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Analyzes events through anthropological lens using cultural analysis, ethnographic methods, kinship and social organization, symbolic systems, ritual and practice, and comparative ethnology. Provides insights on cultural meanings, social practices, symbolic structures, cultural change, and cross-cultural patterns. Use when: Cultural conflicts, identity issues, ritual significance, symbolic meanings, cultural change, cross-cultural comparison. Evaluates: Cultural systems, symbolic meanings, social practices, kinship structures, cultural adaptation, power-culture nexus.

Complete Azure DevOps automation - boards, repos, pipelines, artifacts

Analyzes living systems and biological phenomena through biological lens using evolution, molecular biology, ecology, and systems biology frameworks. Provides insights on mechanisms, adaptations, interactions, and life processes. Use when: Biological systems, health issues, evolutionary questions, ecological problems, biotechnology. Evaluates: Function, structure, heredity, evolution, interactions, molecular mechanisms.

Graceful degradation through cascading fallback strategies - ensures system always completes while maintaining acceptable functionality

Analyzes events through chemistry lens using molecular structure, reaction mechanisms, thermodynamics, kinetics, and analytical techniques (spectroscopy, chromatography, mass spectrometry). Provides insights on chemical processes, material properties, reaction pathways, synthesis, and analytical methods. Use when: Chemical reactions, material analysis, synthesis planning, process optimization, environmental chemistry. Evaluates: Molecular structure, reaction mechanisms, yield, selectivity, safety, environmental impact.

Identifies anti-patterns specific to amplihack philosophy. Use when reviewing code for quality issues or refactoring. Detects: over-abstraction, complex inheritance, large functions (>50 lines), tight coupling, missing __all__ exports. Provides specific fixes and explanations for each smell.

Auto-generates code flow diagrams from Python module analysis. Detects when architecture diagrams become stale (code changed, diagram didn't). Use when: creating new modules, reviewing PRs for architecture impact, or checking diagram freshness. Generates mermaid diagrams showing imports, dependencies, and module relationships.

Analyzes events through computer science lens using computational complexity, algorithms, data structures, systems architecture, information theory, and software engineering principles to evaluate feasibility, scalability, security. Provides insights on algorithmic efficiency, system design, computational limits, data management, and technical trade-offs. Use when: Technology evaluation, system architecture, algorithm design, scalability analysis, security assessment. Evaluates: Computational complexity, algorithmic efficiency, system architecture, scalability, data integrity, security.

Multi-agent consensus voting with domain-weighted expertise for critical decisions requiring structured validation

Proactive context window management via token monitoring, intelligent extraction, and selective rehydration. Features predictive budget monitoring, context health indicators, and priority-based retention. Use when approaching token limits or needing to preserve essential context. Complements /transcripts and PreCompact hook with proactive optimization.

Analyzes events through cybersecurity lens using threat modeling, attack surface analysis, defense-in-depth, zero-trust architecture, and risk-based frameworks (CIA triad, STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK). Provides insights on vulnerabilities, attack vectors, defense strategies, incident response, and security posture. Use when: Security incidents, vulnerability assessments, threat analysis, security architecture, compliance. Evaluates: Confidentiality, integrity, availability, threat actors, attack patterns, controls, residual risk.

Structured multi-perspective debate for important architectural decisions and complex trade-offs

Development workflow for features, bugs, refactoring. Auto-activates for multi-file implementations.

Automated dependency conflict detection and resolution. Detects local vs CI environment mismatches, compares versions, and generates pinning recommendations. Run as pre-push check to catch issues early.

Comprehensive knowledge of all 23 Gang of Four design patterns with progressive disclosure (Quick/Practical/Deep), pattern recognition for problem-solving, and philosophy-aligned guidance to prevent over-engineering.

Writing clear, discoverable software documentation following the Eight Rules and Diataxis framework. Use when creating README files, API docs, tutorials, how-to guides, or any project documentation. Automatically enforces docs/ location, linking requirements, and runnable examples.

Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes support

Interactive debugging via DAP-MCP for multiple languages with natural language commands

Analyzes events through economic lens using supply/demand, incentive structures, market dynamics, and multiple schools of economic thought (Classical, Keynesian, Austrian, Behavioral). Provides insights on market impacts, resource allocation, policy implications, and distributional effects. Use when: Economic events, policy changes, market shifts, financial crises, regulatory decisions. Evaluates: Incentives, efficiency, opportunity costs, market failures, systemic risks.

Generates professional emails from bullet points or conversation summaries. Use when you need to draft emails quickly with consistent style and tone. Supports multiple tones: formal, casual, technical Supports contexts: status updates, requests, announcements, follow-ups

Analyzes technical systems and problems through engineering lens using first principles, systems thinking, design methodologies, and optimization frameworks. Provides insights on feasibility, performance, reliability, scalability, and trade-offs. Use when: System design, technical feasibility, optimization, failure analysis, performance issues. Evaluates: Requirements, constraints, trade-offs, efficiency, robustness, maintainability.

