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Final mile. Take a branch from merge candidate to shipped: run the /ci + /refactor + /code-review triad in parallel subagents, integrate fixes, and repeat until the branch is lean, green, clean, and shiny. Then archive backlog ticket(s) with Closes-backlog trailers preserved into the squash merge, land it, run /reflect, and apply its outputs. Use when: "ship it", "merge and close out", "final mile", "land and reflect", "finish this ticket". Trigger: /ship.

Accessibility audit, remediation, and verification. WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. Three-agent protocol: audit (find issues) → remediate (fix them) → critique (verify fixes). Use when: "accessibility audit", "a11y", "WCAG", "screen reader", "keyboard navigation", "contrast check", "aria fix", "accessibility sprint", "audit accessibility", "fix accessibility", "a11y issues", "a11y check". Trigger: /a11y

Audit a repo's CI gates, strengthen what is weak, then drive the pipeline green. Owns confidence in correctness — lint, types, tests, coverage, secrets. Dagger is the canonical pipeline owner; absence is auto-scaffolded, not escalated. Acts on its assessment; never returns a report where action would suffice. Never returns red without a structured diagnosis. Bounded self-heal: auto-fix lint/format, regenerate lockfiles, retry flakes. Escalates only genuine algorithm/logic failures. Use when: "run ci", "check ci", "fix ci", "audit ci", "is ci passing", "run the gates", "dagger check", "why is ci failing", "strengthen ci", "tighten ci", "ci is red", "gates failing". Trigger: /ci, /gates.

Analyze, test, and upgrade dependencies. One curated PR, not 47 version bumps. Reachability analysis, behavioral diffs, risk assessment. Package-manager agnostic. Use when: "upgrade deps", "dependency audit", "check for updates", "outdated packages", "security audit deps", "update dependencies", "vulnerable dependencies", "deps". Trigger: /deps.

Backlog management, brainstorming, architectural exploration, project bootstrapping. File-driven backlog via backlog.d/. Parallel investigation bench, synthesis protocol, themed recommendations. Product vision + technical excellence. Use when: backlog session, "groom", "what should we build", "rethink this", "biggest opportunity", "backlog", "prioritize", "tidy", "scaffold". Trigger: /groom, /backlog, /rethink, /moonshot, /scaffold, /tidy.

Browser-based QA, exploratory testing, evidence capture, and bug reporting. Drive running applications and verify they work — not just that tests pass. Use when: "run QA", "test this", "verify the feature", "exploratory test", "check the app", "QA this PR", "capture evidence", "manual testing", "scaffold qa", "generate qa skill". Trigger: /qa.

Unblock, polish, and merge a Volume PR. Fix CI/conflicts/reviews, polish, refactor, land via `gh pr merge <n> --squash --auto`. /land alias runs the final merge. Use when: PR is blocked, CI red, review comments open, "land this", "get this mergeable", "fix and polish", "unblock", "clean up", "make this merge-ready", "address reviews", "fix CI", "land this branch". Trigger: /settle, /land (alias), /pr-fix, /pr-polish.

Shape a raw idea into something buildable. Product + technical exploration. Spec, design, critique, plan. Output is a context packet. Use when: "shape this", "write a spec", "design this feature", "plan this", "spec out", "context packet", "technical design". Trigger: /shape, /spec, /plan, /cp.

Manual QA regression pass for the Volume app. Validates critical user flows: health, auth, paywall gate behavior, today workspace, and coach composer send behavior with evidence artifacts. Use when: before PR, after auth/subscription/coach changes, or when users report flow breakage.

Assess and improve codebase readiness for AI coding agents. Dispatches parallel subagents to evaluate style, testing, docs, architecture, CI, observability, security, and dev environment. Produces a scored report with prioritized remediation. Then executes the highest-impact fixes. Use when: "agent readiness", "is this codebase agent-ready", "readiness report", "make this codebase agent-friendly", "agent-ready assessment", "readiness audit", "prepare for agents". Trigger: /agent-readiness, /readiness.

Dialectical premise-and-alternatives audit for a plan, spec, or context packet. Four moves: premise challenge (is this the right problem?), mandatory structurally-distinct alternatives, cross-model outside voice, user-ratified convergence. Named for Gary Tan's plan-ceo-review pattern; operationalizes the AGENTS.md "Diverge Before You Converge" doctrine at the plan-review stage. Use when: about to commit to a plan/spec/design, reviewing a ticket before shape, when "is this the right problem" would be useful, or any time a proposal smells like a symptom fix instead of a root-cause fix. Trigger: /ceo-review, /challenge, /premise-check.

Parallel multi-agent code review. Launch reviewer team, synthesize findings, auto-fix blocking issues, loop until clean. Use when: "review this", "code review", "is this ready to ship", "check this code", "review my changes". Trigger: /code-review, /review, /critique.

Inner-loop composer. Takes one backlog item to merge-ready code. Composes /shape → /implement → {/code-review + /ci + /refactor + /qa} (clean loop) and stops. Does not push, does not merge, does not deploy. Communicates with callers via exit code + receipt.json — no stdout parsing. Every run also ends with a tight operator-facing brief plus a full /reflect session. Use when: building a shaped ticket, "deliver this", "make it merge-ready", driving one backlog item through review + CI + QA. Trigger: /deliver.

