rovecode 0.3.3 → 0.4.0-beta.3
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- package/CHANGELOG.md +527 -0
- package/README.md +46 -48
- package/bin/rovecode.js +24 -0
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- package/dist/cli/profiles-6mr5he5e.js +2 -0
- package/dist/cli/provider-config-g7j42q8x.js +2 -0
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- package/dist/cli/registry-s8yk86g0.js +2 -0
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- package/dist/cli/voice-56nabd8d.js +2 -0
- package/dist/cli/webfetch-xd8q596m.js +2 -0
- package/dist/cli/websearch-5hkf98k1.js +2 -0
- package/dist/cli/workflow-cmd-cy3cvzjp.js +4 -0
- package/dist/cli/workspace-q10g5z3e.js +2 -0
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- package/dist/lib/models-index.json +1 -0
- package/dist/lib/plugins.js +55 -0
- package/dist/lib/providers.js +17 -0
- package/dist/lib/public-api.js +20 -0
- package/dist/lib/sdk.js +360 -0
- package/package.json +84 -72
- package/bin/rovecode.ts +0 -21
- package/src/acp/server.ts +0 -374
- package/src/cli/auth-login.ts +0 -122
- package/src/cli/connect.ts +0 -244
- package/src/cli/context-cmd.ts +0 -199
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- package/src/cli/is-tui-invocation.ts +0 -8
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- package/src/cli/market-cmd.ts +0 -658
- package/src/cli/mcp-login.ts +0 -141
- package/src/cli/mcp-market-cmd.ts +0 -302
- package/src/cli/output.ts +0 -382
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- package/src/cli/repomap-root.ts +0 -14
- package/src/cli/resume.ts +0 -57
- package/src/cli/run-flags.ts +0 -43
- package/src/cli/run-limits.ts +0 -78
- package/src/cli/runtime.ts +0 -931
- package/src/cli/session-arg.ts +0 -30
- package/src/cli/sessions-cmd.ts +0 -145
- package/src/cli/setup.ts +0 -153
- package/src/cli/skills-cmd.ts +0 -194
- package/src/cli/start-chat.ts +0 -65
- package/src/cli/trust-cmd.ts +0 -52
- package/src/coding/bash.ts +0 -148
- package/src/coding/checkpoints.ts +0 -327
- package/src/coding/diff.ts +0 -138
- package/src/coding/files.ts +0 -341
- package/src/coding/hashline.ts +0 -274
- package/src/coding/lsp-gate.ts +0 -254
- package/src/coding/lsp-servers.ts +0 -147
- package/src/coding/lsp.ts +0 -283
- package/src/coding/repomap-cache.ts +0 -99
- package/src/coding/repomap-files.ts +0 -192
- package/src/coding/repomap.ts +0 -481
- package/src/core/agents.ts +0 -255
- package/src/core/compaction.ts +0 -259
- package/src/core/config.ts +0 -289
- package/src/core/context-report.ts +0 -228
- package/src/core/context.ts +0 -60
- package/src/core/count-remote.ts +0 -107
- package/src/core/execpolicy-rules.ts +0 -196
- package/src/core/execpolicy.ts +0 -385
- package/src/core/executor.ts +0 -454
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- package/src/core/hooks.ts +0 -411
- package/src/core/images.ts +0 -230
- package/src/core/intro.ts +0 -266
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- package/src/core/orchestrator.ts +0 -245
- package/src/core/proc-group.ts +0 -48
- package/src/core/project-trust.ts +0 -98
- package/src/core/reflection.ts +0 -165
- package/src/core/sandbox-config.ts +0 -186
- package/src/core/session-id.ts +0 -24
- package/src/core/session-images.ts +0 -73
- package/src/core/session-ops.ts +0 -183
- package/src/core/session-text.ts +0 -29
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- package/src/core/token-scale.ts +0 -108
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- package/src/core/trust.ts +0 -104
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- package/src/core/voice.ts +0 -158
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It offers three kinds of content:\n\n- **Courses** — structured, multi-lesson learning paths, most with a\n certificate on completion.\n- **Tutorials** — short practical guides to a single feature or workflow.\n- **Use cases** — worked examples of applying Claude to a concrete task,\n usually with a prompt to try.\n\nThe Academy also has product hubs that collect everything about one\nsurface: [Claude](https://academy.claude.com/claude),\n[Claude Code](https://academy.claude.com/code),\n[Claude Cowork](https://academy.claude.com/cowork),\n[AI Fluency](https://academy.claude.com/fluency), and the\n[developer platform](https://academy.claude.com/platform). When a user\nwants to explore a whole product rather than one topic, a hub link is\noften the better recommendation than any single item.\n\n## Rules\n\n1. **Answer the question first.** Always give the user a direct, helpful\n answer to whatever they asked. The content suggestion is a supplement,\n never a replacement.\n\n2. **Only recommend on strong matches.** A strong match is about intent,\n not just topic. The user must be asking *how to use a Claude feature*\n or *how to get started with X* — they're looking for a resource to\n learn from. \"How do projects work?\" is a strong match. \"Help me\n organize this document\" is not, even though projects are topically\n relevant — they're mid-task, they want help with the task, not a\n tutorial about the feature.\n\n If the match is weak or tangential, say nothing about the catalog.\n A caveat is the tell: if you'd write \"while this is focused on X, it\n might help with...\" or \"this doesn't cover exactly that, but...\" —\n that hedge is the match failing. Don't recommend through a caveat.\n\n Silence is better than noise — and noise has a real cost. A user who\n clicks a recommendation that doesn't help them learns to ignore the\n next one. 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Express by creating p5.js generative art (.html + .js files)\n\nFirst, undertake this task:\n\n## ALGORITHMIC PHILOSOPHY CREATION\n\nTo begin, create an ALGORITHMIC PHILOSOPHY (not static images or templates) that will be interpreted through:\n- Computational processes, emergent behavior, mathematical beauty\n- Seeded randomness, noise fields, organic systems\n- Particles, flows, fields, forces\n- Parametric variation and controlled chaos\n\n### THE CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING\n- What is received: Some subtle input or instructions by the user to take into account, but use as a foundation; it should not constrain creative freedom.\n- What is created: An algorithmic philosophy/generative aesthetic movement.\n- What happens next: The same version receives the philosophy and EXPRESSES IT IN CODE - creating p5.js sketches that are 90% algorithmic generation, 10% essential parameters.\n\nConsider this approach:\n- Write a manifesto for a generative art movement\n- The next phase involves writing the algorithm that brings it to life\n\nThe philosophy must emphasize: Algorithmic expression. Emergent behavior. Computational beauty. Seeded variation.\n\n### HOW TO GENERATE AN ALGORITHMIC PHILOSOPHY\n\n**Name the movement** (1-2 words): \"Organic Turbulence\" / \"Quantum Harmonics\" / \"Emergent Stillness\"\n\n**Articulate the philosophy** (4-6 paragraphs - concise but complete):\n\nTo capture the ALGORITHMIC essence, express how this philosophy manifests through:\n- Computational processes and mathematical relationships?\n- Noise functions and randomness patterns?\n- Particle behaviors and field dynamics?\n- Temporal evolution and system states?\n- Parametric variation and emergent complexity?\n\n**CRITICAL GUIDELINES:**\n- **Avoid redundancy**: Each algorithmic aspect should be mentioned once. Avoid repeating concepts about noise theory, particle dynamics, or mathematical principles unless adding new depth.\n- **Emphasize craftsmanship REPEATEDLY**: The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like \"meticulously crafted algorithm,\" \"the product of deep computational expertise,\" \"painstaking optimization,\" \"master-level implementation.\"\n- **Leave creative space**: Be specific about the algorithmic direction, but concise enough that the next Claude has room to make interpretive implementation choices at an extremely high level of craftsmanship.\n\nThe philosophy must guide the next version to express ideas ALGORITHMICALLY, not through static images. Beauty lives in the process, not the final frame.\n\n### PHILOSOPHY EXAMPLES\n\n**\"Organic Turbulence\"**\nPhilosophy: Chaos constrained by natural law, order emerging from disorder.\nAlgorithmic expression: Flow fields driven by layered Perlin noise. Thousands of particles following vector forces, their trails accumulating into organic density maps. Multiple noise octaves create turbulent regions and calm zones. Color emerges from velocity and density - fast particles burn bright, slow ones fade to shadow. The algorithm runs until equilibrium - a meticulously tuned balance where every parameter was refined through countless iterations by a master of computational aesthetics.\n\n**\"Quantum Harmonics\"**\nPhilosophy: Discrete entities exhibiting wave-like interference patterns.