What's on the bench.
TDD Guide
Test-driven development skill for writing unit tests, generating test fixtures and mocks, analyzing coverage gaps, and guiding red-green-refactor workflows across Jest, Pytest, JUnit, Vitest, and Mocha. Use when the user asks to write tests, improve test coverage, practice TDD, generate mocks or stubs, or mentions testing frameworks like Jest, pytest, or JUnit.
Stripe Integration Expert
Production-grade Stripe integrations: subscriptions with trials and proration, one-time payments, usage-based billing, checkout sessions, idempotent webhook handlers, customer portal, and invoicing. Covers Next.js, Express, and Django patterns. Use when integrating Stripe for the first time, debugging webhook reliability issues, migrating from a different payment provider, or adding usage-based billing to an existing subscription product.
Senior Security
Use when the user asks for STRIDE threat modeling, DREAD risk scoring, data-flow-diagram threat analysis, or a quick secret scan — or when a security request needs routing to the right specialist skill (pen-testing, incident response, cloud posture, red team, AI security, threat hunting, secure code review). This skill owns threat modeling; everything else routes to a sibling.
Senior Secops
Senior SecOps engineer skill for application security, vulnerability management, compliance verification, and secure development practices. Runs SAST/DAST scans, generates CVE remediation plans, checks dependency vulnerabilities, creates security policies, enforces secure coding patterns, and automates compliance checks against SOC2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. Use when conducting a security review or audit, responding to a CVE or security incident, hardening infrastructure, implementing authentication or secrets management, running penetration test prep, checking OWASP Top 10 exposure, or enforcing security controls in CI/CD pipelines.
Senior QA
Generates unit tests, integration tests, and E2E tests for React/Next.js applications. Scans components to create Jest + React Testing Library test stubs, analyzes Istanbul/LCOV coverage reports to surface gaps, scaffolds Playwright test files from Next.js routes, mocks API calls with MSW, creates test fixtures, and configures test runners. Use when the user asks to "generate tests", "write unit tests", "analyze test coverage", "scaffold E2E tests", "set up Playwright", "configure Jest", "implement testing patterns", or "improve test quality".
Senior Prompt Engineer
Use when the user asks to optimize prompts, design prompt templates, evaluate LLM outputs with an eval set, measure RAG retrieval quality, validate agent/tool configurations, analyze token usage, or design structured-output contracts. Covers eval-driven prompt iteration, RAG metrics (relevance, faithfulness, coverage), agent workflow validation, and token/cost budgeting — all model-agnostic, with three stdlib Python tools.
Senior ML Engineer
ML engineering skill for productionizing models, building MLOps pipelines, and integrating LLMs. Covers model deployment, feature stores, drift monitoring, RAG systems, and cost optimization. Use when the user asks about deploying ML models to production, setting up MLOps infrastructure (MLflow, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, Docker), monitoring model performance or drift, building RAG pipelines, or integrating LLM APIs with retry logic and cost controls. Focused on production and operational concerns rather than model research or initial training.
Senior Fullstack
Fullstack development toolkit with project scaffolding for Next.js, FastAPI, MERN, and Django stacks, code quality analysis with security and complexity scoring, and stack selection guidance. Use when the user asks to "scaffold a new project", "create a Next.js app", "set up FastAPI with React", "analyze code quality", "audit my codebase", "what stack should I use", "generate project boilerplate", or mentions fullstack development, project setup, or tech stack comparison.
Senior Frontend
Frontend development skill for React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS applications. Use when building React components, optimizing Next.js performance, analyzing bundle sizes, scaffolding frontend projects, implementing accessibility, or reviewing frontend code quality.
Senior DevOps
Comprehensive DevOps skill for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Includes pipeline setup, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and monitoring. Use when setting up pipelines, deploying applications, managing infrastructure, implementing monitoring, or optimizing deployment processes.
Senior Data Scientist
World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics. Covers A/B testing (sample sizing, two-proportion z-tests, Bonferroni correction), difference-in-differences, feature engineering pipelines (Scikit-learn, XGBoost), cross-validated model evaluation (AUC-ROC, AUC-PR, SHAP), and MLflow experiment tracking — using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn), R, and SQL. Use when designing or analysing controlled experiments, building and evaluating classification or regression models, performing causal analysis on observational data, engineering features for structured tabular datasets, or translating statistical findings into data-driven business decisions.
Senior Data Engineer
Data engineering skill for building scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT systems, and data infrastructure. Expertise in Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and modern data stack. Includes data modeling, pipeline orchestration, data quality, and DataOps. Use when designing data architectures, building data pipelines, optimizing data workflows, implementing data governance, or troubleshooting data issues.
