curiositech

Design and build beautiful, accessible graphical interfaces — web, desktop (Electron/Tauri), and native (iOS/macOS/Android). Use for visual hierarchy and layout, color and theming (light/dark, semantic tokens, WCAG contrast), typography systems, motion and micro-interactions, accessibility, component systems and design tokens, responsive/adaptive layout, and platform-native idioms. The GUI counterpart to beautiful-cli-design. NOT for terminal/CLI output (use beautiful-cli-design) or API/data schemas.

Capstone/orchestration skill — build an M-Agent + N-Human cooperative IDE in Rust gpui (the Harbor): many agents and humans co-editing the same files as co-equal CRDT replicas, governed by claims/guard/salvage, across LAN/shared/remote harbors. The INDEX that dispatches into the sibling rust skills. Use when building the collaborative editor, the agent-fleet console, multiplayer editing with agents-as-peers, or any slice of the Harbor. Trigger on: cooperative IDE, collaborative editor, multiplayer editor, agents and humans co-editing, gpui IDE, Loro CRDT editor, harbor editor, claims/salvage, "build the cooperative IDE". NOT for: a single non-collaborative gpui screen (compose the siblings directly), web editors, or non-editor apps.

Build and extend pd-console — Port Daddy's GPU-native macOS operator console (GPUI 0.2.x, Zed's Rust UI). Covers the render-agnostic Block/Pane(Surface) contract, the two-thread reqwest↔smol refresh pipeline, Taffy flexbox layout, uniform_list virtual scroll, focus + keyboard nav, the OKLCH theme and ICS maritime flag badges, GPUI's missing text-input, and the real feature-gated cargo/CI gate. Use when adding panes, visual polish, or debugging GPUI rendering/layout/focus in core/pd-console. NOT for the TypeScript daemon, generic Rust toolchain/borrow-checker help (use rust-with-claude-code), or non-pd GPUI apps with a different theme/architecture.

Metal/wgpu/WGSL shader surfaces for native Rust gpui apps (Zed-family, pd-console), stockpiled with beautiful copy-pasteable shader-toy examples. Use for custom GPU fragment passes behind/around gpui panes: ocean/water shaders, pixelated waves and boats, a living harbor, dithered chrome borders, sonar sweeps, aurora/starfields, CRT/scanline post. Trigger on: wgsl, wgpu, metal shader, gpui shader, shadertoy, fragment shader, SDF, noise/fbm, ordered dithering, pixelation, render-to-texture, "pixelated waves and boats", living harbor water. NOT for: web/GLSL/three.js shaders (use a web tool), non-shader gpui motion (use rust-gpui-motion), general GUI layout/color (use beautiful-gui-design), CLI/TUI (use beautiful-cli-design).

Decide HOW LOW to go for a bare-metal 2D/text rendering pipeline on Apple GPUs, and pay the right costs. Covers the layered choice — pure objc2-metal + hand-written MSL (own command queue, glyph atlas, frame pacing) vs wgpu (Metal under the hood, cross-platform) vs Vello-on-wgpu (compute vector renderer you don't have to write) — plus CAMetalLayer/CADisplayLink frame pacing, ProMotion 120Hz, the glyph-atlas / signed-distance-field text problem, CPU-GPU sync, and honest cost accounting of "pure Metal" vs standing on Linebender. Activate on: "objc2-metal", "objc2", "CAMetalLayer", "CADisplayLink", "Metal command queue", "glyph atlas", "SDF text", "ProMotion frame pacing", "bare-metal Rust rendering on macOS", "pure Metal vs wgpu", "MTLDrawable". NOT for: writing the MSL shaders themselves (use metal-shader-expert), the Vello/Parley high-level API (use vello-parley-rendering), 3D engines (use wgpu/bevy), or iOS UIKit drawing.

Design motion, transitions, and bespoke graphics for native Rust gpui apps — the framework behind Zed and the pd-console operator console. Use for with_animation, easing curves, BoxShadow/glow, breathing dots, pane expand/zoom/slide transitions, and custom paint/Vello/wgpu surfaces. Trigger on: gpui animation, with_animation, gpui transition, gpui easing, BoxShadow, gpui shadow, pd-console motion, gpui paint/canvas, Vello, wgpu, "lift/slide/zoom/spring in gpui", reduced-motion in a native Rust UI, "animation re-renders forever", repeat() never stops. NOT for: web/React motion (→ animation-system-architect), CLI/TUI output (→ beautiful-cli-design), general non-motion GUI layout/color/typography (→ beautiful-gui-design).

Effective Rust development with Claude Code as AI pair programmer. Testing patterns, borrow checker idioms, debugging, toolchain workflow, and GPUI-specific Rust patterns for pd-console.

Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, designing skills for subagent consumption, or understanding platform constraints and distribution surfaces. NOT for general Claude Code features, runtime debugging, non-skill coding, or MCP server implementation.

Instruction manual for agents driving Port Daddy multi-agent coordination. Use when an agent will edit a repo, recover work, coordinate with other sessions, inspect FleetBar/Fleet Control Center truth, package skill/docs surfaces, or leave a durable handoff. NOT for generic coding that does not need Port Daddy state.

Contributor manual for agents working ON the Port Daddy codebase itself — the daemon, MCP server, FleetBar / Fleet Control Center, website, CLI surface, distribution mirrors, internal recovery ledger, and the named internal actors (Coxswain / Navigator / Cartographer / Lookout / Quartermaster + Shipwright). Use when editing the port-daddy repo. NOT for agents using Port Daddy on other projects (use port-daddy-agent-skill for that), and NOT distributed to public skill catalogs — this skill is private to the port-daddy repo.

