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Expert evaluation of Chemical Engineering PhD qualifying exams - review written reports, presentations, and prepare comprehensive questioning sessions to assess student readiness for doctoral research

Comprehensive scientific writing guidance for research papers, grants, and technical documentation. Covers paper structure (IMRAD), methods writing, results presentation, figure/table design, citation formatting, abstract writing, and revision responses. Use…

Structured brainstorming and ideation facilitation using proven creativity techniques. Use when users want to generate ideas, explore solutions, break through creative blocks, or need facilitated ideation sessions. Triggers include requests like 'help me…

AI-powered audio generation using ElevenLabs API - text-to-speech with lifelike voices, sound effects generation, and music creation from text descriptions. Generate natural-sounding speech in 32 languages, create custom sound effects for games and videos,…

AI-powered image generation and editing using Google Gemini, Google Imagen, and OpenAI models. Generate images from text descriptions, edit existing images, create logos/stickers, apply style transfers, and produce product mockups. Use this skill when the…

Create coherent video story sequences with AI-generated images and narrated audio. Combines image-generation and elevenlabs skills to produce complete video stories with visual and narrative consistency across all scenes. Maintains character appearance,…

Autonomous AI coding loop for unattended development - lets Claude work continuously on tasks while you sleep, with mandatory sandbox enforcement for safety

Test-Driven Development facilitation using the red-green-refactor cycle. Guides users through writing tests first, implementing minimal code to pass, and refactoring for quality. Use when users want to practice TDD, need help writing tests before code, are…

Structured planning and project breakdown using proven methodologies for goals, projects, and strategic initiatives. Use when users need to create plans, break down complex projects, set milestones, estimate timelines, identify dependencies, or develop action…

Expert guidance for writing professional Python code following industry best practices including PEP 8 compliance, testing, type hints, error handling, and modern tooling. Use this skill when writing new Python code, refactoring existing code, setting up…

Expert evaluation of Chemical Engineering PhD qualifying exams - review written reports, presentations, and prepare comprehensive questioning sessions to assess student readiness for doctoral research

Comprehensive scientific writing guidance for research papers, grants, and technical documentation. Covers paper structure (IMRAD), methods writing, results presentation, figure/table design, citation formatting, abstract writing, and revision responses. Use…

Structured brainstorming and ideation facilitation using proven creativity techniques. Use when users want to generate ideas, explore solutions, break through creative blocks, or need facilitated ideation sessions. Triggers include requests like 'help me…

AI-powered image generation and editing using Google Gemini, Google Imagen, and OpenAI models. Generate images from text descriptions, edit existing images, create logos/stickers, apply style transfers, and produce product mockups. Use this skill when the…

Test-Driven Development facilitation using the red-green-refactor cycle. Guides users through writing tests first, implementing minimal code to pass, and refactoring for quality. Use when users want to practice TDD, need help writing tests before code, are…

Expert assistant for calculating materials properties from first-principles using ASE - structure relaxation, surface energies, adsorption, reaction barriers, phonons, elastic constants, and thermodynamic modeling with proper scientific methodology

How to cut a POUNCE release - the three registry surfaces (PyPI pounce-solver, PyPI pyomo-pounce, 22 crates.io crates), their tag prefixes and version files, the pre-tag consistency guard, the container-image surface, creating the GitHub Release by hand, and…

Install pounce, and inspect and diagnose pounce solve reports via the pounce-studio CLI. Use when the user asks how to install or set up pounce or pounce-studio, or asks to analyze a pounce.solve-report JSON, diagnose a stuck or non-converging solve, compare…

How POUNCE registers as a GAMS solver - the two independent routes (the pip/pure-Python link built on gamsapi, and the native C link in gams/), where each lives, the per-user gamsconfig.yaml registration and its OS-specific config dir (not XDG on macOS), and…

Inspect and diagnose pounce solve reports via the pounce-studio CLI. Use when the user asks to analyze a pounce.solve-report JSON, diagnose a stuck or non-converging solve, compare two runs, look up a per-iteration column or finding code, pre-flight an AMPL…

