Use when building or extending REST APIs with Hono + @hono/zod-openapi. Covers schema-first route declaration with createRoute, feature-grouped composable routers, a class-based service layer behind interfaces, the strategy pattern for multi-event webhooks, typed request validation, and auto-generated OpenAPI docs.

Explore and understand Nx workspaces. USE WHEN answering questions about the workspace, projects, or tasks. ALSO USE WHEN an nx command fails or you need to check available targets/configuration before running a task. EXAMPLES: 'What projects are in this workspace?', 'How is project X configured?', 'What depends on library Y?', 'What targets can I run?', 'Cannot find configuration for task', 'debug nx task failure'.

Build an animation from scratch, making the decisions in the order that determines whether it feels right — should it animate at all, what purpose, which tool, which properties, which curve and duration, how it interrupts, how it exits. Writes the implementation. Use when asked to animate something, add motion, make a component feel alive, or build a transition. For critiquing existing motion use review-animations; for auditing a whole codebase use improve-animations.

Use when collaborating with another human or agent over AgentMail/email-like transports. Enforces AgentBook lookup, scoped trust, outbound validation, and safe handoff practices.

Apple-platform settings design for signalbox - which control shape fits which problem, what status text should say, and the anti-patterns this project keeps rediscovering. Use when adding or changing anything in the macOS Settings window, the iOS Settings tab, or any pane that pairs a control with live state.

Use when an implementation plan has just been written and before any code is written — hands the plan to a second model in a fresh context to attack it, then requires every finding to be closed or rejected in writing. Invoked by new-feat at the end of its planning step and by orchestrate once per phase, and worth running on its own for any plan whose assumptions have not been checked against the code.

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

Generate code using nx generators. INVOKE IMMEDIATELY when user mentions scaffolding, setup, structure, creating apps/libs, or setting up project structure. Trigger words - scaffold, setup, create a ... app, create a ... lib, project structure, generate, add a new project. ALWAYS use this BEFORE calling nx_docs or exploring - this skill handles discovery internally.

