Agent skills
Skills you can use with AI coding agents, indexed from public GitHub repositories.
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joelclaw-web
Update and maintain joelclaw.com — the Next.js web app at apps/web/. Use when writing blog posts, editing pages, updating the network page, changing layout/header/footer, adding components, or fixing anything on the site. Hard content triggers: 'write article about X' (draft in Convex), 'publish article <slug>' (set draft=false + revalidate tags/paths). Also triggers on: 'update the site', 'write a post', 'fix the blog', 'joelclaw.com', 'update network page', 'add a page', 'change the header', or any task involving the public-facing web app.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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agent-workloads
Compatibility alias for the canonical `workflow-rig` front door. Use when older prompts mention `agent-workloads` or when you need the legacy workload-planning guidance; for new work, load `workflow-rig` first.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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wizardshit
Work on wizardshit.ai — Joel's AI education platform teaching the exploratory journey of building systems with and around AI. Covers the Next.js app in gremlin, The Claw course design, and the manage brain vault. Triggers on: 'wizardshit', 'wizard shit', 'wizardshit.ai', 'the claw course', 'agent game generation', 'zots', 'minions of toil'.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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gateway-setup
Set up a persistent AI agent gateway on macOS with Redis event bridge, heartbeat monitoring, and multi-session routing. Interactive Q&A to match your intent — from minimal (Redis + extension) to full (embedded daemon + Telegram + watchdog). Use when: 'set up a gateway', 'I want my agent always on', 'event bridge', 'heartbeat monitoring', 'agent notifications', or any request to make an AI agent persistent and reachable.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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task-management
Manage Joel's task system in Todoist. Triggers on: 'add a task', 'create a todo', 'what's on my list', 'today's tasks', 'what do I need to do', 'remind me to', 'inbox', 'complete', 'mark done', 'weekly review', 'groom tasks', 'what's next', or when actionable items emerge from other work. Also triggers when Joel mentions something he needs to do in passing — capture it.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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langfuse
Instrument joelclaw LLM calls with Langfuse tracing. Covers the @langfuse/tracing SDK, observation hierarchy (spans, generations, tools, agents), propagateAttributes for userId/sessionId/tags, the pi-session extension (langfuse-cost), and the system-bus OTEL integration. Use when adding Langfuse traces, debugging missing/broken traces, checking cost data, or improving observability on any LLM surface.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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capture_progress
Turn ephemeral discussion into durable truth in the right artifact. Use when Joel says "capture this", "note this", "write this down", "make this durable", "put this in the doc", or whenever a conversation conclusion should be preserved in project docs, launch plans, lat.md, ADRs, tasks, or memory.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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gateway-diagnose
Diagnose gateway failures by reading daemon logs, session transcripts, Redis state, and OTEL telemetry. Full Telegram path triage: daemon process → Redis channel → command queue → pi session → model API → Telegram delivery. Use when: 'gateway broken', 'telegram not working', 'why is gateway down', 'gateway not responding', 'check gateway logs', 'what happened to gateway', 'gateway diagnose', 'gateway errors', 'review gateway logs', 'fallback activated', 'gateway stuck', or any request to understand why the gateway failed. Distinct from the gateway skill (operations) — this skill is diagnostic.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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skos-taxonomy
Design, apply, and maintain SKOS taxonomies for joelclaw agent workflows. Use when defining concept schemes, classifying agent inputs/outputs, mapping to external vocabularies, or integrating taxonomy metadata with Typesense retrieval.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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agent-loop
Start, monitor, and cancel durable multi-agent coding loops via Inngest. Use when the user wants to run autonomous coding workloads, execute a PRD with multiple stories, kick off an AFK coding session, have agents implement features from a plan, or manage running loops. Triggers on "start a coding loop", "run this PRD", "implement these stories", "go AFK and code this", "check loop status", "cancel the loop", "joelclaw loop", or any request for autonomous multi-story code execution.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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rust-sop
Standard operating procedures for writing Rust in joelclaw. Covers idiomatic patterns, async/tokio, error handling, project structure, testing, and clawnode-specific conventions. Use when writing Rust code, reviewing Rust PRs, scaffolding Rust projects, debugging ownership/lifetime errors, or working on clawnode. Triggers on: 'rust', 'cargo', 'tokio', 'axum', 'clawnode', 'ownership', 'lifetimes', 'borrow checker', 'rust error', or any Rust development task.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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inngest-steps
Use Inngest step methods to build durable workflows. Covers step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent, step.waitForSignal, step.sendEvent, step.invoke, step.ai, and patterns for loops and parallel execution.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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k8s
Operate the joelclaw Kubernetes cluster — Talos Linux on Colima (Mac Mini). Deploy services, check health, debug pods, recover from restarts, add ports, manage Helm releases, inspect logs, fix networking. Triggers on: 'kubectl', 'pods', 'deploy to k8s', 'cluster health', 'restart pod', 'helm install', 'talosctl', 'colima', 'nodeport', 'flannel', 'port mapping', 'k8s down', 'cluster not working', 'add a port', 'PVC', 'storage', any k8s/Talos/Colima infrastructure task. Also triggers on service-specific deploy: 'deploy redis', 'redeploy inngest', 'livekit helm', 'pds not responding'.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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pdf-brain-ingest
Ingest PDF/Markdown/TXT files into joelclaw's docs memory pipeline with Inngest durability, durable NAS artifacts, and OTEL verification. Use when adding docs, running batch reindex, reconciling coverage, or recovering stuck runs. Triggers on: 'ingest pdf', 'ingest markdown', 'docs add', 'pdf-brain ingest', 'backfill books', 'docs reconcile', 'reindex docs', 'batch reindex'.
