prose-style
Diagnose sentence-level issues after structure is solid. Use when prose feels flat, sentences are monotonous, word choices are generic, or voice is inconsistent.
genre-conventions
Diagnose genre problems and generate genre-specific elements. Use when genre promise is unclear, when elements feel misplaced, when secondary genres compete with primary, or when you need genre-specific entropy. Covers all 11 elemental genres from the Writing Excuses framework.
drafting
Break through blocks and execute first drafts. Use when the outline is done but the draft isn't happening, when writer's block strikes, when the blank page remains blank, or when progress stalls.
cliche-transcendence
Transform predictable story elements into fresh, original versions. Use when something feels generic, when feedback says "I've seen this before," when elements orbit the protagonist too conveniently, or when you want to make a familiar trope feel new. Applies the 8-step CTF process and Orthogonality Principle.
story-sense
Diagnose what any story needs regardless of its current state. This skill should be used when a writer is stuck, evaluating story problems, when narrative feels broken, or when someone asks 'what's wrong with my story?'. Keywords: story, diagnosis, stuck, narrative, plot, character, worldbuilding, revision.
story-idea-generator
Generate story concepts using a genre-first approach. Use when starting a new project, when brainstorming ideas, when a concept needs strengthening, or when you want to ensure emotional impact drives the story.
story-collaborator
Act as an active writing partner who contributes content alongside the human writer. Use when the writer wants a collaborator who generates prose, dialogue, alternatives, and builds on their ideas. Applies Story Sense frameworks while actively contributing to the creative work. Contrasts with story-coach which never writes.
story-coach
Act as an assistive writing coach who guides but never writes for the user. Use when helping someone develop their own writing through questions, diagnosis, and frameworks. Critical constraint - never generate story prose, dialogue, or narrative content. Instead ask questions, identify issues, suggest approaches, and let the writer write.
story-analysis
Systematically evaluate completed short stories or novel chapters to identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. Use after drafting to assess whether the piece achieves its narrative goals.
underdog-unit
Generate stories about institutional outcasts given impossible mandates with minimal resources. Use when you want team dynamics in hostile institutions, David vs. Goliath within organizations, or narrative tension from constraint-driven creativity.
statistical-distance
Transform clichéd story elements by pushing along the emotional vector toward statistical edges. Use when first instincts are too predictable, when elements feel generic, or when you need the core methodology for avoiding statistical-center defaults.
memetic-depth
Create the perception of cultural depth through strategic juxtaposition of familiar and unfamiliar elements. Use when settings feel shallow, when you need centuries of implied history without exposition, or when worldbuilding lacks the texture of real cultural evolution.
dialogue
Diagnose flat dialogue, same-voice characters, and lack of subtext. Use when conversations feel wooden, characters sound alike, or dialogue only does one thing at a time.
character-naming
Break LLM name defaults with external entropy. Use when character names cluster around statistical medians (Chen, Patel, Maya, Marcus), when cast has collision risks, or when fantasy cultures need phonologically consistent naming.
character-arc
Design and troubleshoot character transformation arcs. Use when characters feel static, when transformation feels unearned or abrupt, when you can't articulate what false belief needs to die, or when characters serve plot without having internal journeys. Covers positive, negative, and flat arcs.
sleep-story
Write stories designed to help listeners fall asleep. Use for bedtime podcasts, meditation content, calming narratives, or any content where the goal is gentle cognitive engagement that fades naturally into rest.
shared-world
Maintain a wiki-style world bible for collaborative fiction. Use for long-running story worlds, shared universes, membership sites, or any fiction requiring persistent canonical reference.
sensitivity-check
Evaluate representation and flag potential harm concerns. Use when writing characters from marginalized groups, depicting sensitive subject matter, or wanting to check for stereotypes and harmful tropes.
paradox-fables
Create fables that embody paradoxical wisdom without resolving into simple morals. Use when exploring tensions that can't be resolved, when you need narrative forms that bypass analytical defenses, or when creating teaching stories.
multi-order-evolution
Design multi-generational societal evolution for science fiction settings. Use when creating civilizations that diverge from baseline humanity, when exploring how environments shape cultures over generations, or when worldbuilding requires deep time development.
media-adaptation
Systematically analyze existing media to extract transferable elements for new settings. Use when adapting TV, film, or games to fiction, translating tropes across genres, or transforming genre elements for new contexts.
list-builder
Build comprehensive randomization lists for creative entropy. Use when you need to create or expand lists of story elements (professions, locations, objects, names, etc.) for use with entropy tools. Leverages research sources like Kiwix/Wikipedia to build lists with good variety and size.
interactive-fiction
Diagnose branching narrative problems. Use when choices feel meaningless, when branching is unmanageable, when player agency conflicts with authored story, or when interactive elements break narrative flow.
game-facilitator
Narrative RPG game master for collaborative storytelling. Use for tabletop RPG sessions, solo narrative games, or any real-time collaborative fiction requiring scene management, NPC portrayal, and story coherence.
flash-fiction
Diagnose and fix problems in flash fiction and micro fiction. Use when flash fiction feels weak, when writing stories under 1500 words, when working with micro fiction, sudden fiction, or compressed narrative forms.
dna-extraction
Extract the functional DNA from existing works (TV, film, books, plays). Use when adapting a source work, when analyzing what makes something work, when creating trope maps for reuse, or when you need to separate structural necessity from stylistic choice.
book-marketing
Diagnose book marketing copy problems and generate platform-optimized blurbs, descriptions, taglines, and query pitches. Use when marketing copy feels weak, when descriptions aren't converting, or when starting marketing from scratch.
