Back to authors
erichowens

erichowens

98 Skills published on GitHub.

dag-semantic-matcher

Matches natural language task descriptions to appropriate skills using semantic similarity. Handles fuzzy matching, intent extraction, and capability alignment. Activate on 'find skill', 'match task', 'semantic search', 'skill lookup', 'what skill for'. NOT for ranking matches (use dag-capability-ranker) or skill catalog (use dag-skill-registry).

UncategorizedView skill →

dag-skill-registry

Central catalog of available skills with metadata, capabilities, and performance history. Provides skill discovery and lookup services. Activate on 'skill registry', 'list skills', 'skill catalog', 'available skills', 'skill metadata'. NOT for matching skills to tasks (use dag-semantic-matcher) or ranking (use dag-capability-ranker).

UncategorizedView skill →

dag-task-scheduler

Wave-based parallel scheduling for DAG execution. Manages execution order, resource allocation, and parallelism constraints. Activate on 'schedule dag', 'execution waves', 'parallel scheduling', 'task queue', 'resource allocation'. NOT for building DAGs (use dag-graph-builder) or actual execution (use dag-parallel-executor).

UncategorizedView skill →

dag-visual-editor-design

Design modern, intuitive DAG/workflow visual editors that feel like LEGO, not LabView

UncategorizedView skill →

dark-mode-design-expert

Master dark mode UI design with atmospheric theming, WCAG accessibility, and cross-platform best practices. Specializes in weather/sky/ocean-inspired color systems that adapt to time of day and environmental conditions.

UncategorizedView skill →

data-pipeline-engineer

Expert data engineer for ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming, data warehousing. Activate on: data pipeline, ETL, ELT, data warehouse, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, data modeling, star schema, streaming data, batch processing, data quality. NOT for: API design (use api-architect), ML training (use ML skills), dashboards (use design skills).

UncategorizedView skill →

data-viz-2025

State-of-the-art data visualization for React/Next.js/TypeScript with Tailwind CSS. Creates compelling, tested, and accessible visualizations following Tufte principles and NYT Graphics standards. Activate on "data viz", "chart", "graph", "visualization", "dashboard", "plot", "Recharts", "Nivo", "D3". NOT for static images, print graphics, or basic HTML tables.

UncategorizedView skill →

design-archivist

Long-running design anthropologist that builds comprehensive visual databases from 500-1000 real-world examples, extracting color palettes, typography patterns, layout systems, and interaction design across any domain (portfolios, e-commerce, SaaS, adult content, technical showcases). This skill should be used when users need exhaustive design research, pattern recognition across large example sets, or systematic visual analysis for competitive positioning.

UncategorizedView skill →

design-critic

Aesthetic assessment and remix partner with trained visual taste. Provides structured design critiques using a 6-dimension scoring system inspired by VisualQuality-R1 chain-of-thought reasoning.

UncategorizedView skill →

design-justice

Digital equity and trauma-informed design for marginalized populations. Activate on "accessibility", "offline-first", "trauma-informed", "reentry", "recovery population", "shared device", "unstable phone", "digital equity", "design justice", "low-literacy", "intermittent access". NOT for general UX, marketing optimization, or enterprise SaaS design.

UncategorizedView skill →

design-system-creator

Builds comprehensive design systems and design bibles with production-ready CSS. Expert in design tokens, component libraries, CSS architecture. Use for design system creation, token architecture, component documentation, style guide generation. Activate on "design system", "design tokens", "CSS architecture", "component library", "style guide", "design bible". NOT for typography deep-dives (use typography-expert), color theory mathematics (use color-theory-palette-harmony-expert), brand identity strategy (use web-design-expert), or actual UI implementation (use web-design-expert or native-app-designer).

UncategorizedView skill →

design-system-generator

Design system generator that matches natural language descriptions to design trends. Expert in Swiss Modern, Neobrutalism, Glassmorphism, and 20+ other design trends. Includes trend matching scripts and comprehensive design pattern library.

UncategorizedView skill →

devops-automator

Expert DevOps engineer for CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, and deployment automation. Activate on: CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, deployment pipeline, infrastructure as code, container orchestration. NOT for: application code (use language skills), database schema (use data-pipeline-engineer), API design (use api-architect).

UncategorizedView skill →

diagramming-expert

Master of text-based visual communication using ASCII art, Unicode box-drawing, and structured diagram notation. Creates clear, maintainable diagrams for systems, processes, hierarchies, relationships, and psychological structures. Proactively generates diagrams to enhance understanding. Activate on visualization needs, system architecture, process flows, psychological mapping, or when complex concepts would benefit from visual representation. NOT for photo editing, vector graphics, or GUI-based design tools.

