Skills Reference

OrchestKit includes 104 skills — reusable knowledge modules that provide patterns, frameworks, and workflows.

Skill	Type	Complexity	Description
Accessibility	Reference	medium	Accessibility patterns for WCAG 2.2 compliance, keyboard focus management, React Aria component patterns, cognitive inclusion, native HTML-first philosophy, and user preference honoring. Use when implementing screen reader support, keyboard navigation, ARIA patterns, focus traps, accessible component libraries, reduced motion, or cognitive accessibility.
Agent Orchestration	Reference	high	Agent orchestration patterns for agentic loops, multi-agent coordination, alternative frameworks, and multi-scenario workflows. Use when building autonomous agent loops, coordinating multiple agents, evaluating CrewAI/AutoGen/Swarm, or orchestrating complex multi-step scenarios.
Ai Ui Generation	Reference	medium	AI-assisted UI generation patterns for json-render, v0, Bolt, and Cursor workflows. Covers prompt engineering for component generation, review checklists for AI-generated code, design token injection, refactoring for design system conformance, and CI gates for quality assurance. Use when generating UI components with AI tools, rendering multi-surface MCP visual output, reviewing AI-generated code, or integrating AI output into design systems.
Analytics	Reference	low	Query cross-project usage analytics. Use when reviewing agent, skill, hook, or team performance across OrchestKit projects. Also replay sessions, estimate costs, and view model delegation trends.
Animation Motion Design	Reference	medium	Animation and motion design patterns using Motion library (formerly Framer Motion) and View Transitions API. Use when implementing component animations, page transitions, micro-interactions, gesture-driven UIs, or ensuring motion accessibility with prefers-reduced-motion.
Api Design	Reference	medium	API design patterns for REST/GraphQL framework design, versioning strategies, and RFC 9457 error handling. Use when designing API endpoints, choosing versioning schemes, implementing Problem Details errors, or building OpenAPI specifications.
Architecture Decision Record	Reference	medium	Use this skill when documenting significant architectural decisions. Provides ADR templates following the Nygard format with sections for context, decision, consequences, and alternatives. Use when writing ADRs, recording decisions, or evaluating options.
Architecture Patterns	Reference	high	Architecture validation and patterns for clean architecture, backend structure enforcement, project structure validation, test standards, and context-aware sizing. Use when designing system boundaries, enforcing layered architecture, validating project structure, defining test standards, or choosing the right architecture tier for project scope.
Ascii Visualizer	Reference	low	ASCII diagram patterns for architecture, workflows, file trees, and data visualizations. Use when creating terminal-rendered diagrams, box-drawing layouts, progress bars, swimlanes, or blast radius visualizations.
Assess	Command	high	Assesses and rates quality 0-10 with pros/cons analysis. Use when evaluating code, designs, or approaches.
Async Jobs	Reference	medium	Async job processing patterns for background tasks, Celery workflows, task scheduling, retry strategies, and distributed task execution. Use when implementing background job processing, task queues, or scheduled task systems.
Audit Full	Reference	max	Full-codebase audit using 1M context window. Security, architecture, and dependency analysis in a single pass. Use when you need whole-project analysis.
Audit Skills	Reference	medium	Audits all OrchestKit skills for quality, completeness, and compliance with authoring standards. Use when checking skill health, before releases, or after bulk skill edits to surface SKILL.md files that are too long, have missing frontmatter, lack rules/references, or are unregistered in manifests.
Bare Eval	Reference	medium	Run isolated eval and grading calls using CC 2.1.81 --bare mode. Constructs claude -p --bare invocations for skill evaluation, trigger testing, and LLM grading without plugin/hook interference. Use when running eval pipelines, grading skill outputs, benchmarking prompt quality, or testing trigger accuracy in isolation.
Brainstorm	Command	medium	Design exploration with parallel agents. Use when brainstorming ideas, exploring solutions, or comparing alternatives.
Browser Tools	Reference	medium	OrchestKit security wrapper for browser automation. Adds URL blocklisting, rate limiting, robots.txt enforcement, and ethical scraping guardrails on top of the upstream agent-browser skill. Use when automating browser workflows that need safety guardrails.
