nicknisi

Use when assessing the risk of merging a PR

Turn the current project website into a short, polished, shareable launch video using Hyperframes. Use when someone says "/brag", "let's brag about this", "make a launch video", "turn this into a video", or wants to share what they built. Reads the project…

Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.

Orchestrate complex work from kickoff or mid-task. Preserve progress, bring in useful help, choose models by the work and how reliably it can be verified, and own the integrated result. Use when asked to orchestrate, parallelize, bring in agents, or change an…

Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

Apply after completing a task, before declaring done. Verify against the real artifact (run the feature, read the actual value, inspect the diff), not a proxy, self-report, or 'it compiles.'

Spawn three parallel review subagents over the active transcript, surface learnings, and route each to a concrete edit on an existing skill. Use when the user says reflect.

Fetch and curate AI news from X/Twitter list into a whimsical, animated HTML artifact. Use when user asks for AI news, AI digest, what's happening in AI, or wants a summary of AI announcements, papers, and releases.

Turn Nick Nisi's raw material into a blog post draft in his voice. Use when the user says "write a blog post," "draft a post," "write about [topic]," "turn my notes into a blog post," or provides scattered ideas that need shaping. Produces a deliberately flat…

This skill should be used when the user asks to "tighten this up", "tighten the prose", "clean up the writing", "check for AI tells", "make this sound more human", "de-slop this", "run a writing pass", or when completing a writing task that should not read…

Pull captions from a YouTube video and turn them into chapter-aligned notes where every claim carries a clickable timestamp. Use this whenever a youtube.com or youtu.be link appears, including a bare pasted link with no instructions attached, and whenever the…

Fetch tweets, Twitter/X articles, and Reddit posts via proxy APIs. Use when the user provides a twitter.com, x.com, or reddit.com URL, or asks to read a tweet, post, article, or thread from Twitter/X or Reddit.

Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question before committing to real implementation. Generates either a runnable terminal app (for state machines, data models, business logic) or several radically different UI variations on one route (for…

Socratic tutor that drills the user until they deeply understand a change — the problem, the solution, the design decisions, the edge cases, and what it impacts. Use after completing or reviewing work (a diff, PR, or session) when the user wants to truly own…

Review the current branch with six specialist lenses (security, correctness, conventions, tests, architecture, duplication), then put every finding through an adversarial verifier that tries to refute it — so what reaches you has already survived a skeptic.…

Run an extremely strict maintainability review for abstraction quality, giant files, and spaghetti-condition growth. Use when the user explicitly asks for a thermo-nuclear review, thermonuclear review, deep code quality audit, or an especially harsh…

Reflect on how you work with AI coding agents using sessions history. Use when the user says "reflect on my workflow", "why do I keep correcting the agent", or asks about prompting habits, supervision, workflow friction, or what makes delegation succeed.…

Explain why a piece of code exists by correlating it to the AI coding sessions behind it. Use when the user asks "why does this exist", "why did we write it this way", "what was the reasoning behind this line/file/commit", "who changed this and why", or…

Triage context-memory candidates mined from past AI coding sessions. Use when the user says "triage memory", "review memory", "mine memory", "/memory", or asks what durable facts their session history contains. Runs the mine, clusters paraphrased candidates,…

Generate a comprehensive summary of AI coding sessions from the past week. Use when the user says "weekly summary", "what did I do this week", "summarize my week", "weekly recap", "week in review", or asks for a summary of recent work across projects.

Load a context primer for the current repo before starting work. Use when the user says "what was I doing here", "catch me up on this repo", "context primer", "what's the open thread", "where did I/we leave off" — and PROACTIVELY when a session opens on work…

Recall what was done on a specific project or topic from past AI coding sessions. Use when the user says "what did I do on [project]", "recall [topic]", "history of [project]", "when did I last work on [thing]" — but also when they reference prior work…

Show usage metrics and analytics for AI coding sessions. Use when the user asks "how much have I been coding", "session stats", "show me metrics", "tool usage", "which tool do I use most", "active hours", or wants analytics about their AI coding tool usage.

Generate a quick standup summary of yesterday and today's AI coding sessions. Use when the user says "standup", "what did I do yesterday", "daily summary", "what have I been working on", or needs a quick recap for a standup meeting.

Orchestrate full execution of an ideation project — reads an approved plan's run contract (or a 0.x contract), builds an execution manifest, and runs all units on the deterministic Workflow engine (parallel where independent phases touch separate files,…

Execute an implementation spec generated by ideation. Invokes Scout for codebase exploration, builds components with feedback loops, then runs a Verify-Review-Fix cycle with the Reviewer agent before committing. Invoke only when the user explicitly asks to…

Generate a /goal command that runs an ideation project to completion UNATTENDED by driving /ideation:autopilot. The /goal string is owned by scripts/plan-goal.mjs; this skill resolves the project (an approved plan folder, or a 0.x contract), prints the goal,…

The single ideation entry point, run only when explicitly invoked. Picks a planning depth (just do it, short plan, interview, or map), says why in one line, and switches when the user overrules it in a word. When the user is still deciding whether to build at…

Run only when explicitly invoked. A thinking partner for deciding whether to build something at all: it surfaces hidden assumptions and argues for the simplest version, in conversation. It writes no files, and its tool list enforces that. It ends with a…

Add a theme pack or match a wallpaper to an existing theme in the dotfiles theme system (bin/theme). Use when the user pastes a theme repo URL or image, says "add this theme", "new theme pack", or wants another entry for theme next to cycle.

Use when drafting documents, reports, posts, presentations, or review comments from source materials, or conducting research across provided documents. Enforces read-first drafting, a source map for every claim, agent verification, and separation of verified…

Create and iterate on UI designs, prototypes, decks, and mockups in Claude Design (claude.ai/design) via its official MCP server. Use when the user asks to design something, wants UI mockups or artboard options, says /design, or wants to import a Claude…

Use when the user says "autoplan this", "autoplan", or wants an open-ended design/bugfix problem mined into a multiple-choice decision. Runs the saved autoplan workflow — parallel candidates, holy-grail check, advisor recommendation, human decision gate, plan…

Execute an implementation spec generated by ideation. Invokes scout agent for codebase exploration, builds components with feedback loops, then runs a verify-review-fix cycle with the reviewer agent before committing.

Transform raw brain dumps (dictated freestyle) into structured implementation artifacts. Use when user has messy ideas, scattered thoughts, or dictated stream-of-consciousness, or when they want to plan a feature, spec something out, or turn rough ideas into…

How to launch and drive Diff Dad for runtime verification — daemon on a scratch port, config/test-connection API, and the single-PR server.