Senior Computer Vision
Computer vision engineering skill for object detection, image segmentation, and visual AI systems. Covers CNN and Vision Transformer architectures, YOLO/Faster R-CNN/DETR detection, Mask R-CNN/SAM segmentation, and production deployment with ONNX/TensorRT. Includes PyTorch, torchvision, Ultralytics, Detectron2, and MMDetection frameworks. Use when building detection pipelines, training custom models, optimizing inference, or deploying vision systems.
Senior Backend
Designs and implements backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, database architectures, authentication flows, and security hardening. Use when the user asks to "design REST APIs", "optimize database queries", "implement authentication", "build microservices", "review backend code", "set up GraphQL", "handle database migrations", or "load test APIs". Covers Node.js/Express/Fastify development, PostgreSQL optimization, API security, and backend architecture patterns.
Senior Architect
This skill should be used when the user asks to "design system architecture", "evaluate microservices vs monolith", "create architecture diagrams", "analyze dependencies", "choose a database", "plan for scalability", "make technical decisions", or "review system design". Use for architecture decision records (ADRs), tech stack evaluation, system design reviews, dependency analysis, and generating architecture diagrams in Mermaid, PlantUML, or ASCII format.
Ms365 Tenant Manager
Microsoft 365 tenant administration for Global Administrators. Automate M365 tenant setup, Office 365 admin tasks, Azure AD user management, Exchange Online configuration, Teams administration, and security policies. Generate PowerShell scripts for bulk operations, Conditional Access policies, license management, and compliance reporting. Use for M365 tenant manager, Office 365 admin, Azure AD users, Global Administrator, tenant configuration, or Microsoft 365 automation.
Incident Commander
Comprehensive incident response framework from detection through resolution and post-incident review. Battle-tested SRE/DevOps practices: severity classification, timeline reconstruction, structured post-incident analysis. Use when declaring an incident, coordinating multi-team response during an outage, leading a post-mortem, or setting up on-call practices for a new service.
GCP Cloud Architect
Design GCP architectures for startups and enterprises. Use when asked to design Google Cloud infrastructure, deploy to GKE or Cloud Run, configure BigQuery pipelines, optimize GCP costs, or migrate to GCP. Covers Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and cost optimization.
Epic Design
Build immersive, cinematic 2.5D interactive websites using scroll storytelling, parallax depth, text animations, and premium scroll effects — no WebGL required. Use this skill for any web design task: landing pages, product sites, hero sections, scroll animations, parallax, sticky sections, section overlaps, floating products between sections, clip-path reveals, text that flies in from sides, words that light up on scroll, curtain drops, iris opens, card stacks, bleed typography, and any site that should feel cinematic or premium. Trigger on phrases like "make it feel alive", "Apple-style animation", "sections that overlap", "product rises between sections", "immersive", "scrollytelling", or any scroll-driven visual effect. Covers 45+ techniques across 8 categories. Always inspects, judges, and plans assets before coding. Use aggressively for ANY web design task.
Email Template Builder
Build complete transactional email systems: React Email templates, provider integration (Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, AWS SES), preview server, i18n support, dark mode, spam optimization, analytics tracking. Use when adding transactional email to a new product, migrating between email providers, refactoring legacy email templates for accessibility, or adding internationalization to existing templates.
Code Reviewer
Code review automation for TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, C#, .NET, Java, C, C++, Rust, Ruby, PHP, and Dart/Flutter. Analyzes PRs for complexity and risk, checks code quality for SOLID violations and code smells, generates review reports. Use when reviewing pull requests, analyzing code quality, identifying issues, generating review checklists.
Azure Cloud Architect
Design Azure architectures for startups and enterprises. Use when asked to design Azure infrastructure, create Bicep/ARM templates, optimize Azure costs, set up Azure DevOps pipelines, or migrate to Azure. Covers AKS, App Service, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and cost optimization.
AWS Solution Architect
Design AWS architectures for startups using serverless patterns and IaC templates. Use when asked to design serverless architecture, create CloudFormation templates, optimize AWS costs, set up CI/CD pipelines, or migrate to AWS. Covers Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ECS, Aurora, and cost optimization.
Adversarial Reviewer
Adversarial code review that breaks the self-review monoculture. Use when you want a genuinely critical review of recent changes, before merging a PR, or when you suspect Claude is being too agreeable about code quality. Forces perspective shifts through hostile reviewer personas that catch blind spots the author's mental model shares with the reviewer.