nicknisi

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 any topic, doc, article, README, or wall of text into "sludge content": a split-screen web page with a narrated ELI5-style lesson on the left (browser text-to-speech, one-word-at-a-time TikTok captions) and an endless pixel platformer or…

Turn Nick Nisi's raw material into content drafts in his voice — blog posts and conference talks, primarily. Use when the user says "write a post," "draft a talk," "write about [topic]," "turn my notes into writing," or provides scattered ideas that need…

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 the contract, builds an execution manifest, and runs all phases on the deterministic Workflow engine (parallel for independent phases, sequential for dependent ones). Auto-continues on success, gates…

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…

You MUST use this before building any new feature, planning a migration, designing a system, or turning a decided-on idea into a plan. Triggers on: feature requests, project ideas, brain dumps, 'help me plan,' 'spec this out,' 'interview me,' 'I want to…

Generate a /goal command that runs an ideation project to completion UNATTENDED by driving /ideation:autopilot. The /goal string is owned by scripts/contract-gen.ts (--print-goal); this skill resolves the project's contract-data.json, prints the goal, and…

Use when the user is weighing or pressure-testing an idea rather than committing to build it — 'should I do X', 'which of these approaches', 'is this worth doing', 'what am I missing', 'am I overthinking or over-engineering this'. A lightweight thinking…

Use when an effort is too big for one agent session and the way from here to the destination isn't visible yet — the route itself is the unknown, not the build. Triggers on: 'this is huge and I can't even see how to get there,' 'too foggy to spec,' 'we need a…

One-pass ideation for well-understood work: a thin alias that pre-commits /ideation's post-interview routing to the express finish. Identical evidence-gated interview, one consolidated confirmation (scope tier + run mode), then contract and specs generated…

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.

Verify or reproduce visible product behavior by driving the real UI with pi-computer-use's checked tools, requiring verified expect postconditions and durable state evidence for meaningful UI flows. Use when triage needs visual reproduction, implementation…

Restate the last message in plain human language, with no jargon.

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…

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…

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…

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.