Analyzes events through environmental lens using ecological principles, systems thinking, sustainability frameworks, and conservation biology to assess ecosystem health, biodiversity impacts, and long-term environmental sustainability. Provides insights on climate change, resource management, pollution, habitat conservation, and human-nature relationships. Use when: Environmental policy, climate decisions, conservation planning, resource extraction, pollution assessment. Evaluates: Ecosystem health, biodiversity, sustainability, climate impacts, carrying capacity, environmental justice.

Analyzes disease patterns and health events through epidemiological lens using surveillance systems, outbreak investigation methods, and disease modeling frameworks. Provides insights on disease spread, risk factors, prevention strategies, and public health interventions. Use when: Disease outbreaks, health policy evaluation, risk assessment, intervention planning. Evaluates: Transmission dynamics, risk factors, causality, population health impact, intervention effectiveness.

Analyzes moral dimensions and value conflicts through ethical frameworks using deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics, and applied ethics methodologies. Provides insights on moral obligations, rights, justice, and ethical decision-making. Use when: Ethical dilemmas, policy decisions, technology ethics, professional conduct issues. Evaluates: Moral principles, stakeholder interests, consequences, rights, justice, virtues.

Analyzes events through futures lens using scenario planning, trend analysis, weak signals, drivers of change, and forecasting methods (exploratory, normative, backcasting). Provides insights on possible futures, emerging trends, disruptive forces, strategic foresight, and alternative scenarios. Use when: Strategic planning, emerging trends, technology assessment, long-term planning, uncertainty navigation. Evaluates: Trends, weak signals, drivers of change, plausible futures, strategic options, uncertainty ranges.

Guides architects on when and how to use goal-seeking agents as a design pattern. This skill helps evaluate whether autonomous agents are appropriate for a given problem, how to structure their objectives, integrate with goal_agent_generator, and reference real amplihack examples like AKS SRE automation, CI diagnostics, pre-commit workflows, and fix-agent pattern matching.

Analyzes events through historical lens using source analysis, comparative history, periodization, causation, continuity/change, and contextualization frameworks. Provides insights on historical patterns, precedents, path dependency, and long-term trends. Use when: Understanding historical context, identifying precedents, analyzing change over time, comparative history. Evaluates: Causation, continuity, change, context, historical parallels, long-term patterns.

Analyzes events through indigenous knowledge systems using relational thinking, seven generations principle, reciprocity, holistic integration, and traditional ecological knowledge frameworks. Provides insights on interconnectedness, long-term sustainability, collective wisdom, and decolonial perspectives. Use when: Environmental decisions, resource stewardship, community governance, decolonization, intergenerational planning. Evaluates: Relationships, sustainability, collective impact, indigenous rights, traditional knowledge integration.

6-phase investigation workflow for understanding existing systems. Auto-activates for research tasks. Optimized for exploration and understanding, not implementation. Includes parallel agent deployment for efficient deep dives and automatic knowledge capture to prevent repeat investigations.

Analyzes events through journalistic lens using 5 Ws and H, investigative methods, source evaluation, fact-checking, newsworthiness criteria, and ethical journalism principles. Provides insights on story angles, information gaps, credibility, public interest, and media framing. Use when: Breaking news, information verification, source analysis, story development, media criticism. Evaluates: Factual accuracy, source credibility, completeness, newsworthiness, bias, public interest.

Extracts key learnings from conversations, debugging sessions, and failed attempts. Use at session end or after solving complex problems to capture insights. Stores discoveries in memory (via amplihack.memory.discoveries), suggests PATTERNS.md updates, and recommends new agent creation. Ensures knowledge persists across sessions via Kuzu memory backend.

Analyzes events through legal lens using statutory interpretation, case law analysis, legal reasoning, constitutional principles, and multiple legal frameworks (common law, civil law, international law). Provides insights on legal rights, obligations, liabilities, remedies, and compliance requirements. Use when: Legal disputes, contracts, regulations, compliance, rights analysis, liability assessment. Evaluates: Legal obligations, rights, liabilities, remedies, precedent, statutory authority, constitutionality.

Auto-discovers and configures Language Server Protocol (LSP) servers for your project's languages

Conversational interface for managing MCP (Model Context Protocol) server configurations in Claude Code

Converts architecture descriptions, module specs, or workflow docs into Mermaid diagrams. Use when visualizing brick module relationships, workflows (DDD, investigation), or system architecture. Supports: flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state machines, entity relationship diagrams, and Gantt charts. Generates valid Mermaid syntax for embedding in markdown docs.

Automated reproduction of comprehensive model evaluation benchmarks following the Benchmark Suite V3. Auto-activates for model benchmarking, comparison evaluation, or performance testing between AI models.

Generates module specifications following amplihack's brick philosophy template. Use when creating new modules or documenting existing ones to ensure they follow the brick & studs pattern. Analyzes code to extract: purpose, public contract, dependencies, test requirements.

Multi-repository orchestration for coordinating atomic changes across dependent repositories. Tracks dependency graphs, coordinates cross-repo PRs, and detects breaking changes.

