Topic: spellbook
66 skills in this topic.
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devils-advocate
Use when challenging assumptions, surfacing risks, or stress-testing designs and decisions. Triggers: 'challenge this', 'play devil's advocate', 'what could go wrong', 'poke holes', 'find the flaws', 'what am I missing', 'is this solid', 'red team this', 'what are the weaknesses', 'risk assessment', 'sanity check'. Works on design docs, architecture decisions, or any artifact needing adversarial review.
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 Triggers: 'document this project', 'write docs', 'generate documentation', 'docs are outdated', 'need a README', 'create tutorials', 'API reference docs', 'doc audit', 'documentation review', '/document-project'.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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advanced-code-review
Use when performing thorough code review with historical context tracking. Triggers: 'thorough review', 'deep review', 'review this branch in detail', 'full code review with report'. More heavyweight than code-review; for quick review, use code-review instead.
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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spellbook-auditing
Meta-audit skill for spellbook development. Spawns parallel subagents to factcheck docs, optimize instructions, find token savings, and identify MCP candidates. Produces actionable report.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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reviewing-impl-plans
Use when reviewing implementation plans before execution. Triggers: 'is this plan solid', 'review the plan', 'check before I start building', 'anything missing from this plan', 'will this plan work', 'audit the implementation plan'. NOT for: reviewing design documents (use reviewing-design-docs) or creating plans (use writing-plans).
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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project-encyclopedia
[DEPRECATED] Use project-level AGENTS.md files instead. Previously used for first-session codebase onboarding and persistent glossary creation.
axiomantic/spellbook 5
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documentation-updates
Use after modifying library skills, library commands, or agents to ensure CHANGELOG, README, and docs are updated
axiomantic/spellbook 5