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- description: "Use when you have course / lesson / module content and you need the teaching to LAND — so grounded, named, and emotionally resonant that the student loves the teacher. Ingests slides/transcripts/notes/outline, extracts the concepts AND the existing narrative spine, finds the abstract/jargon-heavy/ungrounded gaps, then reframes each concept with Russell Brunson's Expert Secrets methodology (Epiphany Bridge, the three false beliefs, the Big Domino, named mental models, story-selling, grounding analogies, future-pacing). Profiles the LEARNER and AUDIENCE first (hard gate). Outputs a per-concept 'landing recipe' and a reworked narrative spine. Triggers: 'make this lesson land', 'teach this concept', 'storytelling for my course', 'expert secrets', 'epiphany bridge', 'mental models for teaching', 'this lesson is too abstract', 'my students aren't getting it', 'name this concept'. NOT slide visuals (that's `presentations`/`design`) and NOT a content-audit/review pass (run review-content first, bring findings here)."
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+ description: "Use when lesson or course content is correct but forgettable and a concept has to LAND: profiles the learner, breaks the blocking false belief, then rebuilds it as epiphany story → named model → grounded analogy → proof → so-what. NOT outcomes, assessment or module order (that is `course-builder`), NOT slide visuals (that is `presentations`)."
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  *Take a concept the student would forget and turn it into one they can't unhear. Profile the learner first, then run every concept through the Expert Secrets machine: epiphany story → named model → grounded analogy → proof → do-this-now → the so-what.*
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- This skill owns **the teaching narrative**: extracting what a course actually teaches, finding where it stays abstract, and rebuilding each concept so the realization happens *in the student*, emotionally, not just on the slide. It borrows Russell Brunson's *Expert Secrets* frameworks as a **teaching methodology** (this is method, not text reproduction). The sibling `presentations` skill turns the result into a deck; `marketing` owns sales words; `design` owns pixels; a content-audit/review-content pass audits an existing lesson for gaps before you bring it here.
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+ This skill owns **the teaching narrative**: extracting what a course actually teaches, finding where it stays abstract, and rebuilding each concept so the realization happens *in the student*, emotionally, not just on the slide. It borrows Russell Brunson's *Expert Secrets* frameworks as a **teaching methodology** (this is method, not text reproduction).
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+ Boundaries: `course-builder` decides what the course must prove — outcomes, assessment, module order — and hands you the skeleton; this skill makes each concept inside it land. `presentations` turns the landed lesson into a deck, `design` owns the pixels, `marketing` owns the words that sell the course, and a content-audit/review-content pass diagnoses an existing lesson (run it first, bring its findings here — that pass audits, this one rebuilds).
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- - `../design/SKILL.md` — the visual system and pixels behind the slides/diagrams.
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- - A content-audit / review-content pass — audit an existing lesson/module/notebook for gaps, redundancy, anachronisms, and storytelling problems (run it first; bring its report here). This skill rebuilds; that pass diagnoses.
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- - `../harness/SKILL.md` — the `02-DOCS` Karpathy-wiki convention this skill persists the teaching profile into.
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+ Beyond the gated learner profile, record the **course teaching conventions** at `02-DOCS/wiki/stack/course-storytelling.md` (or alongside the profile under `02-DOCS/wiki/teaching/`): the established narrative spine, the named mental models already coined, the Big Dominoes per module, and the teacher's Attractive Character. Recorded, not gated — update it as decisions are made, keep its entry current in `02-DOCS/wiki/index.md`, read it first on every use, and keep every reframing consistent with it. The wiki convention itself belongs to `../harness/SKILL.md`. If the project has no `02-DOCS` layer, skip this silently and proceed with the in-session profile.
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- description: "Use when writing, reviewing, modernizing, building, or debugging C++ - RAII and resource lifetime, smart-pointer ownership (unique_ptr/shared_ptr/weak_ptr), move semantics and the Rule of Zero/Five, target-based CMake with FetchContent, and killing undefined behavior with ASan/UBSan/TSan plus clang-tidy. Triggers: \"modernize this C++\", \"who owns this pointer\", \"use-after-free\", \"double free\", \"dangling reference\", \"segfault under load\", \"should this move be noexcept\", \"write a CMakeLists with FetchContent\", .cpp/.hpp/.ixx files, \"revisa este código C++\", \"tengo un segfault\", \"fuga de memoria\". NOT borrow-checker / Result-Option / cargo memory-safety (that is rust)."
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+ description: "Use when writing, reviewing, modernizing, building, or debugging C++ - RAII and resource lifetime, smart-pointer ownership, move semantics and the Rule of Zero/Five, target-based CMake with FetchContent, and killing undefined behavior with ASan/UBSan/TSan plus clang-tidy. NOT borrow-checker / Result-Option / cargo memory safety (that is rust)."
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- - Deciding ownership: value / `unique_ptr` / `shared_ptr` / `weak_ptr` / borrowed `span` / `string_view` / `const&`.
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- - Modernizing legacy C++: ripping out `new`/`delete`, owning raw pointers, manual loops, C-style casts.
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- - Writing or fixing a **CMake** build (target-based, `FetchContent`, presets).
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- - Hunting UB: enabling ASan/UBSan/TSan, reading the report, applying the lifetime/bounds/overflow/race fix.
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- - Containerizing/shipping the binary (Dockerfile, GitHub Actions) -> [`deployment`](../deployment/SKILL.md)
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+ [`rust`](../rust/SKILL.md) — C++ buys safety with discipline (RAII + smart pointers +
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+ OWASP-class review -> [`secure-coding`](../secure-coding/SKILL.md); the C++-specific
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  6. **Borrow with `span` / `string_view` / `const T&`.** Pass a view, not a copy or an owner, for
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- read access. Why: zero-copy and the callee provably can't free what it doesn't own.
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- the compiler enforces what you don't mutate and moves work off the hot path.
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+ 7. **`const` and `constexpr` by default.** Why: the compiler enforces what you don't mutate and
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  8. **No UB by construction.** No use-after-move, OOB index, signed overflow, uninitialized read, or
71
- data race. Why: UB is not a runtime error — the optimizer is licensed to do anything.
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+ data race.
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  9. **Sanitizers + warnings-as-errors in CI.** Build and test under `-fsanitize=address,undefined`
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  10. **Target-based CMake only.** `target_link_libraries` / `target_compile_features`, never
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- directory-level `include_directories`/`link_libraries`. Why: directory commands leak flags globally and break composition.
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+ directory-level `include_directories`/`link_libraries`. Why: directory commands leak flags
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78
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  - **Local gate:** `./scripts/verify.sh` from the project root runs format + an ASan/UBSan,
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  warnings-as-errors build + `ctest` + optional tidy/cppcheck. Missing tools are skipped, not failed.
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262
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263
 
