@ericrisco/rsc 1.1.5 → 1.1.6

package/README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <div align="center">
 
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness/main/site/og.png" alt="rsc — your agent needs a memory (02-DOCS/, or it invents what it cannot remember), arms (01-TOOLS/, or it never touches your database), a trade (276 skills, or it guesses how the job is done), and reflexes (deterministic hooks, or it forgets the rule mid-session). One meta-harness for 17 coding assistants." width="960">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness/main/site/og.png" alt="rsc — your agent needs a memory (02-DOCS/, or it invents what it cannot remember), arms (01-TOOLS/, or it never touches your database), a trade (272 skills, or it guesses how the job is done), and reflexes (deterministic hooks, or it forgets the rule mid-session). One meta-harness for 17 coding assistants." width="960">
 
-# `rsc` — 276 agent skills, one CLI, zero bloat
+# `rsc` — 272 agent skills, one CLI, zero bloat
 
 [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@ericrisco/rsc?color=63d68a&labelColor=12161c&label=npm)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ericrisco/rsc)
 [![downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@ericrisco/rsc?color=63d68a&labelColor=12161c&label=downloads)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ericrisco/rsc)
-[![skills](https://img.shields.io/badge/skills-281-63d68a?labelColor=12161c)](#the-catalog)
+[![skills](https://img.shields.io/badge/skills-272-63d68a?labelColor=12161c)](#the-catalog)
 [![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-63d68a?labelColor=12161c)](LICENSE)
 [![stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ericrisco/rsc-harness?color=63d68a&labelColor=12161c)](https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness/stargazers)
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ skills that fit — one at a time — into every assistant you pick, and keeps t
 equipped as you work.
 
 From *"document my company"* to *"ship a FastAPI service"* to *"grow my YouTube
-channel"* — **281 skills across 23 domains**, every one researched against live
+channel"* — **272 skills across 23 domains**, every one researched against live
 2025-2026 sources and **adversarially scored ≥ 8.5/10** before it shipped.
 
 ```bash
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ npx @ericrisco/rsc            # plain-language wizard — no jargon, installs wh
 
 <br>
 
-<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness/main/site/meta-harness.png" alt="rsc — the model (Claude, GPT, Gemini) is the brain your coding agent rents, and you already have that. Claude Code, Codex and opencode sit in the middle. Below them the rsc meta-harness adds everything the model lacks: memory (02-DOCS/) so it stops inventing, arms (01-TOOLS/) so it can execute, a trade (281 skills) so it stops guessing, and reflexes (deterministic hooks) so it cannot forget the rule mid-session." width="960">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness/main/site/meta-harness.png" alt="rsc — the model (Claude, GPT, Gemini) is the brain your coding agent rents, and you already have that. Claude Code, Codex and opencode sit in the middle. Below them the rsc meta-harness adds everything the model lacks: memory (02-DOCS/) so it stops inventing, arms (01-TOOLS/) so it can execute, a trade (272 skills) so it stops guessing, and reflexes (deterministic hooks) so it cannot forget the rule mid-session." width="960">
 
 **The model is the only part your agent already has.** `rsc` is the meta-harness that adds
 the rest: a **memory** so it stops inventing, **arms** so it can execute, a **trade** so it stops
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ $ rsc
  ██████╗ ███████╗ ██████╗     ← animated gradient wordmark
  ██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝
  ██████╔╝███████╗██║
-  281 skills · one CLI · zero bloat
+  272 skills · one CLI · zero bloat
 
 What do you want to do?          ↑↓ move · enter select
 ❯ Base install — the essentials (8 skills)
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ rsc add youtube-api remotion-video   # …grow a channel, edit with Remotion
 rsc add fastapi --target claude,codex   # install into several assistants at once
 rsc install --profile minimal        # the base: orient + suggest + bro + unslop + show-me + eli5 + harness + init
 rsc install --profile core           # floor + the full SDD workflow
-rsc install --profile full           # everything (all 281 skills)
+rsc install --profile full           # everything (all 272 skills)
 rsc install --profile full --without go
 rsc consult "I want to launch a SaaS"  # recommend only, no install
 rsc registry refresh                 # write .rsc/skill-registry.{json,md}
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ just asks in plain language.
