digital-archive
Digital archiving workflows with AI enrichment, entity extraction, and knowledge graph construction. Use when building content archives, implementing AI-powered categorization, extracting entities and relationships, or integrating multiple data sources. Covers patterns from the Jay Rosen Digital Archive project.
editorial-workflow
Manage editorial workflows for newsrooms and publications. Use when tracking story assignments, managing deadlines, coordinating editorial calendars, or establishing handoff protocols between reporters and editors. Includes templates for assignment tracking, editorial calendars, and workflow documentation.
electron-dev
Electron desktop application development with React, TypeScript, and Vite. Use when building desktop apps, implementing IPC communication, managing windows/tray, handling PTY terminals, integrating WebRTC/audio, or packaging with electron-builder. Covers patterns from AudioBash, Yap, and Pisscord projects.
foia-requests
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.
free-apis-catalog
Use when suggesting APIs for a project, looking for free data sources, building weekend projects that need external data, or when the user needs weather, news, finance, sports, ML, or entertainment data without paid subscriptions
interview-prep
Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.
interview-transcription
Interview management, transcription workflows, and source note-taking for journalists. Use when preparing for interviews, managing recordings, transcribing audio/video, organizing source notes, creating timestamped references, or building interview databases. Essential for reporters conducting interviews and managing source relationships.
mobile-debugging
Remote JavaScript console access and debugging on mobile devices. Use when debugging web pages on phones/tablets, accessing console errors without desktop DevTools, testing responsive designs on real devices, or diagnosing mobile-specific issues. Covers Eruda, vConsole, Chrome/Safari remote debugging, and cloud testing platforms.
nano-banana-image-gen
Use when generating images with Gemini models, choosing between Nano Banana 1/2/Pro, optimizing image generation costs, writing image prompts, or needing visual grounding with real-world reference images
newsletter-publishing
Email newsletter workflows for journalists and researchers. Use when creating, managing, or optimizing email newsletters, building subscriber lists, designing email templates, analyzing engagement metrics, or planning newsletter content calendars. Essential for independent journalists, academic communicators, and media organizations building direct audience relationships.
newsroom-style
Enforce AP Style and newsroom conventions for journalism writing. Use when writing news articles, editing drafts, creating headlines, or converting notes into publishable copy. Ensures professional standards for attribution, numbers, dates, and formatting.
one-way-door
Use this skill when creating new files that represent architectural decisions — data models, infrastructure configs, auth boundaries, API contracts, CI/CD pipelines, or event systems. Flags irreversible decisions and forces a discussion about trade-offs before committing.
page-monitoring
Web page monitoring, change detection, and availability tracking. Use when tracking content changes, detecting when pages go down, monitoring for updates, preserving content before deletion, or generating feeds for pages without RSS. Covers Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, and self-hosted monitoring solutions.
pdf-design
Design and edit professional PDF reports and proposals with live preview
project-memory
Generate CLAUDE.md project memory files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Use when setting up new journalism projects, onboarding collaborators, or documenting project-specific quirks. Includes templates for editorial tools, event websites, publications, research projects, content pipelines, and digital archives.
project-retrospective
Generate LESSONS.md retrospective files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Use when closing out journalism projects, investigations, events, or publications. Includes templates for research projects, event post-mortems, editorial tools, and publications.
secure-auth
Secure authentication implementation patterns. Use when implementing user login, registration, password reset, session management, JWT authentication, or OAuth integration. Provides production-ready patterns that avoid common tutorial pitfalls like insecure token storage, weak password hashing, and session fixation.
security-checklist
Pre-deployment security audit for web applications. Use when reviewing code before shipping, auditing an existing application, or when users mention "security review," "ready to deploy," "going to production," or express concern about vulnerabilities. Covers authentication, input validation, secrets management, database security, and compliance basics.
social-media-intelligence
Social media monitoring, narrative tracking, and open-source intelligence for journalists. Use when tracking viral content spread, analyzing coordinated campaigns, monitoring breaking news on social platforms, investigating accounts for authenticity, or detecting misinformation patterns. Essential for reporters covering online narratives and digital investigations.
source-verification
Journalism source verification and fact-checking workflows. Use when verifying claims, checking source credibility, investigating social media accounts, reverse image searching, or building verification trails. Essential for reporters, fact-checkers, and researchers working with unverified information.
story-pitch
Craft effective story pitches for different publication types and formats. Use when pitching to editors, preparing query letters, or developing story angles. Includes templates for daily news, features, investigations, op-eds, and freelance queries.
template-selector
Choose the correct CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template for journalism projects. Use when starting a new project, setting up documentation, or unsure which template category fits best. Provides decision trees and selection guidance for 6 journalism-focused template types.
