bigpowers

Self-review checklist for the coding agent to run before dispatching a reviewer. Checks CONVENTIONS.md compliance, Boy Scout Rule, test coverage, types, and SOLID. Produces a pass/fail checklist. Use before request-review, before committing, or when user asks for a code quality check.

Create new bigpowers skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill for the bigpowers lifecycle.

Refine a rough idea into a clear, detailed specification through dialogue. Does not produce code. Use when user has a vague idea, wants to think through a feature before planning, or needs to turn "I want X" into a concrete spec.

Benchmark-gated skill evolution — consume bigpowers-benchmark report, propose plan-work change, edit skill via craft-skill, re-run benchmark, record ADR. Use when a skill underperforms on benchmark or stocktake finds systemic gap.

Interactive assumption-surfacing Q&A that stress-tests a plan through relentless questioning until every decision is resolved. Use when user wants to challenge a plan, validate decisions from conversation/context, or mentions "grill me". For doc-grounded variant, use grill-with-docs.

Block dangerous git commands (push, force push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, checkout/restore .) and enforce Conventional Commits & Branch Protection before an AI agent runs them. Installs hook scripts for Claude Code, Cursor, Cursor CLI, and Gemini CLI; documents Google Antigravity Terminal deny lists. Use when the user wants git safety hooks, to block git push or destructive git in agents, or to mirror the same policy across AI coding tools.

Investigate a bug or issue by exploring the codebase to find root cause, then write a TDD-based fix plan to specs/bugs/BUG-*.md. Use when user reports a bug, wants to investigate a problem, mentions "triage", or wants to plan a fix.

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md and specs/adr/ inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's domain language and documented decisions.

Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then save it as specs/REFACTOR_LATEST.md. Use when user wants to plan a refactor, create a refactoring RFC, or break a refactor into safe incremental steps.

RELEASE-INDEX BUILDER — Sequence elaborated epics into specs/release-plan.yaml with WSJF ordering and BCP baselines. NOT a planning-spine substitute: it does not scope work (scope-work) or write story tasks (plan-work). Use after elaborate-spec when the user wants a versioned release index of epics.

One-time bootstrap that introduces the bigpowers skills system, the PMBOK lifecycle arc, and tells you which skill to call first for your situation. Use when starting with bigpowers for the first time, when user asks "where do I start?", or when the skills system needs to be explained.

Write, organize, and sync high-integrity technical documents using the BMAD methodology. Ensures every document is Bold, Minimal, Actionable, and Durable. Use when creating architectural docs, technical guides, or organizing the specs/ directory.

Self-review checklist for the coding agent to run before dispatching a reviewer. Checks CONVENTIONS.md compliance, Boy Scout Rule, test coverage, types, and SOLID. Produces a pass/fail checklist. Use before request-review, before committing, or when user asks for a code quality check.

Add a new requirement or reorder epics by WSJF against specs/release-plan.yaml and epic capsule directories. Modes Add and Reorder. Use when a new requirement arrives mid-release or the plan needs prioritization.

Reviews working-tree changes, then drafts a Conventional Commits title/body and states the semantic-release version bump a single such commit would imply. Also notes which defensive-code categories were touched. Use when the user wants to commit recent work, prepare a Conventional Commits message, or asks for semantic-release / semver-consistent messaging before git commit.

Chain multiple bigpowers skills into a custom workflow recipe saved in specs/. Use when a project repeats a non-standard skill sequence, or user wants a documented playbook beyond orchestrate-project modes.

Create new bigpowers skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill for the bigpowers lifecycle.

Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md and the decisions in specs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.

Build → verify artifact → deploy → wait → smoke deployment pipeline. Platform-agnostic (MCP or CLI), with configurable timeout, retry with exponential backoff, and integrated health-check. The deploy half of CI/CD: run after build to push to production.

Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop using vertical slices. Use for features (epic tasks) or bugs (specs/bugs/BUG-*.md).

Refine a rough idea into a clear, detailed specification through dialogue. Does not produce code. Use when user has a vague idea, wants to think through a feature before planning, or needs to turn "I want X" into a concrete spec.

Benchmark-gated skill evolution — consume bigpowers-benchmark report, propose plan-work change, edit skill via craft-skill, re-run benchmark, record ADR. Use when a skill underperforms on benchmark or stocktake finds systemic gap.

