ai-design-components

Manage Linux systems covering systemd services, process management, filesystems, networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Use when deploying applications, optimizing server performance, diagnosing production issues, or managing users and security on Linux servers.

Data pipelines, feature stores, and embedding generation for AI/ML systems. Use when building RAG pipelines, ML feature serving, or data transformations. Covers feature stores (Feast, Tecton), embedding pipelines, chunking strategies, orchestration (Dagster, Prefect, Airflow), dbt transformations, data versioning (LakeFS), and experiment tracking (MLflow, W&B).

Strategic guidance for designing modern data platforms, covering storage paradigms (data lake, warehouse, lakehouse), modeling approaches (dimensional, normalized, data vault, wide tables), data mesh principles, and medallion architecture patterns. Use when architecting data platforms, choosing between centralized vs decentralized patterns, selecting table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake), or designing data governance frameworks.

Design cloud network architectures with VPC patterns, subnet strategies, zero trust principles, and hybrid connectivity. Use when planning VPC topology, implementing multi-cloud networking, or establishing secure network segmentation for cloud workloads.

Design comprehensive security architectures using defense-in-depth, zero trust principles, threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA), and control frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001). Use when designing security for new systems, auditing existing architectures, or establishing security governance programs.

Assembles component outputs from AI Design Components skills into unified, production-ready component systems with validated token integration, proper import chains, and framework-specific scaffolding. Use as the capstone skill after running theming, layout, dashboard, data-viz, or feedback skills to wire components into working React/Next.js, Python, or Rust projects.

Builds AI chat interfaces and conversational UI with streaming responses, context management, and multi-modal support. Use when creating ChatGPT-style interfaces, AI assistants, code copilots, or conversational agents. Handles streaming text, token limits, regeneration, feedback loops, tool usage visualization, and AI-specific error patterns. Provides battle-tested components from leading AI products with accessibility and performance built in.

Constructs secure, efficient CI/CD pipelines with supply chain security (SLSA), monorepo optimization, caching strategies, and parallelization patterns for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Argo Workflows. Use when setting up automated testing, building, or deployment workflows.

Build professional command-line interfaces in Python, Go, and Rust using modern frameworks like Typer, Cobra, and clap. Use when creating developer tools, automation scripts, or infrastructure management CLIs with robust argument parsing, interactive features, and multi-platform distribution.

Builds form components and data collection interfaces including contact forms, registration flows, checkout processes, surveys, and settings pages. Includes 50+ input types, validation strategies, accessibility patterns (WCAG 2.1), multi-step wizards, and UX best practices. Provides decision trees from data type to component selection, validation timing guidance, and error handling patterns. Use when creating forms, collecting user input, building surveys, implementing validation, designing multi-step workflows, or ensuring form accessibility.

Builds tables and data grids for displaying tabular information, from simple HTML tables to complex enterprise data grids. Use when creating tables, implementing sorting/filtering/pagination, handling large datasets (10-1M+ rows), building spreadsheet-like interfaces, or designing data-heavy components. Provides performance optimization strategies, accessibility patterns (WCAG/ARIA), responsive designs, and library recommendations (TanStack Table, AG Grid).

Configure host-based firewalls (iptables, nftables, UFW) and cloud security groups (AWS, GCP, Azure) with practical rules for common scenarios like web servers, databases, and bastion hosts. Use when exposing services, hardening servers, or implementing network segmentation with defense-in-depth strategies.

Configure nginx for static sites, reverse proxying, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, caching, and performance tuning. When setting up web servers, application proxies, or load balancers, this skill provides production-ready patterns with modern security best practices for TLS 1.3, rate limiting, and security headers.

Creates comprehensive dashboard and analytics interfaces that combine data visualization, KPI cards, real-time updates, and interactive layouts. Use this skill when building business intelligence dashboards, monitoring systems, executive reports, or any interface that requires multiple coordinated data displays with filters, metrics, and visualizations working together.

Debugging workflows for Python (pdb, debugpy), Go (delve), Rust (lldb), and Node.js, including container debugging (kubectl debug, ephemeral containers) and production-safe debugging techniques with distributed tracing and correlation IDs. Use when setting breakpoints, debugging containers/pods, remote debugging, or production debugging.

Deployment patterns from Kubernetes to serverless and edge functions. Use when deploying applications, setting up CI/CD, or managing infrastructure. Covers Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD), serverless (Vercel, Lambda), edge (Cloudflare Workers, Deno), IaC (Pulumi, OpenTofu, SST), and GitOps patterns.

Selecting and implementing AWS services and architectural patterns. Use when designing AWS cloud architectures, choosing compute/storage/database services, implementing serverless or container patterns, or applying AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.

Design and implement Azure cloud architectures using best practices for compute, storage, databases, AI services, networking, and governance. Use when building applications on Microsoft Azure or migrating workloads to Azure cloud platform.

Implement applications using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. Use when building on GCP infrastructure, selecting compute/storage/database services, designing data analytics pipelines, implementing ML workflows, or architecting cloud-native applications with BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, and other GCP services.

Design APIs that are secure, scalable, and maintainable using RESTful, GraphQL, and event-driven patterns. Use when designing new APIs, evolving existing APIs, or establishing API standards for teams.