Business Case	Reference	medium	Business case analysis with ROI, NPV, IRR, payback period, and TCO calculations for investment decisions. Use when building financial justification, cost-benefit analysis, build-vs-buy comparisons, or sensitivity analysis.
Chain Patterns	Reference	medium	Chain patterns for CC 2.1.71 pipelines — MCP detection, handoff files, checkpoint-resume, worktree agents, CronCreate monitoring. Use when building multi-phase pipeline skills. Loaded via skills: field by pipeline skills (fix-issue, implement, brainstorm, verify). Not user-invocable.
Checkpoint Resume	Reference	high	Rate-limit-resilient pipeline with checkpoint/resume for long multi-phase sessions. Saves progress to .claude/pipeline-state.json after each phase. Use when starting a complex multi-phase task that risks hitting rate limits, when resuming an interrupted session, or when orchestrating work spanning commits, GitHub issues, and large file changes.
Code Review Playbook	Reference	low	Use this skill when conducting or improving code reviews. Provides structured review processes, conventional comments patterns, language-specific checklists, and feedback templates. Use when reviewing PRs or standardizing review practices.
Commit	Command	low	Creates commits with conventional format and validation. Use when committing changes or generating commit messages.
Competitive Analysis	Reference	medium	Porter's Five Forces, SWOT analysis, and competitive landscape mapping. Use when analyzing market position, evaluating competitive threats, building battlecards, or assessing industry dynamics.
Component Search	Command	simple	Search 21st.dev component registry for production-ready React components. Finds components by natural language description, filters by framework and style system, returns ranked results with install instructions. Use when looking for UI components, finding alternatives to existing components, or sourcing design system building blocks.
Configure	Reference	low	Configures OrchestKit plugin settings, MCP servers, hook permissions, and keybindings. Use when customizing plugin behavior or managing settings.
Cover	Command	high	Generate and run comprehensive test suites — unit tests, integration tests with real services (testcontainers/docker-compose), and Playwright E2E tests. Analyzes coverage gaps, spawns parallel test-generator agents per tier, runs tests, and heals failures (max 3 iterations). Use when generating tests for existing code, improving coverage after implementation, or creating a full test suite from scratch. Chains naturally after /ork:implement. Do NOT use for verifying/grading existing tests (use /ork:verify) or running tests without generation (use npm test directly).
Create Pr	Command	medium	Creates GitHub pull requests with validation. Use when opening PRs or submitting code for review.
Database Patterns	Reference	medium	Database design and migration patterns for Alembic migrations, schema design (SQL/NoSQL), and database versioning. Use when creating migrations, designing schemas, normalizing data, managing database versions, or handling schema drift.
Demo Producer	Reference	low	Creates polished demo videos for skills, tutorials, and CLI demonstrations. Use when producing video showcases, marketing content, or terminal recordings.
Design Context Extract	Command	medium	Extract design DNA from existing app screenshots or live URLs using Google Stitch. Produces color palettes, typography specs, spacing tokens, and component patterns as design-tokens.json or Tailwind config. Use when auditing an existing design, creating a design system from a live app, or ensuring new pages match an established visual identity.
Design System Tokens	Reference	medium	Design token management with W3C Design Token Community Group specification, three-tier token hierarchy (global/alias/component), OKLCH color spaces, Style Dictionary transformation, and dark mode theming. Use when creating design token files, implementing theme systems, managing token versioning, or building design-to-code pipelines.
Design To Code	Command	complex	Mockup-to-component pipeline using Google Stitch, 21st.dev, and Storybook MCP. Accepts screenshots, descriptions, or URLs as input and produces production-ready React components. Checks existing Storybook components before generating, orchestrates design extraction via Stitch MCP, component matching via 21st.dev registry, adaptation to project design tokens, and self-healing verification via run-story-tests. Use when converting visual designs to code, implementing UI from mockups, or building components from screenshots.
Devops Deployment	Reference	medium	Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, deploying to Kubernetes, or writing infrastructure as code. DevOps & Deployment covers GitHub Actions, Docker, Helm, and Terraform patterns.
Distributed Systems	Reference	medium	Distributed systems patterns for locking, resilience, idempotency, and rate limiting. Use when implementing distributed locks, circuit breakers, retry policies, idempotency keys, token bucket rate limiters, or fault tolerance patterns.
