Codewhale

Break a large, parallelizable goal into bounded work units, coordinate existing agent/worktree machinery, integrate, and verify. Explicit-only.

Generate a small set of independent candidate solutions in worktrees, judge them against one explicit rubric, and apply the winner only after PASS verification.

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

Operate desktop apps and isolated browsers on registered computers. Use for tasks needing an app interface, accessibility, screenshots or recording. Use Chromewhale for the user's signed-in Chrome.

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.

Use when a Codewhale change needs proving in the real product, or when asked to build/install/dogfood the local binaries: stamped release build, atomic install, fresh-shell verification, and the manual QA that gates cannot cover.

Use before claiming any Codewhale change is done, green, or ready to land: the focused-to-broad verification ladder, the budget checks CI enforces, and the rules for what counts as a passing test.

Use when writing a Codewhale takeover prompt, continuation note, or end-of-session summary for another agent or a later session: a paste-ready handoff grounded in live state, with done/suspected/blocked kept separate.

Choose and produce an appropriate chart/dashboard/visual explanation from data, with legible encodings and source/assumption notes.

Reproduce, minimize, localize, identify root cause, and distinguish diagnosis from an authorized fix. Prefer root-cause over symptom patches.

Strategic delegation for multi-step coding, research, or verification work. Use when a task can be split into parent reasoning plus focused sub-agent execution through the agent tool.

Read release notes/changelogs, update a defined dependency scope, handle breaking changes, and verify. Explicit-only; no broad update-everything by inference.

Compatibility alias for the docx skill. Prefer loading docx.

Create/edit/inspect Word documents using available managed or host capabilities.

Work with Feishu or Lark bots, docs, sheets, bitables, approval flows, and OpenAPI/MCP setup without hardcoding credentials.

Use when managing, triaging, restarting, escalating, or summarizing Codewhale fleet runs and workers.

Help the user remove a stored fact using Codewhale's Context Lens when they ask to forget or delete a memory.

Produce intentional, responsive, accessible UI work and perform visual QA instead of generic component assembly.

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

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