H4tcher Capability Add
Create a new agent, skill, rule, command, hook, adapter, or pipeline module — runs duplication block, dispatches parallel sub-agents (T2/T3), delegates body authoring to the matching author skill, runs full gates, stops before commit.
Hatch3r Issue Workflow
Guides the 8-step agentic development workflow for issues/work items. Covers parsing issues, loading skills, reading specs, planning, implementing, testing, opening PRs/MRs, and addressing review. Use when working on any issue/work item or when the user mentions an issue number.
Hatch3r Adhoc Orchestrate
Scaffolds the ad-hoc Tier >= 2 orchestration protocol -- Per-Turn Pipeline-State Header, implementer delegation plan, End-of-Turn Delegation Attestation. Use for a maintainer multi-phase task with no registered command to avoid bypass mode.
Hatch3r Browser Verify
Opt-in browser verification skill — Playwright-driven visual checks, axe-core a11y audits, screenshot regression diffs, and E2E test scaffolds. Default ON for UI-affecting agent invocations; disable globally via hatch3r config browser=off.
Hatch3r Board Groom
Ongoing backlog refinement for existing board items. Re-prioritize, reclassify, re-scope, archive stale items, decompose oversized issues, merge duplicates, refresh dependencies, and remediate board health findings.
Hatch3r Cli Jq
JSON processor and query language. Use when shaping JSON streams via jq-syntax filters and select expressions; invoke `jq`. Reads stdin and emits stdout; integrates seamlessly into shell pipelines.
Hatch3r Cli Ripgrep
Fast recursive grep with sane defaults and gitignore awareness. Use when regex content searches across large source trees with gitignore filtering; invoke `rg`. Outputs newline-separated hit records; bound results with `-c` or `--max-count`.
Hatch3r Ai Feature
Eval-driven development workflow for shipping AI features — write eval before prompt, measure, iterate, ship with caching + cost telemetry + model fallback + hallucination SLI
H4tcher Capability Refactor
Rename, split, merge, or restructure an existing canonical artifact with cross-reference scrubbing and an explicit rename-map deliverable.
H4tcher Release Prep
Prepare a hatch3r release — version bump, changelog completeness + sync, repo + website docs currency, quality gates, adapter output verification, and release-notes reconciliation with CI.
Hatch3r Logical Refactor
Workflow for changing behavior or logic flow without adding new features or overhauling UI. Use when modifying business logic, data flows, behavioral rules, or working on logical refactor issues.
H4tcher Adapter Author
Create or modify a platform adapter with web research, implementation, testing, and D09 checklist verification.
Hatch3r Containerize
Containerizes an application through a repeatable workflow — multi-stage Dockerfile, non-root hardening, minimal base image, .dockerignore, healthcheck, local docker-compose, Kubernetes manifest basics, and an image-scan gate. Use when adding or hardening container artifacts.
Hatch3r Design System Detect
Detects existing design tokens, component library, and theming convention in a project before authoring new UI primitives — output a concise inventory for downstream implementers
Hatch3r Learn
Captures learnings from completed development sessions into reusable knowledge files for future consultation. Invoke manually, from board-pickup after PR merge, or with a specific issue number for targeted reflection.
Hatch3r Hooks
Define, edit, and manage event-driven hooks that activate agents on project events. Tool-agnostic — adapters translate hook definitions into tool-native configurations during `npx hatch3r sync`.
Hatch3r Handoff Prepare
Captures mid-work session state into a canonical handoff document at .hatch3r/handoffs/active/. Use when ending a session mid-work, switching tools, or after context-health Orange/Red.
Hatch3r Cli Gh
GitHub CLI — repos, issues, PRs, releases, gists. Use when drafting GitHub pull requests, issues, releases, gists, or workflow dispatches; invoke `gh`. Authenticates via the platform's native token mechanism (OAuth / PAT).
Hatch3r Enhancability Verify
Enhancability verification gate before commit/release — feature-flag adoption on behavior changes, config externalization, semver-versioned APIs, forward-compat headers, extension-point definition, startup config validation
Hatch3r Cli Fd
User-friendly find replacement, gitignore-aware. Use when locating filenames or directories by glob with parallel walking; invoke `fd`. Outputs newline-separated hit records; bound results with `-c` or `--max-count`.
H4tcher Docusaurus Generator
Maintainer skill — generate or refresh the hatch3r project documentation site (Docusaurus 3.x) from this repo's canonical corpus (governance/, agents/, skills/, rules/, commands/, hooks/, docs/). Use when a hatch3r maintainer asks to build, regenerate, or update the framework's own docs site. Analyzes the hatch3r repo structure, regenerates markdown into website/docs/, and previews the site.
Hatch3r Api Spec
Generates and validates OpenAPI specifications from codebase. Covers endpoint design, schema validation, and documentation generation.
H4tcher Content Author
Author or modify a canonical content artifact (agent, skill, rule, command, hook) with frontmatter, quality charter compliance, and duplication checking.
Hatch3r Customize
Creates and manages customization files for any hatch3r artifact type (agents, commands, rules, skills). Supports model overrides, description changes, scope overrides, enable/disable control, and project-specific markdown instructions.
