Skills-4-SE

Systematic external reference searching across documentation, open-source repositories, and web resources. Use when working with unfamiliar libraries, APIs, or when needing production-quality implementation examples.

Generate systematic refinement steps from high-level specifications to concrete implementations in Isabelle/HOL or Coq, preserving correctness obligations at each step. Use when working with formal verification, program refinement, proof development, or when translating abstract specifications into executable code while maintaining formal guarantees. Supports data refinement (abstract types → concrete structures), algorithmic refinement (specifications → algorithms), and stepwise refinement with proof obligations.

Checks whether a new version of a repository preserves the behavior observed by tests on the old version. Use this skill when comparing two versions of code to detect regressions, verify refactoring safety, validate bug fixes don't break existing functionality, or ensure backward compatibility. Detects differences in function outputs, exceptions, observable states, and performance between versions. Generates reports highlighting potential regressions (critical, high, medium, low severity), improvements, and areas requiring verification. Triggers when users ask to check for regressions between versions, compare test behavior across versions, verify behavior preservation, or validate that changes don't break existing tests.

Locate root causes of failing regression tests by analyzing code changes, error messages, and test dependencies. Use when regression tests start failing after code changes, investigating test failures in CI/CD, debugging flaky tests, or understanding why previously passing tests now fail. Analyzes git diffs, stack traces, test output, and dependency changes to produce structured markdown reports ranking likely causes. Triggers when users ask to find why tests are failing, debug regression failures, investigate test breakage, or analyze failing test suites.

Compares HEAD with the latest published version to analyze real changes, group by type, and recommend version bumps. Use before publishing a release to understand what actually changed.

Automatically generate user-facing release notes from git commits, pull requests, changelogs, and code changes. Use when preparing software releases, creating version announcements, documenting what changed between versions, or communicating updates to users. Analyzes commit messages, PR descriptions, and code diffs to produce categorized markdown release notes organized by New Features, Improvements, Bug Fixes, and Breaking Changes. Focuses on user-visible changes while filtering out internal/technical details. Triggers when users ask to generate release notes, create changelog, write version announcement, or summarize changes for a release.

Instruments programs to record execution information for deterministic replay debugging. Use when debugging hard-to-reproduce bugs (race conditions, timing issues, intermittent failures, heisenbugs), reproducing production failures, or analyzing complex execution sequences. Records non-deterministic events (I/O, threading, randomness, time) to enable exact replay of program executions. Supports Python, JavaScript, Java, and C/C++ with both custom instrumentation and existing replay tools.

Instruments programs to capture execution traces specifically for reproducing reported bugs, enabling consistent replay and diagnosis of failures. Use this skill when you need to reproduce a bug, capture execution traces for debugging, instrument code to record program behavior, generate replay scripts for bug reproduction, diagnose hard-to-reproduce failures, or perform deterministic replay of program execution. Triggers when users ask to instrument code for tracing, capture execution traces, reproduce bugs, generate replay scripts, or enable deterministic debugging.

Generates comprehensive test scenarios from requirements including BDD/Gherkin scenarios, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end test cases. Use when converting requirements, user stories, or specifications into testable scenarios with full coverage including happy paths, error cases, edge cases, and boundary conditions. Outputs structured test suites ready for implementation.

Compares old and new requirement documents, analyzes code repository impact, and generates detailed modification plans. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Compare requirement versions and identify changes, (2) Map requirement changes to code components, (3) Identify components to modify, delete, or add, (4) Analyze dependencies and integration points, (5) Assess test impact, (6) Generate comprehensive modification plans in Markdown format. Supports text/Markdown requirements and analyzes feature-level, functional, and API changes.

Verify that design documents, code implementations, and tests fully cover all specified requirements. Use this skill when validating requirement traceability, conducting design reviews, assessing implementation completeness, checking test coverage against requirements, performing compliance audits, or identifying missing functionality. Produces coverage reports showing which requirements are satisfied, partially satisfied, or missing.

Iteratively enhance user requirements into clear, complete, actionable specifications through analysis and clarification. Use when: (1) Users provide initial requirements that need refinement, (2) Requirements are vague, incomplete, or ambiguous, (3) Creating formal specifications from informal descriptions, (4) Identifying missing constraints, edge cases, or acceptance criteria, (5) Clarifying assumptions and implicit dependencies, or (6) Preparing requirements for design, implementation, or verification. Operates interactively: analyze → ask clarifying questions → refine based on responses.