All skills

Every skill in the kit, grouped by the loop it runs in. Each summary is the skill’s own description, read from skills/<name>/SKILL.md when this page was built — the page holds no copy of it. Follow a link for the skill itself, which is the file your agent reads.

Where two neighboring skills are easy to confuse, the boundary between them is stated above the group.

Discovery and validation

• kickstart-pathfinder — Discover and initialize a new or existing project without writing product code.
• debate-me — Pressure-test an idea or project and recommend an MVP, technology, delivery workflow, and prototype checkpoint for human selection.
• prototype — Create and iterate the cheapest useful artifact for validating a product, interaction, architecture, or technical assumption.

External reference analysis

reverse-engineer = understand an external reference
learn-codebase   = understand the current codebase
kickstart        = initialize project context
prototype        = validate a proposed direction
to-specs         = convert an approved direction into planned work

• reverse-engineer — Analyze an external product, interface, repository, workflow, or reference implementation and produce an evidence-based reconstruction blueprint without copying protected assets or inventing unsupported details.

Delivery loop

debug-issue    = an observed failure needs an explanation
/ticket start  = planned construction is difficult
/ticket review = completed implementation needs inspection for defects
learn-codebase = the real question is understanding the repository

• to-specs — Turn approved direction into small, clear Feature specs.
• to-tickets — Decompose one approved Feature spec into small, blocker-linked tickets.
• ticket — Run one action of the ticket delivery loop — load, start, adversary, review, or complete.
• orchestrate — Coordinate several dependency-safe ticket workers at once in a project that runs in orchestrator mode.
• debug-issue — Diagnose an observed software failure systematically, identify the root cause with evidence, apply the smallest justified fix, and verify the failure is resolved without introducing regressions.

Learning and mentoring loop

• learn-feature — Generate a rich, interactive, feature-scoped lesson and quiz from completed implementation.
• teach-feature — Teach the verified current feature from its spec, diff, tests, and implementation without changing product code.
• quiz-me — Assess understanding of a recently taught feature using varied, evidence-based questions and targeted feedback.
• challenge-me — Create a small transfer exercise that applies a learned feature concept in a changed context.
• teach-architecture — Explain how one or more completed features fit into the wider application and system architecture.
• learning-review — Review accumulated lessons and evidence, identify durable strengths and gaps, and create a focused reinforcement plan.
• learn-codebase — Generate a modular, interactive learning portal that explains an entire codebase at a milestone.

Workflow reflection loop

• reflect — Review meaningful completed work to extract project-specific lessons, identify reusable Pathfinder workflow improvements, record them in the improvement ledger under human decision, and evaluate the quality of the reflection process itself.

Ticket store selection (optional)

• setup-tracker — Choose the canonical ticket store when it is not local Markdown.

Artifacts

• render-artifact — Compile a typed semantic specification into a self-contained, deterministic HTML artifact carrying the Pathfinder visual identity. Use when a skill must deliver a visual artifact instead of hand-authoring HTML.
• map-system — Turn a plain request about a system or codebase into a semantic diagram artifact, with evidence pinned to a commit when the diagram is derived.

Communication

• blog-post-redactor — Turn shipped engineering work into a credible technical article, built only from evidence in the repository.

Session and kit utilities

• role — Explicitly override the role Pathfinder’s lifecycle would assume.
• whereami — Report a compact read-only snapshot of the current Pathfinder work session.
• handoff — Leave the minimum factual state another session needs to continue safely.
• skillsmith — Teach and help create small, verifiable local agent skills from repeated workflow pain.
• hooksmith — Turn a plain-English automation or deterministic guarantee into the smallest working, correctly scoped, verified hook for the active AI coding harness.