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OpenMP skill for shared-memory parallel programming. Use when writing parallel for loops, reductions, task parallelism, SIMD directives, GPU offloading, or profiling with Score-P/TAU. Activates on queries about OpenMP, pragma omp, schedule static dynamic,…
RDMA verbs skill for InfiniBand and RoCE programming. Use when using libibverbs API, creating queue pairs, RDMA read/write operations, or benchmarking with perftest. Activates on queries about libibverbs, ibv_reg_mr, ibv_create_qp, RDMA, RoCE, ib_send_bw, or…
I2C and SPI bus driver skill for Linux client drivers. Use when writing i2c_driver or spi_driver, register access over bus, DMA SPI transfers, or ACPI/DT client binding. Activates on queries about i2c_client, spi_driver, regmap I2C, SPI transfer, or Linux I2C…
Device tree skill for Linux hardware description. Use when writing DTS/DTSI, bindings, overlays, phandles, or debugging OF platform probe failures. Activates on queries about device tree, DTS syntax, phandle, devicetree bindings, DT overlay, or OF graph.
Kernel concurrency skill for Linux locking and synchronization. Use when choosing spinlocks vs mutexes, using RCU, seqlocks, completions, or applying memory barriers in kernel code. Activates on queries about kernel spinlock, mutex, RCU, seqlock, memory…
Advanced kernel debugging skill for ftrace, trace-cmd, perf, kprobes, kgdb, and crash analysis. Use when tracing kernel functions, profiling syscalls in kernel, dynamic instrumentation, or analyzing vmcore. Activates on queries about ftrace, trace-cmd,…
Kernel memory management skill for Linux mm subsystem. Use when using kmalloc, vmalloc, page allocator, SLUB, or debugging OOM and memory zones. Activates on queries about buddy allocator, kmalloc sizes, vmalloc vs kmalloc, SLUB, memory zones, or kernel OOM.
Linux kernel architecture skill for subsystem overview. Use when navigating kernel source, understanding boot flow, initcalls, or major subsystems (VFS, scheduler, MM). Activates on queries about kernel architecture, boot process, initcall levels, subsystem…
Platform device model skill for Linux driver binding. Use when implementing platform_driver probe/remove, sysfs attributes, device properties, or deferred probe. Activates on queries about platform_device, platform_driver, driver model, sysfs, probe remove,…
QEMU kernel development skill for driver and kernel testing. Use when booting custom kernels in QEMU, Buildroot/Yocto rootfs, virtio devices, or NFS root for driver iteration. Activates on queries about QEMU kernel dev, Buildroot QEMU, virtio block, kernel…
Character driver skill for Linux kernel char devices. Use when implementing file_operations, cdev, copy_to_user, ioctl, or mmap for userspace interfaces. Activates on queries about char device, cdev, file_operations, copy_from_user, ioctl, or kernel mmap.
Linux device driver skill for kernel driver development. Use when writing platform/i2c/spi drivers, char device lifecycle, IRQ handling, DMA engine API, regmap, power management, or udev rules. Activates on queries about platform_driver, request_irq,…
Linux kernel debugging skill for kgdb, kdb, ftrace, kprobes, and crash analysis. Use when setting up kgdb over serial, using ftrace and trace-cmd, inserting kprobes, enabling dynamic debug, or analyzing kdump with crash. Activates on queries about kgdb, kdb,…
Linux kernel internals skill for scheduler, memory, and VFS subsystems. Use when analyzing CFS/EEVDF scheduling, buddy/SLUB allocators, page cache, memory zones, OOM killer, or interpreting /proc/meminfo. Activates on queries about kernel scheduler, vruntime,…
Linux kernel testing skill for KUnit, kselftest, syzkaller, and LTP. Use when writing KUnit tests, running kselftest harness, configuring syzkaller fuzzing, or integrating KernelCI. Activates on queries about kunit_test_suite, kunit.py, kselftest, syzkaller,…
OS development from scratch skill for bootloader through context switching. Use when building a minimal x86-64 OS, setting up GDT/IDT/page tables, writing keyboard/serial drivers, or using QEMU for kernel boot. Activates on queries about bootloader, long…
Carbon language skill for C++ interop and toolchain. Use when evaluating Carbon syntax, bidirectional C++ interop, building carbon-toolchain, or comparing Carbon vs C++. Activates on queries about Carbon language, Carbon.h, carbon-toolchain, checked borrows,…
Hare language skill for simple systems programming. Use when building with hare build/test/run, Hare stdlib, C FFI with @extern, tagged union error handling, or comparing Hare vs C/Zig. Activates on queries about Hare language, hare build, @extern, tagged…
AArch64 and ARM assembly skill for reading and writing ARM assembly code. Use when reading GCC/Clang output for AArch64 or ARM Thumb targets, writing inline asm in C/C++, understanding the ARM ABI (AAPCS64/AAPCS), or debugging register and stack state on ARM…
C++20 coroutines skill for understanding coroutine mechanics and debugging. Use when working with co_await, co_yield, co_return, implementing promise_type, understanding coroutine frame layout, debugging suspended coroutines in GDB, or inspecting frame…
