Claude Skills by theheavenlyd3mon

Orchestrate large fan-out work as a plan-in-code "workflow" so the agent's context holds only the final verified answer, not the exhaust of hundreds of intermediate steps. Use for codebase-wide sweeps, large migrations, multi-angle research, and any task too big for one context window where the split strategy is known enough to script. Includes the adversarial-convergence verification recipe (independent attempts + refuters, keep only surviving claims).

Engineer word-of-mouth and virality using the STEPPS framework (Social Currency, Triggers, Emotion, Public, Practical Value, Stories). Use when the user mentions "go viral", "word of mouth", "shareable content", "social currency", "why people share", "viral loop", "referral program", or "organic growth". Also trigger when designing shareable features, crafting social media campaigns, or building products that spread through peer recommendation. Covers environmental triggers and high-arousal e...

Build a weekly cadence of customer touchpoints using Opportunity Solution Trees, assumption mapping, and interview snapshots. Use when the user mentions "continuous discovery", "opportunity solution tree", "weekly interviews", "assumption testing", "discovery habits", "product trio", or "outcome-based roadmap". Also trigger when setting up regular customer feedback loops, prioritizing which experiments to run, or connecting discovery insights to delivery work. Covers experience mapping, co-cr...

Audit websites and landing pages for conversion issues and design evidence-based A/B tests. Use when the user mentions "landing page isnt converting", "conversion rate", "A/B test", "why visitors leave", "objection handling", "bounce rate", "split testing", or "conversion funnel". Also trigger when diagnosing why signups are low, designing experiment hypotheses, or auditing checkout flows for friction points. Covers funnel mapping, persuasion assets, and objection/counter-objection frameworks...

Navigate the technology adoption lifecycle from early adopters to mainstream market. Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", "tech go-to-market", "bowling pin strategy", "technology adoption lifecycle", or "pragmatist buyers". Also trigger when a startup has early traction but struggles to grow beyond initial users, or when planning go-to-market for technical products. Covers D-Day analogy, bowling-pin strategy, a...

Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. Use when the user mentions "design sprint", "validate in a week", "rapid prototype", "test with users", "de-risk before building", "GV sprint", "prototype testing", or "design workshop". Also trigger when a team needs to make a critical product decision quickly, resolve stakeholder disagreements, or test risky ideas before investing in development. Covers mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping, a...

Design motivation systems using Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose (AMP) for products and teams. Use when the user mentions "intrinsic motivation", "gamification isnt working", "team incentives", "autonomy", "mastery", "purpose-driven", "employee engagement", or "reward systems". Also trigger when designing onboarding progression systems, fixing broken gamification, or building team structures that sustain high performance. Covers why carrot-and-stick fails and how to build progress systems. For ...

Design habit-forming product loops using the Hook Model (Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, Investment). Use when the user mentions "users arent coming back", "engagement loops", "habit formation", "push notifications", "variable rewards", "daily active users", "habit zone", or "user retention loops". Also trigger when designing notification strategies, building streaks or progress systems, or analyzing why users stop using a product after initial signup. Covers ethics evaluation and onboardin...

Diagnose and fix retention problems using behavior design (B=MAP). Use when the user mentions "users drop off", "activation rate", "onboarding friction", "retention metrics", "why users dont complete", "churn analysis", "user activation", or "aha moment". Also trigger when analyzing cohort retention curves, designing activation milestones, reducing time-to-value for new users, or investigating why users stop after their first session. Covers the Ability Chain, prompt design, and tiny behavior...

Apply the six principles of ethical persuasion (reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity) to product design, copy, and sales. Use when the user mentions "social proof", "persuasive copy", "why users dont convert", "ethical persuasion", "reciprocity", "scarcity tactics", or "commitment and consistency". Also trigger when designing testimonial sections, crafting urgency messaging, or improving trust signals on landing pages. For deal negotiation tactics, see negotiatio...