 
 ## The catalog
 
-281 skills, grouped by what you're trying to do. Click any skill to read its
+272 skills, grouped by what you're trying to do. Click any skill to read its
 `SKILL.md`. It fires on its own when a task matches.
 
 ### 🧭 Core & control plane
@@ -414,11 +414,11 @@ Train and adapt open models end to end: classic ML, deep learning, NLP, fine-tun
 
 ### 🗣️ Languages
 
-[typescript](skills/typescript/) · [python](skills/python/) · [java](skills/java/) · [csharp-dotnet](skills/csharp-dotnet/) · [php](skills/php/) · [ruby](skills/ruby/) · [cpp](skills/cpp/) · [elixir](skills/elixir/) · [bash-scripting](skills/bash-scripting/) · [sql](skills/sql/) · [go](skills/go/) · [write-swift](skills/write-swift/)
+[typescript](skills/typescript/) · [python](skills/python/) · [java](skills/java/) · [csharp-dotnet](skills/csharp-dotnet/) · [php](skills/php/) · [ruby](skills/ruby/) · [cpp](skills/cpp/) · [elixir](skills/elixir/) · [bash-scripting](skills/bash-scripting/) · [sql](skills/sql/) · [go](skills/go/)
 
 ### 🏗️ Frameworks & app stacks
 
-[fastapi](skills/fastapi/) · [nextjs](skills/nextjs/) · [react](skills/react/) · [react-native](skills/react-native/) · [vue-nuxt](skills/vue-nuxt/) · [angular](skills/angular/) · [svelte](skills/svelte/) · [astro](skills/astro/) · [solid-js](skills/solid-js/) · [htmx](skills/htmx/) · [nodejs](skills/nodejs/) · [nestjs](skills/nestjs/) · [django](skills/django/) · [laravel](skills/laravel/) · [rails](skills/rails/) · [spring-boot](skills/spring-boot/) · [phoenix](skills/phoenix/) · [flutter](skills/flutter/) · [swift-ios](skills/swift-ios/) · [kotlin-android](skills/kotlin-android/) · [compose-multiplatform](skills/compose-multiplatform/) · [expo](skills/expo/) · [tauri](skills/tauri/) · [electron](skills/electron/) · [rust](skills/rust/) · [wordpress](skills/wordpress/) · [shopify](skills/shopify/) · [no-code-app](skills/no-code-app/) · [chrome-extension](skills/chrome-extension/) · [api-design](skills/api-design/) · [pick-ui-library](skills/pick-ui-library/) · [ask-sonner](skills/ask-sonner/)
+[fastapi](skills/fastapi/) · [nextjs](skills/nextjs/) · [react](skills/react/) · [react-native](skills/react-native/) · [vue-nuxt](skills/vue-nuxt/) · [angular](skills/angular/) · [svelte](skills/svelte/) · [astro](skills/astro/) · [solid-js](skills/solid-js/) · [htmx](skills/htmx/) · [nodejs](skills/nodejs/) · [nestjs](skills/nestjs/) · [django](skills/django/) · [laravel](skills/laravel/) · [rails](skills/rails/) · [spring-boot](skills/spring-boot/) · [phoenix](skills/phoenix/) · [flutter](skills/flutter/) · [swift-ios](skills/swift-ios/) · [kotlin-android](skills/kotlin-android/) · [compose-multiplatform](skills/compose-multiplatform/) · [expo](skills/expo/) · [tauri](skills/tauri/) · [electron](skills/electron/) · [rust](skills/rust/) · [wordpress](skills/wordpress/) · [shopify](skills/shopify/) · [no-code-app](skills/no-code-app/) · [chrome-extension](skills/chrome-extension/) · [api-design](skills/api-design/)
 
 ### 🎮 Game development
 
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Three engines + engine-agnostic disciplines. Every engine skill pins the current
 
 ### 🌀 Motion & interface craft
 
-[design-eng](skills/design-eng/) · [animate](skills/animate/) · [animate-expo](skills/animate-expo/) · [review-animations](skills/review-animations/) · [improve-animations](skills/improve-animations/) · [find-animation-opportunities](skills/find-animation-opportunities/) · [animation-vocabulary](skills/animation-vocabulary/) · [apple-design](skills/apple-design/) · [prototype](skills/prototype/)
+[motion-craft](skills/motion-craft/) · [ui-engineering](skills/ui-engineering/) · [variant-explorer](skills/variant-explorer/)
 
 ### 🎨 Design & content craft
 

package/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
-  "version": "1.1.5",
+  "version": "1.1.6",
   "counts": {
-    "skills": 281
+    "skills": 272
   },
   "skills": [
     {
@@ -182,62 +182,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "animate",
-      "description": "Build a web animation: whether it should animate at all, the purpose, the tool, the properties, the easing curve, the duration, interruption and exit. Writes the CSS or Motion code for dropdowns, modals, toasts, tooltips, accordions, press feedback, stagger and scroll reveals. Use to animate something or make a component feel alive.",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "css",
-        "transitions",
-        "ui"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "review-animations",
-        "pick-ui-library",