\nAlgorithmic expression: Particles initialized on a grid, each carrying a phase value that evolves through sine waves. When particles are near, their phases interfere - constructive interference creates bright nodes, destructive creates voids. Simple harmonic motion generates complex emergent mandalas. The result of painstaking frequency calibration where every ratio was carefully chosen to produce resonant beauty.\n\n**\"Recursive Whispers\"**\nPhilosophy: Self-similarity across scales, infinite depth in finite space.\nAlgorithmic expression: Branching structures that subdivide recursively. Each branch slightly randomized but constrained by golden ratios. L-systems or recursive subdivision generate tree-like forms that feel both mathematical and organic. Subtle noise perturbations break perfect symmetry. Line weights diminish with each recursion level. Every branching angle the product of deep mathematical exploration.\n\n**\"Field Dynamics\"**\nPhilosophy: Invisible forces made visible through their effects on matter.\nAlgorithmic expression: Vector fields constructed from mathematical functions or noise. Particles born at edges, flowing along field lines, dying when they reach equilibrium or boundaries. Multiple fields can attract, repel, or rotate particles. The visualization shows only the traces - ghost-like evidence of invisible forces. A computational dance meticulously choreographed through force balance.\n\n**\"Stochastic Crystallization\"**\nPhilosophy: Random processes crystallizing into ordered structures.\nAlgorithmic expression: Randomized circle packing or Voronoi tessellation. Start with random points, let them evolve through relaxation algorithms. Cells push apart until equilibrium. Color based on cell size, neighbor count, or distance from center. The organic tiling that emerges feels both random and inevitable. Every seed produces unique crystalline beauty - the mark of a master-level generative algorithm.\n\n*These are condensed examples. The actual algorithmic philosophy should be 4-6 substantial paragraphs.*\n\n### ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES\n- **ALGORITHMIC PHILOSOPHY**: Creating a computational worldview to be expressed through code\n- **PROCESS OVER PRODUCT**: Always emphasize that beauty emerges from the algorithm's execution - each run is unique\n- **PARAMETRIC EXPRESSION**: Ideas communicate through mathematical relationships, forces, behaviors - not static composition\n- **ARTISTIC FREEDOM**: The next Claude interprets the philosophy algorithmically - provide creative implementation room\n- **PURE GENERATIVE ART**: This is about making LIVING ALGORITHMS, not static images with randomness\n- **EXPERT CRAFTSMANSHIP**: Repeatedly emphasize the final algorithm must feel meticulously crafted, refined through countless iterations, the product of deep expertise by someone at the absolute top of their field in computational aesthetics\n\n**The algorithmic philosophy should be 4-6 paragraphs long.** Fill it with poetic computational philosophy that brings together the intended vision. Avoid repeating the same points. Output this algorithmic philosophy as a .md file.\n\n---\n\n## DEDUCING THE CONCEPTUAL SEED\n\n**CRITICAL STEP**: Before implementing the algorithm, identify the subtle conceptual thread from the original request.\n\n**THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLE**:\nThe concept is a **subtle, niche reference embedded within the algorithm itself** - not always literal, always sophisticated. Someone familiar with the subject should feel it intuitively, while others simply experience a masterful generative composition. The algorithmic philosophy provides the computational language. The deduced concept provides the soul - the quiet conceptual DNA woven invisibly into parameters, behaviors, and emergence patterns.\n\nThis is **VERY IMPORTANT**: The reference must be so refined that it enhances the work's depth without announcing itself. Think like a jazz musician quoting another song through algorithmic harmony - only those who know will catch it, but everyone appreciates the generative beauty.\n\n---\n\n## P5.JS IMPLEMENTATION\n\nWith the philosophy AND conceptual framework established, express it through code. Pause to gather thoughts before proceeding. Use only the algorithmic philosophy created and the instructions below.\n\n### ⚠️ STEP 0: READ THE TEMPLATE FIRST ⚠️\n\n**CRITICAL: BEFORE writing any HTML:**\n\n1. **Read** `templates/viewer.html` using the Read tool\n2. **Study** the exact structure, styling, and Anthropic branding\n3. **Use that file as the LITERAL STARTING POINT** - not just inspiration\n4. **Keep all FIXED sections exactly as shown** (header, sidebar structure, Anthropic colors/fonts, seed controls, action buttons)\n5. **Replace only the VARIABLE sections** marked in the file's comments (algorithm, parameters, UI controls for parameters)\n\n**Avoid:**\n- ❌ Creating HTML from scratch\n- ❌ Inventing custom styling or color schemes\n- ❌ Using system fonts or dark themes\n- ❌ Changing the sidebar structure\n\n**Follow these practices:**\n- ✅ Copy the template's exact HTML structure\n- ✅ Keep Anthropic branding (Poppins/Lora fonts, light colors, gradient backdrop)\n- ✅ Maintain the sidebar layout (Seed → Parameters → Colors? → Actions)\n- ✅ Replace only the p5.js algorithm and parameter controls\n\nThe template is the foundation. Build on it, don't rebuild it.\n\n---\n\nTo create gallery-quality computational art that lives and breathes, use the algorithmic philosophy as the foundation.\n\n### TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS\n\n**Seeded Randomness (Art Blocks Pattern)**:\n```javascript\n// ALWAYS use a seed for reproducibility\nlet seed = 12345; // or hash from user input\nrandomSeed(seed);\nnoiseSeed(seed);\n```\n\n**Parameter Structure - FOLLOW THE PHILOSOPHY**:\n\nTo establish parameters that emerge naturally from the algorithmic philosophy, consider: \"What qualities of this system can be adjusted?\"\n\n```javascript\nlet params = {\n seed: 12345, // Always include seed for reproducibility\n // colors\n // Add parameters that control YOUR algorithm:\n // - Quantities (how many?)\n // - Scales (how big? how fast?)\n // - Probabilities (how likely?)\n // - Ratios (what proportions?)\n // - Angles (what direction?)\n // - Thresholds (when does behavior change?)\n};\n```\n\n**To design effective parameters, focus on the properties the system needs to be tunable rather than thinking in terms of \"pattern types\".**\n\n**Core Algorithm - EXPRESS THE PHILOSOPHY**:\n\n**CRITICAL**: The algorithmic philosophy should dictate what to build.\n\nTo express the philosophy through code, avoid thinking \"which pattern should I use?\" and instead think \"how to express this philosophy through code?\"\n\nIf the philosophy is about **organic emergence**, consider using:\n- Elements that accumulate or grow over time\n- Random processes constrained by natural rules\n- Feedback loops and interactions\n\nIf the philosophy is about **mathematical beauty**, consider using:\n- Geometric relationships and ratios\n- Trigonometric functions and harmonics\n- Precise calculations creating unexpected patterns\n\nIf the philosophy is about **controlled chaos**, consider using:\n- Random variation within strict boundaries\n- Bifurcation and phase transitions\n- Order emerging from disorder\n\n**The algorithm flows from the philosophy, not from a menu of options.**\n\nTo guide the implementation, let the conceptual essence inform creative and original choices. Build something that expresses the vision for this particular request.\n\n**Canvas Setup**: Standard p5.js structure:\n```javascript\nfunction setup() {\n createCanvas(1200, 1200);\n // Initialize your system\n}\n\nfunction draw() {\n // Your generative algorithm\n // Can be static (noLoop) or animated\n}\n```\n\n### CRAFTSMANSHIP REQUIREMENTS\n\n**CRITICAL**: To achieve mastery, create algorithms that feel like they emerged through countless iterations by a master generative artist. Tune every parameter carefully. Ensure every pattern emerges with purpose. This is NOT random noise - this is CONTROLLED CHAOS refined through deep expertise.\n\n- **Balance**: Complexity without visual noise, order without rigidity\n- **Color Harmony**: Thoughtful palettes, not random RGB values\n- **Composition**: Even in randomness, maintain visual hierarchy and flow\n- **Performance**: Smooth execution, optimized for real-time if animated\n- **Reproducibility**: Same seed ALWAYS produces identical output\n\n### OUTPUT FORMAT\n\nOutput:\n1. **Algorithmic Philosophy** - As markdown or text explaining the generative aesthetic\n2. **Single HTML Artifact** - Self-contained interactive generative art built from `templates/viewer.html` (see STEP 0 and next section)\n\nThe HTML artifact contains everything: p5.js (from CDN), the algorithm, parameter controls, and UI - all in one file that works immediately in claude.ai artifacts or any browser. Start from the template file, not from scratch.\n\n---\n\n## INTERACTIVE ARTIFACT CREATION\n\n**REMINDER: `templates/viewer.html` should have already been read (see STEP 0). Use that file as the starting point.**\n\nTo allow exploration of the generative art, create a single, self-contained HTML artifact. Ensure this artifact works immediately in claude.ai or any browser - no setup required. Embed everything inline.