Web accessibility patterns for news sites, journalism tools, and academic platforms. Use when building accessible interfaces, auditing existing sites for WCAG compliance, writing alt text for news images, creating accessible data visualizations, or ensuring content reaches all readers including thos

Use this skill when the user asks to update CLAUDE.md, save a lesson, or persist something from the current session: phrases like "update claude.md", "what should we remember", "save this lesson", or "add to context". Scans the conversation for hard-won lessons, new file paths, infrastructure change

Electron desktop application development with React, TypeScript, and Vite. Use when building desktop apps, implementing IPC communication, managing windows/tray, handling PTY terminals, integrating WebRTC/audio, or packaging with electron-builder. Covers patterns from AudioBash, Yap, and Pisscord pr

Remote JavaScript console access and debugging on mobile devices. Use when debugging web pages on phones/tablets, accessing console errors without desktop DevTools, testing responsive designs on real devices, or diagnosing mobile-specific issues. Covers locally hosted Eruda and vConsole, Chrome/Safa

Use this skill when creating new files that represent architectural decisions — data models, infrastructure configs, auth boundaries, API contracts, CI/CD pipelines, or event systems. Flags irreversible decisions and forces a discussion about trade-offs before committing.

Python data processing pipelines with modular architecture. Use when building content processing workflows, implementing dispatcher patterns, integrating Google Sheets/Drive APIs, or creating batch processing systems. Covers patterns from rosen-scraper, image-analyzer, and social-scraper projects.

This skill should be used when the user reports a bug, describes unexpected behavior, says something is "broken", "not working", "failing", mentions an "error", "issue", or "problem" in code, or asks to "fix" something. Enforces test-driven bug fixing workflow.

Methodology for effective AI-assisted software development. Use when helping users build software with AI coding assistants, debugging AI-generated code, planning features for AI implementation, managing version control in AI workflows, or when users mention "vibe coding," Claude Code, Cursor, GitHu

Authorized web content extraction with trust-boundary controls, scraping cascades, poison-pill detection, browser rendering, observed API analysis, and social-media archiving. Use when extracting public content, diagnosing access failures, implementing respectful scrapers, or processing social-media

Signs of taste in web UI. Use when building or reviewing any user-facing web interface — dashboards, SaaS apps, marketing sites, internal tools. Covers interaction speed, navigation depth, visual restraint, copy quality, and the small details that separate polished products from rough ones.

Zero-build frontend development with locally vendored React, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Use when building static web apps without a deployment build step, creating Leaflet maps, integrating Google Sheets as a database, or developing browser extensions. Covers lockfile-verified browser dep

Eliminate AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Activate when writing articles, documentation, press releases, or any content where AI patterns would undermine credibility. For journalists using AI assistance who need human-sounding output.

Crisis communication and rapid response workflows for journalists and communications professionals. Use when covering breaking news events, managing organizational communications during crises, coordinating rapid fact-checking efforts, or developing crisis response plans. Essential for newsrooms, PR

Data journalism workflows for analysis, visualization, and storytelling. Use when analyzing datasets, creating charts and maps, cleaning messy data, calculating statistics or building data-driven stories. Essential for reporters, newsrooms and researchers working with quantitative information.

Manage editorial workflows for newsrooms and publications. Use when tracking story assignments, managing deadlines, coordinating editorial calendars, or establishing handoff protocols between reporters and editors. Includes templates for assignment tracking, editorial calendars, and workflow documen

Structured workflow for fact-checking claims in journalism. Use when verifying statements for publication, rating claims for fact-check articles, or building pre-publication verification processes. Includes claim extraction, evidence gathering, rating scales, and correction protocols.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.

Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.

Transcription workflows, recording management, and quote extraction for journalists. Use when processing audio/video recordings, generating transcripts with timestamps, extracting quotes for fact-checking, or building source-and-recording databases. For interview question design and pre-interview pr

Email newsletter workflows for journalists and researchers. Use when creating, managing, or optimizing email newsletters, building subscriber lists, designing email templates, analyzing engagement metrics, or planning newsletter content calendars. For independent journalists, academic communicators,

Enforce AP Style and newsroom conventions for journalism writing. Use when writing news articles, editing drafts, creating headlines, or converting notes into publishable copy. Ensures professional standards for attribution, numbers, dates, and formatting.

Use when preparing photos or images for a news wire, publication, photo CMS, or archive — embedding caption, byline, credit, alt text, keywords, copyright or Creative Commons license, AI/synthetic source labeling, and location into a file's IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata, batch-tagging a folder of pre

Social media monitoring, narrative tracking, and open-source intelligence for journalists. Use when tracking viral content spread, analyzing coordinated campaigns, monitoring breaking news on social platforms, investigating accounts for authenticity, or detecting misinformation patterns. Essential f

Journalism source verification and fact-checking workflows. Use when verifying claims, checking source credibility, investigating social media accounts, reverse image searching, detecting AI-generated content, or building verification trails. For reporters, fact-checkers, and researchers working wit

Craft effective story pitches for different publication types and formats. Use when pitching to editors, preparing query letters, or developing story angles. Includes templates for daily news, features, investigations, op-eds, and freelance queries.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a proposal", "design a report", "make a one-pager", "build a PDF", "create a newsletter", "design slides", "make event materials", "design a flyer", or needs help with print-ready HTML documents. Provides brand configuration, CSS patterns for p

Generate CLAUDE.md project memory files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Use when setting up new journalism projects, onboarding collaborators, or documenting project-specific quirks. Includes templates for editorial tools, event websites, publications, research projec

Generate LESSONS.md retrospective files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Use when closing out journalism projects, investigations, events, or publications. Includes templates for research projects, event post-mortems, editorial tools, and publications.