Linux kernel module skill for writing and debugging loadable kernel modules. Use when writing LKMs with Kbuild, adding module parameters, creating /proc and sysfs entries, implementing character devices, debugging with KGDB or ftrace, or handling module…
eBPF skill for Linux observability and networking. Use when writing eBPF programs with libbpf or bpftrace, attaching kprobes/tracepoints/XDP hooks, debugging verifier errors, working with eBPF maps, or achieving CO-RE portability across kernel versions.…
Apple Silicon skill for M-series development and profiling. Use when leveraging unified memory, Metal Performance Shaders, Instruments profiling, sysctl hardware queries, Rosetta 2 behavior, or 16KB page size considerations. Activates on queries about Apple…
ARM SVE skill for scalable vector extension programming. Use when writing SVE intrinsics, predicate registers, VLA loops with svcnt, auto-vectorization with -march=armv9-a+sve2, or debugging SVE in GDB. Activates on queries about SVE, SVE2, predicate…
RISC-V privileged architecture skill for M/S/U modes and traps. Use when handling CSRs, trap handlers, PLIC/CLINT interrupts, OpenSBI integration, page tables Sv39/Sv48, or QEMU virt testing. Activates on queries about RISC-V privileged, mstatus, mtvec, satp,…
Protocol analysis skill for serial bus debugging. Use when decoding I2C/SPI/UART with logic analyzer concepts, sigrok/PulseView, or Python capture scripts. Activates on queries about logic analyzer, sigrok, PulseView, decode I2C SPI UART, or bus protocol…
QEMU embedded simulation skill for bare-metal MCU testing. Use when running ARM/RISC-V firmware in QEMU, selecting machine models, loading -kernel ELF, or GDB debugging without hardware. Activates on queries about QEMU bare metal, qemu-system-arm -kernel,…
Resource optimization skill for constrained embedded targets. Use when reducing flash/RAM usage, analyzing stack depth, reading linker map files, or tuning size vs speed on MCUs. Activates on queries about firmware size optimization, linker map, stack usage,…
Verilog basics skill for firmware and kernel engineers. Use when reading RTL to understand hardware behavior, reset/clock domains, bus protocols, or collaborating with hardware teams. Activates on queries about Verilog basics, RTL, hardware description, clock…
Binary hardening skill for security-hardened C/C++ builds. Use when enabling RELRO, PIE, stack canaries, FORTIFY_SOURCE, CFI sanitizers, shadow stack, or seccomp-bpf syscall filtering. Covers checksec analysis, compiler and linker flags for hardened builds,…
Fuzzing skill for automated input-driven bug finding in C/C++. Use when setting up libFuzzer or AFL++ fuzz targets, defining fuzz entry points around parsing or I/O boundaries, integrating fuzzing into CI, managing corpora, or combining fuzzing with…
Compiler sanitizer skill for runtime bug detection in C/C++. Use when enabling and interpreting AddressSanitizer (ASan), UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan), ThreadSanitizer (TSan), MemorySanitizer (MSan), or LeakSanitizer (LSan) with GCC or Clang. Activates…
WebAssembly runtime skill using wasmtime. Use when running WASM modules with wasmtime CLI, working with WASI preview2, using the component model, embedding wasmtime in Rust applications, limiting execution with fuel metering, or debugging WASM with DWARF in…
Linux kernel security skill for LSM, hardening, and exploit mitigations. Use when writing SELinux/AppArmor policies, seccomp-bpf filters, configuring KASLR/CET/PAC, or triaging kernel CVEs. Activates on queries about SELinux, AppArmor, seccomp, KASLR, CET,…
Reverse engineering skill for binary analysis. Use when decompiling with Ghidra, analyzing with radare2, scripting RE tools, triaging with strings/file/xxd, or diffing binaries. Activates on queries about Ghidra, radare2, r2, decompiler, Binary Ninja,…
Linux containers internals skill for namespaces, cgroups, and OCI. Use when understanding clone/unshare namespaces, cgroups v2 limits, overlayfs, runc, seccomp profiles, capabilities, or escape mitigations. Activates on queries about namespaces, cgroups,…
Hardware virtualization internals skill for Intel VT-x and AMD-V. Use when studying VMCS/VMCB, EPT/NPT page tables, VMEXIT handling, APIC virtualization, or building minimal hypervisors. Activates on queries about VMX, SVM, VMCS, EPT, NPT, VMEXIT, or type-1…
QEMU/KVM skill for virtualization and kernel development. Use when running qemu-system-x86_64 with KVM, configuring virtio devices, VFIO passthrough, QMP monitor, libvirt, or booting custom kernels. Activates on queries about QEMU, KVM, virtio, VFIO, virsh,…
Ninja build system skill. Use when diagnosing Ninja build failures, understanding Ninja's role as a low-level build executor generated by CMake or other meta-build systems, tuning parallelism, interpreting Ninja output, or working with build.ninja files.…
C++20 modules skill for modern C++ projects. Use when working with named modules, module partitions, header units, CMake MODULE_SOURCES, Clang -fmodules-ts, BMI caching issues, or migrating from headers to modules. Activates on queries about C++20 modules,…