This skill should be used when the user asks to "look up Effect API", "check the Effect docs", "find Effect function signature", "what does Effect.X do", "how to use Effect.X", "Effect API reference", "fetch Effect documentation", or needs to look up specific function signatures, parameters, or usage examples from the official Effect-TS API documentation.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Effect batching", "request batching", "Effect caching", "Cache", "Request", "RequestResolver", "Effect.cached", "Effect.cachedWithTTL", "automatic batching", "N+1 problem", "data loader pattern", "deduplication", or needs to understand how Effect optimizes API calls through batching and caching.
This skill should be used EVERY TIME you're writing TypeScript with Effect, especially when the user asks about "Effect best practices", "Effect code style", "idiomatic Effect", "functional programming", "no loops", "no for loops", "avoid imperative", "Effect Array", "Effect Record", "Effect Struct", "Effect Tuple", "Effect Predicate", "Schema-first", "Match-first", "when to use Schema", "when to use Match", "branded types", "dual APIs", "Effect guidelines", "do notation", "Effect.gen", "pipe vs method chaining", "Effect naming conventions", "Effect project structure", "data modeling in Effect", or needs to understand idiomatic Effect-TS patterns and conventions.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Effect concurrency", "fibers", "Fiber", "forking", "Effect.fork", "Effect.forkDaemon", "parallel execution", "Effect.all concurrency", "Deferred", "Queue", "PubSub", "Semaphore", "Latch", "fiber interruption", "Effect.race", "Effect.raceAll", "concurrent effects", or needs to understand how Effect handles parallel and concurrent execution.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Effect Config", "environment variables", "configuration management", "Config.string", "Config.number", "ConfigProvider", "Config.nested", "Config.withDefault", "Config.redacted", "sensitive values", "config validation", "loading config from JSON", "config schema", or needs to understand how Effect handles application configuration.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Effect Option", "Effect Either", "Option.some", "Option.none", "Either.left", "Either.right", "Cause", "Exit", "Chunk", "Data", "Data.TaggedEnum", "Data.Class", "Duration", "DateTime", "HashMap", "HashSet", "Redacted", or needs to understand Effect's built-in data types and functional data structures.
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Effect AI", "@effect/ai", "LLM integration", "AI tool use", "AI execution planning", "building AI agents", "AI providers", "structured AI output", "AI completions", "Effect OpenAI", "Effect Anthropic", or needs to understand how Effect integrates with AI/LLM services.
This skill should be used ANY TIME you're writing TypeScript with Effect, especially when the user asks about "Effect type", "creating effects", "running effects", "Effect.gen", "Effect.succeed", "Effect.fail", "Effect.sync", "Effect.promise", "Effect.tryPromise", "Effect.runPromise", "Effect.runSync", "pipe", "andThen", "flatMap", "map", "Effect basics", or needs to understand the fundamental Effect<Success, Error, Requirements> type and how to create, compose, and run effects.