\n\n### CRITICAL: WHAT'S FIXED VS VARIABLE\n\nThe `templates/viewer.html` file is the foundation. It contains the exact structure and styling needed.\n\n**FIXED (always include exactly as shown):**\n- Layout structure (header, sidebar, main canvas area)\n- Anthropic branding (UI colors, fonts, gradients)\n- Seed section in sidebar:\n - Seed display\n - Previous/Next buttons\n - Random button\n - Jump to seed input + Go button\n- Actions section in sidebar:\n - Regenerate button\n - Reset button\n\n**VARIABLE (customize for each artwork):**\n- The entire p5.js algorithm (setup/draw/classes)\n- The parameters object (define what the art needs)\n- The Parameters section in sidebar:\n - Number of parameter controls\n - Parameter names\n - Min/max/step values for sliders\n - Control types (sliders, inputs, etc.)\n- Colors section (optional):\n - Some art needs color pickers\n - Some art might use fixed colors\n - Some art might be monochrome (no color controls needed)\n - Decide based on the art's needs\n\n**Every artwork should have unique parameters and algorithm!** The fixed parts provide consistent UX - everything else expresses the unique vision.\n\n### REQUIRED FEATURES\n\n**1. Parameter Controls**\n- Sliders for numeric parameters (particle count, noise scale, speed, etc.)\n- Color pickers for palette colors\n- Real-time updates when parameters change\n- Reset button to restore defaults\n\n**2. Seed Navigation**\n- Display current seed number\n- \"Previous\" and \"Next\" buttons to cycle through seeds\n- \"Random\" button for random seed\n- Input field to jump to specific seed\n- Generate 100 variations when requested (seeds 1-100)\n\n**3. Single Artifact Structure**\n```html\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n <!-- p5.js from CDN - always available -->\n <script src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/1.7.0/p5.min.js\"></script>\n <style>\n /* All styling inline - clean, minimal */\n /* Canvas on top, controls below */\n </style>\n</head>\n<body>\n <div id=\"canvas-container\"></div>\n <div id=\"controls\">\n <!-- All parameter controls -->\n </div>\n <script>\n // ALL p5.js code inline here\n // Parameter objects, classes, functions\n // setup() and draw()\n // UI handlers\n // Everything self-contained\n </script>\n</body>\n</html>\n```\n\n**CRITICAL**: This is a single artifact. No external files, no imports (except p5.js CDN). Everything inline.\n\n**4. Implementation Details - BUILD THE SIDEBAR**\n\nThe sidebar structure:\n\n**1. Seed (FIXED)** - Always include exactly as shown:\n- Seed display\n- Prev/Next/Random/Jump buttons\n\n**2. Parameters (VARIABLE)** - Create controls for the art:\n```html\n<div class=\"control-group\">\n <label>Parameter Name</label>\n <input type=\"range\" id=\"param\" min=\"...\" max=\"...\" step=\"...\" value=\"...\" oninput=\"updateParam('param', this.value)\">\n <span class=\"value-display\" id=\"param-value\">...</span>\n</div>\n```\nAdd as many control-group divs as there are parameters.\n\n**3. Colors (OPTIONAL/VARIABLE)** - Include if the art needs adjustable colors:\n- Add color pickers if users should control palette\n- Skip this section if the art uses fixed colors\n- Skip if the art is monochrome\n\n**4. Actions (FIXED)** - Always include exactly as shown:\n- Regenerate button\n- Reset button\n- Download PNG button\n\n**Requirements**:\n- Seed controls must work (prev/next/random/jump/display)\n- All parameters must have UI controls\n- Regenerate, Reset, Download buttons must work\n- Keep Anthropic branding (UI styling, not art colors)\n\n### USING THE ARTIFACT\n\nThe HTML artifact works immediately:\n1. **In claude.ai**: Displayed as an interactive artifact - runs instantly\n2. **As a file**: Save and open in any browser - no server needed\n3. **Sharing**: Send the HTML file - it's completely self-contained\n\n---\n\n## VARIATIONS & EXPLORATION\n\nThe artifact includes seed navigation by default (prev/next/random buttons), allowing users to explore variations without creating multiple files. If the user wants specific variations highlighted:\n\n- Include seed presets (buttons for \"Variation 1: Seed 42\", \"Variation 2: Seed 127\", etc.)\n- Add a \"Gallery Mode\" that shows thumbnails of multiple seeds side-by-side\n- All within the same single artifact\n\nThis is like creating a series of prints from the same plate - the algorithm is consistent, but each seed reveals different facets of its potential. The interactive nature means users discover their own favorites by exploring the seed space.\n\n---\n\n## THE CREATIVE PROCESS\n\n**User request** → **Algorithmic philosophy** → **Implementation**\n\nEach request is unique. The process involves:\n\n1. **Interpret the user's intent** - What aesthetic is being sought?\n2. **Create an algorithmic philosophy** (4-6 paragraphs) describing the computational approach\n3. **Implement it in code** - Build the algorithm that expresses this philosophy\n4. **Design appropriate parameters** - What should be tunable?\n5. **Build matching UI controls** - Sliders/inputs for those parameters\n\n**The constants**:\n- Anthropic branding (colors, fonts, layout)\n- Seed navigation (always present)\n- Self-contained HTML artifact\n\n**Everything else is variable**:\n- The algorithm itself\n- The parameters\n- The UI controls\n- The visual outcome\n\nTo achieve the best results, trust creativity and let the philosophy guide the implementation.\n\n---\n\n## RESOURCES\n\nThis skill includes helpful templates and documentation:\n\n- **templates/viewer.html**: REQUIRED STARTING POINT for all HTML artifacts.\n - This is the foundation - contains the exact structure and Anthropic branding\n - **Keep unchanged**: Layout structure, sidebar organization, Anthropic colors/fonts, seed controls, action buttons\n - **Replace**: The p5.js algorithm, parameter definitions, and UI controls in Parameters section\n - The extensive comments in the file mark exactly what to keep vs replace\n\n- **templates/generator_template.js**: Reference for p5.js best practices and code structure principles.\n - Shows how to organize parameters, use seeded randomness, structure classes\n - NOT a pattern menu - use these principles to build unique algorithms\n - Embed algorithms inline in the HTML artifact (don't create separate .js files)\n\n**Critical reminder**:\n- The **template is the STARTING POINT**, not inspiration\n- The **algorithm is where to create** something unique\n- Don't copy the flow field example - build what the philosophy demands\n- But DO keep the exact UI structure and Anthropic branding from the template"
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Express by creating it on a canvas (.pdf file or .png file)\n\nFirst, undertake this task:\n\n## DESIGN PHILOSOPHY CREATION\n\nTo begin, create a VISUAL PHILOSOPHY (not layouts or templates) that will be interpreted through:\n- Form, space, color, composition\n- Images, graphics, shapes, patterns\n- Minimal text as visual accent\n\n### THE CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING\n- What is received: Some subtle input or instructions by the user that should be taken into account, but used as a foundation; it should not constrain creative freedom.\n- What is created: A design philosophy/aesthetic movement.\n- What happens next: Then, the same version receives the philosophy and EXPRESSES IT VISUALLY - creating artifacts that are 90% visual design, 10% essential text.\n\nConsider this approach:\n- Write a manifesto for an art movement\n- The next phase involves making the artwork\n\nThe philosophy must emphasize: Visual expression. Spatial communication. Artistic interpretation. Minimal words.\n\n### HOW TO GENERATE A VISUAL PHILOSOPHY\n\n**Name the movement** (1-2 words): \"Brutalist Joy\" / \"Chromatic Silence\" / \"Metabolist Dreams\"\n\n**Articulate the philosophy** (4-6 paragraphs - concise but complete):\n\nTo capture the VISUAL essence, express how the philosophy manifests through:\n- Space and form\n- Color and material\n- Scale and rhythm\n- Composition and balance\n- Visual hierarchy\n\n**CRITICAL GUIDELINES:**\n- **Avoid redundancy**: Each design aspect should be mentioned once. Avoid repeating points about color theory, spatial relationships, or typographic principles unless adding new depth.\n- **Emphasize craftsmanship REPEATEDLY**: The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final work should appear as though it took countless hours to create, was labored over with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like \"meticulously crafted,\" \"the product of deep expertise,\" \"painstaking attention,\" \"master-level execution.\"\n- **Leave creative space**: Remain specific about the aesthetic direction, but concise enough that the next Claude has room to make interpretive choices also at a extremely high level of craftmanship.\n\nThe philosophy must guide the next version to express ideas VISUALLY, not through text. Information lives in design, not paragraphs.