Topic: ai-assistant
953 skills in this topic.
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code-review
Use when reviewing code. Triggers: 'review my code', 'check my work', 'look over this', 'review PR #X', 'PR comments to address', 'reviewer said', 'address feedback', 'self-review before PR', 'audit this code'. For heavyweight multi-phase analysis, use advanced-code-review instead.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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creating-issues-and-pull-requests
Use when creating GitHub pull requests or issues with template compliance. Triggers: 'create a PR', 'open a pull request', 'file an issue', 'create issue'. Also invoked by finishing-a-development-branch. NOT for: deciding whether to merge or PR (use finishing-a-development-branch).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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develop
Use when building, creating, modifying, or planning any code change. Triggers: "implement X", "build Y", "add feature Z", "create X", "change how X works", "modify Y", "update the Z", "refactor X", "rework Y", "restructure Z", "make X do Y", "let's plan how to", "plan the implementation", "how should we implement", "how would you build", "what's the best way to implement", "I want to...", "We need...", "Would be great to...", "Can we add...", "Let's add...", "Let's build...", "Let's make...", "start a new project". Also for: new projects, repos, templates, greenfield development, refactoring, migrations, multi-file modifications, any code change requiring planning. PREFER THIS OVER plan mode or ad-hoc implementation for ANY substantive code change. NOT for: bug fixes (use debugging), pure research (use deep-research), questions about existing code without intent to change it, or test-only fixes (use fixing-tests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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devils-advocate
Use when challenging assumptions, surfacing risks, or stress-testing designs and decisions. Triggers: 'challenge this', 'play devil's advocate', 'what could go wrong', 'poke holes', 'find the flaws', 'what am I missing', 'is this solid', 'red team this', 'what are the weaknesses', 'risk assessment', 'sanity check'. Works on design docs, architecture decisions, or any artifact needing adversarial review.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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dispatching-parallel-agents
Use when deciding whether to dispatch subagents, when to stay in main context, or when facing 2+ independent parallel tasks. Triggers: 'should I use a subagent', 'parallelize', 'multiple independent tasks', 'run these at the same time', 'split this up', 'do both at once', 'dispatch template', 'context minimization'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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distilling-prs
Use when reviewing PRs to triage, categorize, or summarize changes requiring human attention. Triggers: 'summarize this PR', 'what changed in PR #X', 'triage PR', 'which files need review', 'PR overview', 'categorize changes', or pasting a PR URL. NOT for: deep code analysis (use advanced-code-review) or quick review (use code-review).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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executing-plans
Use when you have an implementation plan ready to execute. Triggers: 'run the plan', 'start building', 'execute the tasks', 'implement the steps', 'next task in the plan', 'work through the plan'. Also invoked by develop after planning phase completes. NOT for: creating plans (use writing-plans).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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fact-checking
Use when verifying technical claims in code, docs, or comments before merge. Triggers: 'is this claim correct', 'verify this', 'fact check', 'is this accurate', 'check these assertions', 'are these comments true'. NOT for: checking if AI hallucinated references (use dehallucination).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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finding-dead-code
Use when reviewing code changes, auditing new features, or cleaning up. Triggers: 'find dead code', 'find unused code', 'check for unnecessary additions', 'what can I remove', 'is this used anywhere', 'can I delete this', 'orphaned code', 'unused imports'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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finishing-a-development-branch
Use when implementation is complete, tests pass, and you need to decide the integration path. Triggers: 'done with this branch', 'ready to merge', 'ship it', 'wrap this up', 'how should I integrate this', 'what next after implementation'. NOT for: PR creation mechanics (use creating-issues-and-pull-requests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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generating-diagrams
Use when generating flowcharts, diagrams, dependency graphs, or visual representations of processes, relationships, architecture, or state machines. Triggers: 'diagram this', 'flowchart', 'visualize', 'dependency graph', 'ER diagram', 'state machine diagram', 'class diagram', 'sequence diagram', 'map the relationships', 'draw the architecture', 'how does X connect to Y'. NOT for: simple bullet point explanations, runtime monitoring, or text-only documentation.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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instruction-engineering
