# Skill Index — Single Source of Truth

> **DO NOT EDIT** — This file is auto-generated by `scripts/generate-skill-index.sh`.
> Edit `SKILL.md` source files or `skills-lock.json` instead. Run `bash scripts/sync-skills.sh` to regenerate.

**Generated:** 2026-06-22T03:19:29Z
**Skills:** 68

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## Quick Navigation by Phase

| Phase | Count | Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Discover | 6 | `elaborate-spec, map-codebase, research-first, search-skills, survey-context, using-bigpowers` |
| Design | 7 | `deepen-architecture, define-language, define-success, design-interface, grill-me, grill-with-docs, model-domain` |
| Plan | 9 | `assess-impact, change-request, plan-refactor, plan-release, plan-work, run-planning, scope-work, seed-conventions, slice-tasks` |
| Build | 18 | `align-grid, build-epic, craft-skill, deploy, develop-tdd, execute-plan, guard-git, hook-commits, kickoff-branch, orchestrate-project, publish-package, quick-fix, setup-environment, smoke-test, spike-prototype, validate-contracts, wire-ci, wire-observability` |
| Verify | 12 | `audit-code, diagnose-root, enforce-first, fix-bug, inspect-quality, investigate-bug, request-review, respond-review, run-evals, trace-requirement, validate-fix, verify-work` |
| Release | 2 | `commit-message, release-branch` |
| Sustain | 13 | `compose-workflow, delegate-task, dispatch-agents, edit-document, evolve-skill, migrate-spec, organize-workspace, reset-baseline, session-state, simulate-agents, stocktake-skills, terse-mode, write-document` |
| **TOTAL** | **67** | |

