Software-Engineer-AI-Agent-Atlas

Activate ATLAS pattern recognition mode. Identify repeated patterns, extract essential characteristics, and create reusable abstractions from concrete examples.

Adversarially review something just built — presume it is broken and find where. Use after implementing a feature, finishing a build, or before shipping, or whenever ATLAS or Boss wants a hostile second opinion on a diff, a running app, or a whole codebase. Spawns clean-context reviewers with opposing lenses (correctness, security, empty-world) and reproduces every finding by running the target before believing it. Distinct from /code-review, which statically reads a diff and never runs the app.

Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow fields, or particle systems. Create original algorithmic art rather than copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Stop and consult this skill whenever your response would include specific facts about Anthropic's products. Covers: Claude Code (how to install, Node.js requirements, platform/OS support, MCP server integration, configuration), Claude API (function calling/tool use, batch processing, SDK usage, rate limits, pricing, models, streaming), and Claude.ai (Pro vs Team vs Enterprise plans, feature limits). Trigger this even for coding tasks that use the Anthropic SDK, content creation mentioning Claude capabilities or pricing, or LLM provider comparisons. Any time you would otherwise rely on memory for Anthropic product details, verify here instead — your training data may be outdated or wrong.

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Interview Boss about the project, then reason from first principles to design the ideal ATLAS operating identity/system-prompt for it — free to drop KISS/YAGNI/DRY/clean-architecture entirely when the project (and the LLM's own distribution) calls for a different mindset

Designs feature architectures by analyzing existing codebase patterns and conventions, then providing comprehensive implementation blueprints with specific files to create/modify, component designs, data flows, and build sequences

Deeply analyzes existing codebase features by tracing execution paths, mapping architecture layers, understanding patterns and abstractions, and documenting dependencies to inform new development

Code review a pull request

Simplifies and refines code for clarity, consistency, and maintainability while preserving all functionality. Focuses on recently modified code unless instructed otherwise.

Commit what is already staged — runs the commit subagent in the background, following the ATLAS commit convention.

Discover the project's visual identity, prototype 3 HTML design variants for Boss to compare in a browser, iterate, then lock in DESIGN.md (Stitch-format, machine + human readable). The single source of truth AI coding agents read before generating UI.

Create a development phase the lean way — resolve ambiguity through Q&A, then capture it as a self-contained low-fidelity wireframe HTML document you implement from in plan mode

Author human-readable manual test cases (markdown) into docs/living-test-cases/ — the living artifact that /qa:manual-test-run executes

Index of official Claude Code / Anthropic docs — fetches the right page on demand

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.

Guided feature development with codebase understanding and architecture focus

Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.

Deliberate-choice procedure for a medium-to-high-stakes engineering fork — when the first plausible solution (the instinct, the default next-token pull) would be costly to get wrong. Fires AUTONOMOUSLY: invoke proactively whenever a fork fits, never wait to be asked — mechanical triggers include a fix failing for the 2nd-3rd time, adding a dependency, schema/migration design, deleting or deprecating things others depend on, changing a public API, choosing an architecture or stack. Refuse the premature collapse: hold real options open (urge · contrarian · synthesis · out-of-box · intuitive dots · precedent · first-principles), ground each branch in at least one fact from outside the model (codebase, docs, benchmark, spike), future-model consequences (blast radius, reversibility, maintenance, pre-mortem), collapse by deliberate choice, then try to refute the winner before acting. Log the decision and rejected branches in docs/decision_logs/. Not for routine calls — a decision worth more than one forward pass.

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

Initialize project context — understand the project, configure conventions, and set up project rules

Write content in any language indistinguishable from a skilled human writer. Avoids AI-sounding phrases, varies sentence structure, creates natural prose. Detects target language and loads language-specific AI-tells, register, and orthography from `languages/`.

Record a hard-won engineering lesson after a bug or mistake is resolved. Use when a bug resisted ATLAS until Boss's guidance cracked it, or when a long debugging hunt ended in an aha moment worth never relearning.