Build empowered product teams using discovery and delivery dual-track. Use when the user mentions "product discovery", "empowered teams", "feature factory", "product roadmap", "opportunity assessment", "product vision", "product-led growth", or "discovery vs delivery". Also trigger when restructuring product teams away from output-driven models, setting product strategy, or defining what to build next based on outcomes. Covers product discovery techniques, team structure, and continuous value...

Discover what customers truly need by analyzing the "job" they hire your product to do. Use when the user mentions "customer discovery", "why customers churn", "what job does this solve", "competing against luck", "product-market fit", "switching behavior", "milkshake moment", or "functional vs emotional jobs". Also trigger when investigating why users choose competitors, designing features around real customer needs, or reframing product value propositions. Covers JTBD interviews, competitio...

Apply lean thinking to UX: hypothesis-driven design, collaborative sketching, and rapid experiments instead of heavy deliverables. Use when the user mentions "Lean UX", "design hypothesis", "UX experiment", "collaborative design", "outcome over output", "design studio method", "assumption mapping", or "lightweight research". Also trigger when reducing design documentation overhead, getting cross-functional teams to co-design, or running fast usability experiments. Covers hypothesis statements...

Craft messages that are understood, remembered, and drive action using the SUCCESs checklist (Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories). Use when the user mentions "make it memorable", "sticky messaging", "tagline", "value proposition", "why the message isnt landing", "knowledge curse", "surprise gap", or "concrete language". Also trigger when writing pitch decks, simplifying complex product explanations, or making presentations more compelling and memorable. For narrative b...

Create comprehensive brand identity documentation for any brand. Guides you through documenting strategy, visual identity (logo, color, typography, imagery), voice and tone, application guidelines, governance, and asset inventory. Produces markdown specs, compiled brand books, and brand-compliant images via reference-image-aware generation. Use when you need to capture a brand's identity in structured, durable form — for vault storage, agency handoff, or press kit distribution.

Interact with Atlassian Confluence from the terminal: list spaces, browse pages, view page content, search with CQL, and create pages. Use when the user mentions Confluence, a space key (e.g. DEV), or asks about documentation, wiki pages, space content, or knowledge base articles.

Build and review assumptions-led financial models, unit economics, pricing, fundraising scenarios, and SaaS operating metrics. Use when calculating CAC, LTV, payback, runway, ARR, churn, NDR, Rule of 40, or sales efficiency; when modeling revenue, costs, cash flow, pricing, cap tables, or financing.

Manage Ghost CMS content from the terminal — create and list posts, pages, and tags, and fetch site info via the Ghost Admin API (v5/v6). Use when the user asks about ghost, cms, blog, blogging, posts, pages, tags, publishing, or site configuration.

CMO methodology — positioning and messaging frameworks (April Dunford's

Interact with Atlassian Jira from the terminal: search issues, view details, create issues, add comments, list projects, and transition status. Use when the user mentions Jira, a ticket key (e.g. PROJ-123), or asks about issues, bugs, tasks, projects, or sprint work.

Expert-level skill for Jira Query Language (JQL). Use when the user asks about writing, debugging, optimizing, or understanding JQL queries; needs to filter Jira issues by complex criteria, date ranges, history, or cross-project conditions; wants to build saved filters, dashboard gadgets, or automation rules; or needs guidance on JQL performance, functions, operators, history operators (WAS/CHANGED), relative dates, role-based query patterns, or the JQL REST API.

CLO/General Counsel methodology — regulatory landscape analysis (GDPR,

Query, search, and download public datasets from the City of Raleigh Open Data portal. Use this whenever someone wants to explore city data — crime reports, food inspections, building permits, bike lanes, parks, zoning, traffic, budgets, or any of 200+ public datasets.

Structure organizational strategy work: strategic direction, competitive and industry analysis, growth options, capital allocation, acquisitions, and portfolio choices. Use when framing consequential choices about where to compete, how to pursue an opportunity, or how to compare strategic options.

Build and maintain technology radars for adoption, trial, assessment, and hold decisions. Use when governing technology choices, build-versus-buy decisions, or engineering portfolio risk.

