What's on the bench.
Technical Debt Register
Document and prioritize a technical debt backlog with business impact, effort estimates, and resolution strategy. Use when asked to audit technical debt, create a debt register, prioritize tech debt for a quarter, document architectural shortcuts, or build a debt reduction roadmap. Produces a structured technical debt register covering debt inventory by category, business impact per item, effort and priority scores, top-item resolution plans, and a quarterly debt reduction roadmap.
Tech Radar
Build a technology radar for an engineering team, categorizing technologies into Adopt/Trial/Assess/Hold quadrants following the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar format. Use when asked to create a tech radar, evaluate the team's technology landscape, categorize tools and frameworks, or establish a technology strategy. Produces a full tech radar with quadrant tables, individual blip rationales, a decision trail, and a maintenance process guide.
System Design Interview
Structure a complete system design answer for interview questions or real architecture sessions. Use when asked to design a system, answer a system design interview question, or architect a solution at scale. Produces a structured answer covering requirements, capacity estimates, high-level design, component deep-dives, trade-offs, and follow-up considerations.
Sprint Velocity Analysis
Analyze sprint velocity data and produce an engineering team health report covering delivery trends, capacity utilization, and improvement recommendations. Use when asked to analyze sprint velocity, review team delivery health, identify delivery risks, or produce a retrospective data analysis. Produces a velocity trend analysis, health diagnosis table, top improvement recommendations with implementation steps, and a next-sprint capacity forecast.
Slo Error Budget
Define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and an error budget policy for a service. Use when asked to write SLOs, define SLIs, calculate an error budget, set reliability targets, or create an error budget policy. Produces a complete SLO document with SLI definitions, target calculation, error budget policy, burn rate alerts, and review cadence.
Service Catalog Entry
Write a service catalog entry for a microservice or internal platform service — covering service identity, purpose, architecture context, SLAs, API contract summary, data classification, dependencies, operational runbooks, and known limitations. Use when asked to document a service for an internal developer portal, write a service README for a platform catalog, create a service overview page, or onboard a new service to a service registry. Produces a complete service catalog entry suitable for an internal developer portal or wiki.
Security Threat Model
Write a STRIDE-based threat model for a service or feature. Use when asked to produce a threat model, document security risks, identify attack vectors, assess a service's security posture, or prepare for a security design review. Produces a structured threat model covering assets, trust boundaries, STRIDE threat enumeration per component, risk scores, mitigation controls, and residual risk sign-off.
Runbook Writer
Write an operational runbook for a service, incident type, or deployment procedure. Use when asked to write a runbook, create an ops guide, document an operational procedure, or prepare an incident response playbook. Produces a runbook with overview, prerequisites, step-by-step procedures, rollback steps, troubleshooting table, and escalation paths.
RFC Writer
Write an engineering RFC (Request for Comments) for a technical decision, architectural change, or significant implementation approach. Use when asked to write an RFC, document a technical proposal, create a design doc, write an architecture decision for review, or produce a technical specification for team feedback. Produces a complete RFC document covering problem statement, motivation, proposed solution, alternatives rejected, implementation plan, migration plan, security and performance implications, observability changes, rollout plan, and open questions.
Pr Description Writer
Write a clear, structured pull request description from a git diff, branch summary, or commit list. Use when asked to write a PR description, draft a pull request, or document code changes. Produces a description with summary, motivation, changes made, testing steps, and reviewer guidance.
Performance Budget
Define and document performance budgets for a web service or application. Use when asked to set performance targets, define SLOs for latency or throughput, establish Core Web Vitals targets, create a performance baseline, or document performance regression policy. Produces a structured performance budget covering key user journeys, Core Web Vitals, backend latency SLOs, measurement tooling, CI enforcement, and breach response process.
Oncall Runbook
Write an on-call runbook for a service — covering alert definitions, escalation paths, common incident responses, and on-call handoff procedures. Use when asked to write an on-call guide, create alert runbooks, document escalation procedures, or prepare an on-call handoff document. Produces a structured on-call runbook with per-alert response procedures, escalation matrix, diagnostic commands, and handoff template.