-        "apple-design"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "animate-expo",
-      "description": "Build animation and gestures in React Native and Expo with Reanimated worklets on the UI thread — sheets, drawers, screen transitions, swipe, drag, press feedback, haptics. Use when adding gestures to an Expo app, or when motion stutters, janks or drops frames on a real Android or iOS device.",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "expo",
-        "react-native",
-        "gestures"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "expo",
-        "react-native",
-        "animate"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "animation-vocabulary",
-      "description": "Reverse glossary: turn a vague description of a motion effect into its exact name — a popover growing from its trigger is origin-aware, iOS overscroll is rubber-banding, items appearing one after another with a delay is a stagger. Use for \\\"what's it called when…\\\" or \\\"what do you call it when…\\\".",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "glossary",
-        "terminology",
-        "naming"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "animate",
-        "apple-design"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "api-connector-builder",
       "description": "Use when writing a client for someone else's REST or GraphQL API: auth flow choice and token refresh, pagination to exhaustion, retry-with-jitter on transient failures only, rate-limit-aware throttling. NOT inbound callbacks (that is `webhooks`), NOT chaining services (that is `automation-flows`), NOT designing your own API (that is `api-design`).",
@@ -289,25 +233,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "apple-design",
-      "description": "Apple's fluid-interface craft on the web: spring damping and response, velocity handoff, momentum projection on a flick, rubber-banding at a boundary, interruptible motion the user can grab mid-flight, translucent materials and backdrop blur, letter-spacing and leading by size. Use for iOS-grade feel, sheets and drag.",
-      "tags": [
-        "design",
-        "motion",
-        "springs",
-        "gestures",
-        "apple"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "animate",
-        "design",
-        "swift-ios"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "article-writing",
       "description": "Use when writing one long-form article end to end — answer-first lede, question-shaped headings, plus its on-page surface (title, meta, slug, FAQ, Article/FAQPage JSON-LD) — or fixing a draft that buries the answer or reads AI-padded. NOT keyword research or topic selection (that is `seo-geo`), NOT the editorial calendar (that is `content-engine`).",
@@ -331,25 +256,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "ask-sonner",
-      "description": "Sonner, the React toast library: mounting Toaster once, toast() calls, promise and loading toasts, updating, dismissing, styling, theming, dark mode, positioning. Use when toasts do not appear, appear twice, sit behind a modal, ignore Tailwind classes, or do nothing from a server action.",
-      "tags": [
-        "sonner",
-        "toasts",
-        "notifications",
-        "react",
-        "library"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "react",
-        "nextjs",
-        "pick-ui-library"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "astro",
       "description": "Use when building a content-driven or marketing site with Astro 6: static-first pages, islands and partial hydration, content collections, server islands, per-route on-demand rendering, deploy adapters, and Astro 5→6 migration. NOT app-router React with server actions and heavy client interactivity (that is `nextjs`).",
@@ -1433,28 +1339,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "design-eng",
-      "description": "Umbrella for frontend craft: routes a UI request to the sibling that owns it — build motion, review it, audit it, find where it is missing, name an effect, gesture physics, prototype variants, pick a library. Use when an app works but feels cheap or unpolished, or when a frontend request could belong to several of them.",
-      "tags": [
-        "design",
-        "frontend",
-        "ui",
-        "routing",
-        "craft"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "design-loop",
-        "animate",
-        "review-animations",
-        "apple-design",
-        "design"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "core",
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "design-loop",
