What's on the bench.
Slo Architect
Use when defining, reviewing, or operating SLOs/SLIs/error budgets. Triggers on "define an SLO", "what should our SLO be", "error budget", "burn rate", "SLI", "service level objective", "Google SRE workbook", "multi-window burn-rate alert", or any reliability-target question. Ships SLO designer, error-budget calculator with multi-window burn-rate thresholds, and SLO reviewer that catches the common bugs (target too aggressive, window too short, conflicting SLOs, no SLI definition). 4 references on SLO principles + SLI design + error budget math + composition with feature-flags-architect/chaos-engineering/kubernetes-operator. NOT a generic observability skill — specifically the SLO discipline.
Skill Tester
Validate, test, and score the quality of skills within the claude-skills ecosystem. Comprehensive meta-skill: structure validation, Python script testing (syntax + imports + runtime + output format), multi-dimensional quality scoring with letter grades and tier classification (BASIC/STANDARD/POWERFUL). Use when authoring a new skill, auditing existing skills for tier promotion, setting up pre-commit hooks for skill quality, or integrating skill QA into CI.
Skill Security Auditor
Security audit and vulnerability scanner for AI agent skills before installation. Use when: (1) evaluating a skill from an untrusted source, (2) auditing a skill directory or git repo URL for malicious code, (3) pre-install security gate for Claude Code plugins, OpenClaw skills, or Codex skills, (4) scanning Python scripts for dangerous patterns like os.system, eval, subprocess, network exfiltration, (5) detecting prompt injection in SKILL.md files, (6) checking dependency supply chain risks, (7) verifying file system access stays within skill boundaries. Triggers: "audit this skill", "is this skill safe", "scan skill for security", "check skill before install", "skill security check", "skill vulnerability scan".
Ship Gate
Pre-production audit that scans a codebase for security, database, deployment, code quality, AI/LLM, dependency, frontend, and observability issues. Intercepts deploy commands and blocks until critical items pass. Stack-agnostic. Use for "run ship gate", "am I ready to ship", "pre-launch audit", "can I deploy", "push to production", "go live checklist", "preflight check". Not for CI/CD setup or infra provisioning.
Self Eval
Honestly evaluate AI work quality using a two-axis scoring system. Use after completing a task, code review, or work session to get an unbiased assessment. Detects score inflation, forces devil's advocate reasoning, and persists scores across sessions.
Secrets Vault Manager
Use when the user asks to set up secret management infrastructure, integrate HashiCorp Vault, configure cloud secret stores (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager), implement secret rotation, or audit secret access patterns.
Runbook Generator
Generate operational runbooks from a service name — deployment, incident response, maintenance, and rollback workflows. Templated structure customizable per environment. Use when documenting on-call procedures for a new service, standardizing incident response across teams, or producing runbooks before launching to production.
Rag Architect
Use when the user asks to design a RAG pipeline, choose a chunking strategy or embedding model, pick a vector database, or evaluate retrieval quality (precision@k, recall@k, NDCG). Examples: 'design a RAG system for our docs', 'what chunk size should I use for this corpus', 'evaluate my retriever against ground truth'. NOT for general LLM cost tuning (use llm-cost-optimizer) or agent loops over retrieval (use agenthub).
Pr Review Expert
Use when the user asks to review pull requests, analyze code changes, check for security issues in PRs, or assess code quality of diffs.
Performance Profiler
Systematic performance profiling for Node.js, Python, and Go applications. Identifies CPU, memory, and I/O bottlenecks, generates flamegraphs, analyzes bundle sizes, optimizes database queries, runs load tests with k6 and Artillery. Always measures before and after. Use when investigating a slow endpoint, planning a performance budget, or hunting a memory leak in production.
Observability Designer
Design production-ready observability strategies combining metrics, logs, and traces. Includes SLI/SLO design, golden-signals monitoring, alert optimization. Use when adding observability to a new service, refactoring alerting that is too noisy, or designing an SLO program before scaling production load.