Doctor	Command	low	OrchestKit doctor for health diagnostics. Use when running checks on plugin health, diagnosing problems, or troubleshooting issues.
Documentation Patterns	Reference	low	Technical documentation patterns for READMEs, ADRs, API docs (OpenAPI 3.1), changelogs, and writing style guides. Use when creating project documentation, writing architecture decisions, documenting APIs, or maintaining changelogs.
Domain Driven Design	Reference	medium	Domain-Driven Design tactical patterns for complex business domains. Use when modeling entities, value objects, domain services, repositories, or establishing bounded contexts.
Dream	Command	medium	Nightly memory consolidation — prunes stale entries, merges duplicates, resolves contradictions, rebuilds MEMORY.md index. Use when memory files have accumulated over many sessions and need cleanup. Do NOT use for storing new decisions (use remember) or searching memory (use memory).
Emulate Seed	Reference	medium	Generate emulate seed configs for stateful API emulation. Wraps Vercel's emulate tool for GitHub, Vercel, Google OAuth, Slack, Apple Auth, Microsoft Entra, and AWS (S3/SQS/IAM) APIs. Not mocks — full state machines where create-a-PR-and-it-appears-in-the-list. Use when setting up test environments, CI pipelines, integration tests, or offline development.
Errors	Reference	low	Error pattern analysis and troubleshooting for Claude Code sessions. Use when handling errors, fixing failures, troubleshooting issues.
Expect	Command	high	Diff-aware AI browser testing — analyzes git changes, generates targeted test plans, and executes them via agent-browser. Reads git diff to determine what changed, maps changes to affected pages via route map, generates a test plan scoped to the diff, and runs it with pass/fail reporting. Use when testing UI changes, verifying PRs before merge, running regression checks on changed components, or validating that recent code changes don't break the user-facing experience.
Explore	Command	high	explore — Deep codebase exploration with parallel agents. Use when exploring a repo, discovering architecture, finding files, or analyzing design patterns.
Feedback	Reference	low	Manages OrchestKit feedback, usage analytics, learning preferences, and privacy settings. Use when reviewing patterns, pausing learning, or managing consent.
Figma Design Handoff	Reference	medium	Figma-to-code design handoff patterns including Figma Variables to design tokens pipeline, component spec extraction, Dev Mode inspection, Auto Layout to CSS Flexbox/Grid mapping, and visual regression with Applitools. Use when converting Figma designs to code, documenting component specs, setting up design-dev workflows, or comparing production UI against Figma designs.
Fix Issue	Command	medium	Fixes GitHub issues with parallel analysis. Use when debugging errors, resolving regressions, fixing bugs, or triaging issues.
Github Operations	Reference	medium	GitHub CLI operations for issues, PRs, milestones, and Projects v2. Covers gh commands, REST API patterns, and automation scripts. Use when managing GitHub issues, PRs, milestones, or Projects with gh.
Golden Dataset	Reference	medium	Golden dataset lifecycle patterns for curation, versioning, quality validation, and CI integration. Use when building evaluation datasets, managing dataset versions, validating quality scores, or integrating golden tests into pipelines.
Help	Command	low	OrchestKit help directory with categorized skill listings. Use when discovering skills for a task, finding the right workflow, or browsing capabilities.
I18n Date Patterns	Reference	low	Implements internationalization (i18n) in React applications. Covers user-facing strings, date/time handling, locale-aware formatting, ICU MessageFormat, and RTL support. Use when building multilingual UIs or formatting dates/currency.
Implement	Command	medium	Full-power feature implementation with parallel subagents. Use when implementing, building, or creating features.
Interaction Patterns	Reference	medium	UI interaction design patterns for skeleton loading, infinite scroll with accessibility, progressive disclosure, modal/drawer/inline selection, drag-and-drop with keyboard alternatives, tab overflow handling, and toast notification positioning. Use when implementing loading states, content pagination, disclosure patterns, overlay components, reorderable lists, or notification systems.
Issue Progress Tracking	Reference	low	Auto-updates GitHub issues with commit progress. Use when starting work on an issue, tracking progress during implementation, or completing work with a PR.
