Codewhale

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

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.

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

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

Write a compact, decision-ready handoff so the next session (or the user) can continue without reconstructing the current one. Use when the session is ending, context is running low, the user asks for a handoff / 'pass the baton' / 'hand off', or a long-running operation needs a durable state checkpoint.

Greet the user when they explicitly try the hello-codewhale example.

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.

Carry an authorized, defined request or approved plan through scoped edits and proportionate verification. Skill loading is not write authorization by itself.

Ask one useful structured question at a time only when material product/implementation choices are genuinely missing; remember answers and produce a brief/spec. Discoverable facts should be investigated instead of asked.

Design, build, configure, or debug Model Context Protocol servers for codewhale, including stdio and HTTP/SSE transports.

Find and start a zero-environment local MCP server when the session lacks a capability that no available tool, project script, or ordinary local code can cover.

Read, extract, split, merge, rotate, watermark, fill, OCR, or create PDF files with verification of page counts and text extraction.

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.

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

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

Compatibility alias for the pptx skill. Prefer loading pptx.

Capture screenshots on registered computers, record on macOS or HarmonyOS, and manage saved captures. Probe capabilities before recording.

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

Diff-scoped correctness review that reads the codebase around the change — callers, contracts, and invariants — and returns line-anchored findings ranked by severity with confidence, then a merge-risk verdict. Use for reviewing a PR, diff, or named change set. Not for style review, approvals-as-rubber-stamp, or editing the code.

Run cargo check on the current Rust project to find compile errors