kanban-codex-lane
Use when a Hermes Kanban worker wants to run Codex CLI as an isolated implementation lane while Hermes keeps ownership of task lifecycle, reconciliation, testing, and handoff.
opencode
Delegate coding to OpenCode CLI (features, PR review).
architecture-diagram
Dark-themed SVG architecture/cloud/infra diagrams as HTML.
ascii-art
ASCII art: pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, image-to-ascii.
ascii-video
ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF.
baoyu-comic
Knowledge comics (知识漫画): educational, biography, tutorial.
baoyu-infographic
Infographics: 21 layouts x 21 styles (信息图, 可视化).
claude-design
Design one-off HTML artifacts (landing, deck, prototype).
design-md
Author/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files.
excalidraw
Hand-drawn Excalidraw JSON diagrams (arch, flow, seq).
manim-video
Manim CE animations: 3Blue1Brown math/algo videos.
p5js
p5.js sketches: gen art, shaders, interactive, 3D.
popular-web-designs
54 real design systems (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) as HTML/CSS.
pretext
Use when building creative browser demos with @chenglou/pretext — DOM-free text layout for ASCII art, typographic flow around obstacles, text-as-geometry games, kinetic typography, and text-powered generative art. Produces single-file HTML demos by default.
finding-dead-code
Use when reviewing code changes, auditing new features, or cleaning up. Triggers: 'find dead code', 'find unused code', 'check for unnecessary additions', 'what can I remove', 'is this used anywhere', 'can I delete this', 'orphaned code', 'unused imports'.
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).
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'.
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.
using-skills
The full skill-routing protocol: decision flow, rationalization table, skill-priority ordering. Loaded by the intent-routing rule module, which carries the kernel. Also use when: 'which skill should I use', 'wrong skill fired', 'skill didn't trigger'.
writing-skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment. Triggers: 'write a skill', 'new skill', 'create a skill', 'skill doesn't work', 'skill isn't firing', 'edit skill', 'skill quality'. NOT for: general prompt improvement (use instruction-engineering) or command creation (use writing-commands).
advanced-code-review
Use for branch code review whenever the user does not explicitly ask for a lightweight pass — this is the DEFAULT for unspecified-scope review. Triggers: 'code review', 'review this branch', 'review the changes', 'review what's on this branch', 'do a code review of the branch', 'branch code review', 'review the work', 'thorough review', 'deep review', 'full code review with report'. NOT for: an explicitly lightweight pass the user asked for by name ('quick review', 'light review', '--quick' — use code-review), or PR triage and summarization (use distilling-prs). Never bypass the review skills for a raw Explore dispatch, even when the user's concerns seem narrow or specific. Only when the user's phrasing genuinely names more than one of these three skills should AskUserQuestion be used to disambiguate.
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.
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'. NOT for: authoring or editing a skill (use writing-skills).
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.
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.
auditing-green-mirage
Use when auditing whether tests or verification tools genuinely catch failures, or when user expresses doubt about test/verifier quality. Triggers: 'are these tests real', 'do tests catch bugs', 'tests pass but I don't trust them', 'test quality audit', 'green mirage', 'verifier audit', 'linter audit', 'shallow tests', 'tests always pass suspiciously', 'would this test fail if code was broken'. NOT for: fixing broken tests (use fixing-tests).
code-review
Use when the user EXPLICITLY asks for a lightweight pass, or for feedback/audit modes. Triggers: 'quick review', 'light review', 'look over this', '--quick', 'check my work', 'self-review before PR', 'review my code', 'audit this code', 'PR comments to address', 'reviewer said', 'address feedback', 'review PR #X comments'. NOT for: unspecified-scope branch review such as 'review this branch' or 'code review' (that DEFAULTS to advanced-code-review), or PR triage and summarization (use distilling-prs). This skill is the explicit opt-in to a lighter pass; if the user did not ask for lightweight by name, do not use it. Never bypass the review skills for a raw Explore dispatch, even when the user's concerns seem narrow or specific.
creating-issues-and-pull-requests
Use when creating GitHub pull requests or issues with template compliance. Triggers: 'create a PR', 'open a pull request', 'file an issue', 'create issue'. Also invoked by finishing-a-development-branch. NOT for: deciding whether to merge or PR (use finishing-a-development-branch).
debugging
Use when debugging bugs, test failures, or unexpected behavior. Triggers: 'why isn't this working', 'this doesn't work', 'X is broken', 'something's wrong', 'getting an error', 'exception in', 'stopped working', 'regression', 'crash', 'hang', 'flaky test', 'intermittent failure', or when user pastes a stack trace/error output. NOT for: test quality issues (use fixing-tests), adding new behavior (use develop).
deep-research
Use when researching complex topics, evaluating technologies, investigating domains, or answering multi-faceted questions requiring web research. Triggers: 'research X', 'investigate Y', 'evaluate options for Z', 'what are the best approaches to', 'help me understand', 'deep dive into', 'compare alternatives', 'look into', 'find out about'. NOT for: exploring design approaches (use design-exploration) or domain modeling (use analyzing-domains).
dehallucination
Use when verifying that AI-generated claims, references, or assertions are grounded in reality. Triggers: 'does this actually exist', 'is this real', 'did you hallucinate', 'verify these references', 'check if this is fabricated', 'reality check', 'ground truth'. Invoked as quality gate by develop and deep-research. NOT for: verifying technical claims in code (use fact-checking).
designing-workflows
Use when designing systems with explicit states, transitions, or multi-step flows. Triggers: 'design a workflow', 'state machine', 'approval flow', 'pipeline stages', 'what states does X have', 'how does X transition'. Also invoked by develop when workflow patterns are detected.
