Laravel 13 queue and job patterns — driver choice, job design (idempotency, ShouldQueue, model serialisation), retry and failure handling, worker scaling, Bus batching and chaining, Horizon when warranted, queue testing. Use when designing async jobs, scheduling background work, configuring Horizon, debugging stuck jobs, or auditing queue health. Triggers on "Laravel queue", "Laravel job", "background job", "Horizon setup", "failed jobs", "Bus batch", "queue worker tuning".
Detect AI-generated code patterns ("slop") in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/React source — comment narration, generic naming, premature interfaces, defensive overdose, mock-everything tests, and the absence of human "scars". Use when reviewing AI-assisted PRs, auditing code for taste/quality (not metrics — that's technical-debt), or hardening a code-review checklist. Triggers on "review for AI slop", "find AI patterns", "check code feels human", "audit code-quality taste".
Project documentation lifecycle for PHP/Laravel and Node/TypeScript/React projects — bootstrapping essential docs, naming and folder conventions, freshness, and cleanup of AI-generated junk and stale files. Use when starting a new project, setting up docs/ structure, auditing markdown files, cleaning up the docs folder, or deciding which docs to keep, archive, or delete. Triggers on "set up docs", "audit docs", "clean up markdown", "what docs does this project need", "organize docs folder", "find stale docs".
Technical debt inventory, prioritization, and audit for PHP/Laravel (MySQL) and Node/TypeScript/React projects. Use when assessing code health, identifying refactoring candidates, planning debt paydown, or auditing a codebase for accumulated debt. Triggers on "audit technical debt", "find tech debt", "debt inventory", "what should we refactor first", or tasks involving code health, security debt, performance debt, data debt, observability debt, debt prioritization, or remediation planning.
End-to-end testing with Playwright for web applications. Use when writing E2E tests, browser automation, form submission testing, or user flow testing. Triggers on "playwright", "e2e test", "browser test", "end-to-end", "form flow testing", or test files in tests/e2e/.
SEO patterns, conventions, and audit for web applications. Use when implementing meta tags, structured data, Core Web Vitals, sitemaps, Open Graph, auditing SEO, or optimizing pages for search engines. Triggers on "audit SEO", "check SEO", "review SEO", or tasks involving search optimization, schema markup, or social sharing meta tags.
Laravel database optimization patterns. Use when writing Eloquent queries, creating migrations, configuring caching, debugging slow queries, or optimizing database performance. Triggers on tasks involving N+1 queries, indexing, Redis caching, pagination, or database transactions.
UI/UX best practices and accessibility audit. Use when reviewing UI code, checking accessibility, running accessibility audits, auditing forms, or ensuring web interface best practices. Triggers on "audit accessibility", "check WCAG", "review UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check best practices".