N-version programming for critical implementations - generates N independent solutions and selects the best through comparison

Generates agentic outside-in tests using gadugi-agentic-test framework for CLI, TUI, Web, and Electron apps. Use when you need behavior-driven tests that verify external interfaces without internal implementation knowledge. Creates YAML test scenarios that AI agents execute, observe, and validate against expected outcomes. Supports progressive complexity from simple smoke tests to advanced multi-step workflows.

Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.

Analyzes fundamental questions and concepts through philosophical lens using logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and critical analysis frameworks. Provides insights on meaning, truth, knowledge, existence, reasoning, and conceptual clarity. Use when: Conceptual ambiguity, logical arguments, foundational assumptions, meaning questions. Evaluates: Validity, soundness, coherence, assumptions, implications, conceptual clarity.

Philosophy compliance guardian - ensures code aligns with amplihack's ruthless simplicity, brick philosophy, and Zen-like minimalism through systematic review

Analyzes events through physics lens using fundamental laws (thermodynamics, conservation, relativity), quantitative modeling, systems dynamics, and energy principles to understand causation, constraints, and feasibility. Provides insights on energy systems, physical limits, technological feasibility, and complex systems behavior. Use when: Energy decisions, technology assessment, systems analysis, physical constraints, feasibility evaluation. Evaluates: Energy flows, conservation laws, efficiency limits, physical feasibility, scaling behavior, emergent properties.

Analyzes events through poetic lens using close reading, metaphor analysis, imagery, rhythm, form analysis, and attention to language's emotional and aesthetic dimensions. Provides insights on emotional truth, symbolic meaning, human experience, aesthetic impact, and expressive depth. Use when: Understanding emotional dimensions, symbolic meaning, communication impact, cultural resonance, human experience. Evaluates: Imagery, metaphor, rhythm, emotional truth, symbolic depth, aesthetic power, resonance, ambiguity.

Analyzes events through political science lens using IR theory (Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism), comparative politics, institutional analysis, and power dynamics. Provides insights on governance, security, regime change, international cooperation, and policy outcomes. Use when: Political events, international crises, elections, regime transitions, policy changes, conflicts. Evaluates: Power distributions, institutional effects, actor interests, strategic interactions, norms.

Intelligent test selection based on code changes. Maps source files to tests via import analysis, implements tiered testing (fast < 1 min, impacted < 5 min, full suite), and tracks test reliability. Use when running tests after code changes to optimize feedback loops and CI time.

Analyzes events through psychological lens using cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience. Provides insights on behavior, cognition, emotion, motivation, group dynamics, decision-making biases, mental health, and individual differences. Use when: Behavioral patterns, decision-making, group behavior, mental health, leadership, persuasion, trauma, development. Evaluates: Cognitive processes, emotional responses, motivations, biases, group dynamics, personality, mental states.

Comprehensive codebase quality audit with parallel agent orchestration, GitHub issue creation, automated PR generation per issue, and PM-prioritized recommendations. Use for code review, refactoring audits, technical debt analysis, module quality assessment, or codebase health checks.

Execute amplihack work on remote Azure VMs with automatic region and resource selection

Cross-session learning system that extracts insights from session transcripts and injects relevant past learnings at session start. Uses simple keyword matching for relevance. Complements DISCOVERIES.md/PATTERNS.md with structured YAML storage.

Analyze claude-trace JSONL files for session health, patterns, and actionable insights. Use when debugging session issues, understanding token usage, or identifying failure patterns.

Creates, refines, and validates Claude Code skills following amplihack philosophy and official best practices. Automatically activates when building, creating, generating, or designing new skills.

Analyzes events through sociological lens using social structures, institutions, stratification, culture, norms, collective behavior, and multiple theoretical perspectives (functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist). Provides insights on social patterns, group dynamics, inequality, socialization, social change, and collective action. Use when: Social movements, inequality, cultural trends, group behavior, institutions, identity, social change. Evaluates: Social structures, power relations, inequality, norms, group dynamics, cultural patterns, social change.

Converts technical work into compelling narratives for demos, blog posts, or presentations. Use when preparing hackathon demos, writing technical blog posts, or creating marketing content. Transforms: PR descriptions, commit histories, feature implementations into structured stories. Formats: demo scripts, blog posts, presentation outlines, marketing copy.

Auto-invokes ultrathink workflow for any work request (default orchestrator)

Analyzes urban development through planning lens using zoning, land use, comprehensive planning, and transit-oriented development frameworks. Provides insights on spatial organization, infrastructure, sustainability, and livability. Use when: Urban development projects, zoning decisions, transportation planning, sustainability initiatives. Evaluates: Land use patterns, density, accessibility, environmental impact, community needs.

Comprehensive spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization. When Claude needs to work with spreadsheets (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, .tsv, etc) for: (1) Creating new spreadsheets with formulas and formatting, (2) Reading or analyzing data, (3) Modify existing spreadsheets while preserving formulas, (4) Data analysis and visualization in spreadsheets, or (5) Recalculating formulas