Json Render Catalog	Reference	medium	json-render component catalog patterns for AI-safe generative UI. Define Zod-typed catalogs that constrain what AI can generate, use @json-render/shadcn for 29 pre-built components, optimize specs for token efficiency with YAML mode. Use when building AI-generated UIs, defining component catalogs, or integrating json-render into React/Vue/Svelte/React Native projects.
Langgraph	Reference	high	LangGraph 1.x (LTS) workflow patterns for state management, routing, parallel execution, supervisor-worker, tool calling, checkpointing, human-in-loop, streaming (v2 format), subgraphs, and functional API. Use when building LangGraph pipelines, multi-agent systems, or AI workflows.
Llm Integration	Reference	medium	LLM integration patterns for function calling, streaming responses, local inference with Ollama, and fine-tuning customization. Use when implementing tool use, SSE streaming, local model deployment, LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, or multi-provider LLM APIs.
Market Sizing	Reference	medium	TAM, SAM, SOM market sizing with top-down and bottom-up methods. Use when estimating addressable market, validating opportunity size, sizing new segments, or preparing investor pitch materials.
Mcp Patterns	Reference	high	MCP server building, advanced patterns, and security hardening. Use when building MCP servers, implementing tool handlers, adding authentication, creating interactive UIs, hardening MCP security, or debugging MCP integrations.
Mcp Visual Output	Reference	medium	Interactive MCP visual output via @json-render/mcp. Upgrade plain JSON tool responses to interactive dashboards rendered in sandboxed iframes inside Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT conversations. Covers createMcpApp(), registerJsonRenderTool(), CSP config, streaming, and dashboard component patterns. Use when building MCP servers that return visual output, upgrading existing MCP tools with interactive UI, or creating eval/monitoring dashboards.
Memory	Command	low	Read-side memory operations: search, recall, load, sync, history, visualize. Use when searching past decisions, loading session context, or viewing the knowledge graph.
Memory Fabric	Reference	high	Knowledge graph memory orchestration - entity extraction, query parsing, deduplication, and cross-reference boosting. Use when designing memory orchestration.
Monitoring Observability	Reference	medium	Monitoring and observability patterns for Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Langfuse v4 LLM tracing (as_type, score_current_span, should_export_span, LangfuseMedia), and drift detection. Use when adding logging, metrics, distributed tracing, LLM cost tracking, or quality drift monitoring.
Multi Surface Render	Reference	medium	Multi-surface rendering with json-render — same JSON spec produces React components, PDFs, emails, Remotion videos, OG images, and more. Covers renderer target selection, registry mapping, and platform-specific APIs (renderToBuffer, renderToStream, renderToFile). Use when generating output for multiple platforms, creating PDF reports, email templates, demo videos, or social media images from a single component spec.
Multimodal Llm	Reference	high	Vision, audio, video generation, and multimodal LLM integration patterns. Use when processing images, transcribing audio, generating speech, generating AI video (Kling, Sora, Veo, Runway), or building multimodal AI pipelines.
Notebooklm	Reference	medium	NotebookLM integration patterns for external RAG, research synthesis, studio content generation (audio, cinematic video, slides, infographics, mind maps), and knowledge management. Use when creating notebooks, adding sources, generating audio/video, or querying NotebookLM via MCP.
Okr Design	Reference	medium	OKR trees, KPI dashboards, North Star Metric, leading/lagging indicators, and experiment design. Use when setting team goals, defining success metrics, building measurement frameworks, or designing A/B experiment guardrails.
Performance	Reference	high	Performance optimization patterns covering Core Web Vitals, React render optimization, lazy loading, image optimization, backend profiling, LLM inference, and sustainability UX. Use when improving page speed, debugging slow renders, optimizing bundles, reducing image payload, profiling backend, deploying LLMs efficiently, or reducing digital carbon footprint.
Portless	Reference	low	Named .localhost URLs for local development with portless. Eliminates port collisions, enables stable URLs for agents, integrates with emulate for API emulation aliases and git worktrees for branch-named subdomains. Use when setting up local dev environments, configuring agent-accessible URLs, or running multi-service dev setups. Do NOT use for production deployments, CI environments (set PORTLESS=0), or DNS/hosting configuration.
Presentation Builder	Reference	medium	Creates zero-dependency, animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or by converting PowerPoint files. Use when the user wants to build a presentation, convert a PPT/PPTX to web slides, or create a slide deck for a talk, pitch, or tutorial. Generates single self-contained HTML files with inline CSS/JS.
