Run Benchmark
Run skill quality benchmarks from specs/benchmarks/ definitions and write pass@k reports. Use before and after evolve-skill to prove quality changes are improvements, not regressions.
Evolve Skill
Benchmark-gated skill evolution — consume bigpowers-benchmark report, propose plan-work change, edit skill via craft-skill, re-run benchmark, record ADR. Use when a skill underperforms on benchmark or stocktake finds systemic gap.
Audit Plan
Evaluate an incoming project plan against bigpowers principles and conventions, surface gaps, and produce a READY/NOT READY verdict before engagement begins. Use when a new project arrives, when adapting a foreign plan, or before running seed-conventions on an unfamiliar codebase.
Kickoff Branch
Create a git worktree and feature branch, then verify a clean test baseline before any code is written. Use when starting a new feature or task, when user wants to work in isolation from main, or mentions \"start a branch\" or \"new worktree\".
Hook Commits
Set up pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or add commit-time formatting/typechecking/testing.
Commit Message
Reviews working-tree changes, then drafts a Conventional Commits title/body and states the semantic-release version bump a single such commit would imply. Also notes which defensive-code categories were touched. Use when the user wants to commit recent work, prepare a Conventional Commits message, or asks for semantic-release / semver-consistent messaging before git commit.
Design Interface
Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel sub-agents, then compare trade-offs. Based on \"Design It Twice\" from A Philosophy of Software Design. Use when user wants to design an API, explore interface options, compare module shapes, or mentions \"design it twice\".
Publish Package
\"Package registry publishing for npm, crates.io, PyPI, and Homebrew. Verifies prerequisites, runs the publish command, confirms success, and surfaces actionable error hints on failure.\
Define Success
Convert an imperative task statement into explicit \"step → verify: <cmd>\" pairs before implementation begins. Use before plan-work when success criteria are unclear, when a task lacks verifiable checkpoints, or when user says \"how will we know this is done?\".
Plan Release
\"RELEASE-INDEX BUILDER — Sequence elaborated epics into specs/release-plan.yaml with WSJF ordering and BCP baselines. NOT a planning-spine substitute: it does not scope work (scope-work) or write story tasks (plan-work). Use after elaborate-spec when the user wants a versioned release index of epics.\
Plan Refactor
Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then save it as specs/REFACTOR_LATEST.md. Use when user wants to plan a refactor, create a refactoring RFC, or break a refactor into safe incremental steps.
Guard Git
Block dangerous git commands (push, force push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, checkout/restore .) and enforce Conventional Commits & Branch Protection before an AI agent runs them. Installs hook scripts for Claude Code, Cursor, Cursor CLI, and Gemini CLI; documents Google Antigravity Terminal deny lists. Use when the user wants git safety hooks, to block git push or destructive git in agents, o…
Define Language
Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation, flagging ambiguities and proposing canonical terms. Saves to specs/UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE_LATEST.md. Use when user wants to define domain terms, build a glossary, harden terminology, create a ubiquitous language, or mentions \"domain model\" or \"DDD\".
Change Request
Add a new requirement or reorder epics by WSJF against specs/release-plan.yaml and epic capsule directories. Modes Add and Reorder. Use when a new requirement arrives mid-release or the plan needs prioritization.
Grill With Docs
Doc-grounded variant of grill-me — stress-tests plan assumptions by fetching and citing real library or API documentation. Every challenge must cite a real URL. Use when the plan depends on a specific library or external API.
Deploy
\"Build → verify artifact → deploy → wait → smoke deployment pipeline. Platform-agnostic (MCP or CLI), with configurable timeout, retry with exponential backoff, and integrated health-check. The deploy half of CI/CD: run after build to push to production.\
Align Grid
\"Build editorial/magazine/report webpages on a GENUINE Müller-Brockmann modular grid (International Typographic Style) — not a decorative one. Encodes the discipline (columns + modules + baseline, grotesque type, flush-left, restrained black/white/red palette) AND the hard-won front-end engineering to make the grid real, visible, and verified: one CSS-variable source of truth, an interactive gri…
Assess Impact
Analyze the blast radius of a proposed change before any code is written. Maps dependents, affected stories, and test coverage. Produces specs/IMPACT_LATEST.md. Use before plan-work on any non-trivial change, when touching a shared module, or when the user asks \"what does this break?\".
Run Planning
\"DISCOVER-PHASE ADVANCER — Drive the discover-phase checklist (specs/planning-status.yaml) through survey-context → scope-work → research-first → elaborate-spec → plan-release → slice-tasks. NOT a duplicate of plan-work or the planning spine; it orchestrates the pre-coding discover phase only.\
Delegate Task
Delegate one complex task to a single subagent, review its work in two stages before merging back. Sequential — one agent at a time, with oversight. Use when a task is complex and requires careful review before the result is accepted. Distinct from dispatch-agents (no parallelism here; reviewer sees full diff before proceeding).
Migrate Spec
Detect GSD, spec-kit, or BMAD spec artifacts and transform them into bigpowers YAML layout (state.yaml, release-plan.yaml, epics/, requirements/, plans/, ADRs). Use when migrating foreign spec docs.
Execute Plan
Batch-execute tasks from the active epic capsule sequentially, with a human checkpoint after each step. Use when user has an approved plan and wants step-by-step oversight.
Elaborate Spec
Refine a rough idea into a clear, detailed specification through dialogue. Does not produce code. Use when user has a vague idea, wants to think through a feature before planning, or needs to turn \"I want X\" into a concrete spec.
Request Review
Dispatch a fresh reviewer agent with a clean context to critique the code after audit-code passes. The reviewer has no shared state with the coding agent and gives a genuine second opinion. Use after audit-code passes, before committing, or when user wants an independent code review.
