compositing, and batch processing workflows. Use when generating diagrams, flowcharts, or infographics programmatically, creating reproducible scientific figures, automating production of badges or visual assets, building custom chart types not in standard libraries, or batch generating graphics with parameter variations.

Set up a Blender scene programmatically via Python (bpy) with objects, materials, lighting, camera, and environment configuration. Use when creating reproducible 3D visualization scenes, automating product or architectural rendering setup, generating multiple scene variations programmatically, building template scenes for batch rendering workflows, or integrating 3D visualization into data pipelines.

Create a new agent definition file following the agent-almanac agent template and registry conventions. Covers persona design, tool selection, skill assignment, model choice, frontmatter schema, required sections, registry integration, and discovery symlink verification. Use when adding a new specialized agent to the library, defining a persona for a Claude Code subagent, or creating a domain-specific assistant with curated skills and tools.

Create general-purpose Dockerfiles for Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, and Java projects. Covers base image selection, dependency installation, user permissions, COPY patterns, ENTRYPOINT vs CMD, and .dockerignore. Use when containerizing an application for the first time, creating a consistent build/runtime environment, preparing an app for cloud deployment or Docker Compose, or when no existing Dockerfile is present in the project.

Structured GitHub issue creation from review findings or task breakdowns. Groups related findings into logical issues, applies labels, and produces issues with standard templates including summary, findings, and acceptance criteria. Designed to consume output from review-codebase or similar review skills.

Create a GitHub release with proper tagging, release notes, and optional build artifacts. Covers semantic versioning, changelog generation, and GitHub CLI usage. Use when marking a stable version of software for distribution, publishing a new library or application version, creating release notes for stakeholders, or distributing build artifacts (binaries, tarballs).

Create R-based pictogram glyphs for skill, agent, or team icons in the visualization layer. Covers concept sketching, ggplot2 layer composition using the primitives library, color strategy, registration in the appropriate glyph mapping file and manifest, rendering via the build pipeline, and visual verification of the neon-glow output. Use when a new entity has been added and needs a visual icon for the force-graph visualization, an existing glyph needs replacement, or when batch-creating gly...

Create multi-stage Dockerfiles that separate build and runtime environments for minimal production images. Covers builder/runtime stage separation, artifact copying, scratch/distroless/alpine targets, and size comparison. Use when production images are too large, when build tools are included in the final image, when you need separate dev and prod images from one Dockerfile, or when deploying to constrained environments like edge or serverless.

Create and manage pull requests using GitHub CLI. Covers branch preparation, writing PR titles and descriptions, creating PRs, handling review feedback, and merge/cleanup workflows. Use when proposing changes from a feature or fix branch for review, merging completed work into the main branch, requesting code review from collaborators, or documenting the purpose and scope of a set of changes.