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## Full Reference Table

| # | Phase | Skill | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discover | `elaborate-spec` | Refine a rough idea into a clear, detailed specification through dialogue. Does  | ✅ Active |
| 2 | Discover | `map-codebase` | "Derives the tech-stack doc from scratch by scanning the codebase — analyzes s | ✅ Active |
| 3 | Discover | `research-first` | Look-before-build — search registries, repo, existing skills, and web for prio | ✅ Active |
| 4 | Discover | `search-skills` | Find the right bigpowers skill from natural-language intent using a local lexica | ✅ Active |
| 5 | Discover | `survey-context` | Per-task context bootstrap — reads existing specs/ and tech-architecture docs  | ✅ Active |
| 6 | Discover | `using-bigpowers` | One-time bootstrap that introduces the bigpowers skills system, the PMBOK lifecy | ✅ Active |
| 7 | Design | `deepen-architecture` | Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in s | ✅ Active |
| 8 | Design | `define-language` | Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation,  | ✅ Active |
| 9 | Design | `define-success` | Convert an imperative task statement into explicit "step → verify: <cmd>" pair | ✅ Active |
| 10 | Design | `design-interface` | Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using paral | ✅ Active |
| 11 | Design | `grill-me` | Interactive assumption-surfacing Q&A that stress-tests a plan through relentless | ✅ Active |
| 12 | Design | `grill-with-docs` | Doc-grounded variant of grill-me — stress-tests plan assumptions by fetching a | ✅ Active |
| 13 | Design | `model-domain` | Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sh | ✅ Active |
| 14 | Plan | `assess-impact` | Analyze the blast radius of a proposed change before any code is written. Maps d | ✅ Active |
| 15 | Plan | `change-request` | Add a new requirement or reorder epics by WSJF against specs/release-plan.yaml a | ✅ Active |
| 16 | Plan | `plan-refactor` | Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then save  | ✅ Active |
| 17 | Plan | `plan-release` | "RELEASE-INDEX BUILDER — Sequence elaborated epics into specs/release-plan.yam | ✅ Active |
| 18 | Plan | `plan-work` | "PLANNING SPINE STEP 3 of 3 — Plan the work: write detailed implementation tas | ✅ Active |
| 19 | Plan | `run-planning` | "DISCOVER-PHASE ADVANCER — Drive the discover-phase checklist (specs/planning- | ✅ Active |
| 20 | Plan | `scope-work` | "PLANNING SPINE STEP 1 of 3 — Scope the work: define what is in and out of sco | ✅ Active |
| 21 | Plan | `seed-conventions` | Generate CLAUDE.md and CONVENTIONS.md for a brand-new project through a brief in | ✅ Active |
| 22 | Plan | `slice-tasks` | "PLANNING SPINE STEP 2 of 3 — Slice the work: break a scoped PRD into vertical | ✅ Active |
| 23 | Build | `align-grid` | "Build editorial/magazine/report webpages on a GENUINE Müller-Brockmann modular | ✅ Active |
| 24 | Build | `build-epic` | Eight-step epic build cycle — reads state.yaml, execution-status.yaml, and one | ✅ Active |
| 25 | Build | `craft-skill` | Create new bigpowers skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and b | ✅ Active |
| 26 | Build | `deploy` | "Build → verify artifact → deploy → wait → smoke deployment pipeline. Pl | ✅ Active |
| 27 | Build | `develop-tdd` | Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop using vertical slices. Use  | ✅ Active |
| 28 | Build | `execute-plan` | Batch-execute tasks from the active epic capsule sequentially, with a human chec | ✅ Active |
| 29 | Build | `guard-git` | Block dangerous git commands (push, force push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D,  | ✅ Active |
| 30 | Build | `hook-commits` | Set up pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in | ✅ Active |
| 31 | Build | `kickoff-branch` | Create a git worktree and feature branch, then verify a clean test baseline befo | ✅ Active |
| 32 | Build | `orchestrate-project` | Meta-skill that enforces the 6-phase core loop (discover → elaborate → plan  | ✅ Active |
| 33 | Build | `publish-package` | "Package registry publishing for npm, crates.io, PyPI, and Homebrew. Verifies pr | ✅ Active |
| 34 | Build | `quick-fix` | "Streamlined fast-path for trivial data-only fixes — no TDD, no branching cere | ✅ Active |
| 35 | Build | `setup-environment` | Pre-install dependencies and configure tools before development work begins. Use | ✅ Active |
| 36 | Build | `smoke-test` | "Post-deploy health-check against a live URL. Validates HTTP status, response co | ✅ Active |
| 37 | Build | `spike-prototype` | Throw-away prototype for unknown problem spaces. Output is learning notes in spe | ✅ Active |
| 38 | Build | `validate-contracts` | "Assert data shape consistency across system boundaries — live API responses a | ✅ Active |
| 39 | Build | `wire-ci` | "CI pipeline setup with pre-built templates and local validation. Generates GitH | ✅ Active |
| 40 | Build | `wire-observability` | Add structured JSON logging, observability commands, and idempotent setup script | ✅ Active |
| 41 | Verify | `audit-code` | Self-review checklist for the coding agent to run before dispatching a reviewer. | ✅ Active |
| 42 | Verify | `diagnose-root` | Run 4-phase root cause analysis — reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, verify. Use | ✅ Active |
| 43 | Verify | `enforce-first` | Apply the F.I.R.S.T test quality rubric (Fast, Independent, Repeatable, Self-Val | ✅ Active |
| 44 | Verify | `fix-bug` | Bug fix orchestrator — active_flow fix_bug; reads specs/bugs/BUG-*.md; chains  | ✅ Active |
| 45 | Verify | `inspect-quality` | Interactive QA session where user reports bugs or issues conversationally, and t | ✅ Active |
| 46 | Verify | `investigate-bug` | Investigate a bug or issue by exploring the codebase to find root cause, then wr | ✅ Active |
| 47 | Verify | `request-review` | Dispatch a fresh reviewer agent with a clean context to critique the code after  | ✅ Active |
| 48 | Verify | `respond-review` | Act on a reviewer agent's feedback systematically — categorize findings, apply | ✅ Active |
| 49 | Verify | `run-evals` | Eval-Driven Development — define capability and regression evals before buildi | ✅ Active |
| 50 | Verify | `trace-requirement` | Link story IDs from specs/release-plan.yaml + epic capsule directories to the im | ✅ Active |
| 51 | Verify | `validate-fix` | Prove a fix works before declaring done — re-run the failing test, run the ful | ✅ Active |
| 52 | Verify | `verify-work` | Multi-phase UAT gate — cold-start smoke, build, typecheck, lint, tests, step-b | ✅ Active |
| 53 | Release | `commit-message` | Reviews working-tree changes, then drafts a Conventional Commits title/body and  | ✅ Active |
| 54 | Release | `release-branch` | Make the merge/PR/keep/discard decision for a feature branch, verify coverage ga | ✅ Active |
| 55 | Sustain | `compose-workflow` | Chain multiple bigpowers skills into a custom workflow recipe saved in specs/. U | ✅ Active |
| 56 | Sustain | `delegate-task` | Delegate one complex task to a single subagent, review its work in two stages be | ✅ Active |
| 57 | Sustain | `dispatch-agents` | Dispatch multiple subagents in parallel on independent tasks. No waiting between | ✅ Active |
| 58 | Sustain | `edit-document` | Edit and improve documents by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tig | ✅ Active |
| 59 | Sustain | `evolve-skill` | Benchmark-gated skill evolution — consume bigpowers-benchmark report, propose  | ✅ Active |
| 60 | Sustain | `migrate-spec` | Detect GSD, spec-kit, or BMAD spec artifacts and transform them into bigpowers Y | ✅ Active |
| 61 | Sustain | `organize-workspace` | Scans the active workspace for disposable artifacts—logs, caches, stale build  | ✅ Active |
| 62 | Sustain | `reset-baseline` | Restore the project to a known clean state between agent runs or experiments. Us | ✅ Active |
| 63 | Sustain | `session-state` | Track implementation decisions and progress in specs/state.yaml to prevent conte | ✅ Active |
| 64 | Sustain | `simulate-agents` | Run Mock User and Auditor agents against a feature in fresh contexts before huma | ✅ Active |
| 65 | Sustain | `stocktake-skills` | Sequential subagent batch audit of the bigpowers skill catalog — Quick Scan (c | ✅ Active |
| 66 | Sustain | `terse-mode` | Fallback ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping  | ✅ Active |
| 67 | Sustain | `write-document` | Write, organize, and sync high-integrity technical documents using the BMAD meth | ✅ Active |

