Claude Skills by techygarg

Audit and fix all Lattice documentation, README, docs/, PROJECT.md, GitHub issue templates, and CLAUDE.md to ensure they are fully aligned with the current skill inventory. Documentation drift is the most common source of user confusion in Lattice — a skill exists in the codebase but not in the docs, or a renamed skill leaves a stale reference in the bug report template. If you've made any change to skills/ and haven't run this, run it now. Use when the user says 'align docs', 'audit docs', '...

Full enhancement pipeline for an existing Lattice skill — rewrites a molecule or atom to modern-capable-model grade: restores degraded grammar, deduplicates, hardens gates and branching to one-unambiguous-action precision, verifies zero behavioral loss against a pre-capture diff, then runs the combined QA gate (skill-review, skill-tighten, skill-validate) and an independent fresh-context verifier, fixing everything found. Consumer-first: optimized for first-time open-source users on fresh rep...

Create a new Lattice skill — atom, molecule, or refiner — following all framework conventions. Writing skill files manually almost always produces convention violations: wrong section order, missing confirmation gates, defaults.md without the right structure. This skill knows all of that and guides you through it. Use whenever adding any new atom, molecule, or refiner to Lattice, or when the user says 'create a new skill', 'add an atom', 'add a molecule', 'add a refiner', 'build X for Lattice...

Deep behavioral audit of a Lattice skill — proposes 3 review personas relevant to the skill, runs independent scenario analysis from each persona's perspective, then merges only the high-confidence, practical findings into a severity-ordered gap report with proposed fixes. Structural validation (conventions, cross-references) is skill-validate's job — this skill finds gaps that would realistically surface when someone actually uses the skill: missing scenario handling, ambiguous instructions,...

Audit any Lattice SKILL.md for language compliance — removes rationale prose, converts soft language to imperatives, adds STOP: gates on hard rules, and cuts redundant repetition. Complements skill-review (which finds behavioral gaps) by fixing phrasing that causes agents to skip or underweight instructions at runtime. Use after writing or significantly changing any skill, or when the user says 'tighten this skill', 'clean up the language', 'make this more effective', 'reduce the bloat', 'tig...

Validate any Lattice SKILL.md against all tier conventions — atoms, molecules, and refiners. Catches structural errors, broken cross-references, and convention violations before they reach the repo. If you just wrote or modified a Lattice skill file and haven't run this yet, run it now — manual review consistently misses the same categories of errors this skill is specifically designed to catch. Use when the user says 'validate this skill', 'check this skill', 'does this follow conventions', ...

Architectural thinking partner for an existing repository — scans the codebase, conducts a structured interview, agrees on current architectural state and recommended direction, and produces a shareable insights document. Scoped to one repository, module, or folder. Does not execute transformation — it orients. Use when the user says 'assess my codebase architecture', 'what direction should my codebase go', 'architecture compass', 'understand my architecture', 'audit architecture drift', 'arc...

Facilitate a structured conversation to define architecture principles for a repository. Supports multiple architecture styles: clean architecture (default), hexagonal / ports & adapters, modular monolith, or custom. Produces a formal architecture document that the corresponding atom will use. Use when setting up a new project, defining architecture standards, or when the user says 'setup architecture', 'define layers', 'architecture principles', 'help me define my architecture', 'hexagonal a...

Enforce architectural rules when generating or modifying code, and validate proposed designs before approval (design mode). Defaults to clean architecture; supports any architecture style via the architecture-refiner. Validates layer responsibilities, dependency direction, and structural constraints using the loaded architecture rules. Use when generating code, reviewing architecture, creating new files, or when the user mentions 'architecture', 'layers', 'structure', 'dependency rules', 'hex...

Investigate, reproduce, and safely fix a bug with regression protection. Composes context, diagnosis, architecture, code quality, and testing guardrails into a reproduce-first repair workflow. Use when the user says 'fix this bug', 'debug this', 'investigate this failure', 'patch this regression', 'repair this issue', or 'why is this broken'.

