fabioc-aloha/ChessCoach

academic-paper-drafting

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

ai-memory-setup

Detect, create, and manage the AI-Memory fleet communication channel. Fires on bootstrap, session start (announcements), and feedback writes.

alex-banner-generation

Generate on-brand Alex — ACT Edition SVG banners for documents (READMEs, plans, notes, release artifacts)

creative-writing

Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.

critical-thinking

Challenge what you think is right — alternative hypotheses, missing data, evidence quality, bias detection, falsifiability, and adversarial review

docx-to-md

Convert Word documents (.docx) to clean Markdown with image extraction and pandoc cleanup

greeting-checkin

Greeting-triggered self-check — recognise greetings, check Edition version against the upstream tag, scan AI-Memory announcements, and report inside the greeting reply

html-to-md

Convert HTML documents to clean Markdown via pandoc

lint-clean-markdown

Write markdown that passes markdownlint on first attempt — encode the most common rules as muscle memory

academic-research

Research project scaffolding, thesis/dissertation writing, literature reviews, publication workflows, and Alex-assisted academic workflows

agent-debug-panel

Debug skill/hook/agent loading issues using VS Code's Agent Debug Panel

ai-agent-design

Design autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, and execute tasks

ai-character-reference-generation

Generate consistent visual character references across multiple scenarios using Flux and nano-banana-pro on Replicate

ai-generated-readme-banners

Create professional ultra-wide cinematic banners for GitHub READMEs using modern AI image models with typography

ai-writing-avoidance

Help writers produce content that sounds genuinely human by avoiding telltale AI-generated text patterns

alex-effort-estimation

Estimate task duration from an AI-assisted development perspective rather than traditional human developer estimates

anti-hallucination

Recognize and prevent confabulation — when you don't know, say so.

api-design

Design APIs that developers love to use.

api-documentation

Technical documentation, API references, user guides, and docs-as-code workflows.

appropriate-reliance

Calibrated human-AI collaboration with creative latitude — trust calibrated to reliability, creativity preserved with validation.

architecture-audit

Comprehensive **project** consistency review across code, documentation, diagrams, and configuration

architecture-health

Diagnose cognitive architecture health — connection integrity, memory balance, link density, and drift detection

architecture-refinement

Meta-skill for maintaining and evolving Alex's cognitive architecture through deliberate documentation and pattern extraction.

ascii-project-dashboard

Create and maintain ASCII visual dashboards for project tracking with parallel lane progress bars

audio-memory

Store and manage voice samples for TTS cloning — portable, version-controlled audio references

awareness

Proactive detection, self-correction, and epistemic vigilance

azure-architecture-patterns

Well-Architected Framework principles and Azure best practices

azure-deployment-operations

Production deployment patterns for Azure Static Web Apps, Container Apps, App Service, and infrastructure

azure-devops-automation

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation for Azure workloads

azure-openai-patterns

Azure OpenAI API patterns for rate limiting, function calling, error handling, and token optimization

bicep-avm-mastery

Azure Verified Modules (AVM), Bicep best practices, and MCP-powered infrastructure as code for Azure

blog-writer

Write Alex blog posts from recent brain changes, commits, and experiences. Use when asked to write a blog post, generate a blog article, or when scheduled for automated blog creation.

book-launch-content

Generate launch-companion content for books — blog posts, author notes, and dogfooding angles that demonstrate the book's thesis through its own production. Use when a manuscript is approaching publication submission (KDP, agent query, prelaunch).

book-publishing

Markdown-to-PDF pipeline via Pandoc and LuaLaTeX with emoji rendering, dual output, and print-ready formatting

bootstrap-learning

Domain-agnostic knowledge acquisition — from zero to structured expertise through conversational learning

brain-qa

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brain-upgrade

Two-phase brain upgrade — mechanical install via shared core, then LLM-led semantic reconciliation

brand-asset-management

Brand hierarchy, visual identity, asset deployment, platform-specific branding guidelines

business-analysis

Patterns for requirements elicitation, BRDs, process analysis, and stakeholder alignment.

career-development

Resume crafting, interview preparation, job search strategy, and professional growth planning.