Monorepo Navigator
Navigate, manage, and optimize monorepos. Covers Turborepo, Nx, pnpm workspaces, and Lerna. Cross-package impact analysis, selective builds/tests on affected packages, remote caching, dependency graph visualization, and structured multi-repo to monorepo migrations. Use when setting up a new monorepo, optimizing CI for a large workspace, debugging cross-package dependency issues, or planning a multi-repo consolidation.
Migration Architect
Zero-downtime migration planning, compatibility validation, and rollback strategy generation. Tools for system, database, and infrastructure migrations with minimal business impact. Use when planning a database migration, infrastructure cutover, system replacement, or any high-risk transition that needs explicit rollback paths.
MCP Server Builder
Design and ship production-ready MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers from OpenAPI contracts instead of hand-written tool wrappers. Python and TypeScript support, schema validation, safe evolution. Use when exposing an existing API as an MCP server, building tool integrations for Claude or Codex or Cursor, or scaffolding an MCP project from scratch.
Interview System Designer
This skill should be used when the user asks to "design interview processes", "create hiring pipelines", "calibrate interview loops", "generate interview questions", "design competency matrices", "analyze interviewer bias", "create scoring rubrics", "build question banks", or "optimize hiring systems". Use for designing role-specific interview loops, competency assessments, and hiring calibration systems.
Git Worktree Manager
Run parallel feature work safely with Git worktrees. Standardizes branch isolation, port allocation, environment sync, and cleanup so each worktree behaves like an independent local app. Optimized for multi-agent workflows where each agent or terminal session owns one worktree. Use when running multiple feature branches simultaneously, isolating experimental work, or coordinating multi-agent development across the same repo.
Focused Fix
Use when the user asks to fix, debug, or make a specific feature/module/area work end-to-end. Triggers: 'make X work', 'fix the Y feature', 'the Z module is broken', 'focus on [area]'. Not for quick single-bug fixes — this is for systematic deep-dive repair across all files and dependencies.
Env Secrets Manager
Manage environment-variable hygiene and secrets safety across local development and production. Practical auditing, drift awareness, rotation readiness. Use when auditing .env files for committed secrets, planning a credential rotation, debugging missing-env-var production incidents, or hardening a new project against secrets leakage.
Dependency Auditor
Audit and manage dependencies across multi-language projects. Identifies vulnerabilities, license conflicts, transitive dependency risks, and safe-upgrade paths. Use when auditing third-party packages before release, investigating a CVE, planning a major version bump, or running a license-compliance review. Examples: 'audit our npm dependencies', 'do we have GPL contamination', 'plan the upgrade to React 19'.
Database Schema Designer
Use when the user asks to create ERD diagrams, normalize database schemas, design table relationships, or plan schema migrations.
Database Designer
Use when the user asks to design database schemas, plan data migrations, optimize queries, choose between SQL and NoSQL, or model data relationships.
Codebase Onboarding
Analyze a codebase and generate onboarding documentation for engineers, tech leads, and contractors. Fast fact-gathering and repeatable onboarding outputs. Use when onboarding a new engineer, writing architecture-overview docs for a new project, or producing tech-lead briefings for unfamiliar repos.
CI CD Pipeline Builder
Generate pragmatic CI/CD pipelines from detected project stack signals — fast baseline generation, repeatable checks, environment-aware deployment stages. Use when setting up CI for a new project, refactoring existing pipelines, or standardizing deployment workflows across multiple repos.
Changelog Generator
Produce consistent, auditable release notes from Conventional Commits. Separates commit parsing, semantic-bump logic, and changelog rendering for automated releases with editorial control. Use when cutting a release, generating CHANGELOG.md from git history, computing the next semantic version from commits, automating release notes in CI, or planning a hotfix/rollback. Examples: 'generate the changelog for v1.4.0', 'what version bump do these commits require', 'we need an emergency hotfix process'.