Verify Feature
Verify a code change actually works by building/running the app and observing it at its real surface (CLI, API, UI, library, agent), capturing runtime evidence rather than trusting tests. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user has changed code and wants to know it works, is about to merge/push and wants confidence, says "did this actually work", "verify this works", "prove it works", "conf…
Journey Mapping
Build a customer journey map or experience map and storyboard the key moments: persona and scenario, the stages a user moves through, and per stage their actions, thoughts, emotions, touchpoints, and pain points, ending in prioritized opportunities. Use when someone asks for a journey map, experience map, user journey, service blueprint, 'map the flow', 'where do users drop off', 'storyboard this…
Launch Strategy
When the user wants to plan a product launch, feature announcement, or release strategy. Use when someone mentions 'launch,' 'Product Hunt,' 'feature release,' 'go-to-market,' 'beta launch,' 'early access,' 'waitlist,' or 'launch checklist.
Competitive Analysis
Use when researching competitors and building interactive battlecards.
Design Iteration
Improve design mockups from critique (design-review, user studies, a multi-perspective council, a UI lint pass, or raw notes): triage keep/change/kill, produce a new version with a per-change rationale trail so the next test can measure improvement. If no critique exists yet, runs the full test-iterate-test loop (review + studies + lint) around the mockup. Reaches for a design system if one exist…
Dogfood
Use when asked to dogfood, QA, exploratory test, find issues, bug hunt, or review the quality of a web application. Produces a structured report with full reproduction evidence (screenshots, repro steps) so findings can be handed directly to responsible teams.
Quick Brainstorm
Lightweight brainstorm — 5 versions with estimated probabilities + assumption surfacing. Use when: brainstorm this, give me options, what are my options, quick brainstorm, /quick-brainstorm.
Pricing Strategy
When the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, monetization strategy, or regional/international pricing. Use when someone mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'value metric,' 'willingness to pay,' 'how much should I charge,' 'annual vs monthly,' 'should I offer a free plan,' 'regional pricing,' 'PPP pricing,' 'price floor,' 'price increase,' 'raise prices,'…
Strategy Kernel
Pressure-test or write a real strategy using Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy kernel (diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action) and detect the four tells of bad strategy (fluff, failure to face the challenge, goals-mistaken-for-strategy, mush). Use when someone asks for a strategy, a strategic plan, an OKR/vision review, 'what's our strategy for X', when a plan reads like a wish list…
Another Perspective
Run a multi-perspective council analysis on any question, plan, or decision. Spawns parallel cognitive perspectives (Architect, Skeptic, Pragmatist, Innovator, User Advocate, Temporal Analyst) and synthesizes via structured dialectical analysis. Use when: making a significant decision, stress-testing a plan, red-teaming an idea, exploring alternatives, or needing a "devil's advocate" on something…
Architecture Diagram
Generate dark-themed SVG diagrams of software systems and cloud infrastructure as standalone HTML files with inline SVG graphics. Semantic component colors (cyan=frontend, emerald=backend, violet=database, amber=cloud/AWS, rose=security, orange=message bus), JetBrains Mono font, grid background. Best suited for software architecture, cloud/VPC topology, microservice maps, service-mesh diagrams, d…
Design Review
Run a product design review on a feature or site. Answers 13 design questions, runs Nielsen Norman heuristic evaluation, builds before/after visual fixes, and deploys a shareable report to Surge. Use when asked to review a design, audit UX, do a design review, or analyze a product's user experience.
Pitch Creator
Create a product pitch/proposal to improve a step in the growth funnel (acquisition to activation to engagement to retention to monetization to referral). Use when asked to write a pitch, proposal, or business case for a feature, growth experiment, or UX change, when someone says 'pitch this', 'make the case for X', 'proposal for', 'should we build', or wants to justify a change by its funnel-met…
Synthetic Userstudies
Run synthetic user research sessions natively — no backend required. The agent plays an AI-generated persona and simulates a user interview based on the 4 Ps framework (Persona, Problem, Promise, Product). Use when a user wants to run a user research session, interview a synthetic persona, validate product ideas, generate user personas, or simulate customer conversations. Triggers on "user resear…