Topic: ai-coding
5,076 skills in this topic.
-
autonomous-roundtable
DEPRECATED: This skill has been absorbed into the develop skill. Use develop instead.
The capabilities of autonomous-roundtable (project decomposition, roundtable gating,
reflexion on ITERATE) are now available through develop's dialectic_mode and
token_enforcement preferences. Set dialectic_mode to "roundtable" in Phase 0.4
for equivalent behavior.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
auditing-green-mirage
Use when auditing whether tests genuinely catch failures, or when user expresses doubt about test quality. Triggers: 'are these tests real', 'do tests catch bugs', 'tests pass but I don't trust them', 'test quality audit', 'green mirage', 'shallow tests', 'tests always pass suspiciously', 'would this test fail if code was broken'. NOT for: fixing broken tests (use fixing-tests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
audio-notifications
Reference for TTS and OS notification configuration. Auto-loads when TTS is enabled (session_init reports TTS active). Also triggered by: 'mute', 'unmute', 'change voice', 'volume', 'notify', 'notification settings', '/tts', '/notify', 'kokoro', 'speak', 'audio feedback'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
async-await-patterns
Use when writing JavaScript or TypeScript code with asynchronous operations, fixing promise-related bugs, or converting callback/promise patterns to async/await. Triggers: 'promise chain', 'unhandled rejection', 'race condition in JS', 'callback hell', 'Promise.all', 'sequential vs parallel async', 'missing await'. Enforces async/await discipline over raw promises.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
assembling-context
Use when preparing context for subagent dispatch or managing token budgets. Triggers: 'prepare context for', 'assemble context', 'token budget', 'context package', 'what context does the subagent need'. Also invoked by develop during planning and execution phases.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
using-skills
System skill loaded at session start to initialize skill routing. Not invoked directly by users. Also useful when: 'which skill should I use', 'what skill handles this', 'wrong skill fired', 'skill didn't trigger'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
analyzing-skill-usage
Use when evaluating skill effectiveness or comparing skill versions. Triggers: 'how are skills performing', 'skill metrics', 'which skills fire correctly', 'skill invocation analysis', 'compare skill versions', 'analyze skill usage'. Also invoked by skill improvement workflows.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
enforcing-code-quality
Behavioral protocol for all code changes. Invoked automatically by develop and test-driven-development. Triggers: 'code quality', 'no shortcuts', 'production quality', 'enforce standards'. NOT for: reviewing others' code (use code-review) or test quality (use fixing-tests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
analyzing-domains
Use when entering unfamiliar domains, modeling complex business logic, or when terms/concepts are unclear. Triggers: 'what are the domain concepts', 'define the entities', 'model this domain', 'DDD', 'ubiquitous language', 'bounded context'. Also invoked by develop during research phase.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
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
-
testing-strategy
Test selection strategy and scope guidance. Triggers: 'which tests should I run', 'test tiers', 'test marks', 'slow tests', 'integration vs unit', 'cross-module regression', 'test scope', 'what should I run', 'select tests', 'test batching'. NOT for: writing tests (use test-driven-development) or fixing broken tests (use fixing-tests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
emotional-stakes
Use when writing subagent prompts, skill instructions, or any text where accuracy is critical and hallucination would cause harm. Triggers: 'make this accurate', 'high-stakes prompt', 'this needs to be truthful', 'critical instructions', 'get this right'. NOT for: general prompt improvement (use instruction-engineering) or prompt ambiguity review (use sharpening-prompts).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
advanced-code-review
Use when performing thorough code review with historical context tracking. Triggers: 'thorough review', 'deep review', 'review this branch in detail', 'full code review with report'. More heavyweight than code-review; for quick review, use code-review instead.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
test-driven-development
Use when user explicitly requests test-driven development. Triggers: 'TDD', 'write tests first', 'red green refactor', 'test-first', 'start with the test'. Also invoked by develop and executing-plans for implementation tasks. NOT for: full feature work (use develop, which includes TDD internally).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
tarot-mode
Use when session returns mode.type='tarot', user says '/tarot', or requests roundtable dialogue with archetypes. Triggers: '/tarot', 'use tarot mode', 'roundtable with archetypes', 'tarot personas'. Session-level mode, not task-level.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
-
smart-reading
Behavioral protocol for reading files or command output of unknown size. Loaded automatically for all file reading operations. Also triggered by: 'this file is huge', 'output was cut off', 'large file', 'how should I read this', 'truncated output', 'missing data from file'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5