Study Repos First
The Lossless Group's discipline of pinning a curated collection of upstream repos (a "study") around a domain question *before* designing or coding in that domain. Use when starting work that touches conventions, file formats, schemas, protocols, or any decision where prior art exists; when the user mentions "study", "studies/", "reference collection", "prior art", "pin a submodule", or names of…
Surrealdb Canonical Layer
Verify a SurrealDB-backed canonical layer directly, over the `surrealdb` MCP server, instead of writing a disposable Node script per check. Use whenever the user asks to confirm a batch of writes landed correctly ("did the FreedomFest speakers get tagged right", "do these people have an org relationship", "check that event's rows aren't duplicated"), whenever a new client/event/import needs its d…
Open Graph Share Seo Geo
How to make a page unfurl reliably in iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, LinkedIn, and X; surface to search engines via sitemap.xml + robots.txt; and stay legible to generative engines (GEO), including the llms.txt standard for LLM corpus ingest. Use when adding or debugging OpenGraph / Twitter Card metadata, picking an OG image format, choosing where to host the image, fixing pages that "won't…
Decile Hub Connector
How augment-it (and any Lossless VC-client workspace) talks to the Decile Hub API — the first per-client custom connector. Use whenever pulling from or pushing to Decile Hub (people, organizations, pipeline prospects, deal shares, deal memos, funds/entities, portfolio companies, capital accounts, notes, tasks, files, events), wiring the Decile connector for a new client, building or maintaining t…
Maintain Filemap
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Generate Consistent Og Images
How to generate share-imagery (OpenGraph banners, portraits, squares, tall WhatsApp/iMessage cards) for any Lossless site or splash page so the resulting images form a coherent visual family. Use whenever a site, splash, plugin page, or fundraise deck needs an OG image generated or refreshed; whenever the user says "make an og image", "generate a banner", "we need a share image", "regenerate bann…
Lossless Flavored Markdown
The Lossless Group's extended-markdown flavor — what LFM is, when to use it, how its directives normalize across syntaxes (CommonMark, GFM, Obsidian callouts, remark-directive, Markdoc), how citations and link previews work, and how sites extend it via trigger maps and theme tokens. Use whenever authoring or rendering content in any Astro Knots site, integrating the @lossless-group/lfm package, b…
Timeline Scenario Analysis
A Claude skill from lossless-group/lossless-agent-skills.
Crawl Fetch Ingest
The Lossless Group's workflow for filling in team and portfolio metadata for VC firms and the operating companies they back — crawl a firm's site, fetch structured data + brand assets for people and companies referenced in a deck/PDF, ingest as canonical .md files with YAML frontmatter. Supports two starting anchors — firm-anchored (one VC → its team → its portfolio → portco CEOs) and company-anc…
Maintain Splash Pages
The Lossless Group's pattern for repo-level splash pages — small Astro sites at <repo>/splash/ that ship to GitHub Pages on push to main, render the repo's changelog/ + context-v/ alongside curated marketing copy, and stay isolated from any package the repo also publishes. Use proactively whenever scaffolding a noteworthy new repo (every "important" repo wants one), when shipping a coherent chunk…
Context Vigilance
Lossless Group's framework for managing context-v/ directories in any project. Use whenever creating, updating, or organizing files in any context-v/ folder (specs, prompts, blueprints, reminders, explorations, issues), or when the user asks about context engineering, AI co-development workflow, or the "context-v" convention. Enforces directory roles, the four-part epoch.major.minor.patch version…
Slide Target
Load the full working context for ONE DidiDecks slide (deck/variant/slot) so an agent can iterate on it slide-by-slide without re-explaining where things live. The first of the `slide-*` skill family (target → improve → rank → decompose). Use whenever the user wants to work on a specific slide of a DidiDecks/Astro deck — "let's work on slide 2", "fix this card", "/slide-target rural-income v1 02"…
Deck Iteration Workflow
The Lossless Group's workflow for developing slides-only Astro sites for fundraise processes, aligned with the calmstorm-decks project patterns and the iterative approach from the "Develop a Slides-only Astro Site for a Fundraise Process" specification. Use when creating or modifying slide decks, managing slide variants, or implementing the structured iteration workflow for fundraise material dev…
Git Conventions
The Lossless Group's git commit message conventions — structured headers with action verbs and effort groupings, paragraph-spaced bodies that explain impact before implementation, and "Also included" riders for minor changes. Use when writing commit messages, reviewing commits, or when the user mentions "commit message format", "git conventions", or asks how to structure a commit.
Astro Knots
The Lossless Group's Astro Knots conventions — vision, tech hierarchy, approved frameworks, and hard prohibitions for the family of ~10+ Astro sites and the Lossless Flavored Markdown ecosystem. Use whenever working on an Astro project in the lossless-monorepo (or any sibling repo), scaffolding new sites, choosing dependencies, building components, integrating LFM, or when the user mentions "Astr…
Pseudomonorepos
The Lossless Group's coined term and pattern — parent repos that aggregate child repos (often as git submodules) primarily to host a parent-level context-v/. Use whenever working anywhere in lossless-monorepo or its descendants, when starting any new task that might overlap with prior work, when scaffolding a new project, when the user mentions "pseudomonorepo", "submodule", "context-v", or names…
Market Capture Analysis
A Claude skill from lossless-group/lossless-agent-skills.
Theme System
The Lossless Group's theme and mode architecture — two-tier token system, three-mode contract (light/dark/vibrant), theme.css organization, and design system conventions. Use when setting up themes/modes for any Astro Knots site, debugging mode toggles, working with CSS tokens, or when the user mentions "vibrant mode", "two-tier tokens", "theme.css", or design system patterns.
Changelog Conventions
How The Lossless Group writes and structures changelog/ entries across all repos (projects, true monorepos, pseudomonorepos). Use whenever shipping or pushing a coherent chunk of work, when scaffolding a new repo's changelog/ directory, when authoring a product release message, when the user says "log this", "write a changelog", or "ship note", or when reviewing a changelog/ file. Encodes the str…
Competitive Analysis
A Claude skill from lossless-group/lossless-agent-skills.
Gh Cli Projects Tasks Conventions
How The Lossless Group uses the `gh project` CLI (GitHub Projects v2) to manage tasks across the pseudomonorepo tree. Use whenever creating, editing, or listing GitHub Project tasks via `gh project item-create`, `gh project item-add`, or `gh project item-edit`; whenever the user mentions "gh project", "create a task", "add to the project", "draft a project item", "ProjectV2", or asks to script pr…
Maintain Design Md
How to author and maintain a `DESIGN.md` file at the root of any Lossless project (site, splash page, plugin landing, fundraise deck) following Google Stitch's open spec. Use whenever a project is missing a `DESIGN.md` and an agent needs the project's visual identity in machine-readable form; whenever the user mentions "design tokens", "design system", "DESIGN.md", or "Stitch spec"; whenever them…
Search Lossless Corpus
Use whenever the user asks a question that prior work might already have answered — "what did we decide about X", "when did we ship X", "why did we choose X over Y", "has this failed before", "where did we put X" — and generally to ground answers in The Lossless Group's own corpus instead of training-data folklore. Encodes the four local Chroma collections (`context-vigilance-corpus`, `lossless-c…
Overlay Svg Text
How to overlay on-brand SVG text on Lossless OG / share imagery — Hack Bold gradient-filled h1, thin sans eyebrow, Poor Story handwritten note. Use whenever a generated OG image needs title/eyebrow/sub text composited on top before it ships (the empty-region zone from `generate-consistent-og-images` is the canvas this skill paints into), whenever an unfurl preview looks too anonymous without a wo…