**Total: 67 active skills.**

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## Lifecycle Arc

```
[First time]
using-bigpowers → orchestrate-project
                         ↓
survey-context → research-first → elaborate-spec → map-codebase
                         ↓
  model-domain / define-language / grill-me / grill-with-docs
  design-interface / deepen-architecture / define-success
                         ↓
  scope-work → assess-impact → change-request → slice-tasks
  → plan-work / plan-refactor / plan-release / seed-conventions
                         ↓
    kickoff-branch → guard-git / hook-commits / setup-environment
                         ↓
       [Unknown domain?] spike-prototype → (learnings)
                         ↓
  develop-tdd (+ enforce-first) ←→ delegate-task / dispatch-agents
  execute-plan / build-epic / craft-skill / align-grid
                         ↓
              ★ VERIFY ★  verify-work → run-evals → audit-code
                         ↓
    fix-bug → investigate-bug → diagnose-root → validate-fix
                         ↓
      request-review → respond-review → trace-requirement
                         ↓
      commit-message → release-branch
                         ↓
   inspect-quality → organize-workspace → stocktake-skills
   → evolve-skill → edit-document / write-document / migrate-spec

Transversal utilities (any phase):
  terse-mode, session-state, visual-dashboard, reset-baseline,
  search-skills, compose-workflow, simulate-agents, wire-observability
```

---

## Status Legend

| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ✅ Active | SKILL.md exists and is usable |
| 📋 Planned | Designed but not yet implemented |
| 🔄 Refactoring | Active but under revision |
| ⚠️ Deprecated | Will be removed in a future release |

## Naming Convention Notes

All skills follow `verb-noun` kebab-case (ADR-0001). Documented exceptions:
- `terse-mode` — adjective-noun; retained for clarity
- `visual-dashboard` — adjective-noun; retained for clarity

## How to Update

1. Run `bash scripts/sync-skills.sh` to regenerate this file and all artifacts.
2. Or run `bash scripts/generate-skill-index.sh` to only regenerate this index.

→ verify: `find . -maxdepth 2 -name "SKILL.md" | grep -v ".git\|.cursor\|.gemini" | wc -l`