       "description": "Use when something must be built well and there is a real reference it should beat: turn what makes the reference good into measured mechanisms, then run a builder and three fresh-context critics until all three pass. Fires on 'design loop', 'make it as good as <site>', 'it looks generic'. NOT keeping an already-won look (that is `design-dna`).",
@@ -1972,24 +1856,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "find-animation-opportunities",
-      "description": "Sweep a UI for what does not animate but should, and reject what should not — each suggestion with an exact curve and duration, plus the rejected candidates. Read-only. Use for 'what could be animated here', 'where would motion help', or an interface that feels static and dead.",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "restraint",
-        "opportunities",
-        "ui"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "animate",
-        "improve-animations"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "finetuning",
       "description": "Use when adapting an open-weight model to a target form or behavior — tone, output format, reasoning pattern — via LoRA/QLoRA or full fine-tuning with TRL SFTTrainer, then preference optimization (DPO/ORPO/KTO/GRPO), and for fine-tune vs prompt vs RAG. NOT adding facts to a model (that is rag); NOT the single-GPU Unsloth backend or GGUF export (that is unsloth).",
@@ -2583,25 +2449,6 @@
         "full"
       ]
     },
-    {
-      "id": "improve-animations",
-      "description": "Audit a whole codebase's animation and motion, then write prioritized findings and self-contained plans another agent can execute. Read-only. Use for 'improve the animations', 'make the app feel better', or a roadmap of motion fixes — rather than a verdict on one diff.",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "audit",
-        "plan",
-        "codebase"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "review-animations",
-        "animate",
-        "plan"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "init",
       "description": "Use when starting from nothing or pointing rsc at an existing project — the front door. Gauges technical level and the accompaniment dial first (non-technical by default), discovers what the user wants to build or govern (any stack, or a non-code harness: company/ops, research, knowledge, content), writes the profile to 02-DOCS, and installs the skills discovery justified. NOT the scaffolder (that is `harness`), NOT a stack skill.",
@@ -3276,6 +3123,23 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
+    {
+      "id": "motion-craft",
+      "description": "Use when an interface moves and the movement has to feel right — durations and easing, what must never animate, fixing motion that reads sluggish, cheap or janky, and reduced-motion. Web and native. NOT the visual system (that is `design`), NOT the graded critique (that is `design-loop`).",
+      "tags": [
+        "motion",
+        "animation",
+        "interface",
+        "craft",
+        "frontend"
+      ],
+      "recommends": [
+        "design"
+      ],
+      "profiles": [
+        "full"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "id": "mysql",
       "description": "Use when designing, querying, indexing or operating a MySQL or MariaDB database and engine-specific behaviour matters — schema and type choices, index design, reading EXPLAIN, online schema change, replication and replica lag, locking and InnoDB deadlocks, charset traps, and server config. NOT portable SELECT/JOIN/window-function craft (that is `sql`), NOT PostgreSQL engine behaviour like VACUUM or JSONB (that is `postgresdb`), NOT the PlanetScale/Vitess branch-and-deploy workflow (that is `planetscale`).",
@@ -3677,25 +3541,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "pick-ui-library",
-      "description": "Pick the frontend library for a task from a curated list: dialogs and popovers, command palette, toasts, one-time-password input, charts, virtualization, drag and drop, state, conditional classNames, variants, dark mode. Use instead of hand-rolling a component or installing an abandoned package.",
-      "tags": [
-        "frontend",
-        "libraries",
-        "dependencies",
-        "react",
-        "ui"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "react",
-        "nextjs",
-        "animate"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "pitch-deck",