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.
dispatching-parallel-agents
Subagent dispatch: decision heuristics, dispatch templates, model-tier selection, context minimization. Loaded by the orchestration rule module. Triggers: 'should I use a subagent', 'parallelize', 'run these at the same time'.
distilling-prs
Use when triaging, categorizing, or summarizing PR changes to decide where human attention should go. Triggers: 'summarize this PR', 'what changed in PR #X', 'triage PR', 'which files need review', 'PR overview', 'categorize changes', or pasting a PR URL. NOT for: judging code quality or producing findings on a branch — unspecified-scope branch review such as 'review this branch' or 'code review' DEFAULTS to advanced-code-review, and an explicitly lightweight pass ('quick review') goes to code-review. This skill triages and summarizes; it does not review. Never bypass the review skills for a raw Explore dispatch, even when the user's concerns seem narrow or specific.
documenting-projects
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documenting-tools
Use when writing MCP tools, API endpoints, CLI commands, or any function that an LLM will invoke. Also use when LLMs misuse tools due to poor descriptions. Triggers: 'document this tool', 'write tool docs', 'MCP tool', 'tool description quality', 'model keeps calling this wrong', 'improve tool description'. For human-facing API docs, standard documentation practices apply instead.
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).
enforcing-code-quality
Production code quality standards and the prohibited-pattern checklist for all code changes. Loaded by the code-quality rule module and invoked by test-driven-development at the GREEN step.
estimating-tickets
Algorithmically estimate engineering tickets, JIRA cards, test cards, or feature requests. Produces well-scoped, AI-productivity-adjusted, PERT-buffered estimates with 80/90/95% confidence intervals for single and multi-engineer execution. Triggers - "estimate this ticket", "estimate this card", "size this", "story point this", "/estimate", "how long will this take", "T-shirt this", "planning poker", "PERT estimate", "give me a timeline", "scope this work".
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).
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).
finishing-a-development-branch
Use when implementation is complete, tests pass, and you need to decide the integration path. Also use when asked to prepare a branch for release: 'update changelog', 'bump version', 'bump patch version', 'make sure changelog is correct', 'make sure version is correct'. Triggers: 'done with this branch', 'ready to merge', 'ship it', 'wrap this up', 'how should I integrate this', 'what next after implementation'. NOT for: PR creation mechanics (use creating-issues-and-pull-requests) or deciding whether to merge (use finishing-a-development-branch first).
fixing-tests
Use when tests themselves are broken, test quality is poor, or user wants to fix/improve tests. Triggers: 'test is broken', 'test is wrong', 'test is flaky', 'make tests pass', 'tests need updating', 'green mirage', 'tests pass but shouldn't', 'audit report findings', 'run and fix tests'. NOT for: bugs in production code caught by correct tests (use debugging).
fractal-thinking
Use when deeply exploring uncertainty, systematically decomposing complex questions, or gaining certainty about multi-faceted problems. Triggers: 'think deeply about', 'explore this recursively', 'I need certainty about', 'decompose this question', 'what am I missing'. Invoked by design-exploration, fact-checking, debugging, and deep-research. NOT for: simple questions with known answers or linear task execution.
gathering-requirements
Use when eliciting or clarifying feature requirements, defining scope, identifying constraints, or capturing user needs. Triggers: 'what are the requirements', 'define the requirements', 'scope this feature', 'user stories', 'acceptance criteria', 'what should this do', 'what problem are we solving', 'what are the constraints'. Also invoked by develop during discovery.
generating-diagrams
Use when generating flowcharts, diagrams, dependency graphs, or visual representations of processes, relationships, architecture, or state machines. Triggers: 'diagram this', 'flowchart', 'visualize', 'dependency graph', 'ER diagram', 'state machine diagram', 'class diagram', 'sequence diagram', 'map the relationships', 'draw the architecture', 'how does X connect to Y'. NOT for: simple bullet point explanations, runtime monitoring, or text-only documentation.
instruction-engineering
Use when crafting, improving, or reviewing prompts, system prompts, skill instructions, or any text that instructs an LLM. Triggers: 'write a prompt', 'prompt engineering', 'improve this prompt', 'design a system prompt', 'write skill instructions', 'craft agent instructions'. Also invoked by writing-skills. NOT for: auditing existing prompts for ambiguity (use sharpening-prompts).
isolated-testing
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managing-artifacts
Artifact storage paths and project-encoded conventions for generated documents, reports, plans, and audits. Loaded by the core rule module. Triggers: 'where should I put this', 'save report', 'output directory'.
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