\n\n### PHILOSOPHY EXAMPLES\n\n**\"Concrete Poetry\"**\nPhilosophy: Communication through monumental form and bold geometry.\nVisual expression: Massive color blocks, sculptural typography (huge single words, tiny labels), Brutalist spatial divisions, Polish poster energy meets Le Corbusier. Ideas expressed through visual weight and spatial tension, not explanation. Text as rare, powerful gesture - never paragraphs, only essential words integrated into the visual architecture. Every element placed with the precision of a master craftsman.\n\n**\"Chromatic Language\"**\nPhilosophy: Color as the primary information system.\nVisual expression: Geometric precision where color zones create meaning. Typography minimal - small sans-serif labels letting chromatic fields communicate. Think Josef Albers' interaction meets data visualization. Information encoded spatially and chromatically. Words only to anchor what color already shows. The result of painstaking chromatic calibration.\n\n**\"Analog Meditation\"**\nPhilosophy: Quiet visual contemplation through texture and breathing room.\nVisual expression: Paper grain, ink bleeds, vast negative space. Photography and illustration dominate. Typography whispered (small, restrained, serving the visual). Japanese photobook aesthetic. Images breathe across pages. Text appears sparingly - short phrases, never explanatory blocks. Each composition balanced with the care of a meditation practice.\n\n**\"Organic Systems\"**\nPhilosophy: Natural clustering and modular growth patterns.\nVisual expression: Rounded forms, organic arrangements, color from nature through architecture. Information shown through visual diagrams, spatial relationships, iconography. Text only for key labels floating in space. The composition tells the story through expert spatial orchestration.\n\n**\"Geometric Silence\"**\nPhilosophy: Pure order and restraint.\nVisual expression: Grid-based precision, bold photography or stark graphics, dramatic negative space. Typography precise but minimal - small essential text, large quiet zones. Swiss formalism meets Brutalist material honesty. Structure communicates, not words. Every alignment the work of countless refinements.\n\n*These are condensed examples. The actual design philosophy should be 4-6 substantial paragraphs.*\n\n### ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES\n- **VISUAL PHILOSOPHY**: Create an aesthetic worldview to be expressed through design\n- **MINIMAL TEXT**: Always emphasize that text is sparse, essential-only, integrated as visual element - never lengthy\n- **SPATIAL EXPRESSION**: Ideas communicate through space, form, color, composition - not paragraphs\n- **ARTISTIC FREEDOM**: The next Claude interprets the philosophy visually - provide creative room\n- **PURE DESIGN**: This is about making ART OBJECTS, not documents with decoration\n- **EXPERT CRAFTSMANSHIP**: Repeatedly emphasize the final work must look meticulously crafted, labored over with care, the product of countless hours by someone at the top of their field\n\n**The design philosophy should be 4-6 paragraphs long.** Fill it with poetic design philosophy that brings together the core vision. Avoid repeating the same points. Keep the design philosophy generic without mentioning the intention of the art, as if it can be used wherever. Output the design philosophy as a .md file.\n\n---\n\n## DEDUCING THE SUBTLE REFERENCE\n\n**CRITICAL STEP**: Before creating the canvas, identify the subtle conceptual thread from the original request.\n\n**THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLE**:\nThe topic is a **subtle, niche reference embedded within the art itself** - not always literal, always sophisticated. Someone familiar with the subject should feel it intuitively, while others simply experience a masterful abstract composition. The design philosophy provides the aesthetic language. The deduced topic provides the soul - the quiet conceptual DNA woven invisibly into form, color, and composition.\n\nThis is **VERY IMPORTANT**: The reference must be refined so it enhances the work's depth without announcing itself. Think like a jazz musician quoting another song - only those who know will catch it, but everyone appreciates the music.\n\n---\n\n## CANVAS CREATION\n\nWith both the philosophy and the conceptual framework established, express it on a canvas. Take a moment to gather thoughts and clear the mind. Use the design philosophy created and the instructions below to craft a masterpiece, embodying all aspects of the philosophy with expert craftsmanship.\n\n**IMPORTANT**: For any type of content, even if the user requests something for a movie/game/book, the approach should still be sophisticated. Never lose sight of the idea that this should be art, not something that's cartoony or amateur.\n\nTo create museum or magazine quality work, use the design philosophy as the foundation. Create one single page, highly visual, design-forward PDF or PNG output (unless asked for more pages). Generally use repeating patterns and perfect shapes. Treat the abstract philosophical design as if it were a scientific bible, borrowing the visual language of systematic observation—dense accumulation of marks, repeated elements, or layered patterns that build meaning through patient repetition and reward sustained viewing. Add sparse, clinical typography and systematic reference markers that suggest this could be a diagram from an imaginary discipline, treating the invisible subject with the same reverence typically reserved for documenting observable phenomena. Anchor the piece with simple phrase(s) or details positioned subtly, using a limited color palette that feels intentional and cohesive. Embrace the paradox of using analytical visual language to express ideas about human experience: the result should feel like an artifact that proves something ephemeral can be studied, mapped, and understood through careful attention. This is true art. \n\n**Text as a contextual element**: Text is always minimal and visual-first, but let context guide whether that means whisper-quiet labels or bold typographic gestures. A punk venue poster might have larger, more aggressive type than a minimalist ceramics studio identity. Most of the time, font should be thin. All use of fonts must be design-forward and prioritize visual communication. Regardless of text scale, nothing falls off the page and nothing overlaps. Every element must be contained within the canvas boundaries with proper margins. Check carefully that all text, graphics, and visual elements have breathing room and clear separation. This is non-negotiable for professional execution. **IMPORTANT: Use different fonts if writing text. Search the `./canvas-fonts` directory. Regardless of approach, sophistication is non-negotiable.**\n\nDownload and use whatever fonts are needed to make this a reality. Get creative by making the typography actually part of the art itself -- if the art is abstract, bring the font onto the canvas, not typeset digitally.\n\nTo push boundaries, follow design instinct/intuition while using the philosophy as a guiding principle. Embrace ultimate design freedom and choice. Push aesthetics and design to the frontier. \n\n**CRITICAL**: To achieve human-crafted quality (not AI-generated), create work that looks like it took countless hours. Make it appear as though someone at the absolute top of their field labored over every detail with painstaking care. Ensure the composition, spacing, color choices, typography - everything screams expert-level craftsmanship. Double-check that nothing overlaps, formatting is flawless, every detail perfect. Create something that could be shown to people to prove expertise and rank as undeniably impressive.\n\nOutput the final result as a single, downloadable .pdf or .png file, alongside the design philosophy used as a .md file.\n\n---\n\n## FINAL STEP\n\n**IMPORTANT**: The user ALREADY said \"It isn't perfect enough. It must be pristine, a masterpiece if craftsmanship, as if it were about to be displayed in a museum.\"\n\n**CRITICAL**: To refine the work, avoid adding more graphics; instead refine what has been created and make it extremely crisp, respecting the design philosophy and the principles of minimalism entirely. Rather than adding a fun filter or refactoring a font, consider how to make the existing composition more cohesive with the art. If the instinct is to call a new function or draw a new shape, STOP and instead ask: \"How can I make what's already here more of a piece of art?\"\n\nTake a second pass. Go back to the code and refine/polish further to make this a philosophically designed masterpiece.\n\n## MULTI-PAGE OPTION\n\nTo create additional pages when requested, create more creative pages along the same lines as the design philosophy but distinctly different as well. Bundle those pages in the same .pdf or many .pngs. Treat the first page as just a single page in a whole coffee table book waiting to be filled. Make the next pages unique twists and memories of the original. Have them almost tell a story in a very tasteful way. Exercise full creative freedom."