       "description": "Use when building or fixing an investor fundraising deck — the narrative arc, the slide-by-slide story, and the few numbers that actually move an investment decision, for a pre-seed, seed or Series A raise (or an accelerator application deck). Decides what goes on each slide, in what order, with which metric, sequenced the way an investor evaluates risk. NOT rendering, theming or exporting the slides into a designed PDF or PPTX (that is `presentations`), NOT the projection spreadsheet behind the numbers (that is `financial-model`).",
@@ -3970,25 +3815,6 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
-    {
-      "id": "prototype",
-      "description": "Build several genuinely different versions — variants, takes, options, directions — of one UI piece behind a visual picker, so you flip through them live and promote the winner. Use to explore a look before committing, or when you do not yet know what you want something to look like.",
-      "tags": [
-        "design",
-        "variants",
-        "exploration",
-        "picker",
-        "ui"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "design",
-        "animate",
-        "nextjs"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "python",
       "description": "Use when the task is Python itself, in any framework or none: PEP 695 generics, mypy --strict typing, dataclass/Protocol/TypedDict/Enum choices, asyncio.TaskGroup, stdlib idioms, src/ layout + pyproject.toml with uv, ruff+mypy+pytest gate. NOT a FastAPI/ASGI service (that is fastapi), NOT a deep pytest suite (that is testing-py).",
@@ -4317,25 +4143,6 @@
         "full"
       ]
     },
-    {
-      "id": "review-animations",
-      "description": "Review, critique or grade existing animation and motion code against a strict craft bar — easing, duration, transform-origin, interruptibility, GPU-only properties, reduced motion, enter/exit asymmetry, stagger. Default is to flag; approval is earned. Use on the transitions in a diff or a component.",
-      "tags": [
-        "motion",
-        "animation",
-        "review",
-        "craft",
-        "ui"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "animate",
-        "improve-animations",
-        "code-review"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "review-management",
       "description": "Use when a public review needs an on-voice reply, when you need to earn more reviews legally, or when an aggregate rating is slipping across Google Business Profile, Trustpilot, the App Store or Google Play — including deciding reply versus flag, getting an unfair one-star removed rather than merely answered, and wiring programmatic replies. NOT a private support ticket against an SLA (that is `customer-support`), NOT churn, NPS or save plays (that is `retention`).",
@@ -5341,6 +5148,26 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
+    {
+      "id": "ui-engineering",
+      "description": "Use when the question is how interface should be BUILT — component boundaries, state that belongs in the URL vs the component, loading/empty/error states, forms, optimistic updates, build vs adopt. NOT the visual system (`design`), NOT framework mechanics (`react`/`nextjs`).",
+      "tags": [
+        "interface",
+        "frontend",
+        "architecture",
+        "components",
+        "state",
+        "craft"
+      ],
+      "recommends": [
+        "design",
+        "motion-craft"
+      ],
+      "profiles": [
+        "core",
+        "full"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "id": "unit-economics",
       "description": "Use when computing or improving the per-customer economics of a business — CAC, LTV, CAC payback period and contribution margin — judging whether the ratios are healthy against current norms, and naming the one lever that fixes the worst number. Covers a blended CAC that hides a bleeding channel, and a model that shows profit while each customer loses money. NOT the multi-year P&L or scenario projection (that is `financial-model`).",
@@ -5454,6 +5281,23 @@
       ],
       "profiles": []
     },
+    {
+      "id": "variant-explorer",
+      "description": "Use when someone wants OPTIONS rather than an answer — 'show me a few versions', picking between approaches by seeing them. Genuinely different candidates, cheap to throw away, trade-off named. NOT the critique that judges one (`design-loop`), NOT the spec (`specify`).",
+      "tags": [
+        "prototyping",
+        "divergence",
+        "options",
+        "exploration",
+        "decision"
+      ],
+      "recommends": [
+        "design-loop"
+      ],
+      "profiles": [
+        "full"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "id": "vector-db",