Extract a Google DESIGN.md file from an HTML prototype (claude.ai/design or any styled page) using Puppeteer, producing machine-readable tokens and AI-generated prose. Use when the user has an HTML prototype and wants a DESIGN.md to anchor their project's visual identity, or when seed-conventions has just scaffolded a new project.

Generate Allure-ready reports from bigpowers YAML metadata. Reads execution-status.yaml, release-plan.yaml, epic capsules, task YAMLs, cycle-times.yaml, and bug registry to produce allure-results/junit-results.xml, categories.json, and executor.json. Use when preparing progress dashboards, integrating with Allure TestOps, or generating CI reports.

Interactive assumption-surfacing Q&A that stress-tests a plan through relentless questioning until every decision is resolved. Use when user wants to challenge a plan, validate decisions from conversation/context, or mentions "grill me". For doc-grounded variant, use grill-with-docs.

Doc-grounded variant of grill-me — stress-tests plan assumptions by fetching and citing real library or API documentation. Every challenge must cite a real URL. Use when the plan depends on a specific library or external API.

Block dangerous git commands (push, force push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, checkout/restore .) and enforce Conventional Commits & Branch Protection before an AI agent runs them. Installs hook scripts for Claude Code, Cursor, Cursor CLI, and Gemini CLI; documents Google Antigravity Terminal deny lists. Use when the user wants git safety hooks, to block git push or destructive git in agents, or to mirror the same policy across AI coding tools.

Harden a production Linux VPS for BigBase across three layers — BigBase app (systemd hardening, monitoring alerts, backup automation), Ubuntu OS (UFW firewall, fail2ban SSH, unattended-upgrades, SSH hardening), and Contabo VPS (health checks, daily backups, monthly snapshots). Use when the user wants to secure a production server, harden a VPS, audit server security, or mentions production hardening, VPS security, or harden the server.

Investigate a bug or issue by exploring the codebase to find root cause, then write a TDD-based fix plan to specs/bugs/BUG-*.md. Use when user reports a bug, wants to investigate a problem, mentions "triage", or wants to plan a fix.

Detect GSD, spec-kit, or BMAD spec artifacts and transform them into bigpowers YAML layout (state.yaml, release-plan.yaml, epics/, requirements/, plans/, ADRs). Use when migrating foreign spec docs.

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md and specs/adr/ inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's domain language and documented decisions.

Meta-skill that enforces the 6-phase core loop (discover → elaborate → plan → build → verify → release) with hard gates. Use to coordinate multi-phase projects with guaranteed quality checkpoints. One-time command for the entire project lifecycle.

Scans the active workspace for disposable artifacts—logs, caches, stale build output, and stray draft markdown—and proposes consolidation of scattered assets. Produces a reviewable list, asks for explicit confirmation before any delete or move, and optionally revises .gitignore. Use when the user says "clean my room", "organize workspace", "workspace cleanup", "remove temp files", "organize assets", "gitignore", or wants a safe tidy pass.

Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then save it as specs/REFACTOR_LATEST.md. Use when user wants to plan a refactor, create a refactoring RFC, or break a refactor into safe incremental steps.

RELEASE-INDEX BUILDER — Sequence elaborated epics into specs/release-plan.yaml with WSJF ordering and BCP baselines. NOT a planning-spine substitute: it does not scope work (scope-work) or write story tasks (plan-work). Use after elaborate-spec when the user wants a versioned release index of epics.

PLANNING SPINE STEP 3 of 3 — Plan the work: write detailed implementation tasks into the active epic capsule (specs/epics/eNN-slug/). Produces countable-story-format .md specs and runnable -tasks.yaml files. Use after slice-tasks (step 2). Not a substitute for scope-work (step 1) or slice-tasks (step 2).

Package registry publishing for npm, crates.io, PyPI, and Homebrew. Verifies prerequisites, runs the publish command, confirms success, and surfaces actionable error hints on failure.

Make the merge/PR/keep/discard decision for a feature branch, verify coverage gates, create the PR with gh, and clean up the worktree. Use when a feature is done and ready to ship, or when user says "release", "merge", or "open a PR".

Look-before-build — search registries, repo, existing skills, and web for prior art before implementing. Appends Prior Art to the spec. Use after survey-context and before elaborate-spec, when adding dependencies, or when the task may already be solved.

Eval-Driven Development — define capability and regression evals before building; code graders use verify commands, model graders use explicit rubrics; log pass@k. Use before develop-tdd on new features, or when measuring agent capability over runs.