Monitoring Setup Guide
Write a monitoring setup guide for a service — defining what to measure, how to alert on it, and how to build the observability stack covering the four golden signals, business metrics, log strategy, distributed tracing, alerting rules, dashboard layout, and observability debt. Use when asked to set up monitoring for a service, define alerting strategy, write an observability plan, create a dashboard specification, or document logging standards for a team. Produces a metric definitions table, alert rules specification, dashboard layout wireframe, log schema, tracing setup checklist, and monitoring gap analysis.
Microservices Decomposition
Design a microservices decomposition for a monolith or new system, defining service boundaries, ownership, communication patterns, and migration plan. Use when asked to decompose a monolith, define service boundaries, design a microservices architecture, or plan a strangler-fig migration. Produces a bounded context map, service inventory table, communication pattern decisions, data ownership matrix, migration roadmap, and risk register.
Local Dev Setup
Write a local development environment setup guide for a service or project — covering prerequisites, repository setup, environment variables, local service dependencies, database seeding, running the service, running tests, common gotchas, IDE recommendations, and first-contribution checklist. Use when asked to write a dev setup guide, create onboarding documentation for engineers, document local environment setup, or write a getting-started guide for a codebase. Produces a complete setup guide that a new engineer can follow from zero to running tests in under 30 minutes, with a troubleshooting section for the most common setup failures.
Load Testing Plan
Write a load and performance testing plan for a service. Use when asked to create a performance test plan, write load testing documentation, define stress or soak test scenarios, or set performance regression gates for CI. Produces a complete test plan document with scenario definitions, k6/Locust script skeleton, threshold table, result interpretation guide, and CI integration steps.
Infra As Code Review
Write an infrastructure-as-code review checklist and conduct a structured review of Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Ansible code. Use when asked to review IaC code, audit infrastructure configurations, check cloud security posture, or produce a reusable IaC review checklist. Produces a structured review report with severity-categorized findings, remediation guidance, and a reusable checklist.
Incident Postmortem
Write a structured incident postmortem or post-incident review. Use when asked to write a postmortem, incident report, P1/P2 review, outage report, or RCA (root cause analysis). Generates a blameless postmortem with timeline, root cause, contributing factors, impact summary, and action items.
Feature Flag Guide
Write a feature flag management guide and lifecycle playbook for a service or team — covering flag taxonomy, creation checklist, rollout strategy, monitoring requirements, cleanup policy, and governance. Use when asked to document feature flag practices, create a flag rollout plan, write a feature flag policy, or guide a team on flag lifecycle management. Produces a flag lifecycle playbook, taxonomy reference, per-flag creation template, rollout decision tree, and cleanup checklist.
Engineering Weekly Report
Write a weekly engineering status report for a team, service, or initiative. Use when asked to write a team update, weekly engineering report, sprint status email, or standing team communication to stakeholders. Produces a concise, scannable weekly report covering shipping progress, metrics, decisions, blockers, and next-week priorities.
Engineering Hiring Rubric
Build an engineering hiring rubric and technical interview scorecard for evaluating software engineers at a specific level. Use when asked to create an interview rubric, design a hiring process, build a technical scorecard, or standardize engineer evaluation. Produces a full interview scorecard, behavioral question bank, technical question set with evaluation criteria, system design rubric, and debrief agenda.
Disaster Recovery Plan
Write a disaster recovery plan for a service or system — covering RPO/RTO targets, failure scenario runbooks, backup and restore procedures, DR testing cadence, and communication templates. Use when asked to write a DR plan, document failover procedures, create recovery runbooks, define RTO/RPO targets, or prepare for a disaster recovery game day. Produces a full DR document with per-scenario recovery runbooks, backup validation procedures, testing schedule, and communication templates.
Developer Onboarding Doc
Write a developer onboarding document for a service, codebase, or team. Use when asked to write a developer guide, service README, onboarding doc for a new engineer, codebase orientation, or getting-started guide for a technical team. Produces a structured doc covering service overview, architecture, local setup, key patterns, testing, deployment, and who to ask for what.
Dependency Audit
Audits project dependencies for security vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, outdated packages, and transitive dependency risk. Use when asked to audit dependencies, review package security, check license compliance, assess dependency health, or produce a vulnerability report. Produces a vulnerability findings table, license compliance matrix, update priority matrix, dependency health score, and 30-day remediation plan.