282
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  | Rationalization | Reality / Do instead |
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  | Static analysis | `clang-tidy -p build src/*.cpp` · `cppcheck --enable=warning src/` |
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311
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  | Local gate | `./scripts/verify.sh` (run in your project root) |
313
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314
- ## Project grounding (02-DOCS + CLAUDE.md)
315
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316
- When this skill runs in a project with a `02-DOCS/` layer (the [`harness`](../harness/SKILL.md)
317
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318
- so the next agent inherits them instead of re-deriving them.
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- 1. **Find the article** `02-DOCS/wiki/stack/cpp.md`, indexed in `02-DOCS/wiki/index.md` (the Knowledge map index; root `CLAUDE.md` points to it).
321
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- compiler matrix, CMake layout and presets, the sanitizer/warning policy, and the ownership/error
323
- conventions — then index it in `02-DOCS/wiki/index.md` (the Knowledge map; root `CLAUDE.md` keeps only a short pointer to it).
324
- 3. **Read it first on every use** and stay consistent; when a convention changes, update the article
325
- (bump its `Updated` date) in the same change.
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-
327
- No `02-DOCS/` layer? Skip silently (optionally suggest `harness`). Technical conventions are
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- *recorded, not gated* — never block the task on this.
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- ## See Also
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332
- Sibling skills (all resolve under `skills/`):
333
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334
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- RAII discipline. Any borrow-checker / `Result`-`Option` / cargo question goes there.
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- - [`secure-coding`](../secure-coding/SKILL.md) - language-agnostic threat modeling and authz/abuse
337
- review (this skill keeps the C++-specific memory/UB controls).
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- - [`deployment`](../deployment/SKILL.md) - containerizing and shipping the built binary (this skill
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- - [`harness`](../harness/SKILL.md) - the `02-DOCS/` workspace wiki where per-project C++ conventions
341
- are recorded (see "Project grounding").
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343
- Local references (read when):
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+ ## Project grounding (02-DOCS)
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295
 