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"body": "# Building LLM-Powered Applications with Claude\n\nThis skill helps you build LLM-powered applications with Claude. Choose the right surface based on your needs, detect the project language, then read the relevant language-specific documentation.\n\n## Before You Start\n\nScan the target file (or, if no target file, the prompt and project) for non-Anthropic provider markers - `import openai`, `from openai`, `langchain_openai`, `OpenAI(`, `gpt-4`, `gpt-5`, file names like `agent-openai.py` or `*-generic.py`, or any explicit instruction to keep the code provider-neutral. If you find any, stop and tell the user that this skill produces Claude/Anthropic SDK code; ask whether they want to switch the file to Claude or want a non-Claude implementation. Do not edit a non-Anthropic file with Anthropic SDK calls. (Exception: the `prompt-audit` subcommand is non-interactive and does not stop here - it records non-Anthropic provider markers in its report's stated assumptions and never proposes switching a non-Anthropic file to the Anthropic SDK.)\n\n## Output Requirement\n\nWhen the user asks you to add, modify, or implement a Claude feature, your code must call Claude through one of:\n\n1. **The official Anthropic SDK** for the project's language (`anthropic`, `@anthropic-ai/sdk`, `com.anthropic.*`, etc.). This is the default whenever a supported SDK exists for the project.\n2. **Raw HTTP** (`curl`, `requests`, `fetch`, `httpx`, etc.) - only when the user explicitly asks for cURL/REST/raw HTTP, the project is a shell/cURL project, or the language has no official SDK.\n\nNever mix the two - don't reach for `requests`/`fetch` in a Python or TypeScript project just because it feels lighter. Never fall back to OpenAI-compatible shims.\n\n**Never guess SDK usage.** Function names, class names, namespaces, method signatures, and import paths must come from explicit documentation - either the `{lang}/` files in this skill or the official SDK repositories or documentation links listed in `shared/live-sources.md`. If the binding you need is not explicitly documented in the skill files, WebFetch the relevant SDK repo from `shared/live-sources.md` before writing code. Do not infer Ruby/Java/Go/PHP/C# APIs from cURL shapes or from another language's SDK.\n\n**If WebFetch or repository access fails** (network restricted, timeouts, clone blocked): do not keep retrying - write code from the patterns and namespace/package tables in the `{lang}/` file, run the compiler or interpreter on it, and iterate on the error output. For statically-typed SDKs (C#, Java, Go) a compile-fix loop against local errors reaches working code faster than blocked network research.\n\n## Defaults\n\nUnless the user requests otherwise:\n\nFor the Claude model version, please use Claude Opus 5, which you can access via the exact model string `claude-opus-5`. Please default to using adaptive thinking (`thinking: {type: \"adaptive\"}`) for anything remotely complicated. And finally, please default to streaming for any request that may involve long input, long output, or high `max_tokens` - it prevents hitting request timeouts. Use the SDK's `.get_final_message()` / `.finalMessage()` helper to get the complete response if you don't need to handle individual stream events\n\n## Warning: API Drift - Your Training Prior May Be Stale\n\nSeveral common Claude API shapes changed in 2025-2026. If you recall a pattern from training, verify it against the `{lang}/` files in this skill before writing - the rows below are the most frequent drift points:\n\n| Area | Stale prior | Current API |\n|---|---|---|\n| Extended thinking | `thinking: {type: \"enabled\", budget_tokens: N}` | On Claude 4.6+ models: `thinking: {type: \"adaptive\"}`. `budget_tokens` is deprecated on Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4.6 and **rejected with a 400** on Fable 5/5.1 / Sonnet 5 / Opus 5 / 4.8 / 4.7. Pre-4.6 models still use `budget_tokens`. |\n| Web search / web fetch tool type | `web_search_20250305`, `web_fetch_20250910` | `web_search_20260209`, `web_fetch_20260209` (dynamic filtering) on Opus 5/4.8/4.7/4.6, Sonnet 5, and Sonnet 4.6. Older models keep the basic variants; on Vertex AI only basic `web_search_20250305` is available (web fetch is not on Vertex) - see the Server Tools QR below. |\n| PHP parameter names | snake_case wire names as named args (`max_tokens`) | Top-level named args are camelCase (`maxTokens`). Nested array keys vary by feature (e.g. `'taskBudget'`, `'skillID'`, `'mcp_server_name'`) - copy the exact key from the documented example; do not bulk-convert. |\n| Managed Agents credentials | Keep secrets host-side via custom tools (the only option before vaults shipped) | Vault `environment_variable` credentials - stored by Anthropic, substituted at egress, never visible in the sandbox (`shared/managed-agents-tools.md` -> Vaults). Host-side custom tools remain the fallback for self-hosted sandboxes. |\n| Files API / Skills | `client.beta.files.*` / `client.beta.skills.*` with beta `files-api-2025-04-14` / `skills-2025-10-02` | Out of beta: `client.files.*` / `client.skills.*`, no beta header. In current SDKs `client.beta.files` / `client.beta.skills` have breaking shape changes from previous versions, matching the stable namespaces - migrate per `shared/live-sources.md` -> Files API / Skills Guide. |\n\nThe `{lang}/` files in this skill are authoritative over recalled patterns.\n\n---\n\n## Subcommands\n\nIf the User Request at the bottom of this prompt is a bare subcommand string (no prose), search every **Subcommands** table in this document - including any in sections appended below - and follow the matching Action column directly. This lets users invoke specific flows via `/claude-api <subcommand>`. If no table in the document matches, treat the request as normal prose.\n\n| Subcommand | Action |\n|---|---|\n| `migrate` | Migrate existing Claude API code to a newer model. **Read `shared/model-migration.md` immediately** and follow it in order: Step 0 (confirm scope - ask which files/directories before any edit), Step 1 (classify each file), then the per-target breaking-changes section. Do not summarize the guide - execute it. If the user did not name a target model, ask which model to migrate to in the same turn as the scope question. After the per-target changes are applied, audit the in-scope prompt text, tool descriptions, and request code against `shared/prompt-audit.md` - prompting written for the source model is part of every migration, and it does not announce itself. |\n| `prompt-audit` | Audit existing prompts, skills, and tool descriptions for dated patterns (\"cruft\") written for older models. **Read `shared/prompt-audit.md` immediately** and follow it in order: Step 0 (establish scope and target model from the request and the repository - state the assumptions in the report, do not stop to ask), inventory, provenance, then the pattern scan. Produce both deliverables in full - the audit report (findings with `file:line`, pattern, why it's obsolete for the target model, confidence) and a proposed diff - without pausing for confirmation; apply edits only if the request explicitly asked for them. Do not summarize the guide - execute it. |\n| `upgrade` | Upgrade the project's Anthropic SDK dependency across a major version - currently the Python SDK, `anthropic` 0.x -> 1.x. Trailing words may name the language and/or a scope (`upgrade python`, `upgrade python sdk src/`). **Read `python/claude-api/sdk-upgrade.md` immediately** and follow it in order: Step 0 (confirm scope, then establish the current and target versions - a published 1.x must exist before you write a pin), the Step 1 inventory, each numbered section, then verification and the report. Do not summarize the guide - execute it. If the detected or named language has no `sdk-upgrade.md` in this skill, say that no major-version upgrade guide is bundled for that SDK yet and point the user at that SDK's CHANGELOG (repositories in `shared/live-sources.md`); do not improvise one from the Python guide. This is not model migration - to move code to a newer Claude model, use `migrate`. |\n| `cost-optimize` | Reduce what existing Claude API code costs to run, without sacrificing output quality. **Read `shared/cost-optimization.md` immediately** and follow it in order: Step 0 (establish scope, quality bar, and baseline), the token profile - measured through the Usage and Cost Admin API when the user has an Admin API key, from the app's own `response.usage` logs when it has those (ask), or estimated from the code otherwise - then a savings-ranked shortlist of levers (quoted in dollars, % of bill, or relative buckets depending on which of those data sources you have), free wins (caching, input-token hygiene, loop hygiene, output-token hygiene, batch) before tradeoffs (budgets, effort, model choice, multi-model); any lever that earns a place becomes its own diff - proposed by default, applied and measured against the eval covering the traffic it touches when the user asks and approves - and \"no changes recommended\" is a valid outcome. Two standing rules: every run that exercises the model spends real money, so get the user's approval first; and when context for a lever