Development

Create aesthetically beautiful interfaces following proven design principles. Use when building UI/UX, analyzing designs from inspiration sites, generating design images with ai-multimodal, implementing visual hierarchy and color theory, adding micro-interactions, or creating design documentation. Includes workflows for capturing and analyzing inspiration screenshots with chrome-devtools and ai-multimodal, iterative design image generation until aesthetic standards are met, and comprehensive design system guidance covering BEAUTIFUL (aesthetic principles), RIGHT (functionality/accessibility), SATISFYING (micro-interactions), and PEAK (storytelling) stages. Integrates with chrome-devtools, ai-multimodal, media-processing, ui-styling, and web-frameworks skills.

Process multimedia files with FFmpeg (video/audio encoding, conversion, streaming, filtering, hardware acceleration) and ImageMagick (image manipulation, format conversion, batch processing, effects, composition). Use when converting media formats, encoding videos with specific codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9), resizing/cropping images, extracting audio from video, applying filters and effects, optimizing file sizes, creating streaming manifests (HLS/DASH), generating thumbnails, batch processing images, creating composite images, or implementing media processing pipelines. Supports 100+ formats, hardware acceleration (NVENC, QSV), and complex filtergraphs.

Create beautiful, accessible user interfaces with shadcn/ui components (built on Radix UI + Tailwind), Tailwind CSS utility-first styling, and canvas-based visual designs. Use when building user interfaces, implementing design systems, creating responsive layouts, adding accessible components (dialogs, dropdowns, forms, tables), customizing themes and colors, implementing dark mode, generating visual designs and posters, or establishing consistent styling patterns across applications.

Use when complex problems require systematic step-by-step reasoning with ability to revise thoughts, branch into alternative approaches, or dynamically adjust scope. Ideal for multi-stage analysis, design planning, problem decomposition, or tasks with initially unclear scope.

Create diagrams and visualizations using Mermaid.js v11 syntax. Use when generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, user journeys, timelines, architecture diagrams, or any of 24+ diagram types. Supports JavaScript API integration, CLI rendering to SVG/PNG/PDF, theming, configuration, and accessibility features. Essential for documentation, technical diagrams, project planning, system architecture, and visual communication.

Use when receiving code review feedback (especially if unclear or technically questionable), when completing tasks or major features requiring review before proceeding, or before making any completion/success claims. Covers three practices - receiving feedback with technical rigor over performative agreement, requesting reviews via code-reviewer subagent, and verification gates requiring evidence before any status claims. Essential for subagent-driven development, pull requests, and preventing false completion claims.

Build modern full-stack web applications with Next.js (App Router, Server Components, RSC, PPR, SSR, SSG, ISR), Turborepo (monorepo management, task pipelines, remote caching, parallel execution), and RemixIcon (3100+ SVG icons in outlined/filled styles). Use when creating React applications, implementing server-side rendering, setting up monorepos with multiple packages, optimizing build performance and caching strategies, adding icon libraries, managing shared dependencies, or working with TypeScript full-stack projects.

Build Shopify applications, extensions, and themes using GraphQL/REST APIs, Shopify CLI, Polaris UI components, and Liquid templating. Capabilities include app development with OAuth authentication, checkout UI extensions for customizing checkout flow, admin UI extensions for dashboard integration, POS extensions for retail, theme development with Liquid, webhook management, billing API integration, product/order/customer management. Use when building Shopify apps, implementing checkout customizations, creating admin interfaces, developing themes, integrating payment processing, managing store data via APIs, or extending Shopify functionality.

Package entire code repositories into single AI-friendly files using Repomix. Capabilities include pack codebases with customizable include/exclude patterns, generate multiple output formats (XML, Markdown, plain text), preserve file structure and context, optimize for AI consumption with token counting, filter by file types and directories, add custom headers and summaries. Use when packaging codebases for AI analysis, creating repository snapshots for LLM context, analyzing third-party libraries, preparing for security audits, generating documentation context, or evaluating unfamiliar codebases.

Build robust backend systems with modern technologies (Node.js, Python, Go, Rust), frameworks (NestJS, FastAPI, Django), databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis), APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), authentication (OAuth 2.1, JWT), testing strategies, security best practices (OWASP Top 10), performance optimization, scalability patterns (microservices, caching, sharding), DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD), and monitoring. Use when designing APIs, implementing authentication, optimizing database queries, setting up CI/CD pipelines, handling security vulnerabilities, building microservices, or developing production-ready backend systems.

Use when creating or developing, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through collaborative questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation. Don't use during clear 'mechanical' processes

Use when implementing complex logic that needs test coverage - write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass; ensures tests actually verify behavior by requiring failure first; NOT for UI components, simple CRUD, or straightforward code

Use when reviewing pull requests with comprehensive code analysis, incremental or full review options, and constructive feedback - provides thorough code reviews with severity ratings

Use when creating or updating draft pull requests without code review - streamlines draft PR workflow with meaningful descriptions and commit messages, focusing on work-in-progress documentation

Use when creating or editing rules/skills in .claude/rules/, whether context-specific skills (alwaysApply: false) or always-merged rules (alwaysApply: true) - applies TDD by identifying failure patterns (RED), writing rule/skill (GREEN), then closing loopholes (REFACTOR). Supports globs for file patterns. NEVER use "skill-creator" skill.

Use when design is complete and you need detailed implementation tasks for engineers with zero codebase context - creates comprehensive implementation plans with exact file paths, complete code examples, and verification steps assuming engineer has minimal domain knowledge

Generate production-quality TypeScript CLIs with full documentation, error handling, and best practices. Creates deterministic, type-safe command-line tools following PAI's CLI-First Architecture. USE WHEN user says "create a CLI", "build a command-line tool", "make a CLI for X", or requests CLI generation. (user)

Expert guidance for ffuf web fuzzing during penetration testing, including authenticated fuzzing with raw requests, auto-calibration, and result analysis

Comprehensive research, analysis, and content extraction system. Multi-source parallel research using available researcher agents. Deep content analysis with extended thinking. Intelligent retrieval for difficult sites. Fabric pattern selection for 242+ specialized prompts. USE WHEN user says 'do research', 'extract wisdom', 'analyze content', 'find information about', or requests web/content research.

Prompt engineering standards and context engineering principles for AI agents based on Anthropic best practices. Covers clarity, structure, progressive discovery, and optimization for signal-to-noise ratio.