UncategorizedView skill →

digital-estate-planner

Organizing digital life for legacy, emergency access, and death preparedness. Specializes in password management, account documentation, digital asset preservation, and ensuring loved ones can access what they need.

UncategorizedView skill →

document-generation-pdf

Generate, fill, and assemble PDF documents at scale. Handles legal forms, contracts, invoices, certificates. Supports form filling (pdf-lib), template rendering (Puppeteer, LaTeX), digital signatures (DocuSign), and document assembly. Use for legal tech, HR automation, invoice generation. Activate on "PDF generation", "form filling", "document automation", "digital signatures". NOT for simple PDF viewing, basic file conversion, or OCR text extraction.

UncategorizedView skill →

drizzle-migrations

Manage database schema with Drizzle ORM and SQLite migrations. Use when adding tables, modifying columns, creating indexes, or running migrations. Activates for database schema changes, migration generation, and Drizzle query patterns.

UncategorizedView skill →

drone-cv-expert

Expert in drone systems, computer vision, and autonomous navigation. Specializes in flight control, SLAM, object detection, sensor fusion, and path planning. Activate on "drone", "UAV", "SLAM", "visual odometry", "PID control", "MAVLink", "Pixhawk", "path planning", "A*", "RRT", "EKF", "sensor fusion", "optical flow", "ByteTrack". NOT for domain-specific inspection tasks like fire detection, roof damage assessment, or thermal analysis (use drone-inspection-specialist), GPU shader optimization (use metal-shader-expert), or general image classification without drone context (use clip-aware-embeddings).

UncategorizedView skill →

drone-inspection-specialist

Advanced CV for infrastructure inspection including forest fire detection, wildfire precondition assessment, roof inspection, hail damage analysis, thermal imaging, and 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction. Expert in multi-modal detection, insurance risk modeling, and reinsurance data pipelines. Activate on "fire detection", "wildfire risk", "roof inspection", "hail damage", "thermal analysis", "Gaussian Splatting", "3DGS", "insurance inspection", "defensible space", "property assessment", "catastrophe modeling", "NDVI", "fuel load". NOT for general drone flight control, SLAM, path planning, or sensor fusion (use drone-cv-expert), GPU shader development (use metal-shader-expert), or generic object detection without inspection context (use clip-aware-embeddings).

UncategorizedView skill →

email-composer

Draft professional emails for various contexts including business, technical, and customer communication. Use when the user needs help writing emails or composing professional messages.

UncategorizedView skill →

event-detection-temporal-intelligence-expert

Expert in temporal event detection, spatio-temporal clustering (ST-DBSCAN), and photo context understanding. Use for detecting photo events, clustering by time/location, shareability prediction, place recognition, event significance scoring, and life event detection. Activate on 'event detection', 'temporal clustering', 'ST-DBSCAN', 'spatio-temporal', 'shareability prediction', 'place recognition', 'life events', 'photo events', 'temporal diversity'. NOT for individual photo aesthetic quality (use photo-composition-critic), color palette analysis (use color-theory-palette-harmony-expert), face recognition implementation (use photo-content-recognition-curation-expert), or basic EXIF timestamp extraction.

UncategorizedView skill →

execution-lifecycle-manager

Manage DAG execution lifecycles including start, stop, pause, resume, and cleanup. Activate on 'execution lifecycle', 'stop execution', 'abort DAG', 'graceful shutdown', 'kill process'. NOT for cost estimation, DAG building, or skill selection.

UncategorizedView skill →

fancy-yard-landscaper

Expert landscape designer transforming yards through photo mapping, 3D visualization, seasonal planning, and deep plant knowledge. Specializes in fast-growing privacy screens (knows arborvitae pitfalls), architecture-appropriate design, outdoor living spaces, and realistic maintenance expectations. Activate on "landscape design", "yard design", "garden planning", "plant selection", "privacy screen", "outdoor living", "backyard makeover", "arborvitae", "hedge", "fast growing tree", "landscaping ideas". NOT for interior design (use interior-design-expert), hardscape construction (consult contractors), or lawn care chemicals (consult local experts).

UncategorizedView skill →

feature-manifest

Manage feature manifests for code traceability. Use when creating new features, updating existing features, checking feature health, or exploring the feature-to-code relationship. Activates for manifest validation, feature creation, changelog updates, and traceability queries.

UncategorizedView skill →

form-validation-architect

End-to-end form handling with react-hook-form, Zod schemas, validation patterns, error messaging, field arrays, and multi-step wizards. Use for complex forms, validation architecture, autosave, field dependencies. Activate on "form validation", "react-hook-form", "Zod", "form error", "multi-step form", "wizard". NOT for simple HTML forms, backend validation only, or non-React frameworks.

