amplihack

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.

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.

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.

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.

Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks

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.

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.

Creates personalized learning paths for technologies, frameworks, or concepts. Use for user-interactive session only for onboarding new technologies, hackathon skill-building, or personal development planning. Not for use in automated development or investigation. Sequences resources (docs, tutorials, exercises) based on current skill level and learning goals. Adapts to learning style: hands-on, theory-first, project-based.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Analyzes events through narrative lens using story structure, character arc analysis, dramatic tension, thematic development, and narrative theory (three-act structure, hero's journey, conflict-resolution). Provides insights on narrative coherence, character motivations, dramatic stakes, plot development, and thematic resonance. Use when: Complex human stories, leadership analysis, organizational narratives, crisis narratives, cultural moments. Evaluates: Character development, narrative arc, dramatic tension, thematic depth, symbolic meaning, narrative coherence.

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 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.

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.

Socratic code review using probing questions instead of direct critique. Based on Feynman's principle that teaching reveals gaps in understanding. Helps developers articulate reasoning, surface hidden assumptions, and discover issues themselves.

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

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.

Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Agent Framework for building production AI agents and workflows. Auto-activates for agent building, workflow design, AutoGen migration, and enterprise AI tasks.

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.

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.

Expert backlog manager that prioritizes work using multi-criteria scoring, analyzes dependencies, and recommends optimal next tasks. Activates when managing backlogs, prioritizing work, adding items, or analyzing what to work on next.

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.

6-phase investigation workflow for understanding existing systems. Normally executed as a sub-recipe by dev-orchestrator/smart-orchestrator. Supports direct invocation via recipe runner for standalone use.

Expert project manager orchestrating backlog-curator, work-delegator, workstream-coordinator, and roadmap-strategist sub-skills. Coordinates complex software projects through delegation and strategic oversight. Activates when managing projects, coordinating work, or tracking overall progress.

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

Auto-generates code flow diagrams from multi-language module analysis. Detects when architecture diagrams become stale (code changed, diagram didn't). Supports Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust, and Go out of the box. Use when: creating new modules, reviewing PRs for architecture impact, or checking diagram freshness across polyglot repositories. Generates mermaid diagrams showing imports, dependencies, and module relationships.

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 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.

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

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 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.

Processes meeting notes or transcripts to extract structured information. Use after meetings to quickly generate action items, capture decisions, and create follow-up tasks. Extracts: action items with owners, decisions made, key discussion points, follow-up tasks with priorities.

Creates, refines, and validates Agent Skills following the open standard at agentskills.io, Claude Code extensions, and Anthropic best practices. Use when building, creating, generating, or designing new skills.

Philosophy-aware PR reviews checking alignment with amplihack principles. Use when reviewing PRs to ensure ruthless simplicity, modular design, and zero-BS implementation. Suggests simplifications, identifies over-engineering, verifies brick module structure. Posts detailed, constructive review comments with specific file:line references.

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.

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.

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 goalagentgenerator, and reference real amplihack examples like AKS SRE automation, CI diagnostics, pre-commit workflows, and fix-agent pattern matching.

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.

Complete Azure DevOps (ADO) automation — work items, boards, sprints, repos, pull requests, pipelines, builds, artifacts. Use when user mentions ADO, work items, user stories, bugs, sprints, builds, releases, or Azure DevOps URLs.

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

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

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.

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 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.