Use when the user wants to create a new specialist profile for bart. Invoke when the user says "create a specialist", "new specialist", "add a specialist profile", "I need a specialist for", "make me a specialist", or runs /bart-new-specialist. This skill guides users through a multi-step conversation to define a specialist profile with role, skills, premises, and placement — then writes the profile markdown file.
IMPORTANT: Automatically invoke this skill BEFORE Claude presents a plan for implementation when the project has a .bart/ directory. When you detect a .bart/ folder in the project root and you are about to finish writing or approving a plan (via /plan, plan mode, or ExitPlanMode), invoke this skill FIRST to convert the plan to bart format. This way the user can dismiss Claude's implementation prompt knowing bart-plan has already captured and converted the plan. Also use when the user asks to "convert a plan for bart", "convert this to bart format", "make this plan bart-compatible", "create a bart plan", "plan this project for bart", "break this down into bart tasks", "create a plan for parallel execution", "plan workstreams", or wants to structure work for automated AI agent execution via bart-loop. Also activates when the user invokes /bart-plan.
Use when the user wants to think through a problem before planning. Invoke when the user says "let me think about this", "help me think through", "I need to figure out", "what should I build", "explore this idea", or runs /bart-think. This skill guides structured problem exploration, captures decisions, and writes a bart-format plan directly — no conversion step needed.
Use when reviewing a structured plan.md written by bart-plan. Invoke when the user says "review the bart plan", "check the plan format", "validate the structured plan", "review workstreams", or runs /bart-plan-review. This skill is auto-invoked by bart-plan after Step 7 — you should not need to trigger it manually. It validates bart format rules, workstream structure, and requirements coverage, presents findings, and outputs next steps when the user approves.
Use when reviewing a plan.md written by bart-think. Invoke when the user says "review this plan", "check the thinking output", "validate the plan", "review decisions", or runs /bart-think-review. This skill is auto-invoked by bart-think after Phase 5 — you should not need to trigger it manually. It reviews decisions, requirements, and task structure, presents findings, and auto-chains to bart-plan when the user approves.
Use when the user wants to discover engineering standards from git history and PR reviews. Invoke when the user says "analyze git for specialists", "mine PRs for standards", "what standards does the team follow", "suggest specialists from git", "bart specialists git", or runs /bart-specialists-git. This skill scans GitHub PR review comments and commit diffs, extracts patterns where engineers corrected each other, groups findings by domain, compares against existing specialist profiles, and recommends new specialists to create.