test-first-bugs
This skill should be used when the user reports a bug, describes unexpected behavior, says something is "broken", "not working", "failing", mentions an "error", "issue", or "problem" in code, or asks to "fix" something. Enforces test-driven bug fixing workflow.
vibe-coding
Methodology for effective AI-assisted software development. Use when helping users build software with AI coding assistants, debugging AI-generated code, planning features for AI implementation, managing version control in AI workflows, or when users mention "vibe coding," Cursor, Windsurf, or similar AI coding tools. Provides strategies for planning, testing, debugging, and iterating on code written with LLM assistance.
visual-explainer
Generate self-contained HTML pages that visually explain systems, data stories, investigations, editorial workflows, and code changes. Use when the user asks for diagrams, architecture views, visual diffs, data tables, timelines, source maps, or any structured visualization that would be painful to read as terminal output. Also activates for tables with 4+ rows or 3+ columns. Adapted from nicobailon/visual-explainer with journalism, newsroom, and academic design sensibilities.
web-archiving
Web page archiving and retrieval from cached/deleted sources. Use when accessing unavailable pages, preserving web content, creating legal evidence archives, or building redundant archival workflows. Covers Wayback Machine, Archive.today, ArchiveBox, and evidence preservation tools.
web-scraping
Web scraping with anti-bot bypass, content extraction, undocumented APIs and poison pill detection. Use when extracting content from websites, handling paywalls, implementing scraping cascades or processing social media. Covers requests, trafilatura, Playwright with stealth mode, yt-dlp and instaloader patterns.
web-ui-best-practices
Signs of taste in web UI. Use when building or reviewing any user-facing web interface — dashboards, SaaS apps, marketing sites, internal tools. Covers interaction speed, navigation depth, visual restraint, copy quality, and the small details that separate polished products from rough ones.
zero-build-frontend
Zero-build frontend development with CDN-loaded React, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Use when building static web apps without bundlers, creating Leaflet maps, integrating Google Sheets as database, or developing browser extensions. Covers patterns from rosen-frontend, NJCIC map, and PocketLink projects.
cro-methodology
Audit websites and landing pages for conversion issues and design evidence-based A/B tests. Use when the user mentions "landing page isn''t converting", "conversion rate", "A/B test", "why visitors leave", or "objection handling". Covers funnel mapping, persuasion assets, and objection/counter-objection frameworks. For overall marketing strategy, see one-page-marketing. For usability issues, see ux-heuristics.
hooked-ux
Design habit-forming product loops using the Hook Model (Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, Investment). Use when the user mentions "users aren''t coming back", "engagement loops", "habit formation", "push notifications", or "variable rewards". Covers ethics evaluation and onboarding for habits. For friction reduction and B=MAP, see improve-retention. For viral sharing, see contagious.
ios-hig-design
Design native iOS interfaces following Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Use when the user mentions "iPhone app", "iPad layout", "SwiftUI", "UIKit", "Dynamic Island", "safe areas", or "HIG compliance". Covers navigation patterns, accessibility, SF Symbols, and platform conventions. For general UI polish, see refactoring-ui. For affordance design, see design-everyday-things.
jobs-to-be-done
Discover what customers truly need by analyzing the "job" they hire your product to do. Use when the user mentions "customer discovery", "why customers churn", "what job does this solve", "competing against luck", or "product-market fit". Covers JTBD interviews, competition analysis, and jobs-oriented roadmaps. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For rapid validation, see design-sprint.
refactoring-ui
Audit and fix visual hierarchy, spacing, color, and depth in web UIs. Use when the user mentions "my UI looks off", "fix the design", "Tailwind styling", "color palette", or "visual hierarchy". Covers grayscale-first workflow, constrained design scales, shadows, and component styling. For typeface selection, see web-typography. For usability audits, see ux-heuristics.
scorecard-marketing
Build quiz and assessment funnels that generate qualified leads at 30-50% conversion. Use when the user mentions "lead magnet", "quiz funnel", "assessment tool", "lead generation", or "score-based segmentation". Covers question design, dynamic results by tier, and automated follow-up sequences. For landing page conversion, see cro-methodology. For full marketing plans, see one-page-marketing.
storybrand-messaging
Clarify brand messaging using narrative structure that positions the customer as hero. Use when the user mentions "brand message", "website copy", "elevator pitch", "one-liner", "messaging isn''t resonating", or "brand script". Covers landing page copy, marketing collateral, and consistent communication. For memorable messaging, see made-to-stick. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome.
