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Construct a valid Conventional Commits message for this repo before running `git commit`, covering type/scope, the "!" breaking-change marker, description rules, and the required trailing beads issue id. Use whenever writing or reviewing a commit message, or when a commit is rejected by the commit-msg/beads-commit-msg hooks.

Author and improve basicly catalog sources — skills and fragments — in their YAML source format (never a discoverable .md), then project and verify them. Use when adding or editing a skill or fragment, building a catalog, or deciding where guidance should live (always-on fragment vs on-demand skill).

Drive a unit of work through the basicly harness loop end-to-end (intake → classify → decompose → build → verify → ship → teardown → retro) using `basicly loop` + `br`, agent-agnostic across Claude/Codex/Copilot. Use when starting or resuming non-trivial development in a harness-enabled repo, when deciding what phase a tracked issue is in, or when coordinating the checkpoints, gates, and bounded rework the loop enforces.

Use br (beads_rust) as the primary task/issue tracker for this repo. Trigger when planning work, creating or claiming issues, checking what is ready to work on, or preparing a commit that must reference a beads issue id.

Close out a working session with a usage-statistics report, a self-improvement retro, and a pickup-clean handoff summary. Use when the user says the session is done ("wrap up", "finish the session", "close out"), before ending a long autonomous run, or whenever a summary of what changed and what the agent actually used is wanted.

Use ast-grep for structural code search and rewrite based on syntax trees. Trigger when text search is too imprecise for code-aware matching.

Use bat for syntax-highlighted file viewing with line numbers and git context. Trigger when readable terminal code inspection is needed.

Use curl for low-level HTTP requests, headers, and data transfer debugging. Trigger when APIs, webhooks, download checks, or protocol-level diagnostics are required.

Retrieve up-to-date library documentation with Context7 MCP and ground code changes. Use when tasks involve external APIs, version-sensitive behavior, migrations, deprecations, setup/configuration decisions, or framework/library best-practice questions.

Behavior-preserving refactoring guidance for burndown-chart with layered architecture and safety gates

Install and configure optional development tools for repository contributors. Use when asked to install ripgrep, rg, jq, yq, GitHub Copilot CLI, copilot, or any command-line dev tool. Also use when a tool is reported as "not found", when the user wants to set up their development workstation, or when searching / log-inspection tools are needed. Provides platform-specific install commands for Windows (winget, no admin required), macOS (Homebrew), and Linux (apt/rpm).

Optimally use rg (ripgrep), fd, jq, and yq for code exploration, file discovery, and structured data querying in any repository. Use when asked to search code, find files, grep for patterns, explore a codebase structure, parse JSON or YAML configs, inspect package.json or pyproject.toml, extract API response data, find all usages of a function or variable, or filter results across file types. Works with any language, framework, or project structure.

Create new Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot from prompts or by duplicating this template. Use when asked to "create a skill", "make a new skill", "scaffold a skill", or when building specialized AI capabilities with bundled resources. Generates SKILL.md files with proper frontmatter, directory structure, and optional scripts/references/assets folders.

Improve quality and reliability of Python backend changes in burndown-chart

Execute release preparation and changelog updates safely. Use when drafting release notes, preparing version bumps, validating release prerequisites, or checking release workflow completeness before tagging or publishing.

Implement safe and maintainable SQLite persistence changes. Use when updating SQL queries, repository data-access logic, schema migrations, or database integrity and performance behavior.

Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens. Preserves all technical substance, code, URLs, and structure. Compressed version overwrites the original file. Human-readable backup saved as FILE.original.md. Trigger: /caveman-compress FILEPATH or "compress memory file"

Use when installing, updating, or verifying JuliusBrussee/caveman in this repository, especially for GitHub Copilot rule wiring and skills-lock refresh. Trigger on phrases like caveman update, refresh caveman, reinstall caveman, copilot caveman install, npx skills add caveman, or npx github:JuliusBrussee/caveman.

Use when multiple agents need consistent linting, typing, formatting, security, and regression checks: run repository gates in deterministic order and enforce fix-then-recheck behavior.

Use when work needs decomposition, multi-step delivery, or delegation across agents: define execution graph, assign specialized subtasks, and run autonomous fix-and-verify loops until done.

Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens. Preserves all technical substance, code, URLs, and structure. Compressed version overwrites the original file. Human-readable backup saved as FILE.original.md. Trigger: /caveman:compress FILEPATH or "compress memory file"

Use when development environment status is unknown, onboarding a fresh clone, or missing-tool errors suggest Python, npm, bd, dolt, hooks, or venv are not ready; run preflight checks and bootstrap only when checks fail.

Use when onboarding to Beads, starting sessions, creating/claiming/closing issues, validating issue-prefix + commit trailer behavior, and applying this template's Git-backup sync model (bd backup fetch-git/export-git) while staying aligned with official bd CLI/reference guidance.

Use when preparing a release: generate changelog drafts, write concise release notes, and bump semantic versions for no-tag template release workflows.

Construct a valid Conventional Commits message for this repo before running `git commit`, covering type/scope, the "!" breaking-change marker, description rules, and the required trailing beads issue id. Use whenever writing or reviewing a commit message, or when a commit is rejected by the commit-msg/beads-commit-msg hooks.

Create and improve reusable agent skills in this repository. Use this whenever the user asks to add a new skill, update an existing skill, build a skill catalog, or improve how/when a skill triggers.

HTML/CSS/JS rules for the static slide deck project.