Aang showing a new friend around the team. Explains Team Avatar to a user, the roster and who owns what, how to invoke a skill on Claude Code and Codex, which skill fits a situation, and how to word a good prompt. Use for /avatar-help, "how do I use team…
Zuko's breath of fire for performance work. Use for slowness, high latency, memory growth, CPU spin, bundle size, cloud cost, "make this faster", or the old perf-issue playbook. Captures a baseline trace, finds the real limit, fixes the cheapest thing that…
Aang's operating mode for Team Avatar, principal-level engineering where each task goes to the character who owns that discipline. Use for "avatar mode", "team avatar", "/avatar-mode", "$avatar-mode", or any nontrivial engineering task (more than one file, a…
Zuko's Agni Kai for bakeoffs. The formal firebending duel, where competing implementations fight under the same rules and a judge declares the winner. Use for arena, /arena, "arena this", "throw it in the arena", "bakeoff", or when one attempt at a nontrivial…
Aang choosing which bender takes which fight. Configures which model each Team Avatar character runs on, the default reasoning effort, and whether the SessionStart hook routes work into avatar-mode. Use for /avatar-setup, "setup team avatar", "configure team…
Sokka's battle map, the decision trail he keeps so anyone can see how the campaign was won. Use for show-me-your-work, /show-me-your-work, "show me your work", "keep a decision log", "audit trail", long or unattended runs, multi-phase work, or anything a…
Appa's morning departure for picking up paused or handed-off work. The team breaks camp, reads the map they left, and flies on from where they stopped. Use for session-pickup, "pick up where we left off", "resume", "continue the previous session", "take over…
Katara's regular checkup, because a patient who was healthy last month can be sick today. Use for maintain-verification-skill, /maintain-verification-skill, "audit the verify skill", or "is the feature map still right". Periodic pass that keeps a project's…
Appa's clear skies for merge conflicts. Appa waits out the storm, then flies on once the sky is clear. Use for fix-merge-conflicts, /fix-merge-conflicts, "resolve the conflicts", "fix the merge conflict", "rebase broke", or a PR whose merge state is DIRTY.…
Katara clears the muddy water so the bottom shows. Use for no-comments, /no-comments, "remove the comments", "comment review", or before every review. Runs a fresh comment-reviewer pass over the diff, fixes the accepted findings at the root, and offers a…
Sokka's plan for the Day of Black Sun, the one ambitious operation that needed a plan built just for it. Use for figure-it-out, /figure-it-out, "figure it out", a large migration, an ambitious multi-part change, work no narrower skill fits, or work a human…
Zuko's dragon dance for sustained, scientific improvement of one metric. Zuko and Aang learned the Dragon Dance from Ran and Shaw one form at a time, each form proven before the next. Use for hillclimb, "hillclimb this", "keep improving X until Y", or any…
Toph's Earth Rumble review. The champion takes on every challenger at once and nothing gets past her. Use to review a diff, a branch, a PR, or a design for correctness bugs, breaking changes, security holes, devex breaks, feature-flag leaks, and…
Zuko's ember trace for runtime forensics. Follow the embers back to the fire that started them. Use for runtime-forensics or trace-forensics, a memory leak, an idle CPU spin, a visual glitch, a hang, or a captured cpuprofile, trace, spindump, or heap snapshot…
Team Avatar's 24 engineering principles, grouped by element. Air subtracts, Water adapts, Earth holds, Fire drives. Use for principles or a principle-<name> lookup (laziness protocol, prove it works, and the rest), or when sizing a diff or refactoring,…
Suki's full patrol for a queue of independent PRs. Each warrior walks her own route to the end, and Suki inspects every route before the human signs off. Use for autopilot-full, "autopilot this queue", "full autopilot", one owner per PR, or a batch of…
Katara heals a sick pipeline one wound at a time. Use for fix-ci, /fix-ci, "CI is red", "fix the failing checks", "get CI green", or a branch or PR whose checks fail. Finds the failing checks, reads the logs or external check links for the first actionable…
Katara's healing for bugs. Use for a reported defect, a failing test, a crash, a regression, "this is broken", or "bug fix". Reproduces it on the reported surface, binary-searches the cause with runtime evidence, ships the smallest fix the evidence justifies,…
Zuko's honor code for making repeated agent mistakes impossible. Zuko turned his past mistakes into a code he lives by. Use for correct, /correct, "stop making this mistake", "agents keep doing X", or each time the operator corrects you. Finds the mistake…
Aang waking after a hundred years in the iceberg and getting caught up. Use for ketchup, /ketchup, "catch me up", "what did I miss", "what happened while I was away", or "where are we" inside this chat. Tells the user what changed in this chat since their…
