deadmade/dead-agent-skills

setup-matt-pocock-skills

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

graphify

Use for any question about a codebase, its architecture, file relationships, or project content — especially when graphify-out/ exists, where the question should be treated as a graphify query first. Turns any input (code, docs, papers, images, videos) into a…

feature-flow

Build a feature through the whole skill chain: ground in the code and in how other projects solve it, brainstorm with options, grill the spec with domain docs and ADRs, write the plan, evaluate it adversarially, then execute, verify and finish. Two approval…

fix-flow

Fix a bug from symptom to verified branch: reproduce it, map where it lives and what a fix could break, search upstream for the same issue, find the root cause with systematic debugging, approve it, write the failing regression test first, fix, then /verify…

implement

Build from a plan, spec or ticket that already exists, without the design phases of /feature-flow: turn a spec into tickets or a plan if needed, approve the plan, execute it test-first through superpowers, then /verify and /learn. One approval gate,…

research-flow

Build a feature on scientific evidence: ground it in the code and in papers, brainstorm options that cite an evidence table, state a falsifiable hypothesis with a metric, grill, plan, evaluate, execute, then measure the result against the hypothesis before…

understand

Learn a codebase, a subsystem or a concept by doing: map it (pstack how, graphify when a graph exists), learn why it is that way (pstack why), then a guided lesson through mattpocock teach where you write the key lines and Claude explains, and keep the terms…

upgrade

Bump a dependency safely: read its changelog and migration guide, find every use in the code and what the breaking changes hit, approve a plan, bump, fix and test, then /verify. Resumable. Use for /upgrade [package@version]; no argument resumes.

writing

How to write and revise prose a person will read, by the method of Williams and Bizup's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace: a problem and a point up front, an order the reader needs, sentences about characters doing things, and nothing needless. Use when…

hallmark

WEB FRONTEND ONLY: use solely for browser UI work (HTML/CSS, React/Vue/Svelte/Astro pages and components); never for CLIs, backends, libraries, or non-web apps (e.g. Rust, Python, Go), even when asked for a new app. Design skill for websites and new pages…

postgres-database-migration

Use this skill for planning, testing, and safely executing PostgreSQL schema migrations — especially when working with production data or shared databases. **Trigger when user asks to:** - Test a schema migration before applying it to production - Add,…

writing

How to write and revise prose a person will read, by the method of Williams and Bizup's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace: a problem and a point up front, an order the reader needs, sentences about characters doing things, and nothing needless. Use when…

hallmark

WEB FRONTEND ONLY: use solely for browser UI work (HTML/CSS, React/Vue/Svelte/Astro pages and components); never for CLIs, backends, libraries, or non-web apps (e.g. Rust, Python, Go), even when asked for a new app. Design skill for websites and new pages…

writing

How to write and revise prose a person will read, by the method of Williams and Bizup's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace: a problem and a point up front, an order the reader needs, sentences about characters doing things, and nothing needless. Use when…

hallmark

WEB FRONTEND ONLY: use solely for browser UI work (HTML/CSS, React/Vue/Svelte/Astro pages and components); never for CLIs, backends, libraries, or non-web apps (e.g. Rust, Python, Go), even when asked for a new app. Design skill for websites and new pages…

setup-atlassian

Set up the atlassian integration installed by dead-agent-skills.

binlog-failure-analysis

Analyze MSBuild binary logs to diagnose build failures. USE FOR: build errors that are unclear from console output, diagnosing cascading failures across multi-project builds, tracing MSBuild target execution order, and generally any MSBuild build issues.…

build-parallelism

Analyze an MSBuild solution, solution filter, or Build.proj that schedules multiple project files. USE FOR: measured idle worker nodes, `-m` that does not scale, a serial ProjectReference critical path, graph builds, or an MSBuild task that builds a Projects…

build-perf-diagnostics

Diagnose MSBuild bottlenecks from binlog timelines and Target/Task Performance Summaries after build-perf-baseline establishes measurements. USE FOR: unknown build slowness, RAR >5s, analyzers >30% of Csc, one target >50% of build time, node utilization <80%,…

check-bin-obj-clash

Detects MSBuild projects with conflicting OutputPath or IntermediateOutputPath. USE FOR: builds failing with 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists', 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process', intermittent…

csharp-expert

Route C# and .NET requests to the exact installed specialist or smallest dotnet/skills marketplace plugin. USE FOR: "which specialist should own this" or "how do I add the skill" requests involving ASP.NET Core endpoints, Blazor, MAUI binding, Windows Forms…

eval-performance

Guide for diagnosing and improving MSBuild project evaluation performance. USE FOR: builds slow before any compilation starts, high evaluation time in binlog analysis, expensive glob patterns walking large directories (node_modules, .git, bin/obj), deep…

incremental-build

Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing why targets re-execute unnecessarily, fixing broken no-op builds. Covers 8 common causes: missing…

resolve-project-references

Guide for interpreting ResolveProjectReferences time in MSBuild performance summaries. Activate when ResolveProjectReferences appears as the most expensive target and developers are trying to optimize it directly. Explains that the reported time includes wait…

core

C#/.NET only. C# language semantics and refactoring, runtime diagnostics and performance, .NET 11 APIs, advanced scenarios, AI/LLM integration in .NET. Index of Microsoft's .NET skills for these.

data

C#/.NET only. Entity Framework Core and .NET data access. Index of Microsoft's .NET skills for these.

desktop

C#/.NET only. .NET MAUI and Windows Forms apps: setup, layout, data binding, navigation, diagnostics. Index of Microsoft's .NET skills for these.

testing

C#/.NET only. Running, writing, filtering and analyzing .NET tests (MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, TUnit), coverage, test smells, test framework migrations. Index of Microsoft's .NET skills for these.

web

C#/.NET only. ASP.NET Core (middleware, endpoints, minimal APIs, real-time) and Blazor components and interactivity. Index of Microsoft's .NET skills for these.

project-rules

Personal coding conventions for projects using dead-agent-skills.

setup-night-city

Set up night-city using the native Codex theme picker.

paper-lookup

Searches scholarly APIs for computer-science papers, preprints, citations and open-access full text, with reproducible provenance. Covers arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, OpenCitations, Unpaywall, CORE, DOAJ and Zenodo. Use when searching for…

architect

Sketch types, signatures, and module structure before code, then stay in the loop while implementation fills in. Use for /architect, 'architect this', 'design this', or non-trivial work where jumping to code would lock in the wrong shape.

arena

Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it. Use for /arena, 'arena this', 'throw it in the arena', or when one attempt at a non-trivial artifact would lock in the wrong shape.

blast-radius

Find what a change could break somewhere else before it ships, beyond the diff, and prove the one fact it's safe because of by running real code instead of writing it up. Use for 'blast radius of X', 'what could this break', or reviewing a small diff you…

bro

Restate the last message in plain human language, with no jargon.

how

Use for "how does X work", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering questions ("where should this live", "which package owns this", "is this the right layer"). Explains subsystem architecture, runtime flow, onboarding…

interrogate

Use for "interrogate", "adversarial review", "multi-model review", "challenge this", "stress test this code", "find blind spots", or "tear this apart". Multiple LLM reviewers challenge changes from independent angles.

no-comments

Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.

principle-boundary-discipline

Apply when wiring validation, error handling, or framework adapters. Concentrate guards at system boundaries (CLI, config, network, external APIs); trust internal types and keep business logic in pure functions.