Comprehensive OCaml development toolkit with project setup, build migration, testing, RFC integration, opam publishing, and code style assistance
Designing and implementing robust command-line interfaces using OCaml's cmdliner library, following Daniel Bünzli's design principles. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Design a new CLI or subcommand layout, (2) Implement cmdliner terms and combinators, (3) Enforce clear, predictable, orthogonal options, (4) Produce high-quality --help output and error messages, (5) Integrate cmdliner CLIs into dune-based OCaml projects.
OCaml 5 algebraic effects design patterns. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Design APIs that interact with effect-based schedulers, (2) Decide between effects vs exceptions, (3) Integrate libraries with Eio or affect, (4) Handle suspension vs error cases in streaming code, (5) Understand the layered effect design principle
Eio concurrency patterns for OCaml applications. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Write concurrent OCaml code with Eio, (2) Handle network operations with cohttp-eio, (3) Manage resource lifecycles with switches, (4) Implement rate limiting or synchronization, (5) Create parallel operations with fibers, (6) Test async code with Eio_mock, (7) Integrate with bytesrw for streaming, or any other Eio-based concurrency tasks
OCaml fuzz testing with Crowbar for protocol implementations. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Write fuzz tests for parsers and encoders, (2) Test roundtrip invariants (parse(encode(x)) = x), (3) Verify boundary conditions and error handling, (4) Test state machines and transitions, (5) Organize fuzz test suites for large codebases
JSON type-safe encoding and decoding using Daniel Bünzli's jsont library. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Define typed JSON codecs for OCaml record types, (2) Parse JSON strings to OCaml values, (3) Serialize OCaml values to JSON, (4) Handle optional fields and backwards compatibility, (5) Work with nested JSON structures
OCaml memtrace profiling for allocation hotspot analysis. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Add memtrace instrumentation to OCaml executables, (2) Run targeted benchmarks with tracing enabled, (3) Identify allocation hotspots from trace output, (4) Optimize code to reduce boxing and allocations, (5) Validate optimizations with before/after comparisons
OCaml coding style and refactoring patterns. Use when the user asks to tidy, clean up, refactor, or improve OCaml code, reviewing code quality, enforcing naming conventions, or reducing complexity.
Fixing odoc documentation warnings and errors. Use when running dune build @doc, resolving reference syntax issues, cross-package references, ambiguous references, hidden fields, or @raise tags in OCaml documentation.
Migrating OCaml projects from ocamlbuild/topkg to dune. Use when discussing _tags files, .mllib files, pkg/pkg.ml, topkg, or build system migration.
Publishing OCaml to npm via js_of_ocaml and wasm_of_ocaml. Use when discussing browser targets, JavaScript compilation, WASM output, npm packages, or the two-branch workflow.
Working with IETF RFCs in OCaml projects. Use when mentioning RFC numbers, implementing internet standards, adding specification documentation, or discussing protocol compliance.
Testing strategies for OCaml libraries. Use when discussing tests, alcotest, eio mocks, test structure, test-driven development, or cram tests in OCaml projects.
Creating OCaml library tutorials using .mld documentation format with MDX executable examples. Use when discussing tutorials, documentation, .mld files, MDX, or interactive documentation.
Working with the OxCaml extensions to OCaml. Use when the oxcaml compiler is available and you need high-performance, unboxing, stack allocation, data-race-free parallelism.