Retro
Run a structured retrospective for a sprint, launch, or project. Generates actionable insights from what worked and what didn't. Use when user says "run a retro", "retrospective", "post-mortem", "what went wrong", "lessons learned", "sprint review", or needs to reflect on past work and improve.
Interview
Generate user interview scripts, analyze interview transcripts, and extract actionable product insights. Use when user says "create interview guide", "analyze interview", "user research", "interview questions", "research plan", or needs to understand user needs through qualitative research.
Metrics
Define success metrics and KPIs for a feature or product. Identifies leading and lagging indicators with instrumentation guidance. Use when user says "define metrics", "KPIs", "how do we measure success", "success criteria", "what should we track", "instrumentation plan", or needs to quantify outcomes.
Distill
Strip designs to their essence by removing unnecessary complexity. Use when user says "simplify this", "too complex", "strip it down", "too cluttered", "reduce complexity", "too much going on", or wants a cleaner, more focused design.
Onboard
Design or improve onboarding flows, empty states, and first-time user experiences. Use when user says "add onboarding", "empty state", "first-time experience", "welcome flow", "getting started", "new user experience", or needs to help users understand and adopt the product.
Spec
Write a technical specification or acceptance criteria from a PRD or user stories. Bridges product requirements to engineering implementation. Use when user says "write a tech spec", "technical specification", "acceptance criteria", "engineering spec", "how should we build this", or needs to translate product requirements into technical plans.
Design Brief
One-time setup that gathers design context for your project and saves it to your config file. Run once to establish persistent design guidelines.
Db Schema
Design a database schema from product requirements. Postgres-first with Supabase awareness. Use when user says "design the database", "create schema", "data model", "database structure", "what tables do I need", "schema design", or needs to translate requirements into a relational schema.
Harden
Improve interface resilience through better error handling, i18n support, text overflow handling, and edge case management. Use when user says "harden this", "handle edge cases", "error handling", "i18n support", "make it robust", "production-ready", or when an interface needs to handle real-world conditions.
Optimize
Improve interface performance across loading speed, rendering, animations, images, and bundle size. Use when user says "make it faster", "improve performance", "slow loading", "optimize this", "reduce bundle size", "performance issues", or when an interface feels sluggish.
Jtbd
Apply Jobs to Be Done thinking to product decisions. Use when defining what to build, who it's for, why they'd switch, or how to prioritize. Works for new products, feature prioritization, competitive positioning, and growth strategy.
Vercel React Best Practices
React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.
Test Write
Generate tests for existing code including unit, integration, and e2e tests. Uses Vitest and Testing Library by default. Use when user says "write tests", "add tests", "test this function", "test this component", "need test coverage", or wants tests written for existing code.
Animate
Review a feature and enhance it with purposeful animations, micro-interactions, and motion effects that improve usability and delight. Use when user says "add animations", "add motion", "make it move", "add micro-interactions", "add transitions", or wants to enhance a static interface with motion.
Api Design
RESTful API design conventions covering URL structure, HTTP methods, error formats, pagination, versioning, and authentication patterns. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing APIs. Triggers on API design, endpoint structure, REST conventions, or backend architecture tasks.
Clarify
Improve unclear UX copy, error messages, microcopy, labels, and instructions. Use when user says "fix the copy", "unclear text", "confusing labels", "improve error messages", "better microcopy", "rewrite this text", or when interface text is hard to understand.
Code Review
Perform a structured code review covering correctness, readability, performance, security, and maintainability. Use when user says "review this code", "code review", "check this PR", "review my changes", "is this code good", or needs expert feedback on code quality.
Vercel Deploy
Deploy a project to Vercel with proper configuration, environment variables, domains, and preview deployments. Use when user says "deploy to Vercel", "set up Vercel", "configure deployment", "add a domain", "preview deploys", or needs to ship a project to production.
Delight
Add moments of joy, personality, and unexpected touches that make interfaces memorable and enjoyable to use. Use when user says "add delight", "make it fun", "add personality", "too sterile", "add charm", "add polish", or wants to make a functional interface more enjoyable.
Extract
Extract and consolidate reusable components, design tokens, and patterns into your design system. Use when user says "extract components", "create a design system", "make this reusable", "componentize this", "build a component library", or wants to consolidate patterns into a shared library.
Deploy Check
Pre-deployment checklist covering migrations, environment variables, feature flags, rollback plan, and smoke tests. Use when user says "ready to deploy", "deployment checklist", "pre-deploy check", "can I ship this", "deploy review", or needs to verify everything is ready before pushing to production.
Design Foundations
Product design framework based on the five planes model. Use this skill when designing or evaluating products end-to-end — from strategy through surface. Provides structured thinking for design decisions at every level of abstraction.
Scope
Cut scope ruthlessly to identify MVP, must-haves, nice-to-haves, and out-of-scope items for a given timeline. Use when user says "cut scope", "what's the MVP", "scope this down", "we have X weeks", "reduce scope", "what can we cut", or needs to ship something meaningful within constraints.
Prioritize
Score and rank features or initiatives using proven frameworks like RICE, opportunity scoring, or impact/effort. Use when user says "prioritize features", "what should we build first", "rank these ideas", "RICE scoring", "priority matrix", "stack rank", or needs to make data-informed build decisions.