Prioritization	Reference	medium	Prioritization frameworks — RICE, WSJF, ICE, MoSCoW, and opportunity cost scoring for backlog ranking. Use when prioritizing features, comparing initiatives, justifying roadmap decisions, or evaluating trade-offs between competing work items.
Product Analytics	Reference	medium	A/B test evaluation, cohort retention analysis, funnel metrics, and experiment-driven product decisions. Use when analyzing experiments, measuring feature adoption, diagnosing conversion drop-offs, or evaluating statistical significance of product changes.
Product Frameworks	Reference	medium	Product management frameworks for business cases, market analysis, strategy, prioritization, OKRs/KPIs, personas, requirements, and user research. Use when building ROI projections, competitive analysis, RICE scoring, OKR trees, user personas, PRDs, or usability testing plans.
Python Backend	Reference	medium	Python backend patterns for asyncio, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy 2.0 async, and connection pooling. Use when building async Python services, FastAPI endpoints, database sessions, or connection pool tuning.
Quality Gates	Reference	max	Use when assessing task complexity, before starting complex tasks, when stuck after multiple attempts, or reviewing code against best practices. Provides quality-gates scoring (1-5), escalation workflows, and pattern library management.
Rag Retrieval	Reference	high	Retrieval-Augmented Generation patterns for grounded LLM responses. Use when building RAG pipelines, embedding documents, implementing hybrid search, contextual retrieval, HyDE, agentic RAG, multimodal RAG, query decomposition, reranking, or pgvector search.
React Server Components Framework	Reference	medium	Use when building Next.js 16+ apps with React Server Components. Covers App Router, Cache Components (replacing experimental_ppr), streaming SSR, Server Actions, and React 19 patterns for server-first architecture.
Release Checklist	Reference	medium	Validates release readiness with gated checklist — build, test, count validation, changelog, version bump. Use when preparing a release.
Release Management	Reference	low	GitHub release workflow with semantic versioning, changelogs, and release automation using gh CLI. Use when creating releases, tagging versions, or publishing changelogs.
Release Sync	Command	low	Sync release content to NotebookLM and HQ Knowledge Base after tagging a new version. Reads CHANGELOG, CLAUDE.md, and hook README, then updates notebook sources and ingests to knowledge base.
Remember	Command	low	Stores decisions and patterns in knowledge graph. Use when saving patterns, remembering outcomes, or recording decisions.
Responsive Patterns	Reference	medium	Responsive design with Container Queries, fluid typography, cqi/cqb units, subgrid, intrinsic layouts, foldable devices, and mobile-first patterns for React applications. Use when building responsive layouts or container queries.
Review Pr	Command	medium	PR review with parallel specialized agents. Use when reviewing pull requests or code.
Scope Appropriate Architecture	Reference	low	Right-sizes architecture to project scope. Prevents over-engineering by classifying projects into 6 tiers and constraining pattern choices accordingly. Use when designing architecture, selecting patterns, or when brainstorm/implement detect a project tier.
Security Patterns	Reference	high	Security patterns for authentication, defense-in-depth, input validation, OWASP Top 10, LLM safety, and PII masking. Use when implementing auth flows, security layers, input sanitization, vulnerability prevention, prompt injection defense, or data redaction.
Setup	Command	medium	Personalized setup and onboarding wizard. Use when setting up OrchestKit for a new project, configuring plugins, or generating a readiness score and improvement plan.
Skill Evolution	Reference	medium	Analyzes skill usage patterns and suggests improvements. Use when reviewing skill performance, applying auto-suggested changes, or rolling back versions.
Storybook Mcp Integration	Reference	medium	Storybook MCP server integration for component-aware AI development. Covers 6 tools across 3 toolsets (dev, docs, testing): component discovery via list-all-documentation/get-documentation, story previews via preview-stories, and automated testing via run-story-tests. Use when generating components that should reuse existing Storybook components, running component tests via MCP, or previewing stories in chat.