Evaluate whether a startup is on a trajectory to profitability before running out of cash — Paul Graham's "Default Alive / Default Dead" framework. Takes revenue, burn rate, cash on hand, and growth rate; computes runway, burn multiple, and months to breakeven. Ships a deterministic CLI calculator. Load when founders ask about runway, burn rate, default alive, whether they need to raise money, or financial sustainability analysis.

Paul Graham's "Startup = Growth" framework as an operational tool. Computes weekly growth rates, benchmarks against YC tiers (1% concerning, 5-7% good, 10%+ exceptional), projects compound growth over time, and frames every startup decision through the question "does this serve your target growth rate?" Ships a deterministic CLI calculator. Load when founders ask about growth rate, weekly growth, startup traction, metrics, or whether they're moving fast enough.

Design the small details -- triggers, rules, feedback, loops and modes -- that separate good products from great ones. Use when the user mentions "microinteraction", "button feedback", "loading state", "toggle design", "animation detail", "interaction polish", "state transitions", or "input feedback". Also trigger when designing form validation responses, progress indicators, confirmation dialogs, or any UI element where the user expects immediate feedback. Covers trigger design, state rules,...

Talk to customers without leading them using Mom Test rules: discuss their life not your idea, ask about specifics in the past, and talk less. Use when the user mentions "customer interviews", "validate my idea", "users say they want it but dont buy", "leading questions", "The Mom Test", "customer feedback bias", or "interview script". Also trigger when preparing user research questions, interpreting ambiguous customer feedback, or designing customer discovery processes that avoid false posit...

Define product positioning by mapping competitive alternatives, unique attributes, and best-fit customers to the right market category. Use when the user mentions "positioning", "competitive alternatives", "how to position", "market category", "why customers dont get it", "positioning canvas", "repositioning", or "category creation". Also trigger when launching a new product, entering a crowded market, or diagnosing why prospects dont understand the products value. Covers positioning canvas a...

Build a complete marketing plan covering the full customer journey from stranger to raving fan. Use when the user mentions "marketing plan", "target market", "USP", "lead nurture", "customer lifetime value", "referral program", "marketing strategy", or "PVP Index". Also trigger when building a marketing plan from scratch, choosing acquisition channels, or designing end-to-end customer lifecycle campaigns. Covers the PVP Index, channel selection, and advocacy systems. For brand messaging, see ...

Edit drafts into sharper, more human writing while preserving the writer's personal voice, or detect AI-slop patterns without rewriting. Use when the user wants a draft clearer, more direct, more opinionated, or less AI-sounding, or asks whether writing reads as AI.

Author live widget apps for the Hermes TUI dock.

Audit and fix visual hierarchy, spacing, color, and depth in web UIs. Use when the user mentions "my UI looks off", "fix the design", "Tailwind styling", "color palette", "visual hierarchy", "design system", "spacing scale", or "component styling". Also trigger when building consistent design tokens, creating dark mode themes, improving data visualization clarity, or polishing UI details before launch. Covers grayscale-first workflow, constrained design scales, shadows, and component styling....

Build quiz and assessment funnels that generate qualified leads at 30-50%% conversion. Use when the user mentions "lead magnet", "quiz funnel", "assessment tool", "lead generation", "score-based segmentation", "interactive content", "lead qualification", or "quiz marketing". Also trigger when designing self-assessment tools, building calculators or graders for marketing, or creating personalized result pages that drive conversions. Covers question design, dynamic results by tier, and automate...

Clarify brand messaging using narrative structure that positions the customer as hero. Use when the user mentions "brand message", "website copy", "elevator pitch", "one-liner", "messaging isnt resonating", "brand script", "StoryBrand framework", or "customer as hero". Also trigger when rewriting homepage copy, crafting email nurture sequences, or creating consistent messaging across sales collateral and marketing materials. Covers landing page copy, marketing collateral, and consistent commu...