ux-heuristics
Evaluate and improve interface usability using heuristic analysis. Use when the user mentions "usability audit", "UX review", "users are confused", "heuristic evaluation", "form usability", or "navigation problems". Covers Nielsen''s 10 heuristics, severity ratings, and information architecture. For visual design fixes, see refactoring-ui. For conversion-focused audits, see cro-methodology.
web-typography
Select, pair, and implement typefaces for web projects. Use when the user mentions "font pairing", "which typeface", "line height", "responsive typography", "web font loading", or "type hierarchy". Covers readability evaluation, CSS implementation, and performance optimization. For overall UI design systems, see refactoring-ui. For dramatic typographic experiences, see top-design.
blue-ocean-strategy
Create uncontested market space using value innovation instead of competing head-to-head. Use when the user mentions "blue ocean", "red ocean", "strategy canvas", "ERRC framework", "value innovation", or "non-customers". Covers the Four Actions Framework, buyer utility map, and value-cost trade-offs. For tech adoption strategy, see crossing-the-chasm. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome.
clean-architecture
Structure software around the Dependency Rule: source code dependencies point inward from frameworks to use cases to entities. Use when the user mentions "architecture layers", "dependency rule", "ports and adapters", "hexagonal architecture", or "use case boundary". Covers component principles, boundaries, and SOLID. For code quality, see clean-code. For domain modeling, see domain-driven-design.
clean-code
Write readable, maintainable code through disciplined naming, small functions, and clean error handling. Use when the user mentions "code review", "naming conventions", "function too long", "code smells", or "readable code". Covers SRP, comment discipline, formatting, and unit testing. For refactoring techniques, see refactoring-patterns. For architecture, see clean-architecture.
contagious
Engineer word-of-mouth and virality using the STEPPS framework (Social Currency, Triggers, Emotion, Public, Practical Value, Stories). Use when the user mentions "go viral", "word of mouth", "shareable content", "social currency", or "why people share". Covers environmental triggers and high-arousal emotional content. For sticky messaging, see made-to-stick. For persuasion tactics, see influence-psychology.
continuous-discovery
Build a weekly cadence of customer touchpoints using Opportunity Solution Trees, assumption mapping, and interview snapshots. Use when the user mentions "continuous discovery", "opportunity solution tree", "weekly interviews", "assumption testing", or "discovery habits". Covers experience mapping, co-creation, and prioritizing opportunities. For interview technique, see mom-test. For team structure, see inspired-product.
crossing-the-chasm
Navigate the technology adoption lifecycle from early adopters to mainstream market. Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", or "tech go-to-market". Covers D-Day analogy, bowling-pin strategy, and positioning against incumbents. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For new market creation, see blue-ocean-strategy.
ddia-systems
Design data systems by understanding storage engines, replication, partitioning, transactions, and consistency models. Use when the user mentions "database choice", "replication lag", "partitioning strategy", "consistency vs availability", or "stream processing". Covers data models, batch/stream processing, and distributed consensus. For system design, see system-design. For resilience, see release-it.
design-everyday-things
Apply foundational design principles: affordances, signifiers, constraints, feedback, and conceptual models. Use when the user mentions "why is this confusing", "affordance", "error prevention", "discoverability", "human-centered design", or "fault tolerance". Covers the gulfs of execution and evaluation. For usability scoring, see ux-heuristics. For iOS-specific patterns, see ios-hig-design.
design-sprint
Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. Use when the user mentions "design sprint", "validate in a week", "rapid prototype", "test with users", or "de-risk before building". Covers mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping, and testing. For ongoing experimentation, see lean-startup. For customer job analysis, see jobs-to-be-done.
domain-driven-design
Model software around the business domain using bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language. Use when the user mentions "domain modeling", "bounded context", "aggregate root", "ubiquitous language", or "anti-corruption layer". Covers entities vs value objects, domain events, and context mapping strategies. For architecture layers, see clean-architecture. For complexity, see software-design-philosophy.
drive-motivation
Design motivation systems using Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose (AMP) for products and teams. Use when the user mentions "intrinsic motivation", "gamification isn''t working", "team incentives", "autonomy", "mastery", or "purpose-driven". Covers why carrot-and-stick fails and how to build progress systems. For habit-forming product loops, see hooked-ux. For retention behavior design, see improve-retention.
high-perf-browser
Optimize web performance through network protocols, resource loading, and browser rendering internals. Use when the user mentions "page load speed", "Core Web Vitals", "HTTP/2", "resource hints", "network latency", or "render blocking". Covers TCP/TLS optimization, caching strategies, WebSocket/SSE, and protocol selection. For UI visual performance, see refactoring-ui. For font loading, see web-typography.
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