Facilitate a structured conversation to define clean code principles for a repository. Produces a formal clean-code.md document that the clean-code atom will use as its override. Use when setting up coding standards, defining code quality rules, or when the user says 'setup clean code', 'define coding standards', 'code quality principles', 'coding guidelines', or 'help me define my code standards'.

Apply clean code principles when generating or modifying implementation code. Enforces function focus, naming clarity, complexity management, error handling, and self-documenting style. Use when the user mentions 'clean code', 'code quality', 'coding guidelines', or 'implementation quality'. Loaded automatically by the code-generating molecules (code-forge, refactor-safely, bug-fix). This skill governs the craft of writing individual code units -- not architecture (see architecture), not secu...

Generate implementation code from an approved design blueprint or verbal requirements. Composes context anchoring, architecture, clean code, DDD, security, and test quality into an inside-out implementation workflow. Use when moving from design to code, implementing approved contracts, or when the user says 'implement', 'code this', 'build it', 'forge the code', or 'generate the code'.

Protocol for handling ambiguous decisions and missing/conflicting knowledge during code generation, design, and review. Ensures AI surfaces genuine judgment calls with structured options and stops on hallucination risk instead of silently assuming. Use when a decision has multiple valid approaches, when facts are missing or contradictory, when the user asks 'what should we do here?', 'is this a judgment call?', 'should I ask about this?', 'am I guessing here?', 'what are the tradeoffs?', or w...

Manage per-feature living documents that capture decisions, constraints, and reasoning across AI sessions during active development. Scoped to feature-level work — design, implementation, bugfix, refactor — not for codebase-wide assessments or product-wide specifications (those define their own document lifecycles). Handles creating new context documents, loading existing ones, and enriching them with new decisions. Use when starting a new feature, resuming work, making technical decisions, r...

Facilitate a structured conversation to define DDD guardrails for domain design within a repository. Produces a formal ddd-principles.md document that the domain-driven-design atom will use as its override. Use when setting up domain design principles, defining aggregate rules, or when the user says 'setup DDD', 'define domain rules', 'DDD principles', or 'help me define my domain patterns'.

Run a complete design workflow -- from establishing context through four progressive design levels (Capabilities, Components, Interactions, Contracts) to an approved blueprint. Composes knowledge-priming, context-anchoring, learning-harvest, collaborative-judgment, design-first, architecture, and domain-driven-design into one process. Handles both new features (create context doc) and resuming existing work (load context doc). Level 5 (Implementation) is delegated to code-forge. Use when star...

Guide structured design thinking through 5 progressive levels before any code is written. Levels: Capabilities, Components, Interactions, Contracts, Implementation. Use when building new features, refactoring significant code, designing modules, or when the user says 'design this', 'architect this', 'let's think before coding', 'walk me through the design', or 'whiteboard this'. For simple utilities enter at Level 4 (Contracts), for single-component tasks at Level 2 — see Complexity Calibrati...

Apply DDD tactical patterns when working with domain code, and validate proposed domain models before approval (design mode). Enforces aggregate design, value objects over primitives, entity identity rules, and bounded context boundaries. Use when creating or modifying domain models, designing aggregates, working in the domain layer, or when the user mentions 'domain', 'aggregate', 'value object', 'entity', 'bounded context', or 'DDD'.

Facilitate a structured conversation to create a project-specific knowledge base document. Produces a knowledge-base.md that primes AI with the project's tech stack, architecture, trusted sources, and project structure. Use when the user says 'set up knowledge base', 'prime the project', 'onboard AI', 'create knowledge base', 'set up project context', or 'configure AI context'.

Load project-specific context -- tech stack, architecture overview, directory layout, trusted sources, and conventions -- so that all skills operate with awareness of what this project actually is. Use when a knowledge base document exists, or when the user asks about the project's tech stack, architecture, conventions, framework, directory layout, or says 'tell me about this project', 'what are we using?', 'what's our stack?', or 'what framework is this?'. Use the knowledge-priming-refiner t...

Facilitate a structured conversation to define language-specific idioms and patterns for a repository. Produces a language-idioms.md document consumed by multiple atoms to adapt pseudocode defaults to the project's language. Use when setting up a new project, switching languages, or when the user says 'setup language', 'define language idioms', 'configure language', 'language patterns', or 'adapt for Go/Rust/Python'.

