Patterns for building resilient API clients and real-time connections with retry logic, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation. Use when building production systems that need to handle failures. Triggers on retry logic, circuit breaker, connection resilience, exponential backoff, API client, fault tolerance.

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

Consolidate and refine extracted skills and docs from multiple projects into unified, project-agnostic patterns. Use when staging folder has content from multiple projects ready for consolidation. Triggers on "refine staged content", "consolidate staged skills", "process staging", "merge extracted patterns".

Update an existing skill with improvements

Move a deprecated skill to archive

Move a skill from staging to active

Automatically read relevant context before major actions. Loads TODO.md, roadmap.md, handoffs, task plans, and other project context files so the AI operates with full situational awareness. Use when starting a task, implementing a feature, refactoring, debugging, planning, or resuming a session.

Meta-skill that orchestrates comprehensive testing across a project by coordinating testing-patterns, e2e-testing, and testing agents. Use when setting up testing for a new project, improving coverage for an existing project, establishing a testing strategy, or verifying quality before a release.

Check a skill against quality criteria

When the user wants help creating, scheduling, or optimizing social media content for LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or other platforms. Also use when the user mentions "LinkedIn post," "Twitter thread," "social media," "content calendar," "social scheduling," "engagement," or "viral content." Covers content creation, repurposing, and platform-specific strategies.

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. 57 rules across 8 categories for writing, reviewing, and refactoring React code.

Patterns for skeleton loaders, shimmer effects, and loading states that match design system aesthetics. Covers skeleton components, shimmer animations, and progressive loading. Use when building polished loading experiences. Triggers on skeleton, loading state, shimmer, placeholder, loading animation.

Safe, zero-downtime database migration strategies — schema evolution, rollback planning, data migration, tooling, and anti-pattern avoidance for production systems. Use when planning schema changes, writing migrations, or reviewing migration safety.

Horizontally-scalable WebSocket hub pattern with lazy Redis subscriptions, connection registry, and graceful shutdown. Use when building real-time WebSocket servers that scale across multiple instances. Triggers on WebSocket hub, WebSocket scaling, connection registry, Redis WebSocket, real-time gateway, horizontal scaling.

API versioning strategies — URL path, header, query param, content negotiation — with breaking change classification, deprecation timelines, migration patterns, and multi-version support. Use when evolving APIs, planning breaking changes, or managing version lifecycles.

Production-tested setup for Tailwind v4 with shadcn/ui. Prevents 8 documented errors through a mandatory four-step architecture.

Write effective professional messages for software teams. Use when drafting emails, Slack/Teams messages, meeting agendas, status updates, or translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences. Triggers on email, slack, teams, message, meeting agenda, status update, stakeholder communication, escalation, jargon translation.

Naming conventions for types, functions, files, and resources. Use when creating new code or reviewing naming patterns. Emphasizes type-driven development.

Dual-stream event publishing combining Kafka for durability with Redis Pub/Sub for real-time delivery. Use when building event-driven systems needing both guaranteed delivery and low-latency updates. Triggers on dual stream, event publishing, Kafka Redis, real-time events, pub/sub, streaming architecture.

When the user wants to optimize post-signup onboarding, user activation, first-run experience, or time-to-value. Also use when the user mentions "onboarding flow," "activation rate," "user activation," "first-run experience," "empty states," "onboarding checklist," "aha moment," or "new user experience." For signup/registration optimization, see signup-flow-cro.