Use the moment you're forced into a workaround because the clean Spiderly-native path didn't exist — you looked for a lifecycle hook, an override, an entity attribute, or a generator option and it was structurally missing, so you had to bypass or copy generated code, or reach into framework internals. Also use when the gap is in Spiderly's own skills, plugins, or docs — a skill that should have fired but didn't, or skill/doc content that was missing, stale, or wrong for the case you hit. Turns that gap into a pre-filled GitHub issue URL against filiptrivan/spiderly that the user copies and submits. Also invoke manually to report a Spiderly limitation. NOT for hacks in the consumer's own business logic, NOT for ordinary bugs in your own code.
Log past Spiderly's email-code auth wall to visually verify the running Angular admin panel — screenshot a page, click through a flow, or dogfood a UI change without writing a test. Use when asked to "verify the admin UI", "check this page renders", "screenshot the admin panel", "does this screen look right", or to eyeball a change in the live app. For authoring Playwright test suites or debugging CI traces, use the e2e-testing skill instead.
Add the API-keys feature to a Spiderly app — per-key authentication via an X-Api-Key header, where each key is a first-class principal carrying its own roles. Use when a project needs machine/partner/agent access to its REST API (generate, scope-to-roles, expire, revoke). Opt-in; not part of the default app.
Back up and restore a Spiderly app's Postgres database, and archive logs off the VPS. Use when setting up automated database backups, scheduling pg_dump to object storage (Cloudflare R2), restoring from a backup, running a restore drill, configuring backup retention, or archiving Serilog file logs. Covers the backup and restore scripts, cron scheduling, and the R2 bucket Terraform.
Deploy a Spiderly project to production and keep it running. Use when deploying, redeploying, shipping, releasing, or rolling out the .NET backend or Angular admin — first-time setup or an ongoing deploy — and when diagnosing a down or erroring production origin (502/521, container crash-loop, failed deploy workflow). Covers the recommended VPS + Docker Compose + Caddy + Cloudflare + Terraform stack, CI/CD pipelines, TLS with Cloudflare origin certificates, and infrastructure-as-code layout.
Upgrade a Spiderly consumer app's package version (NuGet + npm) to a newer Spiderly release. Use when the user asks to upgrade Spiderly, bump the Spiderly version, jump to a newer Spiderly release, or migrate to a newer Spiderly package version. Do NOT use for EF Core schema migrations (see ef-migrations skill).
Scaffold a new Spiderly entity end-to-end (entity class, Angular pages, routes, menu, migration)
Create and apply EF Core migrations in Spiderly projects. Use when adding, modifying, or removing entity properties, changing column types, renaming columns, or any database schema change that requires a migration.