Use when building C# applications with .NET 8+, ASP.NET Core APIs, or Blazor web apps. Builds REST APIs using minimal or controller-based routing, configures database access with Entity Framework Core, implements async patterns and cancellation, structures applications with CQRS via MediatR, and scaffolds Blazor components with state management. Invoke for C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework, EF Core, Minimal API, MAUI, SignalR.

Writes, optimizes, and debugs C++ applications using modern C++20/23 features, template metaprogramming, and high-performance systems techniques. Use when building or refactoring C++ code requiring concepts, ranges, coroutines, SIMD optimization, or careful memory management — or when addressing performance bottlenecks, concurrency issues, and build system configuration with CMake.

Use when planning, running, or learning from chaos engineering experiments. Triggers on "chaos experiment", "fault injection", "gameday", "resilience test", "blast radius", "steady state", "abort criteria", "Chaos Toolkit", "Chaos Mesh", "Litmus", "Gremlin", "AWS FIS", or any deliberate failure-injection question. Ships experiment designer, blast-radius calculator, and postmortem generator (all stdlib Python), 4 references on chaos principles + experiment design + attack taxonomy + tooling landscape, and a /chaos-experiment slash command. Composes with feature-flags-architect (kill switches as abort triggers) and kubernetes-operator (common chaos targets).

Analyzes code diffs and files to identify bugs, security vulnerabilities (SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization), code smells, N+1 queries, naming issues, and architectural concerns, then produces a structured review report with prioritized, actionable feedback. Use when reviewing pull requests, conducting code quality audits, identifying refactoring opportunities, or checking for security issues. Invoke for PR reviews, code quality checks, refactoring suggestions, review code, code quality. Complements specialized skills (security-reviewer, test-master) by providing broad-scope review across correctness, performance, maintainability, and test coverage in a single pass.

Use when building CLI tools, implementing argument parsing, or adding interactive prompts. Invoke for parsing flags and subcommands, displaying progress bars and spinners, generating bash/zsh/fish completion scripts, CLI design, shell completions, and cross-platform terminal applications using commander, click, typer, or cobra.

Integrates with Atlassian products to manage project tracking and documentation via MCP protocol. Use when querying Jira issues with JQL filters, creating and updating tickets with custom fields, searching or editing Confluence pages with CQL, managing sprints and backlogs, setting up MCP server authentication, syncing documentation, or debugging Atlassian API integrations.

Use when the user asks to design a multi-agent system, pick an orchestration pattern (supervisor/swarm/pipeline), generate tool schemas for agents, or evaluate agent execution logs for cost, latency, and failure bottlenecks. Examples: 'design an agent architecture for research automation', 'generate Anthropic tool schemas from these tool descriptions', 'analyze these agent run logs for bottlenecks'. NOT for Claude Code workflow files (use workflow-builder) or single-agent prompt design (use agent-workflow-designer).

Use when generating SwiftUI iOS 26 micro-interactions and animations. Triggers on phrases like "on scroll", "when tapped", "on appear", "while dragging", "when [state] changes", "on focus", "make this animate", "spring", "morph", "collapse", "parallax", "hero transition", "matched geometry", "liquid glass", "shrink toolbar", "stagger", "shimmer", "card flip", "swipe to dismiss", "pull to refresh", "ripple", "haptic". Routes to recipe folders by interaction trigger so the agent loads only what it needs.

Persistent structured memory for LLM agents using botmem CLI. Use when storing, retrieving, or managing agent memory — facts, knowledge graph relationships, conversation summaries, and context blocks. Use for memory recall, ingestion of conversation content, knowledge graph queries, and exporting full context for prompt injection.

Step up a layer of abstraction to map how unfamiliar code fits into the larger system. Use when the user says "zoom out", "bigger picture", "I don't know this area", "give me a map", "where does this fit", is reading code and feels lost, or is about to change unfamiliar code.

Package a "claw"-type local-first AI agent (openclaw, nullclaw, zeroclaw, hermes-agent, picoclaw, odysseus, and future siblings) as a classic-confinement snap, consistently with the existing collection in ~/src/github/ai-labs/snaps. Use when creating a new claw snap, fixing build/release/CI workflows for one, or making the collection more consistent — covers snapcraft.yaml structure, version adoption per runtime, bundling Node/Chromium, self-contained Python venvs on core24, why not to patchelf interpreters under classic confinement, the systemd user-service pattern, and the PR/release/check-releases GitHub workflows.

Convert a docker-compose.yml (e.g. from Umbrel, CasaOS, linuxserver.io, or an upstream repo) into a self-contained, strictly confined snap suitable for publishing in the Snap Store. Use when asked to "snap" a compose-based app, translate compose services into snapcraft parts/daemons, or package a multi-container web app (app server + postgres + redis + workers) as a single snap.

Profiling methodology and optimization strategy for performance work. Use when the user asks to "make this faster", "optimize", "profile", "reduce latency", "fix slow", "improve throughput", or when investigating performance regressions.

Systematic debugging that applies the scientific method to failures. Use when the user says "debug this", "why is this failing", "help me find the bug", or is stuck on a problem and thrashing without progress.

Migrates Maven projects to Gradle Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) with version catalogs (libs.versions.toml). Covers single-module and multi-module projects, Spring Boot starter-parent conversion, dependency-scope and BOM mapping, Maven plugin to Gradle plugin translation, and Maven profile equivalents. Also supports a dual-build overlay mode that adds Gradle alongside Maven without removing pom.xml. Triggers on requests to convert pom.xml to Gradle, migrate from Maven to Gradle, generate build.gradle.kts, set up a Gradle version catalog from Maven, modernize a JVM build system, or add Gradle alongside Maven for gradual migration. Does not apply to Gradle-to-Maven conversion, authoring brand-new Gradle projects from scratch with no Maven source, Groovy DSL (build.gradle) authoring unrelated to migration, or non-JVM build tools (npm, Bazel, sbt, Make).

Create, diagnose, and validate a local dev bootstrap. Use when the user asks to clone a repo, install toolchains, install dependencies, and prove the project runs.

Analyze, fix, and validate Biome linting workflows. Use when JavaScript or TypeScript projects need Biome commands, diagnostics, safe fixes, or CI lint gates.

Routes old phase-heartbeat requests into HE phase work: check the approved plan, reuse or create a 10-minute continuation only with authority, run phase gates, delegate the active slice to he-work, and stop before commit or tracker closure. Use when a user says phase heartbeat, keep this PR moving, or continue phases.

Review Harness Engineering diffs, PRs, commits, and readiness claims for introduced risk. Use when correctness, validation proof, security posture, traceability, closure safety, or review-thread resolution must be assessed before merge or handoff.

ONLY for coordinated multi-artifact work: multiple workflows with dependencies, shared data-table schema/migration across tasks, or the user explicitly asked to review a plan first. Load create-tasks via load_tool before calling it (search "create tasks" if not visible). Do NOT use for new one-off workflows, single-workflow edits, verification-only requests, or standalone data-table ops — use workflow-builder or data-table-manager instead.