Use when crafting, improving, or reviewing prompts, system prompts, skill instructions, or any text that instructs an LLM. Triggers: 'write a prompt', 'prompt engineering', 'improve this prompt', 'design a system prompt', 'write skill instructions', 'craft agent instructions'. Also invoked by writing-skills. NOT for: auditing existing prompts for ambiguity (use sharpening-prompts).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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isolated-testing
Use when testing theories during debugging, or when chaos is detected. Triggers: "let me try", "maybe if I", "what about", "quick test", "see if", rapid context switching, multiple changes without isolation. Enforces one-theory-one-test discipline. Invoked automatically by debugging, scientific-debugging, systematic-debugging before any experiment execution.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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managing-artifacts
Use when generating documents, reports, plans, audits, or deciding where to save output files. Triggers: 'save report', 'write plan', 'where should I put this', 'where does this go', 'output directory', 'save this somewhere'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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reflexion
Invoked by develop when iteration feedback requires a retry, not directly by users. Prevents repeating the same mistakes across attempts. Also relevant when: 'why did this fail again', 'same error twice', 'what should I do differently', 'keep making the same mistake'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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requesting-code-review
Use when implementation is done and you need a structured pre-PR review workflow. Triggers: 'ready for review', 'review my changes before PR', 'pre-merge check', 'is this ready', 'submit for review'. NOT for: post-merge review (use code-review) or deciding how to integrate (use finishing-a-development-branch).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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resolving-merge-conflicts
Use when git merge or rebase fails with conflicts, you see 'unmerged paths' or conflict markers (<<<<<<< =======), or need help resolving conflicted files. Triggers: 'merge conflict', 'fix the conflicts', 'conflicting changes', 'resolve conflicts', 'can't merge'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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security-trust-tiers
Subagent trust tier system for handling external and untrusted content. Invoked by dispatching-parallel-agents when external content is involved. Triggers: 'review this PR from external contributor', 'untrusted content', 'third-party code', 'what trust tier', 'quarantine', 'review_untrusted', 'external PR', 'security tier', 'trust boundary', 'session protection'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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session-mode-init
Loaded at session start when spellbook_session_init returns mode data, or when mode.type is 'unset'. Triggers: session init mode handling, '/mode', mode selection, 'fun mode', 'tarot mode'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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session-resume
Session resume protocol and session repairs handling. Loaded when spellbook_session_init returns resume_available: true, or when session_init returns a repairs array. Triggers: 'resume', 'continue', 'where were we', session resume, session repairs.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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sharpening-prompts
Use when reviewing LLM prompts, skill instructions, subagent prompts, or any text that will instruct an AI. Triggers: "review this prompt", "audit instructions", "sharpen prompt", "is this clear enough", "would an LLM understand this", "ambiguity check". Also invoked by instruction-engineering, reviewing-design-docs, and reviewing-impl-plans for instruction quality gates.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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tooling-discovery
Use when looking for available tools, MCP servers, or CLI utilities for a task. Triggers: 'what tools do I have', 'is there an MCP for this', 'what's available', 'find a tool for', 'discover tooling', 'what CLI tools exist'. NOT for: documenting existing tools (use documenting-tools).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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using-git-worktrees
Use when starting feature work that needs isolation from current workspace, or setting up parallel development tracks. Triggers: 'worktree', 'separate branch', 'isolate this work', 'don't mess up current work', 'work on two things at once', 'parallel workstreams', 'new branch for this', 'keep my current work safe'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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using-lsp-tools
Use when mcp-language-server tools are available and you need semantic code intelligence. Triggers: 'find definition', 'find references', 'who calls this', 'rename symbol', 'type hierarchy', 'go to definition', 'where is this used', 'where is this defined', 'what type is this'. Provides navigation, refactoring, and type analysis via LSP.
axiomantic/spellbook 5