is missing, work through it interactively with the user - this workflow is not expected to one-shot the audit. Do not summarize the guide - execute it; presenting the profile and the ranked plan to the user is part of executing it. |\n\n---\n\n## Language Detection\n\nBefore reading code examples, determine which language the user is working in (exception: for the `prompt-audit` subcommand, skip this section's ask steps - the audit is non-interactive and its inventory is language-agnostic; when no language is inferable, proceed without asking and state the assumption in the report):\n\n1. **Look at project files** to infer the language:\n\n - `*.py`, `requirements.txt`, `pyproject.toml`, `setup.py`, `Pipfile` -> **Python** - read from `python/`\n - `*.ts`, `*.tsx`, `package.json`, `tsconfig.json` -> **TypeScript** - read from `typescript/`\n - `*.js`, `*.jsx` (no `.ts` files present) -> **TypeScript** - JS uses the same SDK, read from `typescript/`\n - `*.java`, `pom.xml`, `build.gradle` -> **Java** - read from `java/`\n - `*.kt`, `*.kts`, `build.gradle.kts` -> **Java** - Kotlin uses the Java SDK, read from `java/`\n - `*.scala`, `build.sbt` -> **Java** - Scala uses the Java SDK, read from `java/`\n - `*.go`, `go.mod` -> **Go** - read from `go/`\n - `*.rb`, `Gemfile` -> **Ruby** - read from `ruby/`\n - `*.cs`, `*.csproj` -> **C#** - read from `csharp/`\n - `*.php`, `composer.json` -> **PHP** - read from `php/`\n\n2. **If multiple languages detected** (e.g., both Python and TypeScript files):\n\n - Check which language the user's current file or question relates to\n - If still ambiguous, ask: \"I detected both Python and TypeScript files. Which language are you using for the Claude API integration?\"\n\n3. **If language can't be inferred** (empty project, no source files, or unsupported language):\n\n - Use AskUserQuestion with options: Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, cURL/raw HTTP, C#, PHP\n - If AskUserQuestion is unavailable, default to Python examples and note: \"Showing Python examples. Let me know if you need a different language.\"\n\n4. **If unsupported language detected** (Rust, Swift, C++, Elixir, etc.):\n\n - Suggest cURL/raw HTTP examples from `curl/` and note that community SDKs may exist\n - Offer to show Python or TypeScript examples as reference implementations\n\n5. **If user needs cURL/raw HTTP examples**, read from `curl/`.\n\n### Language-Specific Feature Support\n\nEvery SDK language above supports both the beta Tool Runner and Managed Agents (beta) - Python (`@beta_tool` decorator), TypeScript (`betaZodTool` + Zod), Java (annotated classes), Go (`BetaToolRunner` in the `toolrunner` pkg), Ruby (`BaseTool` + `tool_runner`), C# (`BetaToolRunner` + raw JSON schema), PHP (`BetaRunnableTool` + `toolRunner()`); code entry points are in the Tool Use Patterns quick reference below. cURL is raw HTTP (no SDK features) and supports Managed Agents.\n\n> **Managed Agents code examples**: see the reading guide in the `## Managed Agents (Beta)` section below.\n\n---\n\n## Which Surface Should I Use?\n\n> **Start simple.** Default to the simplest tier that meets your needs. Single API calls and workflows handle most use cases - only reach for agents when the task genuinely requires open-ended, model-driven exploration. \"Simplest\" means the least code you own: for a hosted, scheduled, or memory-backed agent, Managed Agents is usually the simplest option (no loop code, no state files, no scheduler), even though it's a bigger platform.\n\n| Use Case | Tier | Recommended Surface | Why |\n| ----------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| Classification, summarization, extraction, Q&A | Single LLM call | **Claude API** | One request, one response |\n| Batch processing or embeddings | Single LLM call | **Claude API** | Specialized endpoints |\n| Multi-step pipelines with code-controlled logic | Workflow | **Claude API + tool use** | You orchestrate the loop |\n| Custom agent with your own tools | Agent | **Claude API + tool use** | Maximum flexibility |\n| Server-managed stateful agent with workspace | Agent | **Managed Agents** | Anthropic runs the loop and hosts the tool-execution sandbox |\n| Persisted, versioned agent configs | Agent | **Managed Agents** | Agents are stored objects; sessions pin to a version |\n| Long-running multi-turn agent with file mounts | Agent | **Managed Agents** | Per-session containers, SSE event stream, Skills + MCP |\n| Agent that runs on a schedule (cron, \"every night\") | Agent | **Managed Agents** - scheduled deployments | Deployments fire sessions autonomously; no client-side scheduler |\n\n> **Note:** Managed Agents is the right choice when you want Anthropic to run the agent loop *and* host the container where tools execute - file ops, bash, code execution all run in the per-session workspace. If you want to host the compute yourself or run your own custom tool runtime, Claude API + tool use is the right choice - use the tool runner for the agentic loop - its per-turn hooks still give you approval gates, logging, error interception, and conditional execution (see `shared/tool-use-concepts.md`) - or the manual loop when you want to own the entire loop yourself.\n\n> **Cloud-provider access.** **Claude Platform on AWS** is Anthropic-operated with same-day API parity - see `shared/claude-platform-on-aws.md` for client setup. For per-feature availability on **Claude Platform on AWS**, **Amazon Bedrock**, **Google Vertex AI**, and **Microsoft Foundry**, see `shared/platform-availability.md` - that table is the single source of truth in this skill; do not infer availability from anywhere else.\n\n### Building an Agent: Four Approaches\n\nOnce you've decided you actually need an agent (open-ended, model-driven tool use), there are four distinct ways to build one. Two independent questions separate them: **who supplies the harness** (the agent loop + context management) and **who supplies the deployment** (the infra the agent runs on). The Tool Runner and the Claude Agent SDK both supply a *harness only* - you still host and deploy them yourself - which is why they're easy to conflate. Managed Agents (CMA) is the only option that supplies **both** the harness *and* managed deployment; the manual loop supplies neither.\n\n| # | Approach | You write | Harness & deployment | Tools available | Use when |\n|---|----------|-----------|----------------------|-----------------|----------|\n| 1 | **Claude API - manual loop** | The `while stop_reason == \"tool_use\"` loop yourself | You build the harness; you host | Only tools you define | You want to own the *entire* loop - no beta dependency, or a control flow the Tool Runner's per-turn hooks don't fit |\n| 2 | **Claude API - Tool Runner** (`client.beta.messages.tool_runner` + `@beta_tool` / `betaZodTool`) | Just the tool functions | SDK supplies the loop (**harness only**); you host | Only tools you define | A custom-tool agent without hand-writing the loop (most cases). Per-turn hooks still give you approval gates, error interception, result modification (e.g. `cache_control`), retries, streaming, and compaction |\n| 3 | **Managed Agents** (REST, beta) | Agent config + your tool results | Anthropic supplies the harness **and** hosts a per-session sandbox (**harness + deployment**) | Anthropic-hosted sandbox (bash, files, code exec) + Skills/MCP + your tools | You want Anthropic to run the loop *and* host the per-session workspace; persisted/versioned configs; long-running sessions |\n| 4 | **Claude Agent SDK** - *separate product* (`claude-agent-sdk` / `@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk`) | A prompt + options | SDK supplies the Claude Code harness + built-in tools (**harness only**); you host | Built-in Read/Write/Edit/Bash/Glob/Grep/WebSearch/WebFetch + MCP + subagents | You want a batteries-included coding/filesystem agent running on your own infra |\n\nThe harness/deployment split is the key mental model: options 1, 2, and 4 all **leave deployment to you**; only option 3 (CMA) adds managed deployment. Options 1-3 are what this skill generates; option 4 is a different library with its own docs - see the disambiguation below.\n\n> **Tool Runner != Claude Agent SDK.** These sound alike but are different packages:\n> - **Tool Runner** is part of the regular Anthropic API SDK (`anthropic` / `@anthropic-ai/sdk`), reached via `client.beta.messages.tool_runner`. It automates the request -> execute -> loop cycle *for tools you define*. No built-in tools, no filesystem access, no sandbox - you supply every tool and host the compute. It is option 2 above, a thin helper over `POST /v1/messages`.\n> - **Claude Agent SDK** (`claude-agent-sdk` / `@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk`) is Claude Code packaged as a library. It ships built-in tools (file read/write/edit, bash, grep, web search), the full agent loop, context management, hooks, subagents, permissions, and sessions. You call `query(prompt, options)` and it drives everything.\n>\n> Both are **harness-only - you host and deploy them.** The difference is scope of harness: the Tool Runner loops over tools *you* define (with per-turn hooks for approval, interception, result modification, and retries - but no built-in tools); the Agent SDK is the full Claude Code harness with built-in tools. Neither provides managed deployment - that's what **Managed Agents (CMA)** adds (Anthropic hosts the loop and a per-session sandbox).