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joelclaw-system-check
Run a comprehensive health check of the joelclaw system — k8s cluster, worker, Inngest, Redis, Typesense/OTEL, tests, TypeScript, repo sync, memory pipeline, pi-tools, git config, active loops, disk, stale tests. Outputs a 1-10 score with per-component breakdown. Use when: 'system health', 'health check', 'is everything working', 'system status', 'how's the system', 'check everything', or at session start to orient.
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joelclaw
Operate the joelclaw event bus, gateway, observability, and agent loop infrastructure via the joelclaw CLI. Use for: sending events, checking runs, starting/monitoring/cancelling agent loops, debugging failed runs, checking health, restarting the worker, inspecting step traces, managing subscriptions, gateway operations, OTEL queries, semantic recall. Triggers: 'joelclaw', 'send an event', 'check inngest', 'start a loop', 'loop status', 'why did this fail', 'debug run', 'check worker', 'restart worker', 'runs', 'what failed', 'subscribe', 'gateway', 'otel', 'recall', or any Inngest/event-bus/agent-loop task.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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gremlin
Bootstrap Gremlin work from the joelclaw side. Use when a task mentions gremlin from outside the repo and you need to locate the repo, load its shipped repo-local skill, or understand which guidance belongs to gremlin versus joelclaw.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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adr-skill
Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) optimized for agentic coding workflows. Use when you need to propose, write, update, accept/reject, deprecate, or supersede an ADR; bootstrap an adr folder and index; consult existing ADRs before implementing changes; or enforce ADR conventions. This skill uses Socratic questioning to capture intent before drafting, and validates output against an agent-readiness checklist.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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joel-writing-style
Joel's writing voice and style guide for joelclaw.com content. Use when writing, editing, or reviewing any blog post, essay, book chapter, or prose content for joelclaw.com. Also use when asked to 'write like Joel,' 'match Joel's voice,' 'draft a post,' 'write content for the blog,' or 'review this for voice.' This skill captures Joel's specific writing patterns derived from ~90,000 words of published content spanning 2012–2026. Cross-reference with copy-editing and copywriting skills for marketing-specific copy.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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egghead-slack
Joel's private egghead.io Slack integration — channel taxonomy, token config, passive monitoring, and message intelligence pipeline.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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runtime-monitor
Monitor ADR-0217 real workloads across Redis queue, Restate, Dkron, and transitional Inngest using joelclaw CLI plus the pi TUI monitor extension. Use when asked to monitor jobs, watch runtime health, keep an eye on async work, run a workload dashboard, or report back on system state. Always pair with `pi-tui-design` for TUI work and `system-architecture` for topology truth.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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ui-animation
Guidelines and examples for UI motion and animation. Use when designing, implementing, or reviewing motion, easing, timing, reduced-motion behaviour, CSS transitions, keyframes, framer-motion, or spring animations.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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inngest-flow-control
Configure Inngest flow control for functions. Covers concurrency limits with keys, throttling, rate limiting, debounce, priority, singleton, and event batching.
joelhooks/joelclaw 51
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email-triage
Triage Joel's email inboxes via the joelclaw email CLI. Scan, categorize, archive noise, surface actionable items, and draft replies. Use when: 'check my email', 'scan inbox', 'triage email', 'what needs a reply', 'clean up inbox', 'archive junk', 'email summary', 'anything important in email', or any request involving email inbox review or cleanup.
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