arness

This skill should be used when the user says "assessing", "arness assessing", "assess", "assess codebase", "technical review", "codebase assessment", "find improvements", "what should I improve", "tech debt review", "pattern compliance check", "codebase health check", "improvement plan", "review my codebase", "what needs fixing", "code quality check", "audit my code", "run an assessment", "arn-assessing", or wants a comprehensive technical assessment of the codebase against stored patterns followed by prioritized improvement execution. Chains to arn-implementing if improvements are identified.

This skill should be used when the user says "brainstorming", "arn brainstorming", "brainstorm", "let's brainstorm", "start brainstorming", "brainstorming session", "greenfield wizard", "arn spark wizard", "greenfield pipeline", "walk me through greenfield", "guided greenfield", "full greenfield pipeline", "greenfield flow", "explore to feature backlog", "greenfield start to finish", "run the greenfield pipeline", "guide me through greenfield", "greenfield guided mode", "greenfield setup", "new project wizard", "add a feature", "new feature", "I need another feature", "add feature to greenfield", "one more feature", or wants to be walked through the entire Arness greenfield exploration pipeline in a single continuous session with guided decision gates instead of invoking each skill manually. Also triggers when the user wants to add a new feature to an existing greenfield project after the clickable prototype is complete.

This skill should be used when the user says "arness code assess", "arn-code-assess", "assess codebase", "technical review", "codebase assessment", "find improvements", "what should I improve", "tech debt review", "tech debt audit", "pattern compliance check", "codebase health check", "assess the project", "improvement plan", "review my codebase", "what needs fixing", "code quality check", "audit my code", "run an assessment", or wants a comprehensive technical assessment of the codebase against stored patterns followed by prioritized improvement execution through the full Arness pipeline.

This skill should be used when the user says "fix CVEs", "patch vulnerabilities", "apply security patches", "resolve security advisories", "batch CVE fix", "patch dependencies", "fix security findings", "remediate CVEs", "apply CVE fixes", "batch fix vulnerabilities", "resolve vulnerability tickets", "arness CVE fix", "arn-code-batch-cve-fix", "fix all open CVE tickets", "cleanup resolved CVE proposals", or wants Arness to apply per-group dependency bumps for previously-triaged CVEs and open per-group pull requests that close their corresponding sub-issues. Reuses arn-code-batch-implement worker isolation verbatim, opens PRs targeting the configured Security branch, and offers an interactive post-merge cleanup of fully-resolved past CVE proposals. Interactive only — no proposal mode, no headless write path; every PR is human-reviewed and every archive move is confirmed via AskUserQuestion. Requires that arn-code-batch-cve-scan has produced triage records and sub-issues.

This skill should be used when the user says "scan for CVEs", "CVE scan", "check for vulnerabilities", "find vulnerabilities", "check security advisories", "dependabot triage", "dependabot scan", "scan dependencies for security issues", "audit dependencies", "vulnerability triage", "security scan", "run security audit", "arness CVE scan", "arn-code-batch-cve-scan", "run a scheduled CVE scan", "produce a CVE proposal", "finalize a CVE proposal", or wants Arness to discover, triage, and ticket security advisories across project dependencies. Supports three modes (interactive, proposal, finalize) so the workflow is safe to schedule unattended via Claude Code Routines and tool-agnostic enough to drive headlessly via claude -p or any LLM-running CLI. Dual-source discovery (GitHub Dependabot plus locally-detected scanners), per-CVE triage via arn-code-cve-analyst, project-native waiver capture, and pre-triage parent plus per-group sub-issue ticketing on GitHub or Jira. Reads from the configured Security branch.

This skill should be used when the user says "batch implement", "implement all", "batch execution", "implement all features", "parallel implement", "implement in parallel", "arness batch implement", "arn-code-batch-implement", "run batch implementation", "implement everything", "launch batch workers", or wants to spawn parallel worktree-isolated background agents to implement multiple pending features simultaneously. Each worker runs as a full independent session with all tools. This skill requires pending plans in .arness/plans/ — run arn-code-batch-planning first if none exist.

This skill should be used when the user says "batch merge", "merge batch", "arness batch merge", "arn-code-batch-merge", "merge all PRs", "merge batch PRs", "merge the batch", "merge implemented features", "batch merge PRs", "merge open PRs", "merge all feature PRs", "combine batch PRs", "land the batch", "land all PRs", or wants to discover open batch implementation PRs, analyze them for conflicts, determine an optimal merge order, and execute merges with user-guided conflict resolution. This skill is typically invoked after arn-code-batch-implement completes and chains to arn-code-batch-simplify upon completion.

This skill should be used when the user says "batch planning", "batch plan", "arness batch planning", "arn-code-batch-planning", "plan multiple features", "plan all features", "plan unblocked features", "plan the backlog", "plan from backlog", "batch spec and plan", "plan next features", "sequential planning", "multi-feature plan", "plan the next batch", "plan these features", "batch plan GitHub issues", "batch plan from Jira", "plan issues in batch", or wants to plan multiple features from the greenfield Feature Tracker, GitHub issues, or Jira issues in a single session. Pre-analyzes all selected features in parallel, then guides sequential spec review with pipelined plan generation. This skill is typically invoked directly or after arn-brainstorming completes and chains to arn-code-batch-implement upon completion. For single-feature planning, arn-planning is the correct entry point.