UncategorizedView skill →

frontend-architect

Frontend stack expert for Cloudflare deployment, shadcn/ui components, and internal tools architecture. Guides technology choices, deployment patterns, and design system integration.

UncategorizedView skill →

fullstack-debugger

Expert debugger for Next.js + Cloudflare Workers + Supabase stacks. Systematic troubleshooting for auth, caching, workers, RLS, CORS, and build issues. Activate on: 'debug', 'not working', 'error', 'broken', '500', '401', '403', 'cache issue', 'RLS', 'CORS'. NOT for: feature development (use language skills), architecture design (use system-architect).

UncategorizedView skill →

geospatial-data-pipeline

Process, analyze, and visualize geospatial data at scale. Handles drone imagery, GPS tracks, GeoJSON optimization, coordinate transformations, and tile generation. Use for mapping apps, drone data processing, location-based services. Activate on "geospatial", "GIS", "PostGIS", "GeoJSON", "map tiles", "coordinate systems". NOT for simple address validation, basic distance calculations, or static map embeds.

UncategorizedView skill →

github-actions-pipeline-builder

Build production CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. Implements matrix builds, caching, deployments, testing, security scanning. Use for automated testing, deployments, release workflows. Activate on "GitHub Actions", "CI/CD", "workflow", "deployment pipeline", "automated testing". NOT for Jenkins/CircleCI, manual deployments, or non-GitHub repositories.

UncategorizedView skill →

grief-companion

Compassionate bereavement support, memorial creation, grief education, and healing journey guidance. Specializes in understanding grief stages, creating meaningful tributes, and supporting the non-linear path of loss.

UncategorizedView skill →

hand-drawn-infographic-creator

Generate hand-drawn style diagrams and infographics for recovery education articles. Creates anatomist's notebook aesthetic visuals - brain diagrams, timelines, social comparisons, and process flows using continuous line art, semantic color coding, and margin annotations.

UncategorizedView skill →

hipaa-compliance

Ensure HIPAA compliance when handling PHI (Protected Health Information). Use when writing code that accesses user health data, check-ins, journal entries, or any sensitive information. Activates for audit logging, data access, security events, and compliance questions.

UncategorizedView skill →

hr-network-analyst

Professional network graph analyst identifying Gladwellian superconnectors, mavens, and influence brokers using betweenness centrality, structural holes theory, and multi-source network reconstruction. Activate on 'superconnectors', 'network analysis', 'who knows who', 'professional network', 'influence mapping', 'betweenness centrality'. NOT for surveillance, discrimination, stalking, privacy violation, or speculation without data.

UncategorizedView skill →

hrv-alexithymia-expert

Heart rate variability biometrics and emotional awareness training. Expert in HRV analysis, interoception training, biofeedback, and emotional intelligence. Activate on 'HRV', 'heart rate variability', 'alexithymia', 'biofeedback', 'vagal tone', 'interoception', 'RMSSD', 'autonomic nervous system'. NOT for general fitness tracking without HRV focus, simple heart rate monitoring, or diagnosing medical conditions (only licensed professionals diagnose).

UncategorizedView skill →

indie-monetization-strategist

Monetization strategies for indie developers, solopreneurs, and small teams. Covers freemium models, SaaS pricing, sponsorships, donations, email list building, and passive income for developer tools, content sites, and educational apps. Activate on 'monetization', 'make money', 'pricing', 'freemium', 'SaaS', 'sponsorship', 'donations', 'passive income', 'indie hacker'. NOT for enterprise sales, B2B outbound, VC fundraising, or large-scale advertising (use enterprise/marketing skills).

UncategorizedView skill →

interior-design-expert

Expert interior designer with deep knowledge of space planning, color theory (Munsell, NCS), lighting design (IES standards), furniture proportions, and AI-assisted visualization. Use for room layout optimization, lighting calculations, color palette selection for interiors, furniture placement, style consultation. Activate on "interior design", "room layout", "lighting design", "furniture placement", "space planning", "Munsell color". NOT for exterior/landscape design, architectural structure, web/UI design (use web-design-expert), brand color theory (use color-theory-palette-harmony-expert), or building codes/permits.

UncategorizedView skill →

job-application-optimizer

Strategic job application planning and Resume SEO optimization. Approaches applications like marketing campaigns with market research, opportunity qualification, and content optimization. Activate on 'optimize resume', 'tailor resume', 'ATS optimization', 'job fit score', 'should I apply'. NOT for initial career narratives (career-biographer), portfolio design (cv-creator), or market positioning (competitive-cartographer).

