Shape answers so they are immediately actionable instead of long. Use on any response that would otherwise run long โ multi-step tasks, explanations, plans, reviews with many findings, or answers that hand back commands, paths, or snippets to run. Leads with the next action, numbers steps, restates progress, caps lists, and gives concrete time estimates. Complements caveman (which handles tone); this handles shape.
Senior software architect for system design, ADRs, microservices evaluation, technology trade-off analysis. Use when designing system architecture, evaluating patterns, creating ADRs, analyzing technology choices, or planning migrations.
Go CLI development with Cobra command hierarchy, Bubbletea interactive TUI, Lipgloss terminal styling, Charmbracelet ecosystem (Bubbles, Huh forms, Glamour markdown rendering), and shell completions. Use when building CLI tools, adding subcommands, creating interactive TUI, styling terminal output, or implementing shell completions.
Cloud architecture design, migration, optimization, and disaster recovery across AWS and Azure. Use when designing VPCs/VNets, IAM/RBAC, compute/storage architectures, cost optimization, multi-cloud patterns, or planning migrations. Both Terraform and CLI approaches.
Datadog monitoring strategy, alert design, tagging governance, dashboard patterns, SLO strategy, log management, cost optimization, and cross-pillar correlation workflows. Use when making architectural decisions about what to monitor, how to alert, how to tag, or how to structure Datadog for a service or platform. Delegates execution to pup CLI and infrastructure-as-code to sre-engineer.
Kubernetes workload management, Helm chart development, cluster troubleshooting, custom operators, configuration management, and multi-cluster administration. Use when deploying workloads, writing Helm charts, debugging pods, creating operators, managing ConfigMaps/Secrets/RBAC, or working with multi-cluster setups.
Implements application observability in Go: structured logging with slog, Prometheus metrics instrumentation, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, Datadog APM with dd-trace-go, application profiling with pprof, and load testing with k6. Use when instrumenting Go services, adding structured logging, emitting Prometheus metrics, setting up distributed tracing, profiling CPU/memory, running load tests, or deploying monitoring infrastructure with Terraform.
Secure secrets management using Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or platform-native solutions. Use when storing credentials, managing API keys, handling certificates, configuring secret access in applications, infrastructure (Terraform/Ansible), Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines. Also covers secret rotation, scanning, ADO variable groups, workload identity, and least-privilege access patterns.