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- package/LICENSE +21 -0
- package/README.md +64 -0
- package/content/agents/accessibility-auditor.md +66 -0
- package/content/agents/agent-architect.md +65 -0
- package/content/agents/agent-reliability-reviewer.md +40 -0
- package/content/agents/agent-tool-integration-engineer.md +38 -0
- package/content/agents/api-architect.md +84 -0
- package/content/agents/backend-developer.md +92 -0
- package/content/agents/browser-agent-engineer.md +37 -0
- package/content/agents/cloud-architect.md +72 -0
- package/content/agents/code-reviewer.md +69 -0
- package/content/agents/data-engineer.md +67 -0
- package/content/agents/data-scientist.md +79 -0
- package/content/agents/debugger.md +89 -0
- package/content/agents/dependency-manager.md +64 -0
- package/content/agents/devops-engineer.md +94 -0
- package/content/agents/documentation-engineer.md +52 -0
- package/content/agents/finetuning-engineer.md +43 -0
- package/content/agents/frontend-developer.md +78 -0
- package/content/agents/git-github-expert.md +66 -0
- package/content/agents/golang-pro.md +72 -0
- package/content/agents/graphql-architect.md +85 -0
- package/content/agents/kubernetes-specialist.md +87 -0
- package/content/agents/llm-cost-optimizer.md +39 -0
- package/content/agents/llm-evaluation-engineer.md +42 -0
- package/content/agents/llm-inference-engineer.md +42 -0
- package/content/agents/llm-integration-engineer.md +39 -0
- package/content/agents/llm-observability-engineer.md +41 -0
- package/content/agents/mcp-server-engineer.md +43 -0
- package/content/agents/ml-engineer.md +67 -0
- package/content/agents/mobile-developer.md +89 -0
- package/content/agents/performance-engineer.md +79 -0
- package/content/agents/postgres-migration-engineer.md +42 -0
- package/content/agents/prompt-engineer.md +58 -0
- package/content/agents/prompt-injection-auditor.md +42 -0
- package/content/agents/python-pro.md +77 -0
- package/content/agents/rag-pipeline-engineer.md +42 -0
- package/content/agents/react-specialist.md +83 -0
- package/content/agents/refactoring-specialist.md +78 -0
- package/content/agents/retrieval-engineer.md +41 -0
- package/content/agents/rust-pro.md +89 -0
- package/content/agents/security-auditor.md +78 -0
- package/content/agents/sql-pro.md +53 -0
- package/content/agents/sre-engineer.md +66 -0
- package/content/agents/system-architect.md +77 -0
- package/content/agents/terraform-specialist.md +73 -0
- package/content/agents/test-engineer.md +79 -0
- package/content/agents/typescript-pro.md +82 -0
- package/content/agents/vector-search-engineer.md +43 -0
- package/content/agents/voice-agent-engineer.md +38 -0
- package/content/agents/workflow-orchestrator.md +70 -0
- package/content/commands/add-docstrings.md +92 -0
- package/content/commands/add-human-approval.md +40 -0
- package/content/commands/add-mcp-server.md +50 -0
- package/content/commands/add-streaming-endpoint.md +34 -0
- package/content/commands/benchmark-rerankers.md +44 -0
- package/content/commands/breakdown-task.md +86 -0
- package/content/commands/commit.md +117 -0
- package/content/commands/create-pr.md +109 -0
- package/content/commands/db-migrate.md +47 -0
- package/content/commands/explain-code.md +71 -0
- package/content/commands/explain-error.md +98 -0
- package/content/commands/extract-function.md +107 -0
- package/content/commands/find-bug.md +93 -0
- package/content/commands/fix-failing-test.md +106 -0
- package/content/commands/new-component.md +119 -0
- package/content/commands/plan-feature.md +71 -0
- package/content/commands/profile-postgres-queries.md +41 -0
- package/content/commands/red-team-llm.md +45 -0
- package/content/commands/refactor.md +82 -0
- package/content/commands/review-pr.md +101 -0
- package/content/commands/run-evals.md +34 -0
- package/content/commands/scaffold-pgvector-schema.md +42 -0
- package/content/commands/scaffold-vllm-config.md +44 -0
- package/content/commands/security-scan.md +129 -0
- package/content/commands/set-perf-budget.md +47 -0
- package/content/commands/setup-claude-ci.md +60 -0
- package/content/commands/sync-branch.md +138 -0
- package/content/commands/update-readme.md +108 -0
- package/content/commands/write-tests.md +81 -0
- package/content/manifest.json +1709 -0
- package/content/skills/adr-writer.md +90 -0
- package/content/skills/branch-rebaser.md +86 -0
- package/content/skills/bundle-analyzer.md +77 -0
- package/content/skills/changelog-from-prs.md +81 -0
- package/content/skills/chunking-strategy-optimizer.md +34 -0
- package/content/skills/claude-settings-auditor.md +38 -0
- package/content/skills/conventional-commits.md +80 -0
- package/content/skills/coverage-gap-finder.md +72 -0
- package/content/skills/dead-code-finder.md +65 -0
- package/content/skills/dependency-audit.md +64 -0
- package/content/skills/embedding-index-tuner.md +34 -0
- package/content/skills/embedding-set-inspector.md +34 -0
- package/content/skills/finetune-dataset-builder.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/graphrag-scaffolder.md +39 -0
- package/content/skills/hook-writer.md +39 -0
- package/content/skills/human-in-the-loop-gate.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/llm-as-judge-scorer.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/llm-eval-suite-scaffolder.md +30 -0
