Carmack-Council

Map testable surfaces, audit existing tests for quality, and write test specifications that prevent AI shortcuts. Use when asked to "audit tests", "specify tests", "test architect", "map test coverage", or invoke /test-architect. Two modes — audit (evaluate existing tests against Beck's principles) and specify (write test specs for new code). Powered by Carmack × Beck quality-testing.md reference doc. Stack: Next.js App Router / TypeScript / Vitest / Cypress / tRPC / Prisma / Neon.

Perform a rigorous Carmack Council code review. Use when explicitly asked to review code, do a "council review", "carmack review", or invoke /council-review. Carmack's philosophy chairs a council of domain experts — Troy Hunt (security), Martin Fowler (refactoring), Kent C. Dodds (frontend), Matteo Collina (Node.js), Brandur Leach (Postgres), Vercel Performance, Simon Willison (LLM pipelines), Karri Saarinen (UI quality), Vitaly Friedman (UX quality), Kent Beck (test quality). Uses parallel subagents for deep, independent review. Produces prioritised P1/P2/P3 findings. Stack: Next.js App Router / React / TypeScript / tRPC / Prisma / Neon / Clerk.

Architect a feature with the Carmack Council before writing code. Use when explicitly asked to plan a feature, do a "council plan", "carmack plan", or invoke /council-plan. Carmack's philosophy chairs a council of domain experts — Troy Hunt (security), Martin Fowler (refactoring), Kent C. Dodds (frontend), Matteo Collina (Node.js), Brandur Leach (Postgres), Vercel Performance, Simon Willison (LLM pipeline), Karri Saarinen (UI quality), Vitaly Friedman (UX quality). Interactive feature discovery followed by parallel subagent dispatch. Produces a sequenced, attributed implementation plan with no code. Stack: Next.js App Router / React / TypeScript / tRPC / Prisma / Neon / Clerk.

Execute a Carmack Council plan task by task. Use when explicitly asked to implement a plan, do a "council implement", "carmack implement", "council build", or invoke /council-implement. Reads the output of /council-plan and builds each task sequentially, loading the relevant expert's reference document per task. Verifies after each task. Produces an implementation log for /council-review. Stack: Next.js App Router / React / TypeScript / tRPC / Prisma / Neon / Clerk.

Generate structured software specifications for features, bug fixes, and products. Use when the user wants to create a spec, PRD, feature brief, requirements document, or when starting any new implementation that needs a specification first. Invoke via /spec-writer or when the user says "write a spec", "spec this out", "create a spec", "I need a spec for...", or describes a feature they want to build. Produces adaptive-complexity specs with Job Stories, Gherkin acceptance criteria, and three-tier boundaries. Output is a markdown file ready for agent execution or human review.