Storybook Testing	Reference	medium	Storybook 10 testing patterns with Vitest integration, ESM-only distribution, CSF3 typesafe factories, play() interaction tests, Chromatic TurboSnap visual regression, module automocking, accessibility addon testing, and autodocs generation. Use when writing component stories, setting up visual regression testing, configuring Storybook CI pipelines, or migrating from Storybook 9.
Task Dependency Patterns	Reference	medium	Task Management patterns with TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskGet, TaskList tools. Decompose complex work into trackable tasks with dependency chains. Use when managing multi-step implementations, coordinating parallel work, or tracking completion status.
Testing E2e	Reference	medium	End-to-end testing patterns with Playwright — page objects, AI agent testing, visual regression, accessibility testing with axe-core, and CI integration. Use when writing E2E tests, setting up Playwright, implementing visual regression, or testing accessibility.
Testing Integration	Reference	medium	Integration and contract testing patterns — API endpoint tests, component integration, database testing, Pact contract verification, property-based testing, and Zod schema validation. Use when testing API boundaries, verifying contracts, or validating cross-service integration.
Testing Llm	Reference	medium	LLM and AI testing patterns — mock responses, evaluation with DeepEval/RAGAS, structured output validation, and agentic test patterns (generator, healer, planner). Use when testing AI features, validating LLM outputs, or building evaluation pipelines.
Testing Patterns	Reference	low	Redirect — testing-patterns was split into 5 focused sub-skills. Use when looking for testing-patterns, writing tests, or test automation. Redirects to testing-unit, testing-e2e, testing-integration, testing-llm, or testing-perf.
Testing Perf	Reference	medium	Performance and load testing patterns — k6 load tests, Locust stress tests, pytest execution optimization (xdist parallel, plugins), test type classification, and performance benchmarking. Use when writing load tests, optimizing test execution speed, or setting up pytest infrastructure.
Testing Unit	Reference	medium	Unit testing patterns for isolated business logic tests — AAA pattern, parametrized tests (test.each, @pytest.mark.parametrize), fixture scoping (function/module/session), mocking with MSW/VCR at network level, and test data management with factories (FactoryBoy, faker-js). Use when writing unit tests, setting up mocks, structuring test data, optimizing test speed, choosing fixture scope, or reducing test boilerplate. Covers Vitest, Jest, pytest.
Ui Components	Reference	medium	UI component library patterns for shadcn/ui and Radix Primitives. Use when building accessible component libraries, customizing shadcn components, using Radix unstyled primitives, or creating design system foundations.
Upgrade Assessment	Reference	max	Assess platform upgrade readiness for Claude model and CC version changes. Use when evaluating upgrades.
User Research	Reference	medium	User personas, customer journey maps, interview guides, usability testing, and card sorting. Use when building user understanding, mapping customer experiences, planning user research sessions, or defining Jobs-to-Be-Done.
Validate Counts	Reference	low	Validates hook, skill, and agent counts are consistent across CLAUDE.md, hooks.json, manifests, and source directories. Use when counts may be stale after adding or removing components, before releases, or when CLAUDE.md Project Overview looks wrong.
Verify	Command	high	Comprehensive verification with parallel test agents. Use when verifying implementations or validating changes.
Visualize Plan	Command	medium	Visualize planned changes before implementation. Use when reviewing plans, comparing before/after architecture, assessing risk, or analyzing execution order and impact.
Vite Advanced	Reference	medium	Advanced Vite 8 patterns including Rolldown-powered builds, advancedChunks, Environment API, plugin development, SSR configuration, library mode, and build optimization. Use when customizing build pipelines, creating plugins, or configuring multi-environment builds.
Web Research Workflow	Reference	low	Unified decision tree for web research and competitive monitoring. Auto-selects WebFetch, Tavily, or agent-browser based on target site characteristics and available API keys. Includes competitor page tracking, snapshot diffing, and change alerting. Use when researching web content, scraping, extracting raw markdown, capturing documentation, or monitoring competitor changes.
Write Prd	Command	medium	Write PRD — Product Requirements Documents with structured 8-section templates, user stories, acceptance criteria, and value proposition validation. Use when writing PRDs, defining product requirements, creating user stories with INVEST criteria, or building go/no-go decision frameworks.
Zustand Patterns	Reference	low	Zustand 5.x state management with slices, middleware, Immer, useShallow, and persistence patterns for React applications. Use when building state management with Zustand.

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