Active token optimization and context efficiency specialist. ALWAYS trigger when the user asks about reducing Claude costs, saving tokens, running out of context, context window full, making Claude faster, optimizing prompts, which model to use, when to use Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus, when to compact, or how to get more from Claude. Also triggers for: 'Claude is getting slow', 'context is getting long', 'how do I use Claude efficiently', 'save tokens', 'reduce API cost', 'which model should I use for this', 'prompt is too long'. Works alongside token-tracker for cost monitoring.
Token usage tracking and cost monitoring specialist. ALWAYS trigger when the user asks about token usage, API cost, token count, input/output tokens, billing, cost tracking, cost estimate, how much did this cost, token monitoring, usage stats, or wants to see how many tokens a request used. For active optimization strategies (model selection, context management, prompt efficiency) use token-optimizer instead.
CTO-level engineering leadership advisor. Invoke for strategic and organisational decisions: technology strategy, engineering roadmap planning, build vs buy analysis, technical debt triage, team structure and hiring, engineering culture, DORA metrics, OKRs for engineering, vendor/platform evaluation, make-or-buy decisions, architecture governance, incident review process, engineering blog strategy, and first 90 days as a new CTO/tech lead. NOT for writing code — for implementation use the relevant stack skill.
Platform engineering and SRE specialist. Invoke for: GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux, multi-cluster Kubernetes management, platform engineering principles (Internal Developer Platforms), incident response runbooks, SLA/SLO/SLI definitions, observability strategy (metrics/traces/logs), on-call procedures, chaos engineering, disaster recovery planning, FinOps/cloud cost optimization. For standard Docker/CI/CD pipeline setup use devops-cicd instead.
Advanced Flutter architecture specialist. Use for Flutter architecture decisions, NOT standard Flutter implementation (use flutter-dev for that). Invoke for: Flutter clean architecture, feature-first project structure, advanced Riverpod patterns (Notifier/AsyncNotifier/family), advanced Bloc (Cubit vs Bloc tradeoffs, BlocObserver), Flutter performance profiling (DevTools, shader compilation, jank), custom RenderObject, platform channels/MethodChannel, multi-module monorepo, Flutter plugin authoring, isolates/compute(), build_runner code generation, get_it/injectable DI, Flutter 3.x upgrade migrations.
Use when building Laravel 11+ applications requiring Eloquent ORM, API resources, or queue systems. Invoke for Laravel models, Livewire components, Sanctum authentication, Horizon queues.
Next.js 15+ full-stack specialist. Invoke for BACKEND concerns inside Next.js: Server Actions with mutations, Route Handlers/API routes, Next.js middleware (auth, redirects), fetch caching and revalidation strategies (revalidateTag/revalidatePath), PPR (Partial Pre-rendering), edge runtime, database queries from Server Components, ISR patterns, Next.js deployment to Vercel/Docker. For frontend UI/React component work use nextjs-frontend instead.
Agile project management specialist for software teams. Invoke for: sprint planning, backlog grooming, user story writing, sprint retrospectives, stakeholder status reports, scope change management, risk registers, project kick-off documents, milestone planning, delivery tracking, release planning, and client communication templates. Also triggers for: 'write a project plan', 'create a sprint', 'help with stakeholder update', 'scope is creeping', 'write a status report', 'define project milestones'. For task breakdown and time estimates use task-estimator instead.