Guided setup and upgrade-check experience for Lattice projects -- scans the repository, detects existing configuration and outdated conventions, suggests refiners and available upgrades in priority order, and creates or reconciles the .lattice/ config. Bridges the gap between installing skills and getting first value, and between upgrading Lattice and adopting its newest conventions. Use when the user says 'lattice init', 'set up lattice', 'initialize lattice', 'get started with lattice', 'co...

Manage the operational learnings lifecycle — load prior learnings to inform current work, harvest new patterns worth preserving, and keep the document tight over time. Provides a protocol for accumulating actionable patterns from practice that complement standards and defaults. Use when a workflow session completes and produced insights worth persisting, when starting a session that should benefit from prior patterns, or when the user says 'harvest learnings', 'what have we learned', 'capture...

Restructure existing code safely without changing externally observable behavior. Composes context, design, architecture, code quality, and testing guardrails into a characterization-first refactoring workflow. Use when the user says 'refactor this', 'clean this up', 'untangle this module', 'move this to the right layer', 'simplify this code', or 'improve this structure'.

Update existing Lattice standards after a significant change — the update-mode counterpart to lattice-init. Scans .lattice/standards/, asks what changed, and routes each affected standard to its refiner's revise mode, recording a git-native change note. Use when the user says 'update refiners', 'refiners update', 'our standards changed', 'update our standards', 'the architecture changed, update the standards', 'we switched languages, update the standards', 'revise standards after a big change...

Facilitate a structured conversation to define requirement standards for a project — epic and feature definitions, scenario structure, AC format, priority notation, status workflow, and naming conventions. Produces a formal requirement-standards.md that the requirement-quality atom reads via config resolution, customising its embedded defaults for the team's product process. Use when setting up a new project, defining product standards, or when the user says 'set up requirement standards', 'd...

Generate structured feature specifications through a collaborative product interview. Acts as a senior PM and business analyst pair — arrives with a point of view, challenges scope, proposes options at every decision. Composes the requirement-quality atom for spec quality enforcement and collaborative-judgment for surfacing genuine decisions. Produces an epic/feature hierarchy in .lattice/requirements/ that serves as direct input to design-blueprint. Use when the user says 'forge requirements...

Apply requirement quality principles when generating or validating feature specifications. Enforces feature completeness, scenario structure, AC verifiability, feature independence, and implementation slice quality. Use when writing feature specs, validating existing requirements, or when the user mentions 'validate this spec', 'check this feature', 'requirement quality', 'is this spec complete', or 'requirement-quality'. This skill governs the craft of writing individual feature specificatio...

Facilitate a structured conversation to customize how the review molecule works -- atom loading rules, severity classification, report format, scope rules, insight capture, and health logging. Produces a formal review-standards.md document that the review molecule will use as its process configuration. Use when the user says 'customize review', 'configure review', 'review preferences', 'review settings', 'change review process', or 'set up review'.

Perform a structured code review by composing validation checklists from relevant atoms based on what code changed. Loads atoms conditionally -- clean-code always, architecture/DDD/security/tests only when the delta touches their domain. Produces a severity-ordered report with specific locations and fixes. Use when the user asks to 'review this', 'code review', 'quality check', 'validate the code', 'check my code', 'review the delta', or 'review this PR'.

Apply security-conscious thinking when generating or modifying code. Enforces trust boundary awareness, input validation, injection prevention, secrets management, and defense-in-depth authorization. Use when generating code that handles user input, authentication, authorization, database queries, external APIs, or file operations, or when the user mentions 'security review', 'secure this', 'check for vulnerabilities', 'trust boundary', 'input validation', or 'OWASP'. Loaded automatically by ...

Apply test quality principles when generating or reviewing test code. Enforces Arrange-Act-Assert structure, one behavior per test, assertion quality, test isolation, meaningful naming, and test data management. Use when writing tests, reviewing test code, or when the user mentions 'write tests', 'test this', 'test quality', 'test review', 'improve tests', or 'test structure'. Loaded automatically by the code-generating molecules (code-forge, refactor-safely, bug-fix). This skill governs the ...