Use when a framed problem needs root-cause investigation rather than a symptom-level fix, applying Five Whys, Fishbone (Ishikawa), Current Reality Tree, and constraint identification. This should trigger when an issue's Root Cause Analysis point of view needs evaluation, or when a maintainer directly asks to find the root cause of a problem before proposing a fix. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to set up Gatling performance testing for a Java Maven project — including adding Gatling dependencies and the Gatling Maven plugin, creating Java simulations, running gatling:test, configuring a simulation class, and reviewing generated reports. This should trigger for requests such as Add Gatling performance testing; Apply Gatling performance testing; Create a Gatling simulation; Add Gatling support; Review Gatling performance test assertions and feeders. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Routes Maven version questions to the right workflow by choosing project-local update report interpretation for a user’s own pom.xml, or Maven artifact discovery from maintainer-approved structured evidence. Use when interpreting dependency, plugin, or property update reports; finding Maven coordinates; verifying groupId artifactId version; browsing versions from approved evidence; or constructing artifact URLs without fetching remote content. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to add or configure Maven plugins in your pom.xml — including quality tools (enforcer, surefire, failsafe, jacoco, pitest, spotbugs, pmd), security scanning (OWASP), code formatting (Spotless), version management, container image build (Jib), build information tracking, and benchmarking (JMH) — through a consultative, modular step-by-step approach that only adds what you actually need. This should trigger for requests such as Add Maven plugins in pom.xml; Improve Maven plugins in pom.xml; Configure Maven quality plugins in pom.xml; Add Maven build lifecycle plugins for Java verification; Review Maven plugin versions and executions. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to apply Java exception handling best practices — including using specific exception types, managing resources with try-with-resources, securing exception messages, preserving error context via exception chaining, validating inputs early with fail-fast principles, handling thread interruption correctly, documenting exceptions with @throws, enforcing logging policy, translating exceptions at API boundaries, managing retries and idempotency, enforcing timeouts, attaching suppressed exceptions, and propagating failures in async/reactive code. This should trigger for requests such as Exception handling; Use try-with-resources in Java code; Create exception chaining in Java code; Apply fail-fast validation in Java code; Review Java exception taxonomy and propagation. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to apply testing strategies for Java code — RIGHT-BICEP to guide test creation, A-TRIP for test quality characteristics, or CORRECT for verifying boundary conditions. This should trigger for requests such as Review Java code for testing strategies; Apply RIGHT-BICEP testing strategies in Java code; Apply A-TRIP testing strategies in Java code; Apply CORRECT boundary condition verification in Java code. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to review, improve, or write Java unit tests — including migrating from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5, adopting AssertJ for fluent assertions, structuring tests with Given-When-Then, ensuring test independence, applying parameterized tests, mocking dependencies with Mockito, verifying boundary conditions (RIGHT-BICEP, CORRECT, A-TRIP), leveraging JSpecify null-safety annotations, or eliminating testing anti-patterns such as reflection-based tests or shared mutable state. This should trigger for requests such as Review Java code for unit tests; Apply best practices for unit tests in Java code; Write fast JUnit unit tests for Java code; Improve Mockito-based Java unit tests; Refactor Java tests to isolate collaborators. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to set up JMeter performance testing for a Java project — including creating the run-jmeter.sh script from the exact template, configuring load tests with loops, threads, and ramp-up, or running performance tests from the project root with custom or default settings. This should trigger for requests such as Improve the code with JMeter performance testing; Apply JMeter performance testing; Refactor the code with JMeter performance testing; Add JMeter support; Create a JMeter test plan for a Java service. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Guides the creation of agile epics with comprehensive definition including business value, success criteria, and breakdown into user stories. Use when the user wants to create an agile epic, define large bodies of work, break down features into user stories, or document strategic initiatives. This should trigger for requests such as Create an agile epic; Write an epic; I need to create an epic; Define an epic; Epic definition. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to add or review Flyway database migrations in a Spring Boot application — Maven dependencies, db/migration scripts, spring.flyway.* configuration, baseline and validation, and alignment with JDBC or Spring Data JDBC. This should trigger for requests such as Add or review Flyway migrations in a Spring Boot project; Configure spring.flyway or db/migration layout; Add versioned Flyway SQL migrations for Spring Boot; Review Spring Boot database migration ordering; Fix repeatable Flyway migrations in a Spring project. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to write or improve integration tests — including Testcontainers with @ServiceConnection, @DataJdbcTest persistence slices, TestRestTemplate or MockMvcTester for HTTP, data isolation, and container lifecycle management for Spring Boot 4.0.x. This should trigger for requests such as Review Java code for Spring Boot integration tests; Apply best practices for Spring Boot integration tests in Java code; Write @SpringBootTest integration tests with Testcontainers; Configure dynamic properties for Spring integration tests; Review Spring Boot integration test profiles. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Use when you need to design, review, or improve REST APIs with Quarkus REST (Jakarta REST) — including resource classes, HTTP methods, status codes, request/response DTOs, Bean Validation, exception mappers, optional runtime OpenAPI exposure (SmallRye), contract-first generation from OpenAPI, content negotiation, pagination, sorting and filtering, API versioning, idempotency (Idempotency-Key), optimistic concurrency (ETag / If-Match), HTTP caching (Cache-Control), API deprecation (Sunset / Deprecation headers), RFC 7807 Problem Details, ISO-8601 for time in contracts, and security-aware boundaries. This should trigger for requests such as Review or improve JAX-RS resources in a Quarkus project; Design HTTP APIs with validation and error handling on Quarkus; Add API versioning, idempotency, ETag concurrency, or deprecation headers; Implement pagination, sorting, or RFC 7807 Problem Details error responses; Improve Quarkus REST resources and exception mappers. Part of Plinth Toolkit