Sokka's invention workshop, where he studied how things really worked and built the machine that did it (war balloons, the submarine). Use for automate-me, /automate-me, "automate me", "create, update, or refresh my -mode skill", "turn my preferences or…
Suki's command of the Kyoshi Warriors for a standing program. She holds the island for days, writes every order, and reads every report, and she never picks up a fan herself. Use for orchestrate, "run this whole project", "own this migration until it lands",…
Suki's fan formation for parallel work. Every Kyoshi Warrior holds a set position, and the squad returns one report. Use for swarm, /swarm, "swarm this", fanning out N parallel workers, coverage sweeps, races between identical briefs, review gauntlets,…
Toph's lie detector for multi-model adversarial review. She feels a heartbeat through the ground and knows when someone is lying, so a change that only claims to work does not fool her. Use for interrogate, /interrogate, adversarial review, multi-model…
Appa's light load for reviewability. Appa flies farthest when the saddle carries only what the trip needs. Use for make-pr-easy-to-review, /make-pr-easy-to-review, "make this easy to review", "tidy this PR", "clean up commits", or "annotate the diff". Cleans…
Appa's long flight for PR care. Appa can fly for days and still bring everyone down safe. Use for babysit, /babysit, "babysit this", "get it green", "merge-ready", "address the review-bot comments", "check on PR X", "is it green", or "anything outstanding on…
Appa's camp for pausing work safely. When the team sets down for the night, they leave camp so anyone can pick up in the morning. Use for pause-safely, "pause here", "stop for now", "save your place", "checkpoint this", going offline, a session restart, or…
Sokka's master plan. Use for multi-step features, migrations, multi-phase or multi-PR programs, stacked PRs, "plan this out", or any work that should be broken into verifiable units before code is written. Produces a written plan where every unit ends in a…
Aang meditating to see clearly. Use for reflect, /reflect, "reflect on this session", "what did we learn", or "turn this into skill edits". Dispatches three parallel reviewers over the active Claude Code or Codex transcript, surfaces durable learnings, and…
Appa's messenger hawk for PR feedback. Hawky, Sokka's messenger hawk, flies out and brings the letters home. Use for get-pr-comments, /get-pr-comments, "what did the reviewers say", "summarize the PR comments", "fetch the review comments", or "what's left on…
Toph's metalbending for a strict code quality review. Everyone said metal could not be bent, until Toph felt the specks of earth still trapped inside it and bent the whole thing through them. Use to find the impurities in a rigid-looking structure, such as…
Toph's my cabbages, for finding who gets hit before a change ships. The cabbage merchant's cart gets wrecked in every chase scene, because nobody looks at who is standing nearby. Look first. Use for blast-radius, /blast-radius, "blast radius of X", "what…
Iroh writing a new scroll for the library. Use for authoring or modifying a skill, writing or editing a SKILL.md, "create a skill", "add a skill to the plugin", "improve this skill's description", "split this skill into references", or a workflow you keep…
Suki's night watch for one long task. The warrior on watch holds her post until dawn and does not wake the camp for anything she can handle. Use for autonomous-run, "run until done", "/loop until X", "keep going while I sleep", or any single task to drive to…
Iroh's Pai Sho, testing a strategy against a real opponent before trusting it. Use for eval, /eval, "test this skill change", "does this prompt change behavior", "A/B this skill", "will agents actually follow this", or before promoting any skill, structure,…
Aang consulting his past lives (Roku, Kyoshi) for why things were decided. Use for why, /why, "why does X work this way", "why did we pick Y", design rationale, the history behind a regression, postmortem context, or where a threshold number came from.…
Toph's plain talk. She has no patience for fancy words and says it the way it is. Use for bro, /bro, "say it plainly", "in plain English", "no jargon", "explain that like a person", or when the last reply was too dense to follow. Restates the last message in…
Katara bends the impurities out of the water and leaves it clear. Use for deslop, /deslop, "remove AI slop", "clean up this diff", or before every commit. Checks the branch diff against main and removes AI-generated code slop, such as needless comments,…
Katara's push and pull for test discipline. Use for tdd, /tdd, "red green", "write a failing test", "add a regression test", when a bug has an obvious cheap local test target, and when writing, changing, or reviewing tests. Skip a new test when the test path…
Zuko's redemption arc for incidents and postmortems. Use for an outage, a bad deploy, data loss, a production incident, "what went wrong", "write the postmortem", or owning a mistake. Stabilizes first, then builds a blameless timeline, finds the root cause,…