Topic: cli
1,462 skills in this topic.
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analyzing-skill-usage
Use when evaluating skill effectiveness or comparing skill versions. Triggers: 'how are skills performing', 'skill metrics', 'which skills fire correctly', 'skill invocation analysis', 'compare skill versions', 'analyze skill usage'. Also invoked by skill improvement workflows.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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assembling-context
Use when preparing context for subagent dispatch or managing token budgets. Triggers: 'prepare context for', 'assemble context', 'token budget', 'context package', 'what context does the subagent need'. Also invoked by develop during planning and execution phases.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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async-await-patterns
Use when writing JavaScript or TypeScript code with asynchronous operations, fixing promise-related bugs, or converting callback/promise patterns to async/await. Triggers: 'promise chain', 'unhandled rejection', 'race condition in JS', 'callback hell', 'Promise.all', 'sequential vs parallel async', 'missing await'. Enforces async/await discipline over raw promises.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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audio-notifications
Reference for TTS and OS notification configuration. Auto-loads when TTS is enabled (session_init reports TTS active). Also triggered by: 'mute', 'unmute', 'change voice', 'volume', 'notify', 'notification settings', '/tts', '/notify', 'kokoro', 'speak', 'audio feedback'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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code-review
Use when reviewing code. Triggers: 'review my code', 'check my work', 'look over this', 'review PR #X', 'PR comments to address', 'reviewer said', 'address feedback', 'self-review before PR', 'audit this code'. For heavyweight multi-phase analysis, use advanced-code-review instead.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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creating-issues-and-pull-requests
Use when creating GitHub pull requests or issues with template compliance. Triggers: 'create a PR', 'open a pull request', 'file an issue', 'create issue'. Also invoked by finishing-a-development-branch. NOT for: deciding whether to merge or PR (use finishing-a-development-branch).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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debugging
Use when debugging bugs, test failures, or unexpected behavior. Triggers: 'why isn't this working', 'this doesn't work', 'X is broken', 'something's wrong', 'getting an error', 'exception in', 'stopped working', 'regression', 'crash', 'hang', 'flaky test', 'intermittent failure', or when user pastes a stack trace/error output. NOT for: test quality issues (use fixing-tests), adding new behavior (use develop).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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dispatching-parallel-agents
Use when deciding whether to dispatch subagents, when to stay in main context, or when facing 2+ independent parallel tasks. Triggers: 'should I use a subagent', 'parallelize', 'multiple independent tasks', 'run these at the same time', 'split this up', 'do both at once', 'dispatch template', 'context minimization'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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distilling-prs
Use when reviewing PRs to triage, categorize, or summarize changes requiring human attention. Triggers: 'summarize this PR', 'what changed in PR #X', 'triage PR', 'which files need review', 'PR overview', 'categorize changes', or pasting a PR URL. NOT for: deep code analysis (use advanced-code-review) or quick review (use code-review).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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documenting-projects
Use when generating, improving, or auditing project documentation. Triggers: 'document this project', 'write docs', 'generate documentation', 'docs are outdated', 'need a README', 'create tutorials', 'API reference docs', 'doc audit', 'documentation review', '/document-project'. Standalone README: use /write-readme. NOT for: code changes (use develop), code review (use code-review), or research (use deep-research).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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finding-dead-code
Use when reviewing code changes, auditing new features, or cleaning up. Triggers: 'find dead code', 'find unused code', 'check for unnecessary additions', 'what can I remove', 'is this used anywhere', 'can I delete this', 'orphaned code', 'unused imports'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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finishing-a-development-branch
Use when implementation is complete, tests pass, and you need to decide the integration path. Triggers: 'done with this branch', 'ready to merge', 'ship it', 'wrap this up', 'how should I integrate this', 'what next after implementation'. NOT for: PR creation mechanics (use creating-issues-and-pull-requests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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fixing-tests
Use when tests themselves are broken, test quality is poor, or user wants to fix/improve tests. Triggers: 'test is broken', 'test is wrong', 'test is flaky', 'make tests pass', 'tests need updating', 'green mirage', 'tests pass but shouldn't', 'audit report findings', 'run and fix tests'. NOT for: bugs in production code caught by correct tests (use debugging).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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isolated-testing
Use when testing theories during debugging, or when chaos is detected. Triggers: "let me try", "maybe if I", "what about", "quick test", "see if", rapid context switching, multiple changes without isolation. Enforces one-theory-one-test discipline. Invoked automatically by debugging, scientific-debugging, systematic-debugging before any experiment execution.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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managing-artifacts
Use when generating documents, reports, plans, audits, or deciding where to save output files. Triggers: 'save report', 'write plan', 'where should I put this', 'where does this go', 'output directory', 'save this somewhere'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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merging-worktrees
Use when merging parallel worktrees back together after parallel implementation, combining parallel development tracks, or unifying branches from dispatched parallel agents. Triggers: 'merge worktrees', 'combine parallel branches', 'integrate parallel work', 'all tracks complete', 'bring everything together'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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requesting-code-review
Use when implementation is done and you need a structured pre-PR review workflow. Triggers: 'ready for review', 'review my changes before PR', 'pre-merge check', 'is this ready', 'submit for review'. NOT for: post-merge review (use code-review) or deciding how to integrate (use finishing-a-development-branch).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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resolving-merge-conflicts
Use when git merge or rebase fails with conflicts, you see 'unmerged paths' or conflict markers (<<<<<<< =======), or need help resolving conflicted files. Triggers: 'merge conflict', 'fix the conflicts', 'conflicting changes', 'resolve conflicts', 'can't merge'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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reviewing-design-docs
Use when reviewing design documents, technical specifications, architecture docs, RFCs, ADRs, or API designs for completeness and implementability. Triggers: 'review this design', 'is this spec complete', 'can someone implement from this', 'what's missing from this design', 'review this RFC', 'is this ready for implementation', 'audit this spec'. Core question: could an implementer code against this without guessing?
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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session-resume
Session resume protocol and session repairs handling. Loaded when spellbook_session_init returns resume_available: true, or when session_init returns a repairs array. Triggers: 'resume', 'continue', 'where were we', session resume, session repairs.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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sharpening-prompts
Use when reviewing LLM prompts, skill instructions, subagent prompts, or any text that will instruct an AI. Triggers: "review this prompt", "audit instructions", "sharpen prompt", "is this clear enough", "would an LLM understand this", "ambiguity check". Also invoked by instruction-engineering, reviewing-design-docs, and reviewing-impl-plans for instruction quality gates.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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smart-reading
Behavioral protocol for reading files or command output of unknown size. Loaded automatically for all file reading operations. Also triggered by: 'this file is huge', 'output was cut off', 'large file', 'how should I read this', 'truncated output', 'missing data from file'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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using-lsp-tools
Use when mcp-language-server tools are available and you need semantic code intelligence. Triggers: 'find definition', 'find references', 'who calls this', 'rename symbol', 'type hierarchy', 'go to definition', 'where is this used', 'where is this defined', 'what type is this'. Provides navigation, refactoring, and type analysis via LSP.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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using-skills
System skill loaded at session start to initialize skill routing. Not invoked directly by users. Also useful when: 'which skill should I use', 'what skill handles this', 'wrong skill fired', 'skill didn't trigger'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5