Proactive governance advisor — checks standards, decisions, and quality trends during development. Always advisory, NEVER blocks. Three modes: `advise` (post-edit), `gate` (pre-dispatch), `drift` (on-demand decision audit). Trigger for 'governance check', 'advise on this change', 'check for drift', 'is this aligned with active decisions', 'shift-left advisory'. Not for blocking gates — use /ai-verify. Not for narrative code review — use /ai-review.
Designs motion, transitions, and micro-interactions for UI components: spring animations, gestures, easing, staggers, scroll-triggered and loading/skeleton motion. Trigger for 'animate this', 'add transitions', 'micro-interactions for', 'gesture design', 'swipe to dismiss', 'easing for this', 'review this motion for polish'. Not for design systems; use /ai-design instead. Not for visual art; use /ai-visual instead. Not for testing animation code; use /ai-test instead.
Delivers large multi-concern specs and backlog runs autonomously: decomposes specs into sub-specs (or normalizes work items into a backlog DAG), deep-plans with parallel agents, builds a dependency DAG, implements in waves, runs a single final quality loop with one bounded quality-remediation pass (verify+guard+review on full changeset), delivers via PR. Trigger for 'implement spec-NNN end to end', 'autopilot this', 'autonomous delivery', 'decompose and ship', 'run the backlog', 'execute these GitHub issues', 'process the sprint backlog'. Invocation is the approval gate. Not for small or single-concern tasks; use /ai-build instead. Not for ambiguous requirements; use /ai-brainstorm first.
Operates the project board (GitHub Projects v2 or Azure DevOps): discovers configuration after install (fields, state mappings, process templates) and syncs work-item state at lifecycle transitions. Trigger for 'set up the board', 'configure our ADO board', 'discover board fields', 'move this issue to in-review', 'update the board', 'mark as in progress', 'sync the work item state'. Two subcommands: `discover` (post-install configuration write) and `sync` (lifecycle state transitions). Auto-invoked via `sync` by /ai-brainstorm, /ai-build, and /ai-pr; fail-open. Not for backlog execution; use /ai-autopilot --backlog instead.
Forces rigorous design interrogation BEFORE any code: explores approaches, surfaces ambiguity, gathers evidence, produces an approved spec that becomes the contract for /ai-plan. Trigger for 'lets add X', 'how should we handle Y', 'whats the best approach', 'I am thinking about', 'what should we build for'. Not for existing approved specs; use /ai-plan instead. Not for execution; use /ai-build instead.
Cleans branches safely: switches to the default branch, prunes merged and squash-merged branches, syncs to remote, sweeps stale specs, rotates `.ai-engineering/runtime/` per retention policy. Trigger for 'tidy up', 'tidy branches', 'sync to main', 'delete old branches', 'start fresh', 'rotate runtime'. Auto-invoked by /ai-pr after merge. Not for committing changes; use /ai-commit instead. Not for code-level dead-code removal; use /ai-simplify instead.
Canonical implementation gateway: reads approved plan.md, resolves stack from manifest, deterministic-routes each task to its adapter, dispatches the build agent in an isolated worktree, runs TDD self-validation per task, then a single final quality loop with one bounded quality-remediation pass on the full changeset before /ai-pr. Trigger for 'go', 'start building', 'execute the plan', 'implement it', 'lets do this', 'build the plan', 'resume', 'continue'. Not without an approved plan; run /ai-plan first. Not for multi-concern specs needing decomposition; use /ai-autopilot instead. Not for a single function or subcomponent; use /ai-code.
Writes production code that satisfies stack-context standards on the first pass: interface-first design, backward-compatibility checks, lightweight self-review. Trigger for 'implement this', 'write the code for', 'add X to Y', 'build this function', 'make this work'. Not for tests; use /ai-test instead. Not for debugging; use /ai-debug instead. Not for refactoring; use /ai-simplify instead. Not for schema work; use /ai-schema instead. Not for executing an approved plan end-to-end; use /ai-build (the gateway).