       "description": "Use when operating a vector store as a data layer — choosing or migrating between Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate and pgvector; designing a collection or index (distance metric, dimensions, HNSW parameters, named vectors); filtering on metadata; hybrid dense-plus-sparse search; and quantization to cut RAM and cost. Covers garbage results, silently ignored filters, low recall, slow queries, and filtered queries returning fewer than k rows. NOT producing, chunking or judging embeddings (that is `embeddings-search`).",
@@ -5694,25 +5538,6 @@
         "full"
       ]
     },
-    {
-      "id": "write-swift",
-      "description": "Modern Swift at the language level: structs and value types versus classes, Swift 6 data-race safety, actors, async/await and task groups, `some` versus `any`, ARC and retain cycles, Swift Testing, macros. Use for a deadlock, a hang, a data race, a concurrency error, or migrating to Swift 6.",
-      "tags": [
-        "swift",
-        "language",
-        "concurrency",
-        "generics",
-        "testing"
-      ],
-      "recommends": [
-        "swift-ios",
-        "apple-design",
-        "testing-web"
-      ],
-      "profiles": [
-        "full"
-      ]
-    },
     {
       "id": "youtube-api",
       "description": "Use when wiring code to a real YouTube channel: user OAuth 2.0, resumable videos.insert uploads, editing metadata after publish, pulling views/watch time/retention/traffic from the Analytics API v2 into a dated 02-DOCS/wiki/youtube/ feedback log. NOT what to publish or how to title and thumbnail it (that is youtube-strategy / youtube-packaging).",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ericrisco/rsc",
-  "version": "1.1.5",
+  "version": "1.1.6",
   "description": "Eric Risco's agent-skills catalog as a granular, self-recommending CLI installer.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/scripts/lib/domains.js

@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ export const DOMAINS = [
   { title: 'AI — build it in', ids: ['building-agents', 'rag', 'embeddings-search', 'prompt-engineering', 'llm-pipeline', 'agent-eval', 'chatbot', 'ai-media', 'replicate-images', 'structured-extraction', 'agent-safety', 'cost-tracking'] },
   { title: 'AI — run it on', ids: ['replicate', 'runpod', 'modal', 'huggingface', 'ollama', 'together-fireworks', 'fal'] },
   { title: 'AI — train it', ids: ['machine-learning', 'deep-learning', 'nlp', 'finetuning', 'training-data', 'unsloth', 'open-weights', 'vllm'] },
-  { title: 'Languages', ids: ['typescript', 'python', 'java', 'csharp-dotnet', 'php', 'ruby', 'cpp', 'elixir', 'bash-scripting', 'sql', 'go', 'write-swift'] },
-  { title: 'Frameworks & app stacks', ids: ['fastapi', 'nextjs', 'react', 'react-native', 'vue-nuxt', 'angular', 'svelte', 'astro', 'solid-js', 'htmx', 'nodejs', 'nestjs', 'django', 'laravel', 'rails', 'spring-boot', 'phoenix', 'flutter', 'swift-ios', 'kotlin-android', 'compose-multiplatform', 'expo', 'tauri', 'electron', 'rust', 'wordpress', 'shopify', 'no-code-app', 'chrome-extension', 'api-design', 'pick-ui-library', 'ask-sonner'] },
+  { title: 'Languages', ids: ['typescript', 'python', 'java', 'csharp-dotnet', 'php', 'ruby', 'cpp', 'elixir', 'bash-scripting', 'sql', 'go'] },
+  { title: 'Frameworks & app stacks', ids: ['fastapi', 'nextjs', 'react', 'react-native', 'vue-nuxt', 'angular', 'svelte', 'astro', 'solid-js', 'htmx', 'nodejs', 'nestjs', 'django', 'laravel', 'rails', 'spring-boot', 'phoenix', 'flutter', 'swift-ios', 'kotlin-android', 'compose-multiplatform', 'expo', 'tauri', 'electron', 'rust', 'wordpress', 'shopify', 'no-code-app', 'chrome-extension', 'api-design'] },
   { title: 'Game development', ids: ['godot', 'unity', 'unreal', 'game-design', 'game-storytelling', 'level-design', 'gamedev-shaders', 'gamedev-multiplayer', 'gamedev-physics', 'gamedev-pathing', 'gamedev-shipping'] },
   { title: 'Databases & data layer', ids: ['postgresdb', 'mysql', 'mongodb', 'redis', 'supabase', 'neon', 'planetscale', 'sqlite-turso', 'prisma-orm', 'drizzle-orm', 'firebase', 'dynamodb', 'vector-db', 'clickhouse-analytics', 'duckdb', 'db-migrations', 'backups'] },
   { title: 'Ship & operate — platforms', ids: ['vercel', 'netlify', 'cloudflare', 'railway', 'render', 'fly-io', 'coolify', 'hetzner', 'digitalocean', 'aws-essentials', 'gcp-essentials'] },
   { title: 'Ship & operate — devops', ids: ['docker', 'github-actions', 'git-workflow', 'domains-dns', 'monitoring', 'email-deliverability', 'scaling', 'deployment', 'deprecation'] },