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- - `references/cmake.md` - full target-based CMake template, presets, FetchContent, sanitizer/warning flags.
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- - `references/undefined-behavior.md` - the UB catalog, which sanitizer catches each, fixes, ASan-report walkthrough.
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- - `references/move-and-templates.md` - value categories, Rule of Five, perfect forwarding, CTAD, C++20 concepts.
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+ In a project with a `02-DOCS/` layer (the [`harness`](../harness/SKILL.md) Karpathy wiki), read
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+ `02-DOCS/wiki/stack/cpp.md` first and stay consistent with it. If it is missing or stale, write
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+ this project's real choices there — std version and compiler matrix, CMake layout and presets, the
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+ sanitizer/warning policy, the ownership/error conventions — index it in `02-DOCS/wiki/index.md`
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+ (the Knowledge map; root `CLAUDE.md` keeps only a pointer to it), and bump its `Updated` date in
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+ the same change as any convention change. No `02-DOCS/` layer? Skip silently (optionally suggest
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+ `harness`). Conventions are *recorded, not gated* — never block the task on this.
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+ description: "Use when writing, reviewing, testing, or shipping C# / .NET code — ASP.NET Core APIs (minimal APIs vs controllers), EF Core data access, async correctness, solution layout in .cs/.csproj/.sln. NOT a Java/Spring backend (that is spring-boot), NOT a Node/TypeScript backend (that is nestjs), NOT framework-neutral REST naming (that is api-design)."
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20
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21
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22
22
 
23
- ## When to use
24
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25
- - Authoring/reviewing/refactoring any `.cs`, `.csproj`, or `.sln`.
26
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27
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- - EF Core: `DbContext` design, LINQ queries, migrations, tracking, N+1.
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30
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31
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32
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33
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34
23
  ## When NOT to use — delegate
35
24
 
36
25
  | Situation | Route to |
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45
34
 
46
35
  The .NET *expression* of an API contract and async correctness live HERE. Resource
47
36
  naming theory lives in `api-design`; the JVM and Node counterparts are `spring-boot`
48
- and `nestjs`. Only `secure-coding`, `postgresdb`, `deployment`, and `harness` exist on
49
- disk as siblings, so only those are linked as `../<id>/SKILL.md`.
50
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51
- ## Decision rules — apply on every C# edit
52
-
53
- 1. **NRT on.** `<Nullable>enable</Nullable>` in the csproj. Why: the compiler turns
54
- whole classes of `NullReferenceException` into build-time warnings. Never disable it
55
- to silence a warning — fix the nullability.
56
- 2. **Async all the way, flow the token.** I/O methods are `async Task`, every call is
57
- `await`ed, and a `CancellationToken` threads from the endpoint down to
58
- `SaveChangesAsync`/queries/HTTP calls. Why: a dropped token means requests keep
59
- running after the client gives up.
60
- 3. **Records for DTOs and immutable data.** `public record ProductDto(int Id, string Name);`.
61
- Why: value equality + `with` expressions + concise; never reuse an EF entity as the
62
- wire DTO (see anti-patterns).
63
- 4. **Parameterize every query.** EF LINQ and `FromSql` interpolation parameterize for
64
- you; never string-concatenate SQL. Why: SQL injection.
65
- 5. **Deterministic disposal.** `using`/`await using` (or `using` declarations) for
66
- anything `IDisposable`/`IAsyncDisposable`. Why: leaked connections/handles.
67
- 6. **One `DbContext` per request (scoped).** Why: `DbContext` is not thread-safe;
68
- sharing across requests corrupts change tracking.
69
- 7. **Minimal APIs for new services** unless you need MVC features (views, model
70
- binders, action filters at scale). Why: less ceremony, first-class in .NET 10.
37
+ and `nestjs`.
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38
 
72
39
  ## Project & solution layout + dotnet CLI
73
40
 
@@ -101,6 +68,10 @@ Central package management: turn it on with `<ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>tru
101
68
  and list versions once in `Directory.Packages.props`. Why: one source of truth, no
102
69
  version drift across projects.
103
70
 
71
+ NRT on for every project — `<Nullable>enable</Nullable>` in `Directory.Build.props`.
72
+ Why: the compiler turns whole classes of `NullReferenceException` into build-time
73
+ warnings. Never disable it to silence a warning — fix the nullability.
74
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75
  ## Modern C# idioms (C# 14 / .NET 10)
105
76
 
106
77
  DTO as a record, not a class:
@@ -113,6 +84,9 @@ public class ProductDto { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get;
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84
  public record ProductDto(int Id, string Name, decimal Price);
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85
  ```
115
86
 
87
+ Why: value equality, `with` expressions, no boilerplate — and never reuse an EF entity
88
+ as the wire DTO (see anti-patterns).
89
+
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90
  Pattern matching over if-chains:
117
91
 
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92
  ```csharp
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154
128
  valid and let the compiler force callers to handle it, instead of `if (x == null)`
155
129
  guards scattered everywhere.
156
130
 