Security Scan
Check code for OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities including injection, XSS, auth issues, and secrets exposure. Use when user says "security audit", "check for vulnerabilities", "security scan", "is this secure", "OWASP check", "find security issues", or needs to verify code security before shipping.
Audit
Perform comprehensive audit of interface quality across accessibility, performance, theming, and responsive design. Use when user says "audit this", "check accessibility", "review quality", "find issues", "run diagnostics", "a11y check", or wants a detailed quality report with severity ratings.
Test Plan
Write a test strategy covering what to test, coverage targets, and testing pyramid distribution. Use when user says "test plan", "testing strategy", "what should I test", "test coverage", "how to test this", or needs to plan testing for a feature or project before writing tests.
Normalize
Normalize design to match your design system and ensure consistency. Use when user says "make it consistent", "match the design system", "align with our standards", "normalize the design", "doesn't match our style", or when a feature diverges from established patterns.
Colorize
Add strategic color to features that are too monochromatic or lack visual interest. Use when user says "add color", "too gray", "too monochrome", "needs color", "more colorful", or wants to add visual warmth to a neutral interface.
Deps Audit
Audit project dependencies for outdated packages, known vulnerabilities, unused imports, and bloated bundles. Use when user says "audit dependencies", "check for vulnerabilities", "update packages", "unused dependencies", "bundle size", "dependency cleanup", or needs to maintain healthy dependencies.
Prd
Write a product requirements document from context. Covers problem statement, goals, scope, user stories, success criteria, and edge cases. Use when user says "write a PRD", "product requirements", "requirements doc", "spec this feature", "document requirements", or needs to define what to build and why.
Competitive
Structured competitive analysis with feature comparison, positioning maps, and gap identification. Use when user says "competitive analysis", "analyze competitors", "compare products", "market landscape", "who are our competitors", or needs to understand competitive positioning.
Frontend Design
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
Lean Canvas
One-page business model framework for rapid validation and strategic clarity. Use when user needs to validate a business idea, map out a product strategy, or evaluate product-market fit. Works for new products, pivots, and feature-level business cases. Trigger phrases include "lean canvas", "business model", "one-page plan", "validate this idea", "product-market fit", "business case".
Adapt
Adapt designs to work across different screen sizes, devices, contexts, or platforms. Use when user says "make it responsive", "mobile version", "adapt for tablet", "print layout", "support different screen sizes", "responsive design", or needs a design to work in a new context.
Gtm
Create a go-to-market plan with positioning, messaging, channels, and launch checklist. Use when user says "go-to-market plan", "GTM strategy", "launch plan", "how do we launch this", "marketing plan", "launch checklist", or needs to plan how a product or feature reaches users.
Stories
Write job stories or user stories from product requirements. Uses JTBD format "When [situation], I want to [job], so I can [need]". Use when user says "write user stories", "write job stories", "break this into stories", "story mapping", "acceptance criteria", or needs to translate requirements into implementable units.
Critique
Evaluate design effectiveness from a UX perspective. Use when user says "critique this design", "review the UX", "give design feedback", "is this good design", "design review", "evaluate this layout", or wants expert evaluative feedback on visual hierarchy, information architecture, and emotional resonance.
Polish
Final quality pass before shipping. Fixes alignment, spacing, consistency, and detail issues. Use when user says "polish this", "final pass", "ready to ship", "fix the details", "pixel-perfect", "almost done", or when a feature is functionally complete but needs refinement.
Bolder
Amplify safe or boring designs to make them more visually interesting and stimulating. Use when user says "make it bolder", "too boring", "needs more impact", "more visual interest", "too plain", "too safe", or wants to increase visual energy.
Agent Browser
Browser automation CLI for AI agents. Use when the user needs to interact with websites, including navigating pages, filling forms, clicking buttons, taking screenshots, extracting data, testing web apps, or automating any browser task. Triggers include requests to "open a website", "fill out a form", "click a button", "take a screenshot", "scrape data from a page", "test this web app", "login to…
Nextjs Init
Scaffold a Next.js project with App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and opinionated defaults. Use when user says "start a new project", "scaffold Next.js", "init app", "new Next.js app", "create project", or needs a production-ready project foundation.
Quieter
Tone down overly bold or visually aggressive designs. Use when user says "too loud", "too bold", "tone it down", "more subtle", "less intense", "too aggressive", "too busy", or wants to reduce visual intensity while maintaining quality.
Monitor
Set up monitoring with error tracking, alerts, dashboards, and SLOs for production applications. Use when user says "set up monitoring", "add error tracking", "create alerts", "observability", "SLOs", "health checks", "how do I know if it's broken", or needs production visibility.
Env Config
Set up environment variables across local, staging, and production with validation and documentation. Use when user says "set up env vars", "environment variables", "configure secrets", ".env setup", "env validation", or needs to manage configuration across environments.
Typescript Patterns
TypeScript best practices and advanced type design patterns. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring TypeScript code. Covers type narrowing, generics, utility types, discriminated unions, error handling, and module patterns. Triggers on TypeScript, type safety, or type design tasks.
Supabase Setup
Initialize Supabase for a project including database schema, Row Level Security policies, authentication, storage buckets, and edge functions. Use when user says "set up Supabase", "add Supabase", "configure database", "add auth", "Supabase init", "RLS policies", or needs a backend with Supabase.