ReddRadar
Topic: llm
10,059 skills in this topic.
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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 Triggers: 'document this project', 'write docs', 'generate documentation', 'docs are outdated', 'need a README', 'create tutorials', 'API reference docs', 'doc audit', 'documentation review', '/document-project'.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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documenting-tools
Use when writing MCP tools, API endpoints, CLI commands, or any function that an LLM will invoke. Also use when LLMs misuse tools due to poor descriptions. Triggers: 'document this tool', 'write tool docs', 'MCP tool', 'tool description quality', 'model keeps calling this wrong', 'improve tool description'. For human-facing API docs, standard documentation practices apply instead.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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emotional-stakes
Use when writing subagent prompts, skill instructions, or any text where accuracy is critical and hallucination would cause harm. Triggers: 'make this accurate', 'high-stakes prompt', 'this needs to be truthful', 'critical instructions', 'get this right'. NOT for: general prompt improvement (use instruction-engineering) or prompt ambiguity review (use sharpening-prompts).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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enforcing-code-quality
Behavioral protocol for all code changes. Invoked automatically by develop and test-driven-development. Triggers: 'code quality', 'no shortcuts', 'production quality', 'enforce standards'. NOT for: reviewing others' code (use code-review) or test quality (use fixing-tests).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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executing-plans
Use when you have an implementation plan ready to execute. Triggers: 'run the plan', 'start building', 'execute the tasks', 'implement the steps', 'next task in the plan', 'work through the plan'. Also invoked by develop after planning phase completes. NOT for: creating plans (use writing-plans).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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fact-checking
Use when verifying technical claims in code, docs, or comments before merge. Triggers: 'is this claim correct', 'verify this', 'fact check', 'is this accurate', 'check these assertions', 'are these comments true'. NOT for: checking if AI hallucinated references (use dehallucination).
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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fractal-thinking
Use when deeply exploring uncertainty, systematically decomposing complex questions, or gaining certainty about multi-faceted problems. Triggers: 'think deeply about', 'explore this recursively', 'I need certainty about', 'decompose this question', 'what am I missing'. Invoked by brainstorming, fact-checking, debugging, and deep-research. NOT for: simple questions with known answers or linear task execution.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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fun-mode
Use when starting a session and wanting creative engagement. Triggers: '/fun', 'use a persona', 'be creative', 'make this fun', 'use a character', 'spice it up'. Session-level mode, not task-level.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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gathering-requirements
Use when eliciting or clarifying feature requirements, defining scope, identifying constraints, or capturing user needs. Triggers: 'what are the requirements', 'define the requirements', 'scope this feature', 'user stories', 'acceptance criteria', 'what should this do', 'what problem are we solving', 'what are the constraints'. Also invoked by develop during discovery.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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generating-diagrams
Use when generating flowcharts, diagrams, dependency graphs, or visual representations of processes, relationships, architecture, or state machines. Triggers: 'diagram this', 'flowchart', 'visualize', 'dependency graph', 'ER diagram', 'state machine diagram', 'class diagram', 'sequence diagram', 'map the relationships', 'draw the architecture', 'how does X connect to Y'. NOT for: simple bullet point explanations, runtime monitoring, or text-only documentation.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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instruction-engineering
Use when crafting, improving, or reviewing prompts, system prompts, skill instructions, or any text that instructs an LLM. Triggers: 'write a prompt', 'prompt engineering', 'improve this prompt', 'design a system prompt', 'write skill instructions', 'craft agent instructions'. Also invoked by writing-skills. NOT for: auditing existing prompts for ambiguity (use sharpening-prompts).
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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opportunity-awareness
Triggers after completing substantive work (finishing a todo, returning from subagent, applying non-obvious convention, receiving user correction). Also: 'what should we capture', 'reusable pattern', 'should this be a skill', 'AGENTS.md update', 'knowledge gap'. Behavioral skill loaded at natural pause points.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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optimizing-instructions
Use when instruction files (skills, prompts, CLAUDE.md) are too long or need token reduction while preserving capability. Triggers: 'optimize instructions', 'reduce tokens', 'compress skill', 'make this shorter', 'too verbose', 'this skill is too big', 'over the line limit', 'trim this down'.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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polish-repo
Use when improving project discoverability, attracting users/contributors, or presenting open source work. Triggers: 'write a README', 'improve README', 'get more users', 'get more contributors', 'add badges', 'create a logo', 'set up issue templates', 'audit this project', 'project presence', 'make this discoverable', 'why isn't anyone using this', 'prepare for launch', 'repo presentation', 'open source marketing', 'attract contributors', 'project storefront'. Also triggers on: naming a project, writing taglines, GitHub metadata, community infrastructure, signs of life.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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reflexion
Invoked by develop when iteration feedback requires a retry, not directly by users. Prevents repeating the same mistakes across attempts. Also relevant when: 'why did this fail again', 'same error twice', 'what should I do differently', 'keep making the same mistake'.
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