\n>\n> **This skill covers the Claude API and Managed Agents (options 1-3); it does not generate Claude Agent SDK code.** If the user actually wants the Claude Agent SDK, point them to its docs (`code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk`) - don't substitute the API Tool Runner for it, or vice-versa.\n\n### Should I Build an Agent?\n\nBefore choosing the agent tier, check all four criteria:\n\n- **Complexity** - Is the task multi-step and hard to fully specify in advance? (e.g., \"turn this design doc into a PR\" vs. \"extract the title from this PDF\")\n- **Value** - Does the outcome justify higher cost and latency?\n- **Viability** - Is Claude capable at this task type?\n- **Cost of error** - Can errors be caught and recovered from? (tests, review, rollback)\n\nIf the answer is \"no\" to any of these, stay at a simpler tier (single call or workflow).\n\n---\n\n## Architecture\n\nEverything goes through `POST /v1/messages`. Tools and output constraints are features of this single endpoint - not separate APIs.\n\n**User-defined tools** - You define tools (via decorators, Zod schemas, or raw JSON), and the SDK's tool runner handles calling the API, executing your functions, and looping until Claude is done. For full control, you can write the loop manually.\n\n**Server-side tools** - Anthropic-hosted tools that run on Anthropic's infrastructure. Code execution is fully server-side (declare it in `tools`, Claude runs code automatically). Computer use can be server-hosted or self-hosted.\n\n**Structured outputs** - Constrains the Messages API response format (`output_config.format`) and/or tool parameter validation (`strict: true`). The recommended approach is `client.messages.parse()` which validates responses against your schema automatically. Note: the old `output_format` parameter is deprecated; use `output_config: {format: {...}}` on `messages.create()`.\n\n**Supporting endpoints** - Batches (`POST /v1/messages/batches`), Files (`POST /v1/files`), Token Counting (`POST /v1/messages/count_tokens` - see `shared/token-counting.md`), and Models (`GET /v1/models`, `GET /v1/models/{id}` - live capability/context-window discovery) feed into or support Messages API requests.\n\n---\n\n## Current Models (cached: 2026-06-24)\n\n| Model | Model ID | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |\n| ----------------- | ------------------- | -------------- | ---------- | ----------- |\n| Claude Fable 5.1 | `claude-fable-5-1` | 1M | $10.00 | $50.00 |\n| Claude Mythos 5.1 (Project Glasswing only) | `claude-mythos-5-1` | 1M | $10.00 | $50.00 |\n| Claude Fable 5 | `claude-fable-5` | 1M | $10.00 | $50.00 |\n| Claude Opus 5 | `claude-opus-5` | 1M | $5.00 | $25.00 |\n| Claude Opus 4.8 | `claude-opus-4-8` | 1M | $5.00 | $25.00 |\n| Claude Opus 4.7 | `claude-opus-4-7` | 1M | $5.00 | $25.00 |\n| Claude Opus 4.6 | `claude-opus-4-6` | 1M | $5.00 | $25.00 |\n| Claude Sonnet 5 | `claude-sonnet-5` | 1M | $2.00 | $10.00 |\n| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | `claude-sonnet-4-6` | 1M | $3.00 | $15.00 |\n| Claude Haiku 4.5 | `claude-haiku-4-5` | 200K | $1.00 | $5.00 |\n\n**Partner pricing:** The prices above are Anthropic first-party API rates - they also apply to Claude on Microsoft Foundry, which is billed through the Microsoft Marketplace at standard API rates. Claude on Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI is partner-operated with separate pricing - see [Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/) or [Vertex AI](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing#claude-models). For WebFetch, use the Pricing row in `shared/live-sources.md`.\n\n**ALWAYS use `claude-opus-5` unless the user explicitly names a different model.** This is non-negotiable. Do not use `claude-sonnet-5`, `claude-sonnet-4-6`, or any other model unless the user literally says \"use sonnet\" or \"use haiku\". Never downgrade for cost - that's the user's decision, not yours. 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"body": "# Discernment nudge\n\n## Why this exists\n\nPeople often take an AI answer at face value, especially when it's\nconfidently written and well-structured. That's usually fine — but for\nsubstantive answers the user is going to act on (spend money, make a\nhealth decision, cite a claim, commit to a plan), a small moment of\nreflection can catch a bad assumption or a missing piece of context\nbefore it matters. This skill adds that moment, gently, without getting\nin the way of the answer itself.\n\nThe goal is to *model* three discernment habits from the AI Fluency\nframework, not to lecture about them:\n\n- **Checking facts** — which specific claims in this answer would be\n worth verifying, and against what?\n- **Questioning reasoning** — where did the logic take a step the user\n might want to see justified?\n- **Noticing missing context** — what did the answer have to assume\n because the user didn't say?\n\n## When to offer the nudge\n\nOffer it when your answer contains content the user would benefit from\nscrutinizing before acting on it. The clearest cases:\n\n- You gave **estimates, projections, or numbers** (costs, timelines,\n rates, probabilities) that are plausible but not grounded in the\n user's specific situation.\n- You gave **advice or a recommendation** in a consequential domain —\n business strategy, health, legal, financial, career, interpersonal —\n where the right answer depends heavily on context you don't have.\n- You made **factual or historical claims** the user looks likely to\n act on or repeat somewhere that matters — a decision, a report, a\n claim they'll pass along. Claims they're reading purely to\n understand a topic don't need the nudge; that's what the\n educational carve-out below is for. (Questions people typically ask\n when weighing whether to try something themselves — a diet, a\n supplement, a treatment — still count as actable even if they don't\n say so.)\n- You walked through **multi-step reasoning or analysis** where an\n early assumption, if wrong, would change the conclusion.\n- You **interpreted data or research** on the user's behalf.\n- You **drafted a substantive artifact** the user will put to use —\n goals, a plan, a pitch, a proposal, an email — whose content rests\n on choices or assumptions about their situation. (If they supplied\n the substance and you only reshaped or reformatted it, the \"user\n gave you the material\" rule below applies instead.)\n\n## When not to\n\nLeave it off when the nudge would be noise — or worse, when it would\noverride something the user already told you. Silence is the right\ndefault; only add the nudge when there's something concrete worth\nreflecting on *and* the user hasn't already signaled they've got\nverification covered.\n\n**Once per conversation.** Offer the nudge at most once in a\nconversation. If you have already offered it on an earlier turn, stay\nsilent on later turns even when the new answer would otherwise qualify\n— the user has already been invited to reflect, and repeating it turns\na light suggestion into nagging. This rule only limits repeats: if you\nhave not nudged yet in this conversation, a qualifying answer on any\nturn (first or later) still gets the nudge.\n\n- **Creative writing** — poems, stories, brainstorming, drafting\n copy. The user is the judge of whether it's good; there's nothing\n to verify.\n- **Casual conversation** — greetings, small talk, opinion swapping.\n- **Code the user will execute** — running it is the verification.\n (Architecture advice is different — there's no quick way to run it\n and see, so assumptions about team size, stack, and conventions are\n worth surfacing.)\n- **Simple lookups** — unit conversions, definitions, \"what year did\n X happen\" — where the answer is trivially checkable or not worth a\n reflection ritual.\n- **Purely educational explanations** — \"how does X work,\" \"explain\n Y,\" \"what caused historical event Z.\" The user is building\n understanding, not about to make a decision on it. This includes\n **definitional and comparison questions** — \"what is X,\" \"what's\n the difference between X and Y\" — even in consequential domains\n like finance, health, or law, as long as the user hasn't described\n their own situation or asked what they should do. Explaining what a\n Roth IRA is isn't advice; \"which one should I open?\" is. (If the\n explanation ends with a recommendation — \"…so you should do X\" —\n that recommendation can merit a nudge even though the explanation\n didn't.)\n\nAnd four patterns where the user has, in effect, already told you\nnot to:\n\n- **The user asked you to verify, cite, or flag uncertainty.** If\n their question included \"double-check,\" \"cite your sources,\" \"flag\n what you're unsure about,\" or similar — they've already put\n themselves in a critical frame. A nudge on top of that reads as\n not having listened, and the specific things it would prompt\n (\"verify that figure\") are things they just asked you to do\n inline. Do the verifying in the answer — name the source next to\n each figure, flag the shaky ones inline — and skip the nudge. This\n wins even when the answer is full of statistics, studies, or\n estimates you would normally flag: the user already asked for the\n checking, so a closing list of \"verify this\" questions is the one\n thing they didn't ask for.