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How to conduct and receive effective code reviews. Use when reviewing a PR, requesting review, or improving review quality.

Systematic process for diagnosing and resolving defects. Use when debugging failures, investigating errors, or reproducing issues.

Principles for writing READMEs, API docs, ADRs, code comments, and changelogs. Use when creating or improving any technical documentation.

How to use Automatic's feature tracking system — creating, progressing, and updating per-project work items via the Automatic MCP service. Activate when working on a project managed by Automatic that has feature tracking enabled.

Data-driven approach to identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks. Use when investigating slow queries, high latency, or memory growth.

Techniques for improving code structure without changing behaviour. Use when cleaning up code, reducing complexity, or addressing technical debt.

Security review checklist and threat mindset for any codebase. Use when reviewing code for vulnerabilities, implementing auth, or handling user input.

Principles and patterns for writing effective tests. Use when writing unit, integration, or end-to-end tests, or reviewing test quality.

When writing complex features or significant refactors, use an ExecPlan from design to implementation.

Execute git commit with conventional commit message analysis, intelligent staging, and message generation. Use when user asks to commit changes, create a git commit, or mentions "/commit". Supports: (1) Auto-detecting type and scope from changes, (2) Generating conventional commit messages from diff, (3) Interactive commit with optional type/scope/description overrides, (4) Intelligent file staging for logical grouping

Linear issue workflow automation and best practices. Use when working with Linear issues — automatically moves issues through states (Backlog → In Progress → Needs Review), tags with "agent", and follows Linear conventions for issue management, comments, and project organization.