Choose the correct CLAUDE.md or LESSONS.md template for journalism projects. Use when starting a new project, setting up documentation, or unsure which template category fits best. Provides decision trees and selection guidance for 6 journalism-focused template types.

Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows. Use when writing papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, conducting research, managing citations, preparing for peer review, choosing OA routes under Plan S / 2026 OSTP Nelson Memo, posting preprints, working with pe

Legal methods for accessing paywalled and geo-blocked content. Use when researching behind paywalls, accessing academic papers, bypassing geographic restrictions, or finding open access alternatives. Covers Unpaywall, library databases, VPNs, and ethical access strategies for journalists and researc

Digital archiving workflows with AI enrichment, entity extraction, and knowledge graph construction. Use when building content archives, implementing AI-powered categorization, extracting entities and relationships, or integrating multiple data sources. Covers patterns from the Jay Rosen Digital Arc

Use when suggesting APIs for a project, looking for free data sources, building weekend projects that need external data, or when the user needs weather, news, finance, sports, ML, or entertainment data without paid subscriptions

Web page monitoring, change detection, and availability tracking. Use when tracking content changes, detecting when pages go down, monitoring for updates, preserving content before deletion, or generating feeds for pages without RSS. Covers Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, and self-hosted monito

Web page archiving and retrieval from cached/deleted sources. Use when accessing unavailable pages, preserving web content, creating legal evidence archives, or building redundant archival workflows. Covers Wayback Machine, Archive.today, ArchiveBox, and evidence preservation tools.

API security hardening patterns. Use when implementing rate limiting, input validation, CORS configuration, API key management, request throttling, or protecting endpoints from abuse. Covers defense-in-depth strategies for REST APIs with practical implementations for Express, FastAPI, and serverless

Secure authentication implementation patterns. Use when implementing user login, registration, password reset, session management, JWT authentication, OAuth, MFA, or passkeys. Provides production-ready patterns aligned with NIST SP 800-63B-4, OWASP 2026 cheat sheets, OAuth 2.1, and WebAuthn L3, with

Pre-deployment security audit for web applications, organized by OWASP Top 10:2025 categories. Use when reviewing code before shipping, auditing an existing application, or when users mention "security review," "ready to deploy," "going to production," or express concern about vulnerabilities. Cover

Configure install-time cooldowns for npm/bun (minimum release age) and run a sandboxed pre-install scan when the cooldown has to be bypassed. Use when the user asks about supply-chain attacks, npm/bun security, "minimum release age", a "cooldown" for installs, hardening against Shai-Hulud-class worm

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

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Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

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Use when you have a written implementation plan to execute in a separate session with review checkpoints

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Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work

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Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not performative agreement or blind implementation

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Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements

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Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

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Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes

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Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

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Use when starting feature work that needs isolation from current workspace or before executing implementation plans - ensures an isolated workspace exists via native tools or git worktree fallback

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Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring Skill tool invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, before committing or creating PRs - requires running verification commands and confirming output before making any success claims; evidence before assertions always

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Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

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Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

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This skill should be used when the user asks to "build a dashboard", "create a video analysis dashboard", "generate content analysis", "run topic analysis on transcripts", "analyze sentiment", "compare cross-platform messaging", or needs to aggregate transcript and frame data into an interactive web

This skill should be used when the user asks to "download videos", "scrape videos from social media", "pull videos from Twitter/TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/Facebook", "download someone's social media videos", or needs to collect video content from public social media accounts for analysis.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "extract frames", "analyze video frames", "get screenshots from videos", "run vision analysis on videos", "analyze on-screen text in videos", "create frame grids", or needs to extract and visually analyze frames from downloaded video files.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "transcribe videos", "transcribe audio", "run Whisper on videos", "generate transcripts", "extract text from video audio", or needs batch audio transcription of downloaded video files with a re-runnable provenance record.

Validates and structures lesson candidates before persisting to lessons.json

Evolve skill files by integrating validated lessons from real usage

Initialize .autocontext/ in the current project for knowledge persistence

Run the altimate-code dbt/SQL PR reviewer on the current diff, PR, or commit and present the signed verdict verbatim.

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Set up both AWS DevOps Agent and AWS Security Agent connections

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Show the status of the current Vercel project — recent deployments, linked project info, and environment overview.

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Create event materials (flyers, posters, signage) with your organization's branding

Create an HTML email newsletter with your organization's branding

Create a single-page fact sheet or program overview

Launch interactive preview for document editing

Create a multi-page funding proposal with your organization's branding

Create a program report or annual report with your organization's branding

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Create HTML presentation slides with your organization's branding

Check for updates and install the latest version

Sandboxed pre-install scan + cooldown bypass for an urgent npm/bun install. Use when a recent package version must be installed despite the global supply-chain cooldown — for example a published CVE patch, a dependency that just shipped, or any case where waiting the full cooldown is not acceptable.

Generate a visual HTML diff review — before/after architecture comparison with code review analysis

Verify the factual accuracy of a document against the actual codebase, correct inaccuracies in place

Generate a stunning magazine-quality slide deck as a self-contained HTML page

Generate a visual HTML implementation plan — detailed feature specification with state machines, code snippets, and edge cases

Generate a beautiful standalone HTML diagram and open it in the browser

Generate a visual HTML plan review — current codebase state vs. proposed implementation plan

Generate a visual HTML project recap — rebuild mental model of a project's current state, recent decisions, and cognitive debt hotspots

Deploy a generated visual-explainer HTML page and return a live Vercel URL