This skill should be used when the user says "batch simplify", "cross-feature simplify", "batch simplification", "simplify all features", "cross-feature quality pass", "batch code cleanup", "consolidate across features", "deduplicate across features", "cleanup after batch merge", "cross-feature deduplication", "arness batch simplify", "arn-code-batch-simplify", "simplify merged features", "post-merge simplify", "find cross-feature duplication", or wants to run a post-merge quality pass that finds duplication and consolidation opportunities across independently implemented features. This requires merged features in .arness/plans/ — run arn-code-batch-merge first if none are merged.

This skill should be used when the user says "bug spec", "arness code bug spec", "investigate this bug", "help me debug", "trace this bug", "diagnose this issue", "I found a bug", "something is broken", "why is X not working", "fix this bug", "debug this", "why is this not working", or wants to iteratively investigate a bug through guided conversation with diagnostic analysis. Bridges the gap between a bug report and either a direct fix or a structured bug specification for the Arness pipeline.

This skill should be used when the user says "catch up", "catch-up", "arness code catch up", "retroactive docs", "document old commits", "backfill artifacts", "what did I miss", "undocumented commits", "catch up on commits", "document past work", "backfill records", or wants to retroactively document commits that were made outside the Arness pipeline.

This skill should be used when the user says "create issue", "file issue", "arness code issue", "arness code create issue", "arn-code-create-issue", "report bug", "request feature", "add to backlog", "create GitHub issue", "create Jira issue", "file a bug", "submit issue", "log issue", "open issue", or wants to create an issue in the current repository with Arness labels for type and priority. Requires an issue tracker (GitHub or Jira) to be configured. Do NOT use this for picking/browsing existing issues — use /arn-code-pick-issue for that.

This skill should be used when the user says "document project", "generate docs", "create documentation", "write docs", "arness code document", "arn-code-document-project", "document this feature", "document this fix", or wants to generate developer documentation for a completed feature or bug fix. Reads plan artifacts, spec files, execution reports, and git diff to produce accurate documentation. Do NOT use this for general-purpose documentation — this is specifically for Arness pipeline projects.

This skill should be used when the user says "ensure config", "check arness config", "arn-code-ensure-config", "verify arness setup", or wants to verify that Arness Code configuration is present for the current project. This skill is primarily consumed as a reference by entry-point skills (arn-planning, arn-implementing, arn-shipping, arn-reviewing-pr, arn-assessing, arn-code-feature-spec, arn-code-bug-spec, arn-code-swift, arn-code-standard) which read the `references/step-0-fast-path.md` reference as Step 0 before proceeding with their workflow.

This skill should be used when the user says "execute plan", "run the plan", "start execution", "execute project", "execute all tasks", "run all tasks", "run plan in parallel", "execute with review gates", or wants to execute a full structured project plan after tasks have been created via arn-code-taskify. This skill runs ALL tasks from the task list — for executing a single specific task, use arn-code-execute-task instead. For Agent Teams mode, use arn-code-execute-plan-teams. Do NOT use this skill when executing a single task — use `/arn-code-execute-task` instead.

This skill should be used when the user says "execute plan with teams", "run plan teams", "execute with agent teams", "team execution", "execute plan with agent teams instead of subagents", "teams mode", "agent teams mode", "execute with teams", or wants to execute a structured project plan using Claude Code's experimental Agent Teams feature. Creates a team of executor, reviewer, and architect teammates that collaborate on task implementation with built-in quality gates. Requires the experimental Agent Teams feature to be enabled. For standard subagent-based execution, use arn-code-execute-plan instead.

This skill should be used when the user says "execute task N", "run task N", "implement task N", "re-run task N", "retry task N", "run single task", or wants to execute a single specific task from the task list with optional review. This is for ONE task only — for executing the full plan (all tasks), use arn-code-execute-plan instead.

This skill should be used when the user says "feature spec", "arness code feature spec", "arn-code-feature-spec", "spec this feature", "help me spec", "design this feature", "feature design", "write a spec", "create a specification", "I have an idea for a feature", "let's flesh out this feature", "decompose feature", "spec XL feature", "resume spec", "continue spec", "finish my spec", "break down feature", or wants to iteratively develop a feature idea into a well-formed specification through guided conversation with architectural analysis. For XL features with decomposition hints, creates multiple sub-feature specs with full traceability. Produces specification documents capturing WHAT to build and WHY, which then feed into plan creation.

This skill should be used when the user says "feature spec teams", "arness code feature spec teams", "team feature spec", "debate this feature", "collaborative feature spec", "spec with agent teams", "multi-agent feature spec", "feature spec debate", or wants to develop a feature idea through structured debate between multiple specialist agents (architects, UX experts, and security specialists) before writing the specification. Uses Claude Code's experimental Agent Teams feature. Requires Agent Teams to be enabled. For standard single-agent feature spec, use arn-code-feature-spec instead.

This skill should be used when the user says "arness code help", "where am I", "what's next", "show pipeline", "pipeline status", "what step am I on", "arness code status", "arn-code-help", "show workflow", or wants to see their current position in the Arness workflow pipeline and get guidance on the next step.