Hatch3r Board Shared
Shared context and procedures for all board commands. Provides platform-agnostic board config, label taxonomy, branch conventions, sync enforcement, and tooling directives. Platform-specific details are in commands/board/shared-{platform}.md.
Hatch3r Handoff Resume
Loads and resumes a handoff document from .hatch3r/handoffs/active/. Validates schema, integrity, expiry, and git_ref drift before surfacing content as user-tier context.
Hatch3r Maintainability Verify
Maintainability verification gate before commit/release — jscpd duplication index, pattern reuse ratio, cyclomatic complexity, expand-contract migrations, API breaking-change discipline, ADR presence
Hatch3r Feedback
Captures user feedback on an agent recommendation or workflow outcome, classify it, sanitize it, and route it to the right destination — a local feedback record, a GitHub issue from the agent-recommendation-feedback template, or a learning. Use after an agent gives advice the user wants to rate, correct, or escalate.
Hatch3r Observability Verify
Verification gate before declaring an agent-produced service done — OTel span coverage on request path, structured-log + trace-id correlation, SLO definition, error-tracking integration, GenAI semconv on AI features
Hatch3r Incident Response
Handles production incidents with structured triage, mitigation, and post-mortem. Use when responding to production issues, outages, or security incidents.
Hatch3r Board Refresh
Regenerates the living board overview dashboard from current board state. Scans all open issues, computes health metrics, and updates the meta:board-overview issue.
Hatch3r Cli Fzf
Interactive fuzzy finder for TTY pickers. Use when ad-hoc interactive picker over piped stdin streams from another command; invoke `fzf`. Requires a TTY; degrade gracefully to non-interactive batch in CI.
Hatch3r Migration
Plans and executes migrations for databases, frameworks, and dependencies. Covers breaking change analysis, phased rollout, and rollback procedures.
Hatch3r Ci Pipeline
Designs and optimizes CI/CD pipelines. Covers stage design, test parallelization, artifact management, and pipeline performance.
Hatch3r Dep Audit
Audits and updates npm dependencies for security, freshness, and bundle impact. Use when auditing dependencies, responding to CVEs, or upgrading packages.
Hatch3r Bug Fix
Step-by-step bug fix workflow. Diagnose root cause, implement minimal fix, write regression test. Use when fixing bugs, working on bug report issues, or when the user mentions a bug.
Hatch3r Gh Agentic Workflows
Sets up CI/CD agentic workflows for continuous AI-powered repository automation (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI)
Hatch3r Pr Creation
Creates a pull request or merge request following project conventions including branch naming, PR/MR template, checklist, and rollout plan. Use when opening or preparing a PR/MR, or when the user asks to create a PR or MR.
Hatch3r Cost Tracking
Tracks token usage and estimate costs for agent sessions. Use when monitoring spend, approaching budget limits, or generating cost reports.
H4tcher Pr Resolve
Resolve PR comments on the hatch3r repo — invoke the canonical hatch3r-pr-resolve workflow, then apply hatch3r-specific quality gates (validate, rule parity, efficiency invariants, lean thresholds, anti-slop, inventory, pillar compliance) and stop before commit for human review.
H4tcher Capability Remove
Decommission a hatch3r artifact (agent, skill, rule, command, hook, adapter, pipeline module) after passing the D16.3 removal-threshold gate, drafting migration notes, and scrubbing every cross-reference.
H4tcher Capability Discover
Pre-flight read-only scan for a planned capability change — maps what exists, what would collide, and which pillar gap a new artifact would close.
Hatch3r Context Health
Monitors and maintains conversation context health during long sessions. Use when context may be degrading, after many turns, or when experiencing repeated errors.
Hatch3r Feature
End-to-end feature implementation workflow. Covers data model, domain logic, API, and UI as a vertical slice. Use when implementing new features or working on feature request issues.
Hatch3r Perf Audit
Profiles and optimizes application performance against defined budgets. Use when investigating performance issues, auditing performance budgets, or optimizing hot paths.
Hatch3r Board Init
Initializes a project board (GitHub Projects V2, Azure Boards, or GitLab Issue Boards) with hatch3r's label taxonomy, status fields, and board structure. Platform detected from hatch.json.
Hatch3r Architecture Review
Evaluates architectural decisions and produce ADRs following the project template. Use when making architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, or creating ADRs.
Hatch3r A11y Audit
Runs a WCAG AA accessibility audit with findings and fixes across 7 scan categories (keyboard, contrast, ARIA, reduced motion, screen reader, high contrast, automated axe). Use when auditing accessibility or verifying WCAG compliance.
Hatch3r Docs Writing
Authors technical documentation through a repeatable workflow — audience analysis, Diátaxis-mode selection, structure, draft, review, publish. Covers READMEs, ADRs, API docs, and runbooks. Use when writing or restructuring any project documentation.
Hatch3r Cli Toolbox
Category-indexed reference for 29 specialist CLI tools beyond the always-on five (ripgrep, jq, gh, fd, fzf). Use to pick the right tool for HTTP clients, ai-chat, structural-search, sed-style edits, data ops, browser automation, container ops, and more.