CodeWhale

Route a "how do I use Codewhale" question to the installed help, config, and doctor surfaces instead of reciting a manual from memory. Explicit-only.

Help a new contributor get productive on this checkout - inspect sync state against main, build, run the repository's exact verification gate, and produce a local what's-new digest. Never fetches, pulls, or modifies a dirty tree on its own. Explicit-only.

Hunt the issue/PR queue for highest value-over-risk wins: clean focused community PRs, already-implemented issues to close, safe quick-fixes.

Survey open CodeWhale PRs and triage each for mergeability and disposition against the real landing branch.

Use when filing a new CodeWhale GitHub issue: turn a bug or idea into a well-formed, actionable issue with repro, acceptance criteria, labels, and milestone.

Harvest one community PR into a release branch with authorship and credit preserved, verified green, and a warm thank-you.

Triage N GitHub issues into a coverage matrix: fetch each, check current code, classify already-done/quick-fix/design/defer with cited evidence.

Close resolved CodeWhale issues only after verifying the landed commit/behavior, with a positive crediting comment; never from title alone.

Use to assign GitHub issues to a milestone and/or owners in bulk, verifying each.

Use before claiming CodeWhale release work is done: run the full gate sweep and list the manual QA targets.

Create/edit/analyze/verify spreadsheet workbooks including XLSX/CSV/TSV.

Start/reuse a local app, wait for readiness, inspect rendered state/console/network, act from observed selectors, and verify with evidence.

Exercise the real app/API/CLI and collect observable evidence; tests alone do not count as end-to-end verification.

Use when working with deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash in thinking mode on multi-step or plan-driven tasks. Provides rules to prevent stale references, unverified plan assumptions, and vague plan output.

Compatibility alias for the xlsx skill. Prefer loading xlsx.

Install, update, trust, or inspect DeepSeek skills from GitHub or local skill folders. Use when the user asks for available skills or wants a community skill installed.

Create or improve codewhale skills. Use when the user wants a new skill, wants to update an existing skill, or needs guidance on when a skill should be a skill versus MCP, hooks, tools, or a plugin scaffold.

Improve clarity and reduce needless complexity after behavior is understood; preserve behavior and keep cleanup separate from correctness fixes.

Review trust boundaries, auth/authz, injection, secrets, filesystem/network exposure, dependencies, and exploitability without pretending a shallow lint is an audit.

Read-only correctness review with actionable findings first, tight file/line evidence, severity, and a concise residual-risk summary.

Current external research using available web tools, primary sources where possible, links/citations, date awareness, synthesis, and unresolved uncertainty.

Compatibility alias for the pptx skill. Prefer loading pptx.

Create/edit/inspect/verify slide decks and PPTX presentations.

Scaffold a local Codewhale plugin bundle with a versioned manifest, namespaced Skills, and an explicit trust review.

Turn a sufficiently understood task into an ordered implementation plan with dependencies and verification. Orchestrate CodeWhale’s native plan state; do not build a parallel planner.