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Manage software complexity through deep modules, information hiding, and strategic programming. Use when the user mentions "module design", "API too complex", "shallow class", "complexity budget", or "strategic vs tactical". Covers deep vs shallow modules, red flags for complexity, and comments as design documentation. For code quality, see clean-code. For boundaries, see clean-architecture.
Apply named refactoring transformations to improve code structure without changing behavior. Use when the user mentions "refactor this", "code smells", "extract method", "replace conditional", or "technical debt". Covers smell-driven refactoring, safe transformation sequences, and testing guards. For code quality foundations, see clean-code. For managing complexity, see software-design-philosophy.
Apply meta-principles of software craftsmanship: DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets, and design by contract. Use when the user mentions "best practices", "pragmatic approach", "broken windows", "tracer bullet", or "software craftsmanship". Covers estimation, domain languages, and reversibility. For code-level quality, see clean-code. For refactoring techniques, see refactoring-patterns.
Guided journey from a large aged codebase everyone fears to touch to one that is safe to change, legible, bounded, and resilient - paid down in place without a rewrite. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - working-with-legacy-code, refactoring-patterns, clean-code, software-design-philosophy, clean-architecture, pragmatic-programmer, release-it, domain-driven-design - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (TESTING.md, TECH-DEBT.md, REMOVE-TECHNICAL-DEBT-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to tame a legacy codebase, pay down technical debt safely, avoid a big-bang rewrite, or says 'we are afraid to touch this code'. For a fresh prototype or vibe-coded app going to production, use improve-code-quality; for greenfield structure, use design-code-architecture; for a product-and-UX pass rather than code-only, use improve-app. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Audit, write, and improve developer documentation using Google's Developer Documentation Style Guide and Technical Writing courses. Use this skill for any documentation work, even when the user names no style guide: "audit our docs", "review this README", "write a README", "getting started guide", "how-to or tutorial", "API reference", "docstrings", "CLI help text", "changelog or release notes", "migration guide", or "our docs are confusing". Also use it when writing docs from code, rewriting a doc for clarity, fixing headings, procedures, or code samples, or enforcing consistent voice and terminology across a docs set — prefer it over editing documentation unaided. Covers reader and doc-type fit, second person and active voice, procedures, headings, lists and tables, code samples and placeholders, link text, notices, the word list, timeless docs, and accessibility. For code comments and naming, see clean-code. For marketing or landing-page copy, see storybrand-messaging.
Unified router for 7 canonical software engineering knowledge bases. Routes queries to appropriate underlying skills: gof-patterns (23 design patterns), clrs-algorithms (40 data structures), clean-code (SOLID + practices), ddia (distributed systems), pragmatic-programmer (craftsmanship), ddd (domain modeling), sicp (CS fundamentals). Auto-activates for architecture decisions, pattern selection, algorithm choice, and system design.
Safely change and test untested codebases using Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code". Use when the user mentions "legacy code", "no tests", "untested codebase", "how do I test this", "seams", "characterization tests", "golden master", "sprout method", "afraid to change this code", "monster method", "dependency breaking", or "inherited a messy codebase". Also trigger when changing code without tests safely, getting a class under test when constructors, statics, or singletons block it, adding features to tangled modules, or planning incremental test coverage for an old codebase. Covers the legacy-code change algorithm, seams, characterization tests, sprout/wrap, and dependency-breaking techniques. For refactoring code that already has tests, see refactoring-patterns. For day-to-day code quality, see clean-code.
Guided journey from a raw app idea to a validated, cleanly architected first version that ships on a sustainable cadence. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - lean-startup, design-sprint, clean-architecture, domain-driven-design, clean-code, pragmatic-programmer, system-design, ios-hig-design, 37signals-way, software-design-philosophy - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (PRODUCT.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, EXPERIMENTS.md, CREATE-APP-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to build a new app, validate an idea before writing code, architect an MVP that will not need a rewrite, or says 'help me build my app the right way'. App already exists: use improve-app or grow-app. Business idea not yet validated: run create-business first. Marketing site only: use create-website. Architecture-only question: design-code-architecture. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Review generated or changed documentation before it ships — READMEs, API references, docstrings, PHPDoc/JSDoc, changelogs, tutorials, and doc sites. Best used reactively after an agent writes or edits docs, after code changes documented behavior, or before publishing docs. Use when the user says 'review the docs', 'is this documentation accurate', 'update the docs', 'write a README', 'document this API', 'add a docstring', or 'add a changelog entry'. Core job: verify every referenced function, flag, endpoint, config key, and code sample against the source; catch docs-vs-code drift; strip filler and unverifiable claims. DO NOT USE for production code review (use clean-code-guard), test review (use test-guard), marketing copy or blog posts, prose style editing of non-technical writing, or documentation site theming.
Structure software around the Dependency Rule: source code dependencies point inward from frameworks to use cases to entities. Use when the user mentions "architecture layers", "dependency rule", "ports and adapters", "hexagonal architecture", or "use case boundary". Covers component principles, boundaries, and SOLID. For code quality, see clean-code. For domain modeling, see domain-driven-design.
Biome linter and formatter for JavaScript/TypeScript. Covers configuration, rules, and integration patterns. Replaces ESLint + Prettier for faster development experience. USE WHEN: user mentions "biome", "linting", "formatting", "code style", "biome.json", asks about "setup linter", "format code", "migrate from ESLint", "migrate from Prettier", "biome rules", "biome configuration" DO NOT USE FOR: ESLint configuration - Biome is an ESLint replacement, Prettier configuration - Biome is a Prettier replacement, TypeScript compilation - use TypeScript compiler, Code quality principles - use `clean-code` skill
Review generated or changed WordPress code — plugins, themes, and blocks — before it ships. Best used reactively after an agent writes, edits, or reviews code touching WordPress APIs: add_action/add_filter, shortcodes, meta boxes, AJAX handlers, REST routes, WP_Query or $wpdb, widgets, or WP-CLI commands. Use on 'review this plugin', 'is this safe to ship', 'make this translatable', 'speed up this query', or after tasks like 'write a plugin' or 'add an endpoint/shortcode/meta box'. Enforces escaping and sanitization, nonces plus capability checks, prepared database queries, core-API-first development, translation-ready strings, and query/caching discipline. DO NOT USE for WooCommerce-specific order, product, or checkout logic (use woo-guard), non-WordPress PHP, generic code quality review (use clean-code-guard), test code review (use test-guard), server or hosting configuration, or conceptual WordPress questions.