When designing distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and consistency. Covers CAP/PACELC theorems, consistency models (strong, eventual, causal), replication patterns (leader-follower, multi-leader, leaderless), partitioning strategies (hash, range, geographic), transaction patterns (saga, event sourcing, CQRS), resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead), service discovery, and caching strategies for building fault-tolerant distributed architectures.

Designs layout systems and responsive interfaces including grid systems, flexbox patterns, sidebar layouts, and responsive breakpoints. Use when structuring app layouts, building responsive designs, or creating complex page structures.

Design production-ready SDKs with retry logic, error handling, pagination, and multi-language support. Use when building client libraries for APIs or creating developer-facing SDK interfaces.

Displays chronological events and activity through timelines, activity feeds, Gantt charts, and calendar interfaces. Use when showing historical events, project schedules, social feeds, notifications, audit logs, or time-based data. Provides implementation patterns for vertical/horizontal timelines, interactive visualizations, real-time updates, and responsive designs with accessibility (WCAG/ARIA).

Optimizing vector embeddings for RAG systems through model selection, chunking strategies, caching, and performance tuning. Use when building semantic search, RAG pipelines, or document retrieval systems that require cost-effective, high-quality embeddings.

Evaluate LLM systems using automated metrics, LLM-as-judge, and benchmarks. Use when testing prompt quality, validating RAG pipelines, measuring safety (hallucinations, bias), or comparing models for production deployment.

Generate comprehensive technical documentation including API docs (OpenAPI/Swagger), code documentation (TypeDoc/Sphinx), documentation sites (Docusaurus/MkDocs), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and diagrams (Mermaid/PlantUML). Use when documenting APIs, libraries, systems architecture, or building developer-facing documentation sites.

Implements onboarding and help systems including product tours, interactive tutorials, tooltips, checklists, help panels, and progressive disclosure patterns. Use when building first-time experiences, feature discovery, guided walkthroughs, contextual help, setup flows, or user activation features. Provides timing strategies, accessibility patterns (keyboard, screen readers, reduced motion), and metrics for measuring onboarding success.

API design and implementation across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC patterns. Use when building backend services, public APIs, or service-to-service communication. Covers REST frameworks (FastAPI, Axum, Gin, Hono), GraphQL libraries (Strawberry, async-graphql, gqlgen, Pothos), gRPC (Tonic, Connect-Go), tRPC for TypeScript, pagination strategies (cursor-based, offset-based), rate limiting, caching, versioning, and OpenAPI documentation generation. Includes frontend integration patterns for forms, tables, dashboards, and ai-chat skills.

Implement and maintain compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR using unified control mapping, policy-as-code enforcement, and automated evidence collection. Use when building systems requiring regulatory compliance, implementing security controls across multiple frameworks, or automating audit preparation.

Implements drag-and-drop and sortable interfaces with React/TypeScript including kanban boards, sortable lists, file uploads, and reorderable grids. Use when building interactive UIs requiring direct manipulation, spatial organization, or touch-friendly reordering.

Implement GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes using ArgoCD or Flux. Use for automated deployments with Git as single source of truth, pull-based delivery, drift detection, multi-cluster management, and progressive rollouts.

Strategic guidance for operationalizing machine learning models from experimentation to production. Covers experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), model registry and versioning, feature stores (Feast, Tecton), model serving patterns (Seldon, KServe, BentoML), ML pipeline orchestration (Kubeflow, Airflow), and model monitoring (drift detection, observability). Use when designing ML infrastructure, selecting MLOps platforms, implementing continuous training pipelines, or establishing model governance.

Implements navigation patterns and routing for both frontend (React/TS) and backend (Python) including menus, tabs, breadcrumbs, client-side routing, and server-side route configuration. Use when building navigation systems or setting up routing.

Monitoring, logging, and tracing implementation using OpenTelemetry as the unified standard. Use when building production systems requiring visibility into performance, errors, and behavior. Covers OpenTelemetry (metrics, logs, traces), Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Tempo, structured logging (structlog, tracing, slog, pino), and alerting.

Real-time communication patterns for live updates, collaboration, and presence. Use when building chat applications, collaborative tools, live dashboards, or streaming interfaces (LLM responses, metrics). Covers SSE (server-sent events for one-way streams), WebSocket (bidirectional communication), WebRTC (peer-to-peer video/audio), CRDTs (Yjs, Automerge for conflict-free collaboration), presence patterns, offline sync, and scaling strategies. Supports Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.

Implements search and filter interfaces for both frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Python) with debouncing, query management, and database integration. Use when adding search functionality, building filter UIs, implementing faceted search, or optimizing search performance.

Implement production-ready service mesh deployments with Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium. Configure mTLS, authorization policies, traffic routing, and progressive delivery patterns for secure, observable microservices. Use when setting up service-to-service communication, implementing zero-trust security, or enabling canary deployments.

Configure TLS certificates and encryption for secure communications. Use when setting up HTTPS, securing service-to-service connections, implementing mutual TLS (mTLS), or debugging certificate issues.

Data ingestion patterns for loading data from cloud storage, APIs, files, and streaming sources into databases. Use when importing CSV/JSON/Parquet files, pulling from S3/GCS buckets, consuming API feeds, or building ETL pipelines.