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Authoring playbook for building agents that read or write tabular data — Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, CSV, Airtable, Notion databases, or any spreadsheet. Use this when the user wants an agent that updates rows, reads cells, computes totals, generates reports from sheets, syncs data between spreadsheets, or automates anything involving rows, columns, ranges, or worksheets.

Authoring playbook for building agents that search, read, and synthesize information into a report. Use this when the user wants an agent to research a topic, summarize sources, compare options, do competitive analysis, monitor news, generate briefs, or pull together a citation-backed report from the web or internal documents.

Authoring playbook for building agents that automate recurring internal tasks — running scheduled workflows, syncing data between systems, posting notifications, processing inbound events, or executing operational runbooks. Use this when the user wants an agent that runs on a schedule, reacts to events, automates a process, syncs between tools, or handles ops/internal infrastructure.

Fallback authoring playbook for building general-purpose personal assistant agents that do not fit a more specific archetype. Use this only after checking the other archetype skills (coding, spreadsheet, research, customer-support, content-writer, ops-automation). Examples include summarizing emails, drafting short answers, capturing notes, or generic personal-helper agents.

Authoring playbook for building agents that triage and reply to customer messages — support tickets, email inquiries, chat questions, refund requests, or product issues. Use this when the user wants an agent that handles inbound customer questions, drafts replies, escalates hard cases, summarizes tickets, or follows a support playbook.

Authoring playbook for building agents that draft written content — blog posts, marketing copy, social media posts, newsletters, product descriptions, landing pages, or ad copy. Use this when the user wants an agent that writes, drafts, or rewrites text for publication or marketing.

Authoring playbook for building agents that write, edit, review, or refactor code. Use this when the user asks for an agent that writes scripts, generates code, reviews pull requests, refactors a codebase, fixes bugs, implements features, writes tests, or works with programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, SQL, or shell.

Universal quality bar and final audit rubric for any agent system prompt. Activate this whenever you are unsure which archetype skill applies, or as a final review pass before writing the system prompt. It defines the required run contract, completion criteria, fallback paths, response format, and anti-patterns every produced agent prompt must satisfy.

Triage a Factory work item's issue — trace history, understand architecture, diagnose root cause, then advance the stage

Review a pull request for a Factory work item — history and context first, then verdict — and mark the review complete

Produce a phased implementation plan for a Factory work item, then advance it to execute

Configure typed Mastra Factory rules and exact-leaf overrides in deployment code

Guided interactive PR review — understand the history and context before forming opinions

Collaboratively investigate a GitHub issue or bug — trace history, understand architecture, diagnose root cause

First-contact triage for a GitHub issue

Orchestrate parallel Mastra Code headless instances to debug and fix multiple GitHub issues simultaneously

Testing mastracode TUI features interactively in Konsole. Covers model configuration, thread lifecycle, task state isolation, and common blockers.

Tailwind CSS v4 usage guide and v3-to-v4 differences. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring any Tailwind CSS code in this repo. Triggers on tasks involving Tailwind classes, @theme blocks, CSS-first configuration, or cleanup of v3-era syntax.

Create a Mastra project using create-mastra and smoke test the studio in Chrome using Chrome MCP server

React performance optimization guidelines from Mastra Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

Interactive planning assistant that helps create focused, well-structured ralph-loop commands through collaborative conversation

Use when breaking a large, complex, messy, or hard-to-review pull request into multiple smaller PRs; planning stacked PRs; extracting independent changes from a branch; splitting mixed refactor and behavior changes; managing drift after review feedback; rebasing follow-up PRs as earlier PRs change; or preserving original branch intent while shipping incrementally.

Use when creating an approachable, self-contained HTML review aid for a pull request; explaining what changed, why it matters, how it works, and how it fits into the broader system; turning PR diffs, commits, tests, and architecture context into a local `.pr-review/` HTML page for reviewers; or helping reviewers understand complex code changes without dumping the full diff.

REQUIRED and PRIMARY testing approach for packages/playground and packages/playground-ui. Triggers on: adding or modifying hooks, pages, route components, data-fetching code, React Query interactions, or any test work in these packages. Generates Vitest tests that drive the real @mastra/client-js + React Query stack through MSW handlers and typed fixtures derived from @mastra/client-js response types. This is the #1 way to test the playground packages — ABOVE Playwright E2E. Use Playwright only for cross-page user journeys that MSW cannot model.

Smoke test Mastra projects locally or deploy to staging/production. Tests Studio UI, agents, tools, workflows, traces, memory, and more. Supports both local development and cloud deployments.