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Create high-quality visual designs — websites, app screens, dashboards, slides, marketing materials, social media graphics — using the Pencil CLI tool. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, generate, or visualize any kind of UI design, mockup, wireframe, layout, webpage, app screen, presentation slide, poster, banner, or marketing asset. Also use it when the user says things like "design me a...", "make a visual for...", "create a mockup of...", "what would X look like?", or wants to turn an idea into a visual. Even if the user doesn't mention "Pencil" or "design tool" explicitly — if they want something visual created, this is the skill to use.

Analyze reviewer feedback and prepare grounded, venue-compliant rebuttals or author responses for conference submissions. Use when asked to check reviews, plan a rebuttal strategy, reply to reviewers, draft an OpenReview/CMT response, handle ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/CoRL reviewer comments, compress replies to a hard character limit, or manage post-submission follow-up discussion threads.

Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

Use this skill proactively for any Emacs-related task: exploring Emacs configuration, debugging issues, testing packages, or interacting with a running Emacs instance. Capabilities: list/describe elisp functions, evaluate expressions, simulate keystrokes, inspect buffer/minibuffer state via emacsclient.

Manage org-roam notes via Emacs — create notes, search the knowledge graph, discover connections, add backlinks, and find orphan nodes. Use when the task involves org-roam notes, paper notes (citar), or knowledge graph operations.

Search papers via Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs, synthesize findings across a topic, identify research gaps, and generate BibTeX entries. Use when asked to survey literature, find related work, or explore what exists on a research topic.

Structured brainstorming for research problems, hypothesis generation, and experiment design. Use when asked to brainstorm research directions, explore ideas for a new project, or think through a research problem systematically.

LaTeX academic paper writing for AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL) and robotics journals (TRO, TASE, RAL). Use when asked to write, edit, or review paper sections, fix notation, generate tables/figures, manage BibTeX, or structure arguments.

Simplify and refine code for clarity, consistency, and maintainability while preserving all functionality. Use when asked to simplify, clean up, reduce complexity, or refine recently modified code.

Guided feature development workflow with 7 phases — discovery, codebase exploration, clarifying questions, architecture design, implementation, quality review, and summary. Use for new features that touch multiple files or require architectural decisions.