ndomo 0.1.0

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+ ---
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+ name: caveman-review
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+ description: >
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+ Ultra-compressed code review comments. Cuts noise from PR feedback while preserving
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+ the actionable signal. Each comment is one line: location, problem, fix. Use when user
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+ says "review this PR", "code review", "review the diff", "/review", or invokes
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+ /caveman-review. Auto-triggers when reviewing pull requests.
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+ ---
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+ Write code review comments terse and actionable. One line per finding. Location, problem, fix. No throat-clearing.
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+ ## Rules
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+ **Format:** `L<line>: <problem>. <fix>.` — or `<file>:L<line>: ...` when reviewing multi-file diffs.
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+ **Severity prefix (optional, when mixed):**
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+ - `🔴 bug:` — broken behavior, will cause incident
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+ - `🟡 risk:` — works but fragile (race, missing null check, swallowed error)
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+ - `🔵 nit:` — style, naming, micro-optim. Author can ignore
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+ - `❓ q:` — genuine question, not a suggestion
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+ **Drop:**
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+ - "I noticed that...", "It seems like...", "You might want to consider..."
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+ - "This is just a suggestion but..." — use `nit:` instead
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+ - "Great work!", "Looks good overall but..." — say it once at the top, not per comment
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+ - Restating what the line does — the reviewer can read the diff
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+ - Hedging ("perhaps", "maybe", "I think") — if unsure use `q:`
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+ **Keep:**
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+ - Exact line numbers
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+ - Exact symbol/function/variable names in backticks
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+ - Concrete fix, not "consider refactoring this"
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+ - The *why* if the fix isn't obvious from the problem statement
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+ ## Examples
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+ ✅ `L42: 🔴 bug: user can be null after .find(). Add guard before .email.`
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+ ❌ "It looks like this function is doing a lot of things and might benefit from being broken up into smaller functions for readability."
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+ ❌ "Have you considered what happens if the API returns a 429? I think we should probably handle that case."
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+ Drop terse mode for: security findings (CVE-class bugs need full explanation + reference), architectural disagreements (need rationale, not just a one-liner), and onboarding contexts where the author is new and needs the "why". In those cases write a normal paragraph, then resume terse for the rest.
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+ ## Boundaries
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+ ---
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+ name: find-skills
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+ description: Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
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+ ---
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+ # Find Skills
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+ This skill helps you discover and install skills from the open agent skills ecosystem.
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+ ## When to Use This Skill
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+ Use this skill when the user:
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+ - Asks "how do I do X" where X might be a common task with an existing skill
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+ - Says "find a skill for X" or "is there a skill for X"
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+ - Asks "can you do X" where X is a specialized capability
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+ - Expresses interest in extending agent capabilities
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+ - Wants to search for tools, templates, or workflows
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+ - Mentions they wish they had help with a specific domain (design, testing, deployment, etc.)
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+
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+ ## What is the Skills CLI?
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+ The Skills CLI (`npx skills`) is the package manager for the open agent skills ecosystem. Skills are modular packages that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.
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+ **Key commands:**
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+ - `npx skills find [query]` - Search for skills interactively or by keyword
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+ - `npx skills add <package>` - Install a skill from GitHub or other sources
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+ - `npx skills check` - Check for skill updates
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+ - `npx skills update` - Update all installed skills
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+ **Browse skills at:** https://skills.sh/
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+ ## How to Help Users Find Skills
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+ 3. Whether this is a common enough task that a skill likely exists
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+ ### Step 2: Check the Leaderboard First
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+ - User asks "can you help me with PR reviews?" → `npx skills find pr review`
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+ - User asks "I need to create a changelog" → `npx skills find changelog`
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+ 2. **Source reputation** — Official sources (`vercel-labs`, `anthropics`, `microsoft`) are more trustworthy than unknown authors.
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+ ```
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+ The `-g` flag installs globally (user-level) and `-y` skips confirmation prompts.
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+ ## Common Skill Categories
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+ When searching, consider these common categories:
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+ | Category | Example Queries |
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+ | Web Development | react, nextjs, typescript, css, tailwind |
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+ | Testing | testing, jest, playwright, e2e |
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+ | DevOps | deploy, docker, kubernetes, ci-cd |
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+ | Documentation | docs, readme, changelog, api-docs |
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+ | Code Quality | review, lint, refactor, best-practices |
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+ | Design | ui, ux, design-system, accessibility |
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+ | Productivity | workflow, automation, git |
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+ ## Tips for Effective Searches
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+ 1. **Use specific keywords**: "react testing" is better than just "testing"
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+ 2. **Try alternative terms**: If "deploy" doesn't work, try "deployment" or "ci-cd"
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+ 3. **Check popular sources**: Many skills come from `vercel-labs/agent-skills` or `ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills`
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+ ## When No Skills Are Found
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+ If no relevant skills exist:
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+ 1. Acknowledge that no existing skill was found
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+ 2. Offer to help with the task directly using your general capabilities
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+ 3. Suggest the user could create their own skill with `npx skills init`
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+ Example:
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+ ```
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+ I searched for skills related to "xyz" but didn't find any matches.
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+ I can still help you with this task directly! Would you like me to proceed?
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+ If this is something you do often, you could create your own skill:
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+ # Frontend Design
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+ Approach this as the design lead at a small studio known for giving every client a visual identity that could not be mistaken for anyone else's. This client has already rejected proposals that felt templated, and is paying for a distinctive point of view: make deliberate, opinionated choices about palette, typography, and layout that are specific to this brief, and take one real aesthetic risk you can justify.
