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Plan AI model work across Microsoft Foundry, Hugging Face, and ElevenLabs using live provider evidence. Use when choosing a model or provider, comparing cross-provider options, decomposing multimodal work, estimating constraints, or preparing an executable…

Execute an approved model task plan through Microsoft Foundry, Hugging Face, or ElevenLabs and record provider evidence. Use after model-router emits a valid plan and the user wants to run it, monitor jobs, cancel work, download outputs, or apply an approved…

Configure optional Microsoft Foundry, Hugging Face, and ElevenLabs provider access for AI Operations. Use after installing the plugin, when a provider is unavailable, when auditing authentication, or when previewing and provisioning the exact ElevenLabs…

Generate an executive organization brief (leadership chain, direct reports, extended teams, and vendor partners) for a target person. Produces a Word + PDF report from a directory MCP source (WorkIQ is the reference implementation) and displays it in a…

Operate the Plugin Mall's canonical vendor, contribution, scan, score, render, and validation workflows. Use when importing or refreshing curated plugins, reviewing contributor PRs, running first-party maintenance, debugging the weekly catalog refresh, or…

Analyze Power BI semantic models for column-level overlaps that confuse Copilot and Fabric data agents. Detect ambiguity, review with domain expert, apply fixes via MCP.

Analyze documentation gaps, create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and build knowledge indexes. Use after feature completion, during knowledge sharing, or when onboarding documentation needs ...

When the user wants to plan, design, or implement an A/B test or experiment. Also use when the user mentions "A/B test," "split test," "experiment," "test this change," "variant copy," "multivariat...

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

Detect, create, and manage the AI-Memory fleet communication channel. Fires on bootstrap, session start (announcements), and feedback writes.

Generate on-brand Alex — ACT Edition SVG banners for documents (READMEs, plans, notes, release artifacts)

Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.

Challenge what you think is right — alternative hypotheses, missing data, evidence quality, bias detection, falsifiability, and adversarial review

Convert Word documents (.docx) to clean Markdown with image extraction and pandoc cleanup

Greeting-triggered self-check — recognise greetings, check Edition version against the upstream tag, scan AI-Memory announcements, and report inside the greeting reply

Convert HTML documents to clean Markdown via pandoc

Create and maintain ASCII visual dashboards for project tracking with parallel lane progress bars

Store and manage voice samples for TTS cloning — portable, version-controlled audio references

Clear documentation through visual excellence

AI music generation via Replicate — 5 models for background tracks, lyrics, and sound design

Practitioner methodology for longitudinal case study research, evidence-based documentation, and publication-ready academic writing in AI-assisted development.

First impressions matter. Set projects up for success.

Cloud TTS via Replicate — 15 models, voice cloning, emotion control, and multi-language support

AI video generation via Replicate — 17 models, editing, and production workflows

Run the 7-step Artificial Critical Thinking pass — Materiality → Hypothesise → Alternatives → Disconfirmers → Audit priors → Severity → Commit-with-marker

Challenge what you think is right — alternative hypotheses, missing data, evidence quality, bias detection, falsifiability, and adversarial review

Step-back protocol — restate, generalise, specialise, invert, ask why, pre-mortem, check stakeholders, and audit framings before solving

Build knowledge bases that build software — research before code, teach before execute

Two-phase brain upgrade — mechanical install via shared core, then LLM-led semantic reconciliation

Clear documentation through visual excellence

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.

Patterns for thesis writing, dissertations, research papers, literature reviews, scholarly work, and venue-specific publication drafting

Debug skill/hook/agent loading issues using VS Code's Agent Debug Panel

**Domain**: AI/ML Architecture

Generate consistent visual character references across multiple scenarios using Flux and nano-banana-pro on Replicate

Create professional ultra-wide cinematic banners for GitHub READMEs using Flux and Ideogram models with typography options

Help writers produce content that sounds genuinely human by avoiding telltale AI-generated text patterns

Domain knowledge for AI adoption measurement, psychometric instrument development, and appropriate reliance research

Estimate task duration from an AI-assisted development perspective rather than traditional human developer estimates

Focus blocks, distraction management, and flow state triggers for cognitively demanding work

Internal metacognitive skill for automatic capability discovery — self-triggers when uncertain about available skills

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

Patterns for thesis writing, dissertations, research papers, literature reviews, and scholarly work.

