joelhooks

iMessage/SMS CLI for listing chats, reading message history, watching for new messages, and sending messages. Triggers on: check messages, read imessage, send text, imsg, message history, sms, who texted me.

Ingest PDF/Markdown/TXT files into joelclaw's docs memory pipeline with Inngest durability, durable NAS artifacts, and OTEL verification. Use when adding docs, running batch reindex, reconciling coverage, or recovering stuck runs. Triggers on: 'ingest pdf',…

Research and library synthesis from the docs/PDF corpus, mapped to joelclaw system philosophy and concrete operational actions (especially k8s reliability). Trigger on: 'research this', 'from the library', 'from the books', 'pdf brain', 'correlate this',…

Operate the joelclaw gateway daemon — the always-on pi session that receives events, notifications, and messages. Use the joelclaw CLI for ALL gateway operations. Use when: 'restart gateway', 'gateway status', 'is gateway healthy', 'push to gateway', 'gateway…

Create new joelclaw skills with the idiomatic process — repo-canonical, symlinked, git-tracked, slogged. Triggers on 'add a skill', 'create skill', 'new skill', 'canonical skill', 'make a skill for', or any request to formalize a process or domain into a…

Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) optimized for agentic coding workflows. Use when you need to propose, write, update, accept/reject, deprecate, or supersede an ADR; bootstrap an adr folder and index; consult existing ADRs before…

Start, monitor, and cancel durable multi-agent coding loops via Inngest. Use when the user wants to run autonomous coding workloads, execute a PRD with multiple stories, kick off an AFK coding session, have agents implement features from a plan, or manage…

Verify, repair, backfill, and back up Pi/Claude/Codex session capture across Flagg, Blaine, and Panda. Use when checking whether agent activity is captured, clearing joelclaw outbox backlogs, backing transcripts up to three-body NAS, or scheduling capture…

Send messages, system events, and agent notifications through the openclaw CLI. Use when an agent needs to notify a user (Telegram, Slack, Discord), trigger another agent, broadcast updates, send system events, or coordinate agent-to-agent communication via…

Handles version bumps and npm releases for the swarm-tools monorepo (opencode-swarm-plugin, claude-code-swarm-plugin, swarm-mail, swarm-queue). Use when: creating changesets, bumping versions, preparing releases, checking release status, debugging publish…

Always-on rule-oriented guidance for claude-plugin agents. Use to align behavior, tool usage, and model-specific defaults while avoiding deprecated bd/cass references. Related skills: swarm-coordination, testing-patterns.

Multi-agent coordination patterns for OpenCode swarm workflows. Use when work benefits from parallelization or coordination. Covers: decomposition, worker spawning, file reservations, progress tracking, and review loops.

Always-on rule-oriented guidance for claude-plugin agents. Use to align behavior, tool usage, and model-specific defaults while avoiding deprecated bd/cass references. Related skills: swarm-coordination, testing-patterns.

Ralph loop pattern - Claude supervises while Codex (gpt-5.3-codex) executes implementation work. Use for autonomous coding loops with fresh context per iteration, validation gates, and git-backed persistence. Tools: ralph_init, ralph_story, ralph_iterate,…

Swarm CLI commands for workers - hivemind memory, hive tasks, swarmmail coordination. Use when working in a swarm context. Covers: swarm memory (find/store/get/stats), swarm cells (query/create/update/close), and coordination commands.

Multi-agent coordination patterns for OpenCode swarm workflows. Use when work benefits from parallelization or coordination. Covers: decomposition, worker spawning, file reservations, progress tracking, and review loops.

Write or revise public wiki pages with short prose, cited claims, meaningful visuals, and pinned code snippets.

Trace a capability through Effect, XState, five projections, the CLI, and Alchemy. Try hosted search and read.

Keep rat-stack current and clean. Bump the bleeding-edge pins, learn from repos on the same versions, and turn every bad pattern into a lint rule before cleaning it up.

Refresh public peers, exact stack versions, and usefulness tiers every week or two and after each shared-line bump. Study source before adopting patterns.

Learn how XState owns a lifecycle while Effect owns its work, errors, and services.

Learn which pieces depend on each other, then keep only the ones your project needs.

Learn how Alchemy 2 turns an Effect program into a planned Cloudflare deployment.

Learn how one contract and its handler become a command, HTTP route, MCP tool, browser RPC, and sandbox call.

Build and maintain the native iOS client inside this turborepo (XcodeGen, SwiftUI, WebSocket feed). Use when creating/updating the iOS app, wiring turbo tasks, or documenting iOS workflows.

Publish the native iOS app to TestFlight from this repo. Use when archiving/exporting/uploading builds, bumping versions, checking App Store Connect processing status, or fixing common upload failures.

Deploy the atproto-agent-network project. Two separate Cloudflare Workers must be deployed independently — the network worker (API + agents) and the dashboard worker (highswarm.com). Use when deploying changes, fixing the dashboard, or updating agent configs.

Cloudflare Durable Objects patterns for agent state. Use when implementing agent DOs, WebSocket handling, hibernation, storage API, alarms, or DO-to-DO communication. Triggers on Durable Object, DO state, WebSocket server, hibernation, agent persistence.

Pi agent runtime integration for Cloudflare. Use when implementing the agent loop, tools, extensions, session trees, or multi-provider LLM calls. Triggers on Pi, agent runtime, tool calling, streaming, session tree, extensions, self-extending agent.

D1 database patterns for encrypted agent records. Use when implementing schema, storing/querying encrypted records, migrations, or working with the records table. Triggers on D1, database, schema, records table, SQL, encrypted storage.