Create award-winning, immersive web experiences at the level of Awwwards-featured agencies. Use when the user mentions "premium website", "portfolio site", "scroll animations", "Awwwards quality", "brand experience", "cinematic web design", "parallax storytelling", or "agency-quality site". Also trigger when building landing pages that need to impress, designing creative portfolios, or elevating a standard website to a memorable digital experience. Covers dramatic typography, purposeful motio...

Select, pair, and implement typefaces for web projects. Use when the user mentions "font pairing", "which typeface", "line height", "responsive typography", "web font loading", "type hierarchy", "variable fonts", "FOUT/FOIT", or "typographic scale". Also trigger when choosing between system fonts and web fonts, optimizing font loading performance, or designing readable long-form content layouts. Covers readability evaluation, CSS implementation, and performance optimization. For overall UI de...

Build and audit SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit accessibility for VoiceOver, Voice Control, Switch Control, Full Keyboard Access, Dynamic Type, focus restoration, labels/traits/actions, traversal, custom rotors, NSAccessibility, XCTest checks, adaptive system preferences, and App Store accessibility declarations. Use when implementing accessible UI, fixing an accessibility audit, testing assistive-technology behavior, or substantiating App Store Accessibility Nutrition Labels.

Clinic-architecture-aligned iOS animation craft guidelines for SwiftUI (iOS 26 / Swift 6.2) covering motion tokens, spring physics, gesture continuity, spatial transitions, micro-interactions, and accessibility. Enforces @Equatable on animated views and keeps animation state aligned with Domain/Data feature boundaries. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring SwiftUI animation code under the clinic modular MVVM-C architecture.

Orchestrate large fan-out work as a plan-in-code "workflow" so the agent's context holds only the final verified answer, not the exhaust of hundreds of intermediate steps. Use for codebase-wide sweeps, large migrations, multi-angle research, and any task too big for one context window where the split strategy is known enough to script. Includes the adversarial-convergence verification recipe (independent attempts + refuters, keep only surviving claims).

Structure software around the Dependency Rule: source code dependencies point inward from frameworks to use cases to entities. Use when the user mentions "architecture layers", "dependency rule", "ports and adapters", "hexagonal architecture", "use case boundary", "onion architecture", "screaming architecture", or "framework independence". Also trigger when decoupling business logic from databases or frameworks, defining module boundaries, or debating where to put business rules. Covers compo...

Write readable, maintainable code through disciplined naming, small functions, and clean error handling. Use when the user mentions "code review", "naming conventions", "function too long", "code smells", "readable code", "boy scout rule", "single responsibility", or "unit test quality". Also trigger when reviewing pull requests for readability, refactoring messy functions, debating comment styles, or improving error handling patterns. Covers SRP, comment discipline, formatting, and unit test...

Keeps code readable. File size limits, function length caps, nesting depth rules. Written for non-coders who need to understand what the AI wrote.

Scans modified files for debug leftovers before shipping. Catches console.log, debugger, test URLs, and commented-out code.

Decomposition playbook + anti-temptation rules for an orchestrator profile routing work through Kanban. The "don't do the work yourself" rule and the basic lifecycle are auto-injected into every kanban worker's system prompt; this skill is the deeper playbook when you're specifically playing the orchestrator role.

Pitfalls, examples, and edge cases for Hermes Kanban workers. The lifecycle itself is auto-injected into every worker's system prompt as KANBAN_GUIDANCE (from agent/prompt_builder.py); this skill is what you load when you want deeper detail on specific scenarios.

Model software around the business domain using bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language. Use when the user mentions "domain modeling", "bounded context", "aggregate root", "ubiquitous language", "anti-corruption layer", "context mapping", "domain events", or "strategic design". Also trigger when splitting a monolith into services, defining microservice boundaries, or aligning code structure with business processes. Covers entities vs value objects, domain events, and context map...

Teach and guide GitHub workflows. Explains concepts, recommends approaches, and references specialist GitHub skills for execution.

Distinguish Hermes skills from regular GitHub repos and know how to install each correctly.