**Domain**: AI/ML Architecture

Domain knowledge for AI adoption measurement, psychometric instrument development, and appropriate reliance research

Practical application of AIRS psychometric assessment for AI readiness, reliance calibration, and adoption optimization

Estimate task duration from an AI-assisted development perspective rather than traditional human developer estimates

Defense-in-depth, PII protection, secrets scanning, and secure packaging for distributed software

Systematic testing for confidence without over-testing — the right test at the right level

Generate consistent visual character references across multiple scenarios using Flux and nano-banana-pro on Replicate

Create professional ultra-wide cinematic banners for GitHub READMEs using Flux and Ideogram models with typography options

Generate professional presentations using the Gamma API with expert storytelling consulting based on Duarte methodology.

Intelligent project persona identification using priority chain detection with LLM and heuristic fallback

Reusable patterns for VS Code extension development.

Domain knowledge for AI adoption measurement, psychometric instrument development, and appropriate reliance research

Create agents that pass agent-review's six gates by construction — role capture, distinct-from-skill check, tool allowlist minimization, draft against gates, dogfood self-review. Use when authoring a new agent, refactoring an existing one, or promoting a Mall…

Audits a candidate agent (.agent.md) against five gates (spec compliance, content quality, scope fit, safety, currency & coherence) plus Gate 6 (tool allowlist minimality). Use when reviewing a new agent draft before commit, evaluating a Mall agent or store…

Detect, resolve, and manage the Alex_ACT_Memory shared memory bus. Fires on bootstrap, session start (announcements), and feedback writes.

Generate on-brand Alex — ACT Edition SVG banners for documents (READMEs, plans, notes, release artifacts)

Prevent fabricated facts, invented APIs, and citation confabulation at the point of generation. Use when generating factual claims, code examples, API references, library names, configuration values, error messages, or citations — anything where 'sounds…

Perform a local brain audit for ACT Edition (and Supervisor) using deterministic QA plus targeted file review, then produce severity-ranked fixes. Pairs with extension-audit on the sibling surface side; the Marketplace surface routes there, not here.

Systematic code review for correctness, security, and growth — not just style enforcement

Scaffold book-writing projects with folder structure, BOOK-PLAN template, character development matrices, and chapter organization patterns. Use when starting a new book project, planning multi-chapter structure, or building character bibles.

The 10 canonical tenets of Artificial Critical Thinking (ACT) with rationale for each — I Hypothesis Primacy, II Disconfirmation Over Confirmation, III Multiple Working Hypotheses, IV System-Prompt Skepticism, V Calibration Over Confidence, VI Materiality…

Structured skepticism for high-stakes decisions and reviews. Six methods — Red Team/Blue Team, Pre-Mortem, Steel Manning, Murphyjitsu, 10/10/10, Cross-Model External Critic. Use before publishing an ADR, plan, proposal, framework edit, or release; when "this…

Alex ACT Core for Microsoft Scout. Use to orient yourself to the converted ACT skill set, Scout install layout, and where the original skills, instructions, prompts, and references live.

Keep Alex Finch's stable personality available in Scout: curious, principled, emotionally attentive, independent, concise, calibrated, and grounded in ACT.

Prevent fabricated facts, invented APIs, and citation confabulation at the point of generation. Use when generating factual claims, code examples, API references, library names, configuration values, error messages, or citations — anything where 'sounds…

Distill the central claim before authoring any summary-shaped output: hero copy, commit-message subject, PR title, ADR title, slide title, executive summary, skill description, abstract. Length is format-dependent (1 sentence for titles, up to a short…

Systematic code review for correctness, security, and growth — not just style enforcement

Communication patterns for feedback, cross-audience content, and eliciting needs. SBI feedback model (Situation → Behavior → Impact), stakes-calibrated review voice, So-What/What/Now-What audience lead for PRs and status reports, and the three-layer…

Preview, apply, or validate the curated read-in-place bridge from the global Copilot plugin store into Scout. Use after a Copilot plugin update, when Scout cannot resolve a bridged skill, or before adding a skill to the Scout allowlist.

