Research

Comprehensive architectural reference for AIDB core and MCP integration. Covers 6-layer architecture (MCP, Service, Session, Adapter, DAP Client, Protocol), component organization, data flow patterns, and design decisions. Use when explaining overall system design or understanding how layers interact.

Quick reference templates for BDD/DDD specifications - condensed version for fast lookups

Master Rust ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and memory safety. Understand move semantics, references, and zero-cost abstractions.

Industry-standard Product Requirements Document (PRD) creation skill that guides Product Managers through creating comprehensive, research-backed PRDs. Uses proven frameworks from Google, Amazon, and Intercom to ensure PRDs provide all details needed for superior Spec Kit specifications.

Generates, analyzes, and optimizes prompts for skills, commands, subagents, reference docs, and free-form text. Use when generating prompt content, analyzing prompt files, or optimizing prompt text to apply techniques and reduce bloat. Trigger with phrases like '[generate|analyze|optimize] prompt', '[generate|analyze|optimize] [file-path]', 'create [skill|command|subagent]'.

Expert Detection Engineer assistant for creating and testing D&R rules in LimaCharlie. Guides through understanding threats, researching event data (Schema, LCQL, Timeline), generating detection logic, testing rules against sample and historical data, and deploying validated rules. Use for building detections, writing D&R rules, testing detection logic, or when user wants to detect specific behaviors or threats.

Interactive research and planning (Stages 0-1) for VCV Rack module development

Edit writing to adopt Paul Graham's exceptionally clear style for research and long-form content - concrete language, varied sentence rhythm, accessible formality, specific evidence. Use when user wants to rewrite content in PG's style or asks to "make this clearer" or "simplify research writing."

Write comprehensive, user-focused documentation following the Diataxis framework. Use this skill when creating or improving tutorials, how-to guides, reference documentation, or explanatory content. Helps identify the right documentation type and apply best practices for each.

Patterns for using the AskUserQuestion tool to gather user preferences and clarify requirements

Assess cognitive processing style and preference patterns.

Hypothesis-driven debugging with systematic investigation. Identifies root causes, creates minimal reproductions, and implements fixes. Use when investigating errors, bugs, crashes, or unexpected behavior.

Advanced prior art search using the PatentsView API. Use this skill when users need to search for patents, perform prior art searches, analyze patent landscapes, or find patents by inventor, title, date range, or technical fields. Helps with patent research, freedom to operate analysis, and competitive intelligence.

Technical spike and research investigation specialist. Use when exploring options for a technical decision, conducting timeboxed investigations, or evaluating technology choices.

Intelligent documentation system for the WordPress Abilities API. Activate automatically when working with WordPress plugins, ability registration, or when WordPress Abilities API terms are mentioned (wp_register_ability, ability categories, REST API, etc.). Provides context-aware documentation retrieval - fetches implementation guides for coding queries, API references for parameter lookups, and smart multi-page fetching for complex integrations.

Refactor bloated skill.md files using progressive disclosure pattern. Moves detailed content to references/ while keeping skill.md focused and discoverable. Use when a skill is approaching 500 lines or needs better organization.

[Aesthetics] Extracts recurring visual patterns from references: contrast habits, shapes, density/whitespace balance, rhythm, textures. Produces Aesthetic Pattern Library as Data-Sheet nodes in Brain canvas.

Advanced swarm orchestration patterns for research, development, testing, and complex distributed workflows

Code standards and templates for Django models, views, forms, templates, and URLs in this World of Darkness application. Use when creating new models (characters, items, locations), implementing reference/lookup models (factions, clans, disciplines), building CRUD views, designing forms, setting up URL patterns, or ensuring gameline consistency. Triggers on file creation/editing in characters/, items/, locations/ apps or when implementing polymorphic inheritance patterns.

Access local technical documentation before searching the internet. Use FIRST when researching any tech stack question.