Diagnose Root
Run 4-phase root cause analysis — reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, verify. Use when a bug is confirmed but root cause is unclear, after investigate-bug, or when user mentions root cause analysis.
Deepen Architecture
Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md and the decisions in specs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.
Audit Code
Self-review checklist for the coding agent to run before dispatching a reviewer. Checks CONVENTIONS.md compliance, Boy Scout Rule, test coverage, types, and SOLID. Produces a pass/fail checklist. Use before request-review, before committing, or when user asks for a code quality check.
Research First
Look-before-build — search registries, repo, existing skills, and web for prior art before implementing. Appends Prior Art to the spec. Use after survey-context and before elaborate-spec, when adding dependencies, or when the task may already be solved.
Investigate Bug
Investigate a bug or issue by exploring the codebase to find root cause, then write a TDD-based fix plan to specs/bugs/BUG-*.md. Use when user reports a bug, wants to investigate a problem, mentions \"triage\", or wants to plan a fix.
Release Branch
Make the merge/PR/keep/discard decision for a feature branch, verify coverage gates, create the PR with gh, and clean up the worktree. Use when a feature is done and ready to ship, or when user says \"release\", \"merge\", or \"open a PR\".
Compose Workflow
Chain multiple bigpowers skills into a custom workflow recipe saved in specs/. Use when a project repeats a non-standard skill sequence, or user wants a documented playbook beyond orchestrate-project modes.
Quick Fix
\"Streamlined fast-path for trivial data-only fixes — no TDD, no branching ceremony. Collapses 6 skills into 2 for changes that are purely data with no logic risk. Aborts with fallback to investigate-bug if guardrails trigger.\
Respond Review
Act on a reviewer agent's feedback systematically — categorize findings, apply fixes, verify tests still pass. Use after request-review returns a report, or when user wants to work through code review findings.
Fix Bug
Bug fix orchestrator — active_flow fix_bug; reads specs/bugs/BUG-*.md; chains investigate-bug, develop-tdd, validate-fix. Use when user reports a defect.
Extract Design
\"Extract a Google DESIGN.md file from an HTML prototype (claude.ai/design or any styled page) using Puppeteer, producing machine-readable tokens and AI-generated prose. Use when the user has an HTML prototype and wants a DESIGN.md to anchor their project's visual identity, or when seed-conventions has just scaffolded a new project.\
Orchestrate Project
Meta-skill that enforces the 6-phase core loop (discover → elaborate → plan → build → verify → release) with hard gates. Use to coordinate multi-phase projects with guaranteed quality checkpoints. One-time command for the entire project lifecycle.
Grill Me
Interactive assumption-surfacing Q&A that stress-tests a plan through relentless questioning until every decision is resolved. Use when user wants to challenge a plan, validate decisions from conversation/context, or mentions \"grill me\". For doc-grounded variant, use grill-with-docs.
Model Domain
Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md and specs/adr/ inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's domain language and documented decisions.
Reset Baseline
Restore the project to a known clean state between agent runs or experiments. Use between benchmark runs, after a failed spike, or when user wants a clean working tree.
Enforce First
Apply the F.I.R.S.T test quality rubric (Fast, Independent, Repeatable, Self-Validating, Timely) to a test suite or individual tests. Use when develop-tdd is writing tests, when test quality needs to be checked, or when user mentions F.I.R.S.T or \"test quality\".
Organize Workspace
Scans the active workspace for disposable artifacts—logs, caches, stale build output, and stray draft markdown—and proposes consolidation of scattered assets. Produces a reviewable list, asks for explicit confirmation before any delete or move, and optionally revises .gitignore. Use when the user says \"clean my room\", \"organize workspace\", \"workspace cleanup\", \"remove temp files\", \"organ…
Map Codebase
\"Derives the tech-stack doc from scratch by scanning the codebase — analyzes stack, architecture, and gray areas (error handling, API shapes) and persists findings into specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md. Run when the tech doc doesn't exist yet; use survey-context to consume it once it does.\
Develop Tdd
Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop using vertical slices. Use for features (epic tasks) or bugs (specs/bugs/BUG-*.md).
Run Evals
Eval-Driven Development — define capability and regression evals before building; code graders use verify commands, model graders use explicit rubrics; log pass@k. Use before develop-tdd on new features, or when measuring agent capability over runs.
Edit Document
Edit and improve documents by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose. Use when user wants to edit, revise, restructure, or improve any document — including specs/ files, articles, READMEs, or technical writing.
Inspect Quality
Interactive QA session where user reports bugs or issues conversationally, and the agent logs them to specs/bugs/registry.yaml with a structured audit schema. Explores the codebase in the background for context and domain language. Use when user wants to report bugs, do QA, or mentions \"QA session\".
Craft Skill
Create new bigpowers skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill for the bigpowers lifecycle.
Build Epic
Eight-step epic build cycle — reads state.yaml, execution-status.yaml, and one epic capsule; updates status via bp-yaml-set or direct edit. Resume mode runs one step per invocation. Use instead of ad-hoc execute-plan for release work.
Dispatch Agents
Dispatch multiple subagents in parallel on independent tasks. No waiting between them — all run concurrently. Use when tasks are truly decoupled and speed matters. Distinct from delegate-task (concurrent here, no inter-task review gate).
Plan Work
\"PLANNING SPINE STEP 3 of 3 — Plan the work: write detailed implementation tasks into the active epic capsule (specs/epics/eNN-slug/). Produces countable-story-format .md specs and runnable -tasks.yaml files. Use after slice-tasks (step 2). Not a substitute for scope-work (step 1) or slice-tasks (step 2).\