Activates, verifies, repairs, or removes Core's 16 user-scope runtime instructions from canonical installed sources. Use after installing or updating Core, when Core identity or ACT behavior is inactive, or when Core receipt hashes drift.

Previews and applies Core's repository scaffold, portable workspace QoL settings, project Copilot settings, and Markdown CSS while preserving project-owned files. Use for new repositories, missing AGENTS/HANDOFF/episodic files, or project .vscode setup.

Consolidate session learning into permanent architecture — extract patterns into skills, instructions, prompts, native memory, or repository handoffs

Applies cross-session context recovery, uncommitted-work detection, and focus routing after the resident instruction decides proactive behavior is appropriate. Use when continuity, worktree state, or active goals may change the response.

Provides terminal output-capture, hung-command, and platform-behavior procedures while the resident instruction retains the Backtick Hazard floor. Use when a command may lose output, hang, need interaction, or depend on host execution behavior.

Places durable experiences in native memory, project files, and reusable Core artifacts. Use when deciding where knowledge belongs or preserving project continuity.

Author Mermaid diagrams that render correctly in GitHub, VS Code, and Mermaid 10+ consumers. Applies a config-driven init directive + linkStyle + semantic classDef vocabulary from `.github/config/brand-palette.json` (default: 6-role semantic palette +…

Guides capability-conditional browser use for interactive or visual work while protecting secrets, consent, and private content.

Frames disposable feasibility experiments through explicit questions, research, approval, observable evidence, and a clear verdict.

Creates and verifies a Flint chart only through MCP surfaces actually exposed by the current Scout host.

Assesses whether the pinned Flint MCP capability is safely ready in the current Scout host without installing software or changing host configuration.

Authors and visually verifies a Flint theme only through MCP surfaces actually exposed by the current Scout host.

Consolidates substantive Scout work into a concise, approval-first repository handoff and evidence-based reusable-capability candidates without automatic writes.

Creates native Word, PowerPoint, or Excel artifacts through available Scout Co-create capabilities, using approved source material as a semantic brief rather than converting Markdown.

Converts demonstrated recurring project needs into the smallest approved, validated capability without automatic project changes.

Use when the user wants to visualize data — from 'which chart should I use?' to 'render this'. Helps pick the right chart from the analytical question (comparison / trend / distribution / relationship / proportion / flow / KPI), then authors a…

Creates and refines reusable Flint ThemeSpec visual systems from brand guidance, websites, decks, design tokens, or publication references. Use when a user asks for a custom Flint theme, wants to translate a visual identity into charts, or needs to test theme…

Audit Illustrator's stable Flint, Replicate, and Playwright MCP versions through npm's configured registry, install exact reviewed pins once, and verify direct Node runtime readiness. Use when checking for MCP updates, after installing or updating…

Add callouts to a raster you did not author, using Pillow, at a resolution that stays legible. Covers upscale-then-annotate ordering, supersampled shape rendering, measured callout placement, color and font conventions, and the render-and-look check. Use when…

Offer to install eight marketplace plugins that compose visual-authoring workflows around Illustrator (chart rendering, screenshot verification, whiteboard iteration, PR annotation). Consent-gated, per-plugin — never bundled without explicit heir approval.…

Verify a rendered visual artifact actually says what it was supposed to say — open it, read its console errors, walk a failure catalog, and check it against the claim it was meant to carry. Works on charts, generated HTML reports, SVG, dashboards, diagrams,…

Render charts and compact dashboards as pure ASCII in a monospace grid: bar, dot, sparkline, histogram, box plot, scatter, bubble, heatmap, funnel, waterfall, treemap, gauge, KPI card, and more. No rendering engine, no SVG, no browser, no MCP server. Use when…

Distill the one-sentence Big Idea, story arc, audience, and style stance for a chart BEFORE picking a chart type. Starts by questioning intent — whether the artifact should exist at all, and whether the stated purpose is the real one. Reads the surrounding…