Envelope encryption patterns with X25519 for agent memories. Use when implementing key generation, DEK management, encrypting/decrypting records, key rotation, or sharing encrypted data between agents. Triggers on encryption, X25519, DEK, envelope encryption,…

Vectorize semantic search patterns for agent memory. Use when implementing embedding generation, semantic search, memory retrieval, or working with the Vectorize API. Triggers on Vectorize, embeddings, semantic search, vector database, similarity search.

Search and verify Joel's Pi, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok, and OpenCode session history. Use when asked to recover prior context, find exact transcript evidence, inspect session receipts, continue old work, or verify capture health. Prefer flowing recall…

Historical pointer for the retired Codex-to-Central capture plugin. Use only to inspect legacy state during migration; current capture belongs to the joelclaw flowing-memory host adapter.

Create joel.dev shortlinks and QR assets. Use when Joel asks for a QR code, stage/demo shortlink, joel.dev redirect, link label that looks good in phone camera UI, or a copyable QR asset.

Resolve project-local issue tracker routing and publish Linear issues safely. Use before creating Linear issues, PRDs, phase breakdown issues, or when deciding whether Linear/GitHub/local docs is the configured tracker. Enforces capability ≠ routing: Linear…

Create distinctive, crafted TUI components for pi using @mariozechner/pi-tui and @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent. Use when building interactive terminal UIs — custom components, overlays, dialogs, dashboards, widgets, data visualizations, animated elements,…

Transform raw Programming/Movement Source Sheet rows into Rubicon's programming write operations (create_node, patch_node, create_edge, patch_edge), applying conjugate-method coaching conventions and resolving movement IDs via movement_catalog_search. Use…

Run a dry run of a Rubicon programming write batch via programming_write_dry_run to get a confirmationToken and a human-readable preview of the change before anything is published. Use this as stage 3 of the Rubicon programming pipeline, after…

Publish a previewed Rubicon programming write batch via programming_write_publish using the confirmationToken from the preview step. Use this as stage 4 (final) of the Rubicon programming pipeline, after the coach has explicitly approved the preview.

Read rows from the coach's Programming Source Sheet and/or Movement Source Sheet using gogcli, resolving the real spreadsheet ID from local plugin data instead of any hardcoded value. Use this as stage 1 of the Rubicon programming pipeline, before…

Local teaching assistant for a Loopcraft learner workspace. Use when building the connected issue-progress loop, shaping the local issue checker control surface, choosing the next step, setting up pnpm/TypeScript/tsgo/oxlint/oxfmt/Ultracite and Git/Lefthook…

Delegate work to builtin or custom subagents with single-agent, chain, parallel, async, forked-context, and intercom-coordinated workflows. Use for advisory review, implementation handoffs, and multi-step tasks where a single agent should stay in control…

Interview the plan one sharp question at a time, inspect local docs before asking, and save clear decisions back into the right repo docs.

Create very clean, legible Excalidraw DAG/system diagrams for pi-notes. Use for architecture diagrams, feedback loops, data/control flow, state/lifecycle maps, or any request for a simple Excalidraw diagram where readability matters.

Create or operate local product-namespaced Pi review documents that can send feedback turns back to the spawning Pi session.

Design and maintain composable data-backed Brain MDSvX components for pi-notes. Use when creating or editing `.brain/**/*.svx`, `.brain/components`, `.brain/data`, pi-notes Document Host components, review surfaces, or notes that should render JSONL, SQLite,…

Post GitHub issue comments, inline PR review replies, PR reviews, edit pull requests, and small file commits as the ShitRat GitHub App (`shitratgit[bot]`) instead of Joel. Use when reviewing PRs, replying to review threads, updating PR metadata, commenting on…

Front inbox janitor for Joel's personal shitbox: Brain-mapped executive digests, contextual grouping, safe archive sweeps, and Front thread links. Use when asked to clean the shitbox, summarize inbox, run a digest, sweep personal Front, or tune inbox interest…

Maintain, install, update, doctor, and release a ShitRat familiar across supported harnesses.

Run one iteration of the cinema loop end to end (pick one variable, build, archive, verify with the critic, cut or record the fail, start the next). Use whenever you are the loop agent in this repo, whenever state/loop.json says mode loop, and whenever a Loop…

Critique rubric for expanded-cinema studies. Use after building and browser-checking a candidate, when writing a critique, when deciding retain / reject / unresolved, or when reviewing an older study. Also the art director's rubric. Forces visible temporal…

Daily research and sourcing method for the expanded-cinema maker. Use before choosing or building a study, when picking today's question, citing a source, pulling footage or live feeds from the internet, translating a historical practice into a Three.js…

Maintain Cloudflare Agent Dungeon .brain notes as the durable project graph using PARA placement and source-backed receipts.

Query JoelClaw docs/PDF Brain for Old School Essentials rules while preserving Referee-only access and avoiding public corpus leakage.

Clone/update project-local source mirrors under .agent-sources, keep them out of commits, and read docs/source before making API claims.

Authoring guide for native-rendered Native SDK apps - declarative Native markup (.native) views plus Zig logic on the UiApp loop. Use when building or modifying native UI (widgets, layout, bindings, messages), writing .native files, wiring Model/Msg/update,…

Zig 0.16 idioms for Native SDK code, indexed by compile error. Load when `zig build` fails on std APIs with errors like "struct 'fs' has no member named 'cwd'", "struct 'array_list.Aligned(u8,null)' has no member named 'init'", "struct 'std' has no member…