Decide which single operator surface — Scout, FleetBar, or pd-console — owns each capability by its distance-from-work (intake/ambient/deep), and audit that placement for authority spread, unenforceable controls, evidence overflow into FleetBar, and hot/cool bus-subscription mismatches. Use when placing a new capability on one of Agent Harbor's three operator surfaces, reconciling a mockup that duplicates a capability across two surfaces, or auditing an existing operator-surface spec before implementation locks it in. NOT for choosing SDK/CLI/MCP/GUI surfaces for API-consuming developers (developer-surface-strategist), designing the concrete interaction flow within one already-assigned surface (agentic-coding-ux-designer), or the hot-bus/cool-bus transport mechanics themselves (swarm-invocation-designer).

Audit what PRs this session produced. Ask: "What work did I do this session that isn't in a PR yet, or isn't merged?" Forces the agent to account for all code changes before declaring done. Use at any point — especially at session end, after a manager wave, or when asked "what's left?"

After each execution wave completes, inspect the DAG's commitment landscape and premortem risk score. If any surviving nodes carry `commitment_level: TENTATIVE`, or if the premortem `recommendation` is `ACCEPT_WITH_MONITORING` or `ESCALATE_TO_HUMAN`, pause execution and run a structured parley: re-evaluate TENTATIVE nodes against the evidence produced by the just-completed wave, update risk severity where warranted, and either promote nodes to COMMITTED, demote them to EXPLORATORY, or prune them before launching the next wave. Parley is a scheduled operation triggered by wave completion — not an ad-hoc intervention — making wave boundaries the natural formation-break point where plans meet reality.

Build and extend pd-console — Port Daddy's GPU-native macOS operator console (GPUI 0.2.x, Zed's Rust UI). Covers the render-agnostic Block/Pane(Surface) contract, the two-thread reqwest↔smol refresh pipeline, Taffy flexbox layout, uniform_list virtual scroll, focus + keyboard nav, the OKLCH theme and ICS maritime flag badges, GPUI's missing text-input, and the real feature-gated cargo/CI gate. Use when adding panes, visual polish, or debugging GPUI rendering/layout/focus in core/pd-console. NOT for the TypeScript daemon, generic Rust toolchain/borrow-checker help (use rust-with-claude-code), or non-pd GPUI apps with a different theme/architecture.

Chooses the most important product or roadmap work under ADHD, founder, budget, and multi-agent constraints. Use when asking what to work on next, prioritizing a roadmap, cutting scope, choosing an MVP slice, or deciding whether to split work across agents. NOT for executing an already-chosen task, generic project status reporting, personal financial advice, or long unbounded brainstorming.

Algorithmic skill for optimally partitioning LLM context or task DAGs across K agents. Covers two modes: (A) online/reactive spawning under context pressure, and (B) static pre-planned DAG execution with graph min-cut optimization. Encodes algorithms for sequence-stable clustering, dynamic K selection, token-budget-aware partitioning, and handoff protocol design. Use when designing multi-agent systems, deciding when and how many agents to spawn, or optimizing a WinDAGs-style DAG for token efficiency.

Working type director's reference for selecting, pairing, and shipping typefaces with real taste. Covers a broad, opinionated catalog of typefaces and foundries (libre through commercial), a mood/era/register-driven selection framework that never collapses to one answer, font pairing as logic, fluid type scales, variable-font axes (incl. opsz/GRAD), OpenType features, web-font performance (subsetting, font-display, size-adjust fallback metrics), and licensing literacy (SIL OFL vs commercial EULA, desktop/web/app, trials). Explicitly retires the overused AI-design defaults (Inter, Roboto, Montserrat, Poppins, Fraunces, Geist, Söhne, the Fontshare/ITF starter pack) and names fresher alternatives in every role. Use for font selection, pairing, type scales, web-font optimization, variable fonts, OpenType, and typographic systems. NOT for logo/wordmark design, icon fonts, general CSS, or image-based/raster typography.

Multi-agent coordination daemon for coding agents. Use for deterministic port claims, session tracking, salvage, file claims, notes, pub/sub, tuple-space coordination, background fleets, and debugging multi-agent failures across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or Windsurf. NOT for production deploy orchestration, Docker or Kubernetes networking, or cloud service discovery.

Use this skill when running SEO audits, optimizing for AI search engines (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity), generating schema markup, diagnosing traffic drops, fixing Core Web Vitals, managing site migrations, or building keyword strategies. Runs scored full-site audits (0-100 Health Score) across 21 modules including technical SEO, E-E-A-T, hreflang, and programmatic SEO. Three modes: Audit, Plan, Execute. NOT for PPC/Ads, social media management, or generic marketing strategy unrelated to organic search.

Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, designing skills for subagent consumption, or understanding platform constraints and distribution surfaces. NOT for general Claude Code features, runtime debugging, non-skill coding, or MCP server implementation.

Use this skill when creating a new Claude skill from scratch, editing or improving an existing skill, or measuring skill performance with evals and benchmarks. Invoke whenever the user says things like "make a skill for X", "turn this workflow into a skill", "test my skill", "improve my skill", "run evals", "benchmark this", or "optimize my skill description". Also use proactively when the conversation has produced a repeatable workflow that would benefit from being captured as a skill. Covers the full lifecycle: capture intent → draft SKILL.md → run evals → review with user → iterate → optimize description → package. NOT for general coding help, debugging runtime errors, building MCP servers, writing Claude hooks, or creating plugins — use domain-specific skills for those.

Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, designing skills for subagent consumption, or understanding platform constraints and distribution surfaces. NOT for general Claude Code features, runtime debugging, non-skill coding, or MCP server implementation.

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.

Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, designing skills for subagent consumption, or understanding platform constraints and distribution surfaces. NOT for general Claude Code features, runtime debugging, non-skill coding, or MCP server implementation.