Topic: design-system
99 skills in this topic.
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managing-secrets
Managing secrets (API keys, database credentials, certificates) with Vault, cloud providers, and Kubernetes. Use when storing sensitive data, rotating credentials, syncing secrets to Kubernetes, implementing dynamic secrets, or scanning code for leaked secrets.
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securing-authentication
Authentication, authorization, and API security implementation. Use when building user systems, protecting APIs, or implementing access control. Covers OAuth 2.1/OIDC, JWT patterns, sessions, Passkeys/WebAuthn, RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC, policy engines (OPA, Casbin, SpiceDB), managed auth (Clerk, Auth0), self-hosted (Keycloak, Ory), and API security best practices.
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using-timeseries-databases
Time-series database implementation for metrics, IoT, financial data, and observability backends. Use when building dashboards, monitoring systems, IoT platforms, or financial applications. Covers TimescaleDB (PostgreSQL), InfluxDB, ClickHouse, QuestDB, continuous aggregates, downsampling (LTTB), and retention policies.
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using-document-databases
Document database implementation for flexible schema applications. Use when building content management, user profiles, catalogs, or event logging. Covers MongoDB (primary), DynamoDB, Firestore, schema design patterns, indexing strategies, and aggregation pipelines.
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streaming-data
Build event streaming and real-time data pipelines with Kafka, Pulsar, Redpanda, Flink, and Spark. Covers producer/consumer patterns, stream processing, event sourcing, and CDC across TypeScript, Python, Go, and Java. When building real-time systems, microservices communication, or data integration pipelines.
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shell-scripting
Write robust, portable shell scripts with proper error handling, argument parsing, and testing. Use when automating system tasks, building CI/CD scripts, or creating container entrypoints.
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security-hardening
Reduces attack surface across OS, container, cloud, network, and database layers using CIS Benchmarks and zero-trust principles. Use when hardening production infrastructure, meeting compliance requirements, or implementing defense-in-depth security.
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using-relational-databases
Relational database implementation across Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript. Use when building CRUD applications, transactional systems, or structured data storage. Covers PostgreSQL (primary), MySQL, SQLite, ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, SeaORM, GORM), query builders (Drizzle, sqlc, SQLx), migrations, connection pooling, and serverless databases (Neon, PlanetScale, Turso).
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using-graph-databases
Graph database implementation for relationship-heavy data models. Use when building social networks, recommendation engines, knowledge graphs, or fraud detection. Covers Neo4j (primary), ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune, Cypher query patterns, and graph data modeling.
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transforming-data
Transform raw data into analytical assets using ETL/ELT patterns, SQL (dbt), Python (pandas/polars/PySpark), and orchestration (Airflow). Use when building data pipelines, implementing incremental models, migrating from pandas to polars, or orchestrating multi-step transformations with testing and quality checks.
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deploying-on-gcp
Implement applications using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. Use when building on GCP infrastructure, selecting compute/storage/database services, designing data analytics pipelines, implementing ML workflows, or architecting cloud-native applications with BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, and other GCP services.
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siem-logging
Configure security information and event management (SIEM) systems for threat detection, log aggregation, and compliance. Use when implementing centralized security logging, writing detection rules, or meeting audit requirements across cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
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administering-linux
Manage Linux systems covering systemd services, process management, filesystems, networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Use when deploying applications, optimizing server performance, diagnosing production issues, or managing users and security on Linux servers.
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ai-data-engineering
Data pipelines, feature stores, and embedding generation for AI/ML systems. Use when building RAG pipelines, ML feature serving, or data transformations. Covers feature stores (Feast, Tecton), embedding pipelines, chunking strategies, orchestration (Dagster, Prefect, Airflow), dbt transformations, data versioning (LakeFS), and experiment tracking (MLflow, W&B).
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architecting-data
Strategic guidance for designing modern data platforms, covering storage paradigms (data lake, warehouse, lakehouse), modeling approaches (dimensional, normalized, data vault, wide tables), data mesh principles, and medallion architecture patterns. Use when architecting data platforms, choosing between centralized vs decentralized patterns, selecting table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake), or designing data governance frameworks.
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architecting-networks
Design cloud network architectures with VPC patterns, subnet strategies, zero trust principles, and hybrid connectivity. Use when planning VPC topology, implementing multi-cloud networking, or establishing secure network segmentation for cloud workloads.
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assembling-components
Assembles component outputs from AI Design Components skills into unified, production-ready component systems with validated token integration, proper import chains, and framework-specific scaffolding. Use as the capstone skill after running theming, layout, dashboard, data-viz, or feedback skills to wire components into working React/Next.js, Python, or Rust projects.
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building-ai-chat
Builds AI chat interfaces and conversational UI with streaming responses, context management, and multi-modal support. Use when creating ChatGPT-style interfaces, AI assistants, code copilots, or conversational agents. Handles streaming text, token limits, regeneration, feedback loops, tool usage visualization, and AI-specific error patterns. Provides battle-tested components from leading AI products with accessibility and performance built in.
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building-ci-pipelines
Constructs secure, efficient CI/CD pipelines with supply chain security (SLSA), monorepo optimization, caching strategies, and parallelization patterns for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Argo Workflows. Use when setting up automated testing, building, or deployment workflows.
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building-tables
Builds tables and data grids for displaying tabular information, from simple HTML tables to complex enterprise data grids. Use when creating tables, implementing sorting/filtering/pagination, handling large datasets (10-1M+ rows), building spreadsheet-like interfaces, or designing data-heavy components. Provides performance optimization strategies, accessibility patterns (WCAG/ARIA), responsive designs, and library recommendations (TanStack Table, AG Grid).
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configuring-firewalls
Configure host-based firewalls (iptables, nftables, UFW) and cloud security groups (AWS, GCP, Azure) with practical rules for common scenarios like web servers, databases, and bastion hosts. Use when exposing services, hardening servers, or implementing network segmentation with defense-in-depth strategies.
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configuring-nginx
Configure nginx for static sites, reverse proxying, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, caching, and performance tuning. When setting up web servers, application proxies, or load balancers, this skill provides production-ready patterns with modern security best practices for TLS 1.3, rate limiting, and security headers.
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optimizing-sql
Optimize SQL query performance through EXPLAIN analysis, indexing strategies, and query rewriting for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server. Use when debugging slow queries, analyzing execution plans, or improving database performance.
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debugging-techniques
Debugging workflows for Python (pdb, debugpy), Go (delve), Rust (lldb), and Node.js, including container debugging (kubectl debug, ephemeral containers) and production-safe debugging techniques with distributed tracing and correlation IDs. Use when setting breakpoints, debugging containers/pods, remote debugging, or production debugging.
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