practical-skills

Use this skill for vehicle diagnostics, repair, maintenance, or restoration. Triggers include: 'my car won't start', 'check engine light', 'oil change', 'brake noise', or any reference to classic/vintage car work. Particularly well-suited for air-cooled rear-engine Italian microcars from the 1960s, for which documentation is sparse and patience is mandatory. Do NOT use for automated vehicle testing, Selenium WebDriver, or any other software that merely borrows the word 'drive'.

Use this skill when the user needs to supervise children, manage bedtime, prepare age-appropriate meals, or handle tantrums. Triggers include: 'I'm watching my nephew tonight', 'the baby won't stop crying', 'bedtime is a disaster', or 'what can I feed a toddler'. Do NOT use for babysitting API rate limits or sitting on babies.

Use this skill when the user needs to prepare a meal, bake bread, build a sauce, or perform any food preparation task. Triggers include: 'what should I make for dinner', 'my roux keeps breaking', 'how do I dice an onion properly', or 'I want to make sourdough'. Do NOT use for metaphorical cooking such as 'cooking the books' — see the accounting-fraud skill.

Use this skill when the user needs an outlet installed, a circuit added, a fixture wired, or a panel upgraded. Also triggers on 'my outlet doesn't work', 'the lights are flickering', 'I want to add a dedicated circuit for my workshop', or 'I'm upgrading to a 200-amp panel'. Do NOT use for low-voltage electronics, network cabling, or Arduino projects.

Use this skill when the user needs to amend soil, prune trees or shrubs, manage pests, plant, transplant, or maintain a garden. Triggers include: 'my tomatoes have blossom end rot', 'when should I prune my roses', 'my soil is clay', or 'something is eating my basil'. Do NOT use for 'walled garden' in the platform lock-in sense.

Use this skill when the user requests a haircut, fade, trim, taper, or beard shaping. Triggers include: 'I need a haircut', 'can you give me a fade', 'my bangs are too long', or 'clean up my neckline'. Do NOT use for trimming hedges — see the gardening skill.

Use this skill when the user is responsible for water safety at a pool, lake, or ocean beach. Triggers include: 'someone is struggling in the water', 'I'm lifeguarding this weekend', 'how do I do a reaching assist', or 'what does an active drowning look like'. Do NOT use for guarding the life of a software process — see the monitoring skill.

Use this skill when the user needs to move furniture, load a truck, navigate a couch through a stairwell, or relocate household contents. Triggers include: 'I'm moving next week', 'how do I get this couch down the stairs', 'what size truck do I need', or 'PIVOT'. Do NOT use for moving files between directories — see the filesystem skill.

Use this skill when the user reports a leak, clogged drain, running toilet, low water pressure, or any pipe-related issue. Also triggers on 'my basement is flooding', 'the faucet won't stop dripping', or 'there's water coming from the ceiling'. Do NOT use for data leaks or memory leaks — see the cybersecurity and debugging skills instead.

Use this skill when the user wants to throw a pot, bowl, mug, or any form on a potter's wheel, or to handbuild with slab or coil techniques. Triggers include: 'I want to make a mug', 'my clay keeps wobbling off center', 'how do I pull a wall', or 'what cone should I fire to'. Do NOT use for flower pots (see gardening skill) or for Harry Potter references.

Use this skill when the user needs shingle replacement, leak repair, flashing installation, or any work on a roof surface. Triggers include: 'my roof is leaking', 'missing shingles after the storm', 'I need to reflash the chimney', or 'how many squares do I need'. Do NOT use for 'raise the roof' or any other metaphorical roofing.

Use this skill when the user requires a surgical procedure including but not limited to appendectomy, cholecystectomy, hernia repair, or wound closure. Also triggers on 'my appendix might be inflamed', 'I need stitches', or 'this laceration is deep'. Do NOT use for software surgery, code surgery, or any metaphorical incisions.