   { title: 'Ship & operate — quality & security', ids: ['code-review', 'security-scan', 'secure-coding', 'testing-py', 'testing-web', 'testing-go', 'e2e-testing', 'accessibility', 'performance', 'error-handling', 'observability'] },
-  { title: 'Motion & interface craft', ids: ['design-eng', 'animate', 'animate-expo', 'review-animations', 'improve-animations', 'find-animation-opportunities', 'animation-vocabulary', 'apple-design', 'prototype'] },
+  { title: 'Motion & interface craft', ids: ['motion-craft', 'ui-engineering', 'variant-explorer'] },
   { title: 'Design & content craft', ids: ['design-loop', 'design', 'design-dna', 'presentations', 'course-storytelling', 'course-builder', 'technical-writing', 'translation-l10n'] },
   { title: 'Knowledge & meta', ids: ['knowledge-ops', 'codebase-onboarding', 'research-ops', 'decision-records', 'continuous-learning', 'skill-scout', 'context-budget', 'roast-me', 'show-me', 'eli5', 'fable-operator'] },
 ];

package/skills/design/SKILL.md

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ origin: risco
 
 **Hand-off — the visual system vs the craft of motion.** This skill owns the visual system and page
 composition, and sets motion *intent + budget* only. The **implementation** of an animation is
-`../animate/SKILL.md`'s; reviewing motion is `../review-animations/SKILL.md`'s; gesture physics and
-translucent materials are `../apple-design/SKILL.md`'s. When a frontend request could belong to
-several of those, `../design-eng/SKILL.md` is the umbrella that routes it. The motion reference in
+`../motion-craft/SKILL.md`'s; how a piece of interface should be BUILT — boundaries, state, the
+loading and empty and error states — is `../ui-engineering/SKILL.md`'s. When a request could belong to
+several of those, start from the one that owns the decision, not the one that owns the file. The motion reference in
 this skill defers its mechanics to them rather than restating them.
 
 

package/skills/design/references/design-systems.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ not settle whether the page says anything.
 
 ## Where to browse for component ideas
 
-When a surface needs an idea rather than a primitive, `../../pick-ui-library/references/component-galleries.md`
+When a surface needs an idea rather than a primitive, a gallery of shipped products
 names where to go — Aceternity for marketing effects, 21st.dev for breadth, React Bits for tunable
 animation — and what each is good for. Take the technique and rebuild it in this project's tokens;
 check the brand study for what it refuses first, because a component that contradicts a stated ban

package/skills/design/references/inspiration-sources.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ these are for when a piece is "the footer" or "the empty state".
 | [Footer.design](https://www.footer.design) | Footers only. Narrow on purpose, and the narrowness is why it is good. |
 | [Collect UI](https://collectui.com) | Daily-UI-style collections by component and pattern. |
 | [UI Garage](https://uigarage.net) | Patterns tagged by element and by industry. |
-| [UI Movement](https://uimovement.com) | Motion and interaction specifically — pair with the frequency gate in `../../animate/SKILL.md` before copying anything. |
+| [UI Movement](https://uimovement.com) | Motion and interaction specifically — pair with the frequency gate in `../../motion-craft/SKILL.md` before copying anything. |
 | [Dark.design](https://dark.design) · [Dark Mode Design](https://darkmodedesign.com) | Dark interfaces done properly, which is a different problem from inverting a light one. |
 | [Scrnshts](https://scrnshts.club) | App Store screenshot design — a real discipline of its own. |
 
@@ -91,6 +91,6 @@ component", these outrank any gallery.
 - **[Bestfolios](https://www.bestfolios.com) returned 502 on 2026-08-24** and is excluded until it
   comes back. Do not cite it.
 - **Component ideas**, as opposed to whole pages, live in
-  `../../pick-ui-library/references/component-galleries.md` — Aceternity, 21st.dev, React Bits.
+  Component galleries — Aceternity, 21st.dev, React Bits.
 - **Identity outranks all of this.** Check `02-DOCS/wiki/brand/` for what the project refuses before
   bringing an idea back. A gallery cannot know what your brand vetoed.

package/skills/design/references/motion-and-interaction.md

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Need one that is not here? Take it from [easing.dev](https://easing.dev/), do no
 
 The choice, in decision order: entering or exiting → `ease-out`; moving on screen → `ease-in-out`;
 hover or color → `ease`; constant motion (marquee, progress) → `linear`; unsure → `ease-out`.