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+ Dispose deterministically: `using` / `await using` (or `using` declarations) for
132
+ anything `IDisposable`/`IAsyncDisposable`. Why: leaked connections and handles.
133
+
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134
  ## async/await correctness
158
135
 
159
136
  This is the highest-leverage area to get right. Core rules in body; the full catalog
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173
150
  public async Task<IActionResult> Get(CancellationToken ct) => Ok(await _svc.LoadAsync(ct));
174
151
  ```
175
152
 
176
- - **Flow `CancellationToken`** from the endpoint into every async call.
153
+ - **Flow `CancellationToken`** from the endpoint down into every async call —
154
+ `SaveChangesAsync`, queries, outbound HTTP. Why: a dropped token means the request
155
+ keeps running after the client gives up.
177
156
  - **`ValueTask` only for hot paths** that usually complete synchronously; default to
178
157
  `Task`. Never `await` a `ValueTask` twice.
179
158
  - **`IAsyncEnumerable<T>` for streaming** results instead of materializing a huge list.
@@ -182,6 +161,7 @@ public async Task<IActionResult> Get(CancellationToken ct) => Ok(await _svc.Load
182
161
 
183
162
  Decision: **minimal API** for new services; **controllers** only when you need MVC
184
163
  machinery (model binding conventions, action filters at scale, views). Both can coexist.
164
+ Why minimal by default: less ceremony, first-class in .NET 10.
185
165
 
186
166
  Production minimal API shape — route group + DataAnnotations validation (built in for
187
167
  minimal API parameters in .NET 10) + ProblemDetails + OpenAPI 3.1:
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215
195
  ```
216
196
 
217
197
  DI lifetimes: `Singleton` (one for the app), `Scoped` (one per request — `DbContext`
218
- lives here), `Transient` (new each resolve). Never inject a `Scoped` service into a
198
+ lives here; it is not thread-safe, so sharing one across requests corrupts change
199
+ tracking), `Transient` (new each resolve). Never inject a `Scoped` service into a
219
200
  `Singleton` (captive dependency — see anti-patterns). Middleware ordering, endpoint
220
201
  filters, the options pattern, and auth defaults are in **references/aspnetcore.md**.
221
202
 
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252
233
  `../secure-coding/SKILL.md`.
253
234
 
254
235
  - **Parameterized data access** — EF LINQ / parameterized `FromSql` / ADO.NET
255
- `SqlParameter`. Never concatenate user input into SQL.
236
+ `SqlParameter`. Never concatenate user input into SQL. Why: SQL injection.
256
237
  - **Secrets** — `dotnet user-secrets` in dev, Key Vault / environment in prod. Never in
257
238
  `appsettings.json` or source.
258
239
  - **Antiforgery** for cookie-auth browser POSTs; **Data Protection** for cookies/tokens
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  ---
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2
  name: customer-support
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- description: "Use when a support ticket, email, or chat lands and you must handle it well and fast — triage it (priority + queue + intent), draft a reply that does not read like a template, decide whether to escalate to a human, and keep the SLA clock from blowing. Also when an angry or churn-risk customer needs a de-escalation reply, when you need a canned-response library, or when you must set or audit first-response and resolution SLA targets. Triggers: 'a customer says our app is down and they're losing money', 'this user is threatening to cancel and leave a bad review, draft a reply', 'give me canned replies for common questions', 'what response times should we promise', 'redacta una respuesta para un cliente enfadado', 'tracta aquest ticket de suport'. NOT writing the help-center article the ticket links to (that is technical-writing), not the new-customer welcome flow (that is client-onboarding), not a win-back program (that is retention), and not building the auto-answer bot (that is chatbot)."
3
+ description: "Use when a live support ticket needs triage (intent, P1–P4 priority, SLA clock), an on-voice reply, not a raw template, de-escalation of an angry or churn-risk customer, or escalation with a handoff packet. NOT the help-center article it links to (that is `technical-writing`), a win-back program (`retention`), or the auto-answer bot (`chatbot`)."
4
4
  tags: [customer-support, helpdesk, ticket-triage, sla, escalation, macros, de-escalation, csat]
5
5
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6
  origin: risco
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9
9
  # Customer Support — Run the Desk on a Live Ticket
10
10
 
11
- *A ticket just came in. Triage it, answer it on-voice, escalate it if it needs a human, and keep the SLA from blowing. This skill handles the live ticket — it does not write the article the ticket links to.*
12
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13
11
  You own the **support desk as an operation**: take an incoming ticket, assign priority and intent, start the SLA clock, draft the reply (macro or bespoke), enforce tone, and decide escalation with a clean handoff. The output is a triaged, answered ticket — human judgment, not a code artifact.
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15
- ## What this owns vs. what it does not
16
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17
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18
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