UncategorizedView skill →

jungian-psychologist

Expert in Jungian analytical psychology, depth psychology, shadow work, archetypal analysis, dream interpretation, active imagination, addiction/recovery through Jungian lens, and the individuation process - grounded in primary sources and clinical frameworks. Activate on 'Jung', 'Jungian', 'shadow work', 'archetypes', 'dream interpretation', 'active imagination', 'individuation', 'anima', 'animus', 'collective unconscious', 'addiction', 'recovery', 'spiritus contra spiritum'. NOT for therapy or diagnosis (only licensed analysts diagnose), active psychosis, severe dissociation, or replacing the relational container of actual Jungian analysis.

UncategorizedView skill →

knot-theory-educator

Expert in visualizing and explaining braid theory, knot mathematics, and topological concepts for educational purposes. Use for creating interactive visualizations, explainer cards, step-wise animations, and translating abstract algebra into intuitive understanding. Activate on keywords: braid theory, knot visualization, σ notation, crossing diagrams, Yang-Baxter, topological education. NOT for general math tutoring, pure knot invariant computation, or non-educational knot theory research.

UncategorizedView skill →

large-scale-map-visualization

Master of high-performance web map implementations handling 5,000-100,000+ geographic data points. Specializes in Leaflet.js optimization, Supercluster algorithms, viewport-based loading, canvas rendering, and progressive disclosure UX patterns.

UncategorizedView skill →

launch-readiness-auditor

Expert at evaluating software projects for production readiness. Assesses codebases holistically to determine what's shippable, what's blocking launch, and how to get from current state to "good enough to charge money for."

UncategorizedView skill →

liaison

Human interface agent that translates ecosystem activity into clear, actionable communication. Creates status briefings, decision requests, celebration reports, concern alerts, and opportunity summaries. Use for 'status update', 'brief me', 'what's happening', 'summarize progress', or when complex multi-agent work needs human-readable reporting.

UncategorizedView skill →

llm-streaming-response-handler

Build production LLM streaming UIs with Server-Sent Events, real-time token display, cancellation, error recovery. Handles OpenAI/Anthropic/Claude streaming APIs. Use for chatbots, AI assistants, real-time text generation. Activate on "LLM streaming", "SSE", "token stream", "chat UI", "real-time AI". NOT for batch processing, non-streaming APIs, or WebSocket bidirectional chat.

UncategorizedView skill →

maximalist-wall-decorator

Expert in maximalist interior wall decoration including bold color choices, freehand paintings, statement wallpapers, eclectic lamp arrangements, gallery walls, and curated chaos. Embraces "more is more" philosophy with sophisticated color theory and composition. Activate on "wall decor", "maximalist design", "bold colors", "gallery wall", "statement wallpaper", "freehand painting", "eclectic style", "accent wall", "lamp collection", "more is more", "silly decor". NOT for minimalist design (different aesthetic), exterior design (use fancy-yard-landscaper), or professional murals (consult mural artists).

UncategorizedView skill →

mcp-creator

Expert MCP (Model Context Protocol) server developer creating safe, performant, production-ready servers with proper security, error handling, and developer experience. Activate on 'create MCP', 'MCP server', 'build MCP', 'custom tool server', 'MCP development', 'Model Context Protocol'. NOT for using existing MCPs (just invoke them), general API development (use backend-architect), or skills/agents without external state (use skill-coach/agent-creator).

UncategorizedView skill →

mdx-sanitizer

Comprehensive MDX content sanitizer that escapes angle brackets, generics, and other JSX-conflicting patterns to prevent build failures

UncategorizedView skill →

metal-shader-expert

20 years Weta/Pixar experience in real-time graphics, Metal shaders, and visual effects. Expert in MSL shaders, PBR rendering, tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR), and GPU debugging. Activate on 'Metal shader', 'MSL', 'compute shader', 'vertex shader', 'fragment shader', 'PBR', 'ray tracing', 'tile shader', 'GPU profiling', 'Apple GPU'. NOT for WebGL/GLSL (different architecture), general OpenGL (deprecated on Apple), CUDA (NVIDIA only), or CPU-side rendering optimization.

UncategorizedView skill →

mobile-ux-optimizer

Mobile-first UX optimization for touch interfaces, responsive layouts, and performance. Use for viewport handling, touch targets, gestures, mobile navigation. Activate on mobile, touch, responsive, dvh, viewport, safe area, hamburger menu. NOT for native app development (use React Native skills), desktop-only features, or general CSS (use Tailwind docs).

UncategorizedView skill →

Page 2 of 2 · 98 results