Collaborative idea refinement - turns rough ideas into fully-formed designs through questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation. Use before writing code or implementation plans.
Catalogs recurring errors as pain points needing skills. Use when same error occurs multiple times.
Creates a NEW Architectural Decision Record (ADR) documenting a specific architectural decision. Use when the user requests "Create ADR for [topic]", "Document decision about [topic]", "Write ADR for [choice]", or when documenting technology choices, patterns, or architectural approaches. Do NOT use for reviews (use architecture-review or specialist-review), checking existing ADRs (use architecture-status), or general documentation.
Create, edit, and sync CV content using the knowledge base as source of truth. Unified skill for case studies, blog posts, experience updates, and variant content. Replaces cv-content-generator and cv-content-editor.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm", "find ideas", "explore approaches", or explicitly wants multiple perspectives on a problem before deciding.
Edit and update existing CV content using the knowledge base as source of truth. Use when user wants to modify case studies, update experience, refine variants, or improve existing content.
This skill conducts discovery conversations to understand user intent and agree on approach before taking action. It should be used when the user explicitly calls /interview, asks for recommendations, needs brainstorming, wants to clarify, or when the request could be misunderstood. Prevents building the wrong thing by uncovering WHY behind WHAT.
Keyword research for UK local service businesses. Generates silo-compatible keyword map. Binding input for heading-tree and internal-linking skills.
Collaborative blog writing assistant that helps draft articles in Aaron's voice and style
Technical writing skills for blogs, documentation, and developer content
Generates structured blog post outlines with SEO-optimized headings, key points, and content flow. Use when planning blog content, creating editorial calendars, or structuring long-form articles. Supports multiple content formats and audience targeting.
Generate SEO-optimized articles with proper structure. Use when creating blog posts or documentation.
Create production-grade, accessible Jekyll themes for researchers conducting "research in public." Generates complete lab notebook-style themes with Tufte-inspired sidenotes, KaTeX math rendering, and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. Use when building Jekyll themes for scientific journals, experiment logs, field notes, or research documentation sites. Supports collections for organizing experiments and field notes, responsive sidenote rendering (sidebar on desktop, inline on mobile), and full-width layout options.
Design reusable prompt templates that encode domain-specific patterns for recurring AI development tasks. Use this skill when you've executed similar prompts 2+ times and need to capture the pattern as reusable intelligence. Transforms one-off prompts into parameterized templates that maintain quality while reducing cognitive load. Helps students move from Layer 2 (AI Collaboration) to Layer 3 (Intelligence Design) in the 4-Layer Teaching Method.
Startup and life advice channeling Paul Graham's essays, YC experience, and Twitter wisdom. Use this skill when: (1) Evaluating startup ideas or finding new ones (2) Early-stage strategy and user acquisition (3) Growth and survival decisions (default alive?) (4) Fundraising and investor relations (5) Founder leadership and team building (6) Avoiding common startup mistakes (7) Career and life decisions Invoke with /paul-graham or auto-triggers for startup advice topics.
Generate summaries of documents, code, and conversations. Use for documentation, reports, and content condensation.
This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring documentation that will be consumed as AI context. Optimizes documentation for LLM comprehension using principles of completeness, efficiency, and zero fluff—replacing prose with structured data, enforcing heading hierarchy, detecting meta-commentary, and validating that examples serve a purpose.
SEO maintenance for the site. Consult when adding content, modifying pages, updating metadata, or making changes that affect discoverability. Covers meta tags, structured data, OG images, sitemap, RSS, and llms.txt.
Master style guide development with writing standards, terminology, voice and tone, and consistency guidelines.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a skill", "write a SKILL.md", "validate skill structure", "improve skill description", "understand skill protocol", "design skill architecture", or needs guidance on progressive disclosure, trigger phrases, writing style, or skill validation for Claude Code.
Template for creating new cybersecurity skills. Provides structure and examples for skill development.
Summarizes technical/AI/data content from URLs, YouTube videos, or how-to guides into actionable step-by-step learning instructions. Use when given a video, article, or tutorial URL to convert into a learnable guide.
Create publication-quality scientific diagrams using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3 Pro for quality review. Only regenerates if quality is below threshold for your document type. Specialized in neural network architectures, system diagrams, flowcharts, biological pathways, and complex scientific visualizations.