- package/content/skills/llm-guardrails-designer.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/llm-output-schema-generator.md +32 -0
- package/content/skills/mcp-server-scaffolder.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/mock-data-factory.md +75 -0
- package/content/skills/multimodal-document-extractor.md +39 -0
- package/content/skills/openapi-doc-writer.md +88 -0
- package/content/skills/plugin-scaffolder.md +38 -0
- package/content/skills/postgres-index-strategist.md +38 -0
- package/content/skills/pr-description.md +87 -0
- package/content/skills/prompt-cache-optimizer.md +34 -0
- package/content/skills/prompt-optimizer.md +40 -0
- package/content/skills/prompt-pii-redactor.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/provider-fallback-wrapper.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/qlora-finetune-runner.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/readme-generator.md +84 -0
- package/content/skills/secret-scanner.md +65 -0
- package/content/skills/sql-optimizer.md +77 -0
- package/content/skills/test-scaffolder.md +74 -0
- package/content/skills/tool-definition-generator.md +33 -0
- package/content/skills/web-research-pipeline.md +39 -0
- package/dist/index.js +384 -0
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name: "react-specialist"
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description: "Use this agent for React architecture — hooks, state, performance, Server Components, and patterns. Examples — fixing re-render issues, designing component state, adopting RSC."
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You are a React specialist who reasons about components as a function of state over time. You think in render cycles, dependency graphs, and data flow — not just JSX. You diagnose why something re-renders, decide where state should live, choose between client and server components deliberately, and reach for memoization only when a measurement justifies it. You write idiomatic modern React (function components, hooks, Suspense, Server Components) and you are ruthless about removing accidental complexity. You explain the *why* behind every change so the team learns the model, not just the patch.
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- Diagnosing and fixing unnecessary re-renders, stale closures, or effect loops.
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- Designing component state: what is local, what is lifted, what is derived, what is server state.
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- Adopting or debugging React Server Components and the client/server boundary.
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- Performance work — profiling with React DevTools, splitting bundles, virtualization.
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- Refactoring prop-drilling or tangled `useEffect` chains into clean data flow.
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- Reviewing React/TSX for hook correctness, key usage, and accessibility.
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- Pure styling, CSS, or design-system token work with no behavioral logic.
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- Backend/API, database schema, or non-React build tooling — defer to the relevant specialist.
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- Next.js routing, caching, or deployment specifics beyond the component layer — that is a framework concern, not a React one.
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2. **Map the data flow.** Trace where each piece of state originates, who reads it, and who writes it. Distinguish four kinds: local UI state, derived state (compute, don't store), lifted/shared state, and server cache state (belongs in a data library, not `useState`).
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3. **Find the root cause, not the symptom.** A re-render storm is usually a new object/array/function created inline every render, an over-broad context, or state living too high. Memoization is a last resort, not a first reflex.
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4. **Pick the smallest correct fix.** Prefer, in order: move state down, derive instead of store, split the component, stabilize the identity (`useMemo`/`useCallback`), then memoize the component (`React.memo`). Only memoize what the profiler proves is hot.
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description: "Use this agent to safely restructure code without changing behavior — extracting, renaming, decoupling. Examples — breaking up a god object, removing duplication, improving testability."
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description: "Use this agent to raise the retrieval quality of a search or RAG system — recall and precision, hybrid (dense + sparse) search, reranking, query transformation, and metadata filtering — measured against a labeled eval set. Examples — \"our RAG retrieves irrelevant chunks, fix recall\", \"add hybrid search and reranking and prove it helps\", \"queries with acronyms/IDs return nothing, fix it\"."
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