Api Design And Lifecycle
Designs HTTP/service APIs with OpenAPI, resource models, authZ, versioning, deprecation and contract tests. Use when defining or evolving service APIs, not dataset or event contracts.
Inter Agent Communication A2a
Use when designing agent-to-agent communication, delegation protocols, agent cards, asynchronous task exchange, or interoperable multi-agent systems.
Context Engineering
Use when a task needs the right repository, file and document context assembled without unnecessary noise.
Evaluation And Monitoring
Use when measuring coding-agent quality, regression risk, latency, cost, reliability, safety, drift, or production performance.
Event Driven Architecture
Designs event-driven systems with asynchronous flows, brokers, producers, consumers and contracts. Use when architecting asynchronous, decoupled, or event-first systems.
Data Product Design
Designs governed, domain-owned, discoverable and reusable data products. Use when packaging datasets as products, defining ownership, or reviewing product readiness.
Business Capability Modeling
Models stable business capabilities, levels, ownership, maturity and heatmaps. Use when mapping organisational abilities, decomposing strategy, or assigning capability ownership.
Exception Handling And Recovery
Use when building resilient agent workflows that must detect failures, retry safely, degrade gracefully, rollback state, or escalate to a human/operator.
Data Integration And Interoperability
Designs batch, API, event, CDC, semantic and file-based integration patterns. Use when connecting systems, choosing integration styles, or resolving interoperability gaps.
Business Information Concept Modeling
Derives business concepts and relationships from capabilities, value streams and processes. Use when linking business architecture artefacts to information concepts for data modelling.
Integration Message Construction
Defines integration message intent, envelopes, identifiers and lifecycle metadata. Use when creating command, event, document or request-reply message contracts and schemas.
Event Streaming Platform Design
Designs shared streaming platforms, topics, partitions, tenancy, retention and replay. Use when selecting or designing Kafka, Pulsar, or Event Hubs-style platforms.
Frontend State And Interaction Design
Designs predictable states for loading, empty, error, partial, long-running and approval workflows. Use when implementing async UI, agent tasks, or multi-step forms.
Event Governance And Lineage
Governs event ownership, classification, metadata, lineage, quality and lifecycle. Use when governing shared event catalogues, schemas, or stream ownership.
Capability Maturity Assessment
Assesses current and target maturity, gaps, risks and roadmap priorities. Use when prioritising capability improvement or planning architecture roadmaps.
Ai Model Governance
Governs AI models through inventory, purpose, risk tier, approval, monitoring, drift, kill-switch and retirement. Use when introducing, changing or operating models in production or agent workflows.
Dry Principle
Applies DRY to remove harmful duplication while avoiding misleading abstraction. Use when refactoring repeated knowledge, schemas, validation rules, or agent instructions.
Guardrails Safety Patterns
Use when implementing input validation, output filtering, tool restrictions, policy enforcement, secure coding controls, or safe agent behaviour.
Human In The Loop
Use when a coding agent must request approval, expert judgement, clarification, review, or intervention before proceeding with high-risk or ambiguous work.
Data Lifecycle And Retention Management
Designs lifecycle, retention, archival, deletion, legal hold and disposal controls. Use when defining data retention policies, archival strategy, or compliant deletion.
Bdd Practice
Applies behaviour-driven development with business-readable scenarios linked to executable acceptance tests. Use when defining externally visible behaviour, acceptance criteria, or user-facing workflows before implementation.
Documentation And Adrs
Use when a change needs durable documentation, an architecture decision record or maintainership guidance.
Incident Response And Postmortems
Handles incidents, recovery, postmortems and corrective actions with blameless, evidence-led practice. Use when responding to outages, writing postmortems, or defining incident runbooks.
Accessibility Wcag
Applies WCAG 2.2 AA-aligned accessibility checks to interfaces, forms, dashboards and components. Use when building or reviewing any user-facing UI, content, or agent supervision screen.
Data Governance And Quality
Defines ownership, policies, quality rules, controls, monitoring and remediation. Use when establishing data governance, quality SLAs, or remediation workflows.