Generate demo artifacts: screenshots, GIF walkthroughs, video recordings, polished launch videos with narration and music. From raw evidence to shipped media. Also handles PR evidence upload via draft releases. Use when: "make a demo", "generate demo", "record walkthrough", "launch video", "PR evidence", "upload screenshots", "demo artifacts", "make a video", "demo this feature", "create a walkthrough", "scaffold demo", "generate demo skill". Trigger: /demo.

Ship merged code to a deploy target. Thin router — detects target from repo config, dispatches to platform-specific recipe, captures a structured receipt (sha, version, URL, rollback handle), stops when the target reports healthy. Does not monitor (→ /monitor), does not triage (→ /diagnose), does not decide when to deploy. Use when: "deploy", "ship this", "ship to prod", "release", "push to staging", "deploy this branch", "release cut". Trigger: /deploy, /ship-it, /release.

Investigate, audit, triage, and fix. Systematic debugging, incident lifecycle, domain auditing, and issue logging. Four-phase protocol: root cause → pattern analysis → hypothesis test → fix. Use for: any bug, test failure, production incident, error spikes, audit, triage, postmortem, "diagnose", "why is this broken", "debug this", "production down", "is production ok", "audit stripe", "log issues". Trigger: /diagnose.

Outer-loop shipping orchestrator. Composes /deliver, landing, /deploy, /monitor, and /reflect cycle per backlog item, then applies reflect outputs to the harness and backlog before looping. Use when: "flywheel", "run the outer loop", "next N items", "overnight queue", "cycle". Trigger: /flywheel.

Build, maintain, evaluate, and optimize the agent harness — skills, agents, hooks, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and enforcement infrastructure. Use when: "create a skill", "update skill", "improve the harness", "sync skills", "eval skill", "lint skill", "tune the harness", "add skill", "remove skill", "convert agent to skill", "audit skills", "skill health", "unused skills", "lint this skill", "eval this skill", "evaluate this skill", "validate this skill", "check this skill". Trigger: /harness, /focus, /skill, /primitive.

Atomic TDD build skill. Takes a context packet (shaped ticket) and produces code + tests on a feature branch. Red → Green → Refactor. Does not shape, review, QA, or ship — single concern: spec to green tests. Use when: "implement this spec", "build this", "TDD this", "code this up", "write the code for this ticket", after /shape has produced a context packet. Trigger: /implement, /build (alias).

Research, compare, and select LLM models for AI-powered apps and workflows. Finds latest models per family, verifies availability on target platform, compares pricing/benchmarks/tool-calling, produces ranked recommendations. Use when: "which model", "compare models", "find a model", "model research", "best model for", "cheapest model", "tool calling models", "model selection", "upgrade model", "swap model", "fallback models", "model chain".

Post-deploy signal watch. Poll healthcheck and configured signals through a grace window. Emit structured events. Escalate to /diagnose on trip, close clean on green. Thin watcher, not diagnostician. Use when: "monitor signals", "watch the deploy", "is the deploy ok", "post-deploy watch", "signal watch", "grace window", "watch production". Trigger: /monitor.

YC-partner-style interrogation of a raw idea. Six forcing questions before you shape anything: demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation & surprise, future-fit. Named for Gary Tan's office-hours pattern; operationalizes the AGENTS.md "Diverge Before You Converge" doctrine at the ideation stage — problem-diamond, pre-/shape. Use when: user arrives with a rough idea, backlog item is fuzzy, you can't already write a one-sentence goal with a testable outcome, or the phrase "what should we build" would be useful. Trigger: /office-hours, /oh, /interrogate.

Branch-aware simplification and refactoring workflow. On feature branches, compare against base and simplify the diff before merge. On primary branch, scan the full codebase, research prior art, and identify the highest-impact simplification opportunity. Use when: "refactor this", "simplify this diff", "clean this up", "reduce complexity", "pay down tech debt", "make this easier to maintain", "make this more elegant", "reduce the number of states", "clarify naming". Trigger: /refactor.

Session retrospective, operator coaching, harness postmortem, codification, and outer-loop cycle critique. Distills learnings into hooks/rules/skills, mutates the backlog from evidence, and emits harness-tuning suggestions to a branch. Learning engine of the outer loop. Use when: "done", "wrap up", "what did we learn", "retro", "reflect", "calibrate", "how could I have asked better", "prompt better", "teach me from this session", "what should I learn from this", "reflect on cycle", "cycle postmortem", post-/flywheel critique. Trigger: /reflect, /retro, /calibrate, /reflect cycle <cycle-ulid>.

Web research, multi-AI delegation, and multi-perspective validation. /research [query], /research delegate [task], /research thinktank [topic]. Triggers: "search for", "look up", "research", "delegate", "get perspectives", "web search", "find out", "investigate", "introspect", "session analysis", "check readwise", "saved articles", "reading list", "highlights", "what are people saying", "X search", "social sentiment", "trending".

End-to-end "ship it to the remote" in one command. Reads the whole worktree, understands what's in flight, tidies debris, splits pending work into semantically-meaningful conventional commits, and pushes. Not a git wrapper — a judgment layer on top of git. Decides what belongs, what doesn't, and how to slice the diff into commits a reviewer can read. Use when: "yeet", "yeet this", "commit and push", "ship it", "tidy and commit", "wrap this up and push", "get this off my machine". Trigger: /yeet, /ship-local (alias).