Compact the current conversation into a handoff document another session or agent can resume from. Use when wrapping up with unfinished work, when context is getting long, or when the user says "hand this off", "write a handoff", or "save state for the next session". Produces a single Markdown file at a durable, harness-agnostic path and reports it. Does NOT continue the work itself; it only captures state so a fresh session can.
Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.
Land one small UI papercut as a tiny, easy-to-approve PR, the low-ceremony path for fixes too small to warrant a full session. Use when the user spots a minor visual or interaction nit (spacing, alignment, colour, hover, copy, a slightly-off radius) and wants it fixed and shipped without ceremony, or says "quick fix", "polish this", "tiny PR for X". Makes the minimal change, captures a before/after, and opens a small PR. Does NOT do feature work, refactors, or anything that needs review discussion; escalate those to a normal session.
Generate N different HTML implementations of a UI feature, preview them, and iterate a few times, a fast "show me the options" loop for exploring what a feature could look like. Default N is 5. Use when the user wants to prototype a UI, explore or compare designs for a feature, says "prototype this", "try a few designs", "explore some options for X", "what could this look like", or hands over a feature with no spec. Surfaces a quiet recommendation inside the preview but does NOT collapse to one winner, do research, implement, verify, or open a PR; those are layered on at prompt time, or handed to /verify and /code-review.
Create Paper-first UI prototype directions, especially after grill-with-docs has settled product and domain decisions. Use to explore layout, hierarchy, density, flow, or visual framing as editable Paper artboards before committing to code, to compare 2 to 3 structurally distinct directions, or to turn settled product decisions into an interface. For throwaway HTML explorations rather than editable Paper frames, use the prototype skill instead. Do not use for business-logic or state-machine prototyping unless the user explicitly asks for Paper output.
Run a post-implementation review that checks a built change against the intent that was set. Run lint, typecheck, tests, and build; confirm the result matches the chosen design direction and covers its promised states (empty, loading, error, disabled, long content, and partially complete data); check accessibility and responsive behaviour; flag any risky surface; and assemble the handoff evidence a reviewer needs. Read-only: it reviews and reports, it never edits. Use after a build or a meaningful change, after ui-craft and before opening or finalising a PR, especially when the user asks to verify, review, sign off, or sanity-check a built change before handoff.
Run a pre-implementation plan review that attacks a settled product, UI, or technical plan for blockers, missing states, edge cases, accessibility gaps, mobile failures, awkward data assumptions, and implementation ambiguity. Use before coding after grill-with-docs, paper-prototype, a design decision, prototype, PRD, brief, or implementation plan, especially when the user asks to red-team, sanity-check, review, or decide go/no-go before build.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) lookup and routing for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS design work. Use when any Apple-platform design spec, term, or behaviour is in question — minimum tap target or hit target size, type sizes, Dynamic Type, safe areas, bar heights, corner radii, sheet detents, menu structure, native component names — or when work touches Liquid Glass-era APIs (glassEffect, GlassEffectContainer, scrollEdgeEffect, tabViewBottomAccessory) even without HIG framing. Model priors on Apple's current design system are stale (the HIG was rewritten for Liquid Glass in 2025–26) — never answer Apple design-spec questions from memory. Routes design and prototyping work to hig-design and HIG audits to hig-review. Also use to check whether the local HIG snapshot is current. For web-platform values on non-Apple work, use ui-craft.