Data Security And Privacy Architecture
Designs classification, access, masking, privacy, entitlement and sensitive-data controls. Use when securing shared data, defining privacy controls, or classifying datasets.
Design System Practice
Maintains consistent, accessible design systems using tokens, components and documented patterns. Use when creating or evolving a shared UI component library or design tokens.
Cdc And Source To Stream Ingestion
Designs CDC and streaming ingestion from operational sources to event streams. Use when capturing database changes, replicating operational data, or building source-to-stream pipelines.
Code Review And Quality
Use when reviewing code before merge to assess correctness, tests, maintainability, security and user impact.
Dora Four Keys
Uses DevOps Research and Assessment delivery metrics (classic Four Keys plus rework rate) to improve delivery performance without gaming metrics. Use when measuring deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, or rework rate.
Data Product Dashboard Design
Designs actionable data product dashboards for quality, lineage, validation, quarantine and operations. Use when building data-ops, quality, or lineage dashboards.
Event Modeling
Discovers and models business events, commands, decisions and state changes. Use when event-storming, designing event timelines, or defining domain events.
Ddd Practice
Applies domain-driven design with bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language. Use when modelling complex business domains, defining boundaries, or protecting invariants.
Data Contract Design
Defines producer-consumer contracts for schema, semantics, quality, compatibility and operations. Use when formalising API, event, or dataset agreements between teams.
Finops Practice
Applies FinOps Inform, Optimise and Operate practices for cloud and agent platform cost. Use when designing allocation, unit economics, budgets, forecasts, rightsizing, commitments or cost anomaly response across teams and platforms.
Data Lineage And Provenance
Tracks source-to-target lineage, transformation history, evidence, ownership and provenance. Use when documenting data flows, audit trails, or impact analysis for changes.
Eip Integration Validation
Reviews integration designs against EIP, reliability, security and operability criteria. Use when validating architecture decisions, message topologies, broker configs or implementation plans.
Ci Cd And Automation
Use when designing or changing build, test or deployment automation that needs explicit safety, permissions and verification.
Deprecation And Migration
Use when retiring an old path, replacing a legacy behaviour or moving users to a new interface or workflow.
Incremental Implementation
Use when a change should land as a sequence of small, verifiable slices instead of a single large edit.
Infrastructure As Code
Manages declarative infrastructure with plan/apply workflows, drift control, secrets hygiene and review. Use when defining or changing cloud or platform resources through IaC rather than click-ops or CI alone.
Conceptual Data Modeling
Identifies business concepts, entities and relationships without premature physical design. Use when starting data architecture or aligning business language with information models.
Git Workflow And Versioning
Use when making code changes that should stay atomic, reversible and easy to review through disciplined Git workflow and versioning.
Apply Laws Of Ai
Mandatory immutable baseline applying an Asimov-inspired hierarchy of AI safety laws. Use when at every session start and before any other skill, plan, routing decision, tool use, or material edit. Also known as apply_laws_of_AI.
Cognitive Bias Review
Use when reviewing plans, recommendations, prioritisation, risk registers, retrospectives or agent outputs for judgement distortion from cognitive bias — not for checking whether an argument's premises validly support its conclusion.
Agentic Ux Patterns
Designs interfaces for supervising, approving, steering and auditing AI agent actions with evidence and uncertainty surfaced. Use when building agent workflows, approval gates, or audit surfaces.
Browser Testing With Devtools
Use when verifying browser-based behaviour with Chrome DevTools, including DOM state, console output, network activity and performance evidence.
Cloud Platform Architecture
Designs cloud landing zones, tenancy, shared services and network or identity boundaries. Use when defining platform foundations for multiple workloads rather than a single application solution.
Goal Setting And Monitoring
Use when implementing agents that need explicit objectives, measurable success criteria, progress tracking, stop conditions, or iterative improvement against goals.
Idea Refinement
Use when a rough idea needs to be shaped into a concrete, testable proposal before planning or implementation.