claude-code-helper

CI pipeline design, parallel execution, caching strategies, and quality gates. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, configuring GitHub Actions, automating deployments, optimizing build times, or implementing quality gates. Triggers on 'CI/CD pipeline', 'GitHub Actions', 'deploy', 'build pipeline', 'continuous integration', 'automated deployment'.

Add comprehensive documentation including JSDoc/TSDoc, inline comments, README updates, and OpenAPI 3.0 API docs. Use when documenting code, generating docs, improving project documentation, adding docstrings, writing README files, or creating API specifications. Triggers on 'add docs', 'document this', 'write README', 'API spec', 'add docstrings', 'generate documentation'.

Greet all installed tools and generate a health report

Switch between model modes or check current mode. Use /model-mode status to see current setting, /model-mode opus-only to always use Opus, /model-mode default for auto-switching.

Generate project scaffolding, boilerplate code, and project structure for React, Next.js, Express, NestJS, FastAPI, Django, and more. Use when starting a new project, generating boilerplate, or setting up project structure. Triggers on 'scaffold', 'create project', 'new app', 'bootstrap', 'boilerplate', 'starter template', 'project structure', 'monorepo'.

Manage the RAG MCP server — index codebases, search semantically, configure backends (ChromaDB/Redis/Qdrant)

Refresh agent knowledge from official reference URLs. Fetches latest documentation, release notes, and changelogs to keep agents current. Supports refreshing a single agent, all agents, or checking refresh status.

Score a coding task by complexity (1-10) and recommend the right model (haiku/sonnet/opus) before invoking a language agent. Holds the per-language rubric for all language/framework experts.

Comprehensive testing skill covering TDD, E2E, BDD, contract testing, mutation testing, and visual regression. Use when writing tests, designing test strategy, adding test coverage, fixing flaky tests, mocking services, setting up testing frameworks, or any testing task. Triggers on 'write tests', 'add test coverage', 'test strategy', 'fix flaky test', 'mock', 'E2E test', 'unit test', 'integration test'.

Check if your claude-code-helper installation is up to date and apply updates. Reads the local manifest and compares against the latest component-versions index on GitHub. Supports checking all components, a single component by name, and applying updates with automatic backup.

REST API design, GraphQL patterns, API versioning, and documentation best practices. Use when designing APIs, building REST endpoints, structuring GraphQL schemas, handling API errors, setting up authentication, or configuring rate limiting. Triggers on 'design API', 'REST endpoint', 'API versioning', 'rate limiting', 'API authentication', 'OpenAPI', 'API error handling'.

Database schema design, migration strategies, indexing, query optimization, and scaling patterns. Use when designing schemas, planning migrations, optimizing queries, choosing indexes, normalizing data, or scaling databases. Triggers on 'design schema', 'database migration', 'normalize', 'indexing strategy', 'query optimization', 'data modeling'.

Interactive refactoring workflow with safety checks, testing, and rollback support. Use when cleaning up code, simplifying functions, extracting methods or classes, renaming across a project, reducing complexity, modernizing syntax, eliminating code smells, managing technical debt, or improving code structure. Triggers on "refactor", "clean up", "simplify", "extract method", "rename", "reduce complexity", "code smells", "technical debt", "modernize code".

Semantic versioning, release planning, deployment strategies, and rollback procedures

When the user asks about [TRIGGER WORDS], wants to [ACTION], or needs help with [TOPIC], use this skill to provide [CAPABILITY]

Generate comprehensive API documentation following OpenAPI 3.0 and REST standards when creating or documenting APIs, endpoints, or web services

Write comprehensive tests following TDD and best practices. Use when generating unit tests, integration tests, or end-to-end tests for any code