Visual design and layout for Grafana dashboards — panel hierarchy, type selection, color/threshold design, and iterative screenshot-based refinement. Use when: (1) Deciding what panels belong on a new dashboard, (2) Choosing panel types for specific data patterns, (3) Structuring visual hierarchy and layout, (4) Applying color and thresholds to communicate status, (5) Reviewing dashboard appearance via Playwright screenshots, (6) Iterating on readability and density Triggers: "dashboard design", "visual design", "layout design", "panel type", "color scheme", "screenshot review", "iterate dashboard", "dashboard looks", "visual feedback", "refine dashboard", "dashboard hierarchy", "information density"
Architecture evaluation criteria and technology standards for the homelab. Preloaded into the designer agent to ground design decisions in established patterns and principles. Use when: (1) Evaluating a proposed technology addition, (2) Reviewing architecture decisions, (3) Assessing stack fit for a new component, (4) Comparing implementation approaches. Triggers: "architecture review", "evaluate technology", "stack fit", "should we use", "technology comparison", "design review", "architecture decision"
End-to-end application deployment orchestration for the Kubernetes homelab. Covers research, worktree setup, Flux ResourceSet configuration, dev cluster testing, monitoring integration, and PR creation. Use when: (1) Deploying a new application to the cluster, (2) Adding a new Helm release to the platform, (3) Setting up monitoring, alerting, and health checks for a new service, (4) Testing deployment on dev cluster before GitOps promotion. Triggers: "deploy app", "add new application", "deploy to kubernetes", "install helm chart", "/deploy-app", "set up new service", "add monitoring for", "deploy with monitoring"
Secret management patterns for the Kubernetes homelab platform. Covers secret-generator, ExternalSecret, app-secrets Terragrunt module, and cross-namespace replication via kubernetes-replicator. Use when: (1) Adding secrets for a new application, (2) Deciding between secret-generator and ExternalSecret, (3) Configuring cross-namespace secret replication, (4) Creating persistent secrets via the app-secrets Terragrunt module, (5) Debugging secret sync failures. Triggers: "secret", "ExternalSecret", "secret-generator", "aws ssm", "parameter store", "kubernetes-replicator", "replicate secret", "app-secrets", "persistent secret", "cross-namespace secret", "secret not syncing", "ClusterSecretStore"
CloudNative-PG (CNPG) PostgreSQL database management for the Kubernetes homelab. Covers shared platform cluster, dedicated per-app clusters, credential provisioning, cross-namespace replication via kubernetes-replicator, and monitoring. Use when: (1) Adding a new database for an application, (2) Creating a dedicated CNPG cluster, (3) Setting up database credentials and cross-namespace replication, (4) Debugging database connectivity or CNPG cluster health, (5) Adding PostgreSQL extensions for specialized workloads. Triggers: "database", "postgresql", "postgres", "cnpg", "cloudnative-pg", "pooler", "pgbouncer", "database credentials", "db password", "managed roles", "Database CRD", "database cluster", "shared database", "dedicated database", "cnpg cluster"
Gateway API routing, TLS certificates, and WAF configuration for the homelab Kubernetes platform. Use when: (1) Exposing a service via HTTPRoute, (2) Choosing between internal and external gateways, (3) Debugging TLS or routing issues, (4) Understanding or tuning WAF (Coraza) behavior. Triggers: "httproute", "gateway", "expose service", "add route", "certificate", "tls", "coraza", "waf", "internal gateway", "external gateway", "dns", "ingress", "routing", "cert-manager", "letsencrypt", "homelab-ca"
Evaluate whether changes to skills and CLAUDE.md files have helped or harmed Claude's operational posture. Use when: (1) after trimming or refactoring skills/CLAUDE.md files, (2) doing a periodic regression check, (3) validating that factored reference files are still accessible, (4) confirming hard constraints are still enforced after instruction changes. Triggers: "test instructions", "regression test", "evaluate skills", "did trimming break anything", "validate claude posture", "test claude docs", "instruction quality"
Kubernetes operational knowledge for accessing clusters, running kubectl, understanding Flux status, and navigating the homelab Kubernetes environment. Use when: (1) Accessing a cluster or checking connectivity, (2) Running kubectl commands or checking resource status, (3) Checking Flux reconciliation status or triggering reconciliation, (4) Finding internal service URLs, (5) Understanding cluster layout or resource types, (6) Researching unfamiliar Helm charts or services. Triggers: "kubectl", "kubeconfig", "flux get", "flux reconcile", "flux status", "cluster access", "internal URL", "service URL", "prometheus URL", "grafana URL", "helm release status", "check flux", "which cluster", "how to access", "port-forward"