Makes slide decks two ways: org-mode to Beamer PDF with the scimax CLI, and Marp Markdown decks built with `scimax marp build` into one self-contained HTML file with presenter tools (pen, highlighter, laser pointer, spotlight, sticky notes,…

Executive assistant for org-mode notes through the scimax CLI (from the scimax-vscode extension). Searches notes, shows the agenda, TODOs and overdue items, opens journal entries, exports org files to HTML/PDF/LaTeX, tangles source blocks, checks citations,…

Org-mode syntax reference as implemented by scimax-vscode: headings, TODO keywords, markup, links, anchors, radio targets, #+NAME, back-links and orphan links, dialog/decision notes, lists, timestamps, properties and drawers, source blocks and header…

Project management over org-mode tasks with the scimax CLI: what to work on next, what is ready or blocked, who is overloaded, the critical path, marking tasks done and reporting what got unblocked. Covers :DEPENDS: and :ORDERED: task dependencies, :ASSIGNEE:…

Builds, solves and differentiates chemical process flowsheets with difflow, the JAX differentiable flowsheet framework. Use when the user wants to simulate unit operations (CSTR, PFR, flash, distillation, heat exchangers, mixers, splitters, refinery, carbon…

Adds a new unit operation to the difflow codebase (core, dynamic or a plugin such as difflow_refinery or difflow_cc) following the project's conventions, with a ParamsMixin params dataclass, JAX-only __call__, tests with gradient checks, docs and catalog…

Verifies that JAX gradients through a difflow unit operation or flowsheet match finite differences, and tracks down NaN or wrong gradients. Use when the user asks to check, test or debug gradients, derivatives, sensitivities or jax.grad of a difflow unit…

Red-team, software-engineering and pedagogical review of JAXSR code, docs, guides, templates and notebooks. Checks every jaxsr API call against the real signatures and return types, flags unsafe or fragile engineering, and assesses clarity for first-time…

Symbolic regression assistant for the JAXSR Python library. Discovers interpretable algebraic equations from data with sparse basis-function selection (ALAMO-style), and guides design of experiments (DOE), response surface methodology (RSM), active learning,…

Runs and analyzes experiments on Claude-Light, a remote RGB LED and spectral sensor instrument at claude-light.cheme.cmu.edu. Use when the user wants to take measurements, sweep or repeat R/G/B settings, fit regression models to the 415-680nm/clear/nir…

Operates and maintains the Claude-Light server on its Raspberry Pi (claude-light.cheme.cmu.edu) - deploying updates, restarting the service, checking logs and health, the SQLite data and backups, the GeoIP database, nginx rate limits, and troubleshooting…

Assess a discopt-course lesson - load the rubric, read the student's exercise notebook and (optional) writing response, then produce structured feedback and update course/progress.yaml; also gives graduated hints. Use when the student asks to grade, assess or…

Run the discopt-course optimization course as the student's tutor - set up the course, show progress, pick the next lesson, walk through a lesson's reading, give graduated hints on exercises, and hand off to course-assessor for grading. Use when the user…

Writes Python code with the pycse library (Python Computations in Science and Engineering). Covers linear, polynomial and nonlinear regression with parameter confidence intervals and prediction intervals (regress, polyfit, nlinfit, predict, nlpredict), ODE…

Expert assistant for litdb, a local literature and document database for scientific research with vector, full-text and hybrid search, OpenAlex lookups, RAG chat, BibTeX/citation export, tags and filters. Use when the user mentions litdb or litdb.toml, wants…

Build, solve and interpret optimization models with discopt, a global MINLP solver (Python API, Rust core). Use when the user wants to formulate an LP, MILP, NLP or mixed-integer nonlinear problem in Python, solve it with discopt, read a SolveResult, or…

LLM-compiled knowledge base management. Ingests primary sources (papers, notebooks, data), distills them into interlinked org-mode wiki articles, and provides structured search over the wiki graph database. Use when the user asks to ingest, distill, search,…