-`../../animate/SKILL.md` owns the full build sequence and the per-element duration table, and
-`../../review-animations/scripts/verify.sh` flags an `ease-in` that slips through.
+`../../motion-craft/SKILL.md` owns the duration ranges, the easing families and the never-animate list, and
+its diagnosis table maps the complaint — sluggish, cheap, janky — back to the cause.
 
 - **Enter vs exit asymmetry:** entrances are slower and softer (`--dur-normal`, `--ease-out`); exits are quicker and quieter (~150ms) so dismissals feel responsive.
 - **Press feedback:** `scale(0.97)` on `:active` gives a tactile button without distracting movement.

package/skills/design-dna/evals/cases.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ should_not_trigger:
     route_to: "nextjs"
     why: "The build. The identity stays in the record; the framework work is the sibling's."
   - prompt: "Give me three different directions for this poster and I'll choose."
-    route_to: "prototype"
+    route_to: "variant-explorer"
     why: "Exploration among variants. One skill per style: merging two candidate identities into one spec produces the average of two good designs, which is a bad design."
 
 capability:

package/skills/design-loop/SKILL.md

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ and proposing from memory is how this promise used to resolve to the AI-template
 
 **Where to go looking.** For a whole page to beat, and for the flows and single patterns behind it:
 `../design/references/inspiration-sources.md`. For a component idea rather than a whole reference:
-`../pick-ui-library/references/component-galleries.md`. Browse for the technique, never to clone a
+a gallery of real products. Browse for the technique, never to clone a
 competitor's exact grid — and come back with **a specific page you can open**, because a gallery
 is not a bar.
 
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ how the look drifts back to generic by the fifth piece.
   this loop invokes; it stays reachable directly when there is no bar to beat and no loop to run.
 - **Codifying the winner into a permanent identity** → `../design-dna/SKILL.md`.
 - **The words** → `../marketing/SKILL.md`. **The build** → `../nextjs/SKILL.md`.
-- **Motion craft, and routing among the frontend craft siblings** → `../design-eng/SKILL.md`.
-- **"Show me a few versions and I'll pick"** → `../prototype/SKILL.md`. That is selection among
+- **Motion craft** → `../motion-craft/SKILL.md`. **How the interface should be built** → `../ui-engineering/SKILL.md`.
+- **"Show me a few versions and I'll pick"** → `../variant-explorer/SKILL.md`. That is selection among
   variants; this is convergence against a bar.
 - **SDD gate.** This skill runs a method; it does not outrank the chain. If the request is a new
   feature or a non-trivial behaviour change in a real app, `../specify/SKILL.md` runs first, then

package/skills/design-loop/evals/cases.yaml

@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ should_not_trigger:
     route_to: "design"
     why: "Visual system work with no reference to beat and nothing to judge. `design` stays directly reachable exactly for this."
   - prompt: "Show me three versions of this button and I'll pick the one I like."
-    route_to: "prototype"
+    route_to: "variant-explorer"
     why: "Selection among variants by human preference, not convergence against a measured bar. The user is the judge and there is no reference."
   - prompt: "Review the motion in this diff and tell me what's off."
-    route_to: "review-animations"
-    why: "One diff, motion-specific, no reference and no build-then-judge rounds. Reviewing is not looping."
+    route_to: "motion-craft"
+    why: "One diff, motion-specific, no reference and no build-then-judge rounds. The motion craft skill owns the complaint-to-cause mapping; reviewing is not looping."
   - prompt: "Write the hero headline and value prop for our developer-tool site."
     route_to: "marketing"
     why: "The words, not the bar. `voice` constrains copy in this pipe; it does not write it."

package/skills/expo/SKILL.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ origin: risco
 **Hand-off — the app vs its motion.** This skill owns the Expo platform: router, config plugins, EAS,
 native modules, store builds. **Animation and gestures** — Reanimated worklets, the UI runtime,
 sheets, screen transitions, press feedback, haptics, motion that stutters on a real device — are
-`../animate-expo/SKILL.md`'s.
+`../motion-craft/SKILL.md`'s.
 
 
 ## What this skill owns