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+ ## Ground it in the subject
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+ If the brief does not pin down what the product or subject is, pin it yourself before designing: name one concrete subject, its audience, and the page's single job, and state your choice. If there's any information in your memory about the human's preferences, context about what they're building, or designs you've made before – use that as a hint. The subject's own world, its materials, instruments, artifacts, and vernacular, is where distinctive choices come from. Build with the brief's real content and subject matter throughout.
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+ ## Design principles
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+ For web designs, the hero is a thesis. Open with the most characteristic thing in the subject's world, in whatever form makes sense for it: a headline, an image, an animation, a live demo, an interactive moment. Be deliberate with your choice: a big number with a small label, supporting stats, and a gradient accent is the template answer, only use if that's truly the best option.
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+ Typography carries the personality of the page. Pair the display and body faces deliberately, not the same families you would reach for on any other project, and set a clear type scale with intentional weights, widths, and spacing. Make the type treatment itself a memorable part of the design, not a neutral delivery vehicle for the content.
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+ Structure is information. Structural devices, numbering, eyebrows, dividers, labels, should encode something true about the content, not decorate it. Many generic designs use numbered markers (01 / 02 / 03), but that's only appropriate if the content actually is a sequence - like a real process or a typed timeline where order carries information the reader needs. Question if choices like numbered markers actually make sense before incorporating them.
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+ Leverage motion deliberately. Think about where and if animation can serve the subject: a page-load sequence, a scroll-triggered reveal, hover micro-interactions, ambient atmosphere. An orchestrated moment usually lands harder than scattered effects; choose what the direction calls for. However, sometimes less is more, and extra animation contributes to the feeling that the design is AI-generated.
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+ Match complexity to the vision. Maximalist directions need elaborate execution; minimal directions need precision in spacing, type, and detail. Elegance is executing the chosen vision well.
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+ Consider written content carefully. Often a design brief may not contain real content, and it's up to you to come up with copy. Copy can make a design feel as templated as the design itself. See the below section on writing for more guidance.
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+ ## Process: brainstorm, explore, plan, critique, build, critique again
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+ For calibration: AI-generated design right now clusters around three looks: (1) a warm cream background (near #F4F1EA) with a high-contrast serif display and a terracotta accent; (2) a near-black background with a single bright acid-green or vermilion accent; (3) a broadsheet-style layout with hairline rules, zero border-radius, and dense newspaper-like columns. All three are legitimate for some briefs, but they are defaults rather than choices, and they appear regardless of subject. Where the brief pins down a visual direction, follow it exactly — the brief's own words always win, including when it asks for one of these looks. Where it leaves an axis free, don't spend that freedom on one of these defaults. Just like a human designer who's hired, there's often a careful balance between doing what you're good at and taking each project as a chance to experiment and learn.
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+ Work in two passes. First, brainstorm a short design plan based on the human's design brief: create a compact token system with color, type, layout, and signature. Color: describe the palette as 4–6 named hex values. Type: the typefaces for 2+ roles (a characterful display face that's used with restraint, a complementary body face, and a utility face for captions or data if needed). Layout: a layout concept, using one-sentence prose descriptions and ASCII wireframes to ideate and compare. Signature: the single unique element this page will be remembered by that embodies the brief in an appropriate way.
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+ Then review that plan against the brief before building: if any part of it reads like the generic default you would produce for any similar page (work through a similar prompt to see if you arrive somewhere similar) rather than a choice made for this specific brief — revise that part, say what you changed and why. Only after you've confirmed the relative uniqueness of your design plan should you start to write the code, following the revised plan exactly and deriving every color and type decision from it.
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+ When writing the code, be careful of structuring your CSS selector specificities. It's easy to generate CSS classes that cancel each other out (especially with a type-based selector like .section and a element-based selector like .cta). This can happen often with paddings/margins between sections.
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+ Try to do a lot of this planning and iteration in your thinking, and only show ideas to the user when you have higher confidence it'll delight them.
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+ ## Restraint and self-critique
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+ Spend your boldness in one place. Let the signature element be the one memorable thing, keep everything around it quiet and disciplined, and cut any decoration that does not serve the brief. Not taking a risk can be a risk itself! Build to a quality floor without announcing it: responsive down to mobile, visible keyboard focus, reduced motion respected. Critique your own work as you build, taking screenshots if your environment supports it – a picture is worth 1000 tokens. Consider Chanel's advice: before leaving the house, take a look in the mirror and remove one accessory. Human creators have memory and always try to do something new, so if you have a space to quickly jot down notes about what you've tried, it can help you in future passes.
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+ ## More on writing in design
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+ Words appear in a design for one reason: to make it easier to understand, and therefore easier to use. They are design material, not decoration. Bring the same intentionality to copy that you would bring to spacing and color. Before writing anything, ask what the design needs to say, and how it can best be said to help the person navigate the experience.
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+ Write from the end user's side of the screen. Name things by what people control and recognize, never by how the system is built. A person manages notifications, not webhook config. Describe what something does in plain terms rather than selling it. Being specific is always better than being clever.
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+ Use active voice as default. A control should say exactly what happens when it's used: "Save changes," not "Submit." An action keeps the same name through the whole flow, so the button that says "Publish" produces a toast that says "Published." The vocabulary of an interface is the signposting for someone navigating the product. Cohesion and consistency are how people learn their way around.
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+ Treat failure and emptiness as moments for direction, not mood. Explain what went wrong and how to fix it, in the interface's voice rather than a person's. Errors don't apologize, and they are never vague about what happened. An empty screen is an invitation to act.
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+ Keep the register conversational and tuned: plain verbs, sentence case, no filler, with tone matched to the brand and the audience. Let each element do exactly one job. A label labels, an example demonstrates, and nothing quietly does double duty.