Create publication-quality scientific diagrams using Nano Banana 2 AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.6 Flash for quality review. Only regenerates if quality is below threshold for your document type. Specialized in neural network architectures, system diagrams, flowcharts, biological pathways, and complex scientific visualizations.

Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality. Use for assessing experimental design validity, identifying biases and confounders, applying evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), or teaching critical analysis. Best for understanding evidence quality, identifying flaws. For formal peer review writing use peer-review.

Provide qualitative-first, evidence-traceable developmental review of scholarly works and audit low-stakes research-assessment rubrics with optional local quality controls. Never use for ranking people or consequential decisions.

Compile current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief. Use when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source verification, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

Create and audit editable scientific posters in macro-free PowerPoint (.pptx) from author-approved local content and assets. Use when the requested deliverable is a PowerPoint research/conference poster and exact physical, printer, accessibility, provenance, and package-security checks are required.

Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Use for authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.

Use Parallel CLI for web search, URL extraction, deep research, structured data enrichment, entity discovery, and recurring web monitoring. Best for requests that explicitly need current web evidence, academic-source discovery, repeated entity lookups, exhaustive reports, or ongoing change tracking.

Convert heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

Technical reference for writing or editing open-slide pages — file contract, 1920×1080 canvas, type scale, layout, palette/visual direction, and assets. Consult this whenever you are about to write or modify any file under `slides/<id>/`, including from inside the `create-slide` or `apply-comments` workflows, or for any ad-hoc slide edit. Triggers on phrases like "edit slide", "tweak this page", "fix the layout", "change the palette", "investigate the slide framework", "how do slides work here".

Use this skill when the user wants to create, draft, author, or extract a slide theme in this open-slide repo. Triggers on phrases like "create a theme", "make a theme called X", "extract a theme from <slide>", "build a theme from these images". Produces a single markdown file under `themes/<id>.md` describing palette, typography, layout, fixed Title/Footer components, and motion philosophy. Do NOT use for editing slides themselves — only for authoring `themes/<id>.md`.

Use this skill when the user wants to create, draft, author, or generate new slides / a presentation in this open-slide repo. Triggers on phrases like "make slides about X", "create a presentation", "draft slides for", "new slide", or when the user asks to add content under `slides/`. Do NOT use for editing the framework itself — only for authoring content inside `slides/<id>/`.

Apply pending @slide-comment markers written by the open-slide inspector tool. Use when the user asks to "apply comments", "process slide comments", "apply the inspector comments", or references markers left inside `slides/<id>/index.tsx`.

General-purpose desktop web prototype. Single self-contained HTML file built by copying the seed `assets/template.html` and pasting section layouts from `references/layouts.md`. Default for any landing / marketing / docs / SaaS page when no more specific skill matches.

Map an unfamiliar repository before changing it. Use when a task crosses packages, public contracts, persistence, runtime wiring, or verification lanes and the owning architecture is not yet clear.

Author lean AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md instruction files — resident system-prompt context where every line pays rent. Use when writing an agent instruction file from scratch, auditing or trimming a bloated one, or gating whether a new rule earns residence and at which scope. Don't use for on-demand skills (use writing-skills) or human-facing docs and READMEs.

Production-ready CSS transitions for web apps. Use when implementing notification badges, dropdowns, modals, panel reveals, page transitions, card resizes, number pop-ins, text swaps, icon swaps, success checks, avatar group hovers, error state shakes, search/input clear, skeleton loaders, shimmer text, sliding tabs, tooltips, staggered text reveals, card hover tilt, plus-to-menu morph, or accordions. Triggers on "add a transition", "animate the dropdown", "make the modal open smoothly", "swap icon", "page slide", "stagger animation", "open / close transition", "make it animate", "fade between", "success animation", "form error", "shake on invalid", "hover lift", "avatar stack hover", "clear the search", "skeleton loader", "loading shimmer", "shimmer text", "sliding tabs", "segmented control", "tooltip", "reveal text", "tilt card", "3D hover tilt", "cursor glare", "plus to menu", "FAB morph", "accordion", "collapsible", "expand / collapse", "disclosure", "replace this transition", "which transition fits here". Also the commands transitions reveal and transitions apply. For auditing or polishing existing motion against the motion-token scale ("motion tokens", "review my animations", "tune the durations", "align to the motion tokens"), use the companion transitions-polish skill.

Ships a finished feature, bug fix, or refactor end-to-end — explores the change's impact on docs/site/README, generates release notes (via pr-release if present, otherwise inline from git log), writes a complete PR description (including QA screenshots and summary when qa-report/qa-execution artifacts exist), commits staged changes following the repo's commitlint config, opens the PR via gh CLI, and optionally launches a CodeRabbit review watch loop. Use when a feature/bug/refactor is implementation-complete and ready to ship. Do not use for draft PRs without finished work, for amending an already-merged PR, for repo-level release publishing (use pr-release directly), or for in-progress development checkpoints.

NATS cloud-native messaging system. Covers Core NATS, JetStream persistence, and request/reply patterns. Use for lightweight, high-performance microservices communication. USE WHEN: user mentions "nats", "jetstream", "cloud-native messaging", "request/reply", "subject wildcards", asks about "lightweight messaging", "microservices communication", "nats streaming" DO NOT USE FOR: event sourcing - use `kafka` or `pulsar`; complex routing - use `rabbitmq`; AWS-native - use `sqs`; Azure-native - use `azure-service-bus`; JMS compliance - use `activemq`; persistent queues only - use dedicated broker

Survey a whole React codebase as a senior React engineer, using React Doctor's scan as evidence, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper models) to execute. Read-only on source code — it plans improvements, it does not apply them. Use when the user asks to "improve the React code", "audit this codebase", "make this app faster / more robust", or wants a roadmap of fixes rather than a review of a single diff. For a regression check or a fix-it-now pass, use the `react-doctor` skill instead.