Skills Reference

OrchestKit includes 67 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, and React Aria component patterns. Use when implementing screen reader support, keyboard navigation, ARIA patterns, focus traps, or accessible component libraries.
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.
Analytics	Command	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.
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	Command	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	Command	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.
Brainstorming	Command	medium	Design exploration with parallel agents. Use when brainstorming ideas, exploring solutions, or comparing alternatives.
Browser Tools	Reference	medium	OrchestKit orchestration wrapper for browser automation. Adds security rules, rate limiting, and ethical scraping guardrails on top of the upstream agent-browser skill. Use when automating browser workflows, capturing web content, or extracting structured data from web pages.
Checkpoint Resume	Command	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.
Configure	Command	low	Configures OrchestKit plugin settings, MCP servers, hook permissions, and keybindings. Use when customizing plugin behavior or managing settings.
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	Command	low	Creates polished demo videos for skills, tutorials, and CLI demonstrations. Use when producing video showcases, marketing content, or terminal recordings.
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.
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.
Errors	Reference	low	Error pattern analysis and troubleshooting for Claude Code sessions. Use when handling errors, fixing failures, troubleshooting issues.
Explore	Command	high	explore — Deep codebase exploration with parallel agents. Use when exploring a repo, discovering architecture, finding files, or analyzing design patterns.
Feedback	Command	low	Manages OrchestKit usage analytics, learning preferences, and privacy settings. Use when reviewing patterns, pausing learning, or managing consent.
Fix Issue	Command	medium	Fixes GitHub issues with parallel analysis. Use to debug errors, resolve regressions, fix bugs, or triage issues.
Git Workflow	Command	medium	Complete git workflow patterns including GitHub Flow branching, atomic commits with interactive staging, merge and rebase strategies, and recovery operations using reflog. Essential patterns for clean history. Use when managing branches, defining branching strategy, or recovering git history.
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 skill directory with categorized 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.
Issue Progress Tracking	Command	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.
Langgraph	Reference	high	LangGraph workflow patterns for state management, routing, parallel execution, supervisor-worker, tool calling, checkpointing, human-in-loop, streaming, 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.
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.
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 LLM tracing, and drift detection. Use when adding logging, metrics, distributed tracing, LLM cost tracking, or quality drift monitoring.
Multimodal Llm	Reference	high	Vision, audio, and multimodal LLM integration patterns. Use when processing images, transcribing audio, generating speech, or building multimodal AI pipelines.
Performance	Reference	high	Performance optimization patterns covering Core Web Vitals, React render optimization, lazy loading, image optimization, backend profiling, and LLM inference. Use when improving page speed, debugging slow renders, optimizing bundles, reducing image payload, profiling backend, or deploying LLMs efficiently.
Plan Viz	Command	medium	Visualize planned changes before implementation. Use when reviewing plans, comparing before/after architecture, assessing risk, or analyzing execution order and impact.
Presentation Builder	Command	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.
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	Command	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.
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, 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 brainstorming/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.
Skill Evolution	Command	medium	Analyzes skill usage patterns and suggests improvements. Use when reviewing skill performance, applying auto-suggested changes, or rolling back versions.
Task Dependency Patterns	Reference	medium	CC 2.1.16 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 Patterns	Reference	high	Comprehensive testing patterns for unit, integration, E2E, pytest, API mocking (MSW/VCR), test data, property/contract testing, performance, LLM, and accessibility testing. Use when writing tests, setting up test infrastructure, or validating application quality.
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	Command	max	Assess platform upgrade readiness for Claude model and CC version changes. Use when evaluating upgrades.
Validate Counts	Command	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.
Vite Advanced	Reference	medium	Advanced Vite 7+ patterns including 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.
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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