adaptation-synthesis
Synthesize new works from extracted functional DNA documents. Use when adapting a source work to a new context, when combining multiple source extractions, or when generating variations that preserve function while changing form.
key-moments
Structure stories around essential emotional moments using Rodriguez's approach integrated with elemental genres. Use when plotting feels mechanical, when emotional beats need defining, or when building stories from vivid scenes rather than plot outlines.
product-analysis
Diagnose competitive product analysis state and guide through systematic market evaluation. Use when analyzing a product category, building feature comparisons, understanding competitive landscape, building personas, or deciding build vs. buy. Routes to 6 interconnected frameworks based on current analysis state.
musical-dna
Extract descriptive musical characteristics from any artist or band without using their name, building a vocabulary of sonic qualities for AI music generation, music description, or creative recombination.
lyric-diagnostic
Diagnose lyric problems across prosody, rhyme, meaning, register, sound, and structure. Use when AI-generated or human lyrics feel flat, cliched, awkward, or mismatched.
joke-engineering
Diagnose and improve humor using systems thinking. Use when jokes fall flat, when humor feels forced, when punchlines don't land, or when you want to systematically enhance comedic writing. Treats jokes as engineerable connection systems.
world-fates
Manage long-term fate and fortune across a shared world. Use when powerful entities feel permanent, when the world becomes static, when you need probabilistic death/fall mechanics, or when campaigns need world-level consequences that persist. Operates above the game-facilitator level.
web-recap
Extract browser history for finding URLs by topic or getting visit stats. Use when user asks about their browsing history, visited websites, or what they were doing online.
figma-to-code
Generate production-ready React/Next.js code from Figma designs. Instructs proper Figma MCP tool usage, component reuse strategies, and variant mapping. **CRITICAL: ALWAYS use this skill when user provides a Figma link or mentions implementing/redesigning from Figma design.** Never attempt manual implementation without invoking this skill first.
coding-html
When html or jinja are being written or edited. Use this skill any time you are writing, editing, refactoring, or reviewing HTML (.html files or inline HTML) or Jinja2 templates. Trigger even for small HTML additions, new template blocks, editing existing template structure, or when a user says "update the layout", "fix the template", "add a section", or "edit the page". Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-html/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
frontend-design
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with exceptional design quality. Use this skill any time the user asks to build, design, style, or beautify a web UI — including components, pages, dashboards, landing pages, posters, HTML/ Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).CSS layouts, Flask/Jinja templates, React or Vue components, or any visual artifact. Trigger even for partial requests like "make this look better", "style this page", "add animations", "improve the layout", or "design a card". If the request involves any visual output for the web, use this skill.---
github-use
Any time github or git activity is required, including committing and pushing changes, creating or switching branches, merging, creating issues, checking status or logs, or reverting commits. Trigger whenever the user says "update", "commit", "push", "merge", "create branch", "checkout", "create issue", "git status", "revert", or any git/GitHub-related request - even if not framed explicitly as a "GitHub task." Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/github-use/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
coding-lifecycle
Use when a coding-capable agent is starting or finishing implementation work. At start, clarify intent, scope, context, and verification strategy. At finish, run appropriate quality checks, assess impact, capture lessons, and produce a concise completion report. Trigger for both implementation intake and implementation closeout. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-lifecycle/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
coding-python
When python, flask, or jinja are being written or edited. Use this skill any time you are writing, editing, refactoring, or reviewing Python (.py), Django-related, Flask routes/blueprints, or Jinja2 templates (.jinja or .html with Jinja). Trigger even if the user only mentions a .py file, a Flask endpoint, a template, or asks about Python patterns, imports, error handling, or structure. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-python/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
db-postgres
Use when the task is specifically about PostgreSQL or Supabase behavior such as slow queries, EXPLAIN plans, index design, JSONB querying, pg_stat analysis, VACUUM/autovacuum, replication, extensions, pgvector, pg_trgm, or PostGIS. Invoke whenever the user needs Postgres-specific diagnosis or exact SQL/config guidance rather than generic database advice, including cases framed as query tuning, replication lag, database bloat, managed Postgres limits, or production-safe performance work. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/db-postgres/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Use this skill whenever the user asks for a handoff, continuation note, session summary for another agent, compacted context, or a document that lets a fresh agent continue the work. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/handoff/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
coding-markdown
When markdown being written or edited, including rules, skills, and documentation. Trigger any time a .md file is being created or modified, a skill's SKILL.md is being updated, rules files under .kilocode/rules*/ are being edited, or a user says "update the docs", "fix the readme", "edit this skill", "write documentation", or "format this markdown". Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-markdown/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
database-use
Any time database-related activity is required. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/db-use/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
testing
When creating tests and using tests for testing of application operation. Use this skill any time you are writing, running, or verifying tests — including pytest unit tests, integration tests, terminal verification scripts, or browser-based E2E flows. Trigger even for partial requests like "run the tests", "write a test for X", "verify this works", "check that the sync works", or "does this pass?". If any form of testing or verification is involved, use this skill. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/testing/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
api-use-external
Any time an external api needs to be understood or queried, including post and get. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/api-use-external/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
browser-use
Skill for web browser automation using Playwright for both local and external URLs. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/browser-use/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
coding-css
When css being written or edited. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-css/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
coding-debug
Troubleshooting issues, investigating errors, diagnosing problems, systematic debugging, analyzing stack traces, and identifying root causes before applying fixes. Load with read_file on .kilocode/skills/coding-debug/SKILL.md (ignore the absolute path in the location tag).
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