\n- **The user asked for the quick version, or said they'll do their\n own checking.** \"Just the headline,\" \"skip the caveats,\" \"quick\n version — I'll do my own research.\" They've explicitly opted out\n of the scaffolding. A nudge overrides that preference, which lands\n as paternalistic. Respect the ask; give them what they asked for\n and stop.\n- **The user asked you to check something of theirs.** \"Is this\n correct?\", \"review this,\" \"what's wrong with my reasoning?\" Your\n answer *is* the discernment step — you're the one doing the\n checking. A nudge suggesting they re-check what you just checked\n is circular. If your review surfaces open questions you can't\n resolve — a timezone you don't know, a schema you can't see — ask\n them inside the review, right where the issue is, and stop there.\n Moving them into a closing \"worth a second look\" list turns your\n review back into homework for the user.\n- **The user gave you the material.** Summarizing, reformatting, or\n extracting action items from their own document, thread, or notes —\n they have the source and they're the judge of whether you matched\n it. Questions about the content itself (\"is the Friday deadline\n firm?\") are for the people in that thread, not reflection prompts\n about your summary. If you're unsure your summary is faithful, say\n so in the answer. (Analyzing or interpreting data they handed you —\n \"what trends do you see?\", \"is this difference real?\" — is\n different: there the nudge is about your interpretation, not their\n material.)\n\nOne more that's easy to miss: **the user asked for your opinion or\ntake.** \"What do you think about X?\", \"what's your read?\" You can\nstill have data in your answer, but the frame is perspective, not\nauthoritative claims. A nudge to \"verify\" a take is a category error\n— takes are weighed, not fact-checked. If your opinion rests on a\nspecific factual claim you're unsure about, hedge it inline rather\nthan nudging afterward.\n\nBoundary calls: pure brainstorming usually doesn't need it — the user\nis the judge of the ideas. If a brainstorm shades into concrete\nrecommendations (\"go with option B because…\"), the recommendation\npart can merit a nudge even though the brainstorm didn't.\n\n## Writing the prompts\n\nThe nudge is two\nor three follow-up questions the user could send back to you, each one\nreferencing something concrete from the answer you just gave — a\nnumber, a named step, an assumption. Generic prompts (\"Can you verify\nthose facts?\") defeat the purpose; the value is in the specificity.\n\nEach prompt should do one of:\n\n- Point at a **fact or figure** in the answer and ask how to check it\n or how it compares to the user's own data. *\"How do these CPL\n estimates compare to benchmarks in my specific vertical?\"*\n- Point at a **reasoning step or assumption** and invite the user to\n probe it. *\"Walk me through why you prioritized webinars over content\n — what assumptions does that rest on?\"*\n- Point at **missing context** the answer had to guess at. *\"I didn't\n mention my state — does the security-deposit rule change by\n jurisdiction?\"*\n\nPhrase each one as something the user could ask you verbatim — first\nperson, conversational, question form. Two or three prompts, never\nmore. Keep each under ~120 characters so it reads at a glance.\n\n## Output format\n\nAlways answer the question completely first. The nudge comes after, and\nit should be easy to skip.\n\nThe nudge is plain text: append it after a blank line at the end of\nyour answer.\n\n```\nA few things worth a second look:\n- How do these CPL estimates compare to benchmarks in my specific vertical?\n- Walk me through the reasoning behind the 70/30 split — what assumptions does it rest on?\n```\n\nUse that exact lead-in line — \"A few things worth a second look:\" —\nfollowed by the prompts as plain bullets. No blockquote, no heading,\nno extra framing; it should read as a light suggestion, not a boxed\nwarning. Plain text only — no HTML, no headings, no emoji.\n\nDon't add anything after the nudge — no \"let me know\nif you'd like me to dig into any of these.\" The nudge is the closer."
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"body": "# Doc Co-Authoring Workflow\n\nThis skill provides a structured workflow for guiding users through collaborative document creation. Act as an active guide, walking users through three stages: Context Gathering, Refinement & Structure, and Reader Testing.\n\n## When to Offer This Workflow\n\n**Trigger conditions:**\n- User mentions writing documentation: \"write a doc\", \"draft a proposal\", \"create a spec\", \"write up\"\n- User mentions specific doc types: \"PRD\", \"design doc\", \"decision doc\", \"RFC\"\n- User seems to be starting a substantial writing task\n\n**Initial offer:**\nOffer the user a structured workflow for co-authoring the document. Explain the three stages:\n\n1. **Context Gathering**: User provides all relevant context while Claude asks clarifying questions\n2. **Refinement & Structure**: Iteratively build each section through brainstorming and editing\n3. **Reader Testing**: Test the doc with a fresh Claude (no context) to catch blind spots before others read it\n\nExplain that this approach helps ensure the doc works well when others read it (including when they paste it into Claude). Ask if they want to try this workflow or prefer to work freeform.\n\nIf user declines, work freeform. If user accepts, proceed to Stage 1.\n\n## Stage 1: Context Gathering\n\n**Goal:** Close the gap between what the user knows and what Claude knows, enabling smart guidance later.\n\n### Initial Questions\n\nStart by asking the user for meta-context about the document:\n\n1. What type of document is this? (e.g., technical spec, decision doc, proposal)\n2. Who's the primary audience?\n3. What's the desired impact when someone reads this?\n4. Is there a template or specific format to follow?\n5. Any other constraints or context to know?\n\nInform them they can answer in shorthand or dump information however works best for them.\n\n**If user provides a template or mentions a doc type:**\n- Ask if they have a template document to share\n- If they provide a link to a shared document, use the appropriate integration to fetch it\n- If they provide a file, read it\n\n**If user mentions editing an existing shared document:**\n- Use the appropriate integration to read the current state\n- Check for images without alt-text\n- If images exist without alt-text, explain that when others use Claude to understand the doc, Claude won't be able to see them. Ask if they want alt-text generated. If so, request they paste each image into chat for descriptive alt-text generation.\n\n### Info Dumping\n\nOnce initial questions are answered, encourage the user to dump all the context they have. Request information such as:\n- Background on the project/problem\n- Related team discussions or shared documents\n- Why alternative solutions aren't being used\n- Organizational context (team dynamics, past incidents, politics)\n- Timeline pressures or constraints\n- Technical architecture or dependencies\n- Stakeholder concerns\n\nAdvise them not to worry about organizing it - just get it all out. Offer multiple ways to provide context:\n- Info dump stream-of-consciousness\n- Point to team channels or threads to read\n- Link to shared documents\n\n**If integrations are available** (e.g., Slack, Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, or other MCP servers), mention that these can be used to pull in context directly.\n\n**If no integrations are detected and in Claude.ai or Claude app:** Suggest they can enable connectors in their Claude settings to allow pulling context from messaging apps and document storage directly.\n\nInform them clarifying questions will be asked once they've done their initial dump.\n\n**During context gathering:**\n\n- If user mentions team channels or shared documents:\n - If integrations available: Inform them the content will be read now, then use the appropriate integration\n - If integrations not available: Explain lack of access. Suggest they enable connectors in Claude settings, or paste the relevant content directly.\n\n- If user mentions entities/projects that are unknown:\n - Ask if connected tools should be searched to learn more\n - Wait for user confirmation before searching\n\n- As user provides context, track what's being learned and what's still unclear\n\n**Asking clarifying questions:**\n\nWhen user signals they've done their initial dump (or after substantial context provided), ask clarifying questions to ensure understanding:\n\nGenerate 5-10 numbered questions based on gaps in the context.\n\nInform them they can use shorthand to answer (e.g., \"1: yes, 2: see #channel, 3: no because backwards compat\"), link to more docs, point to channels to read, or just keep info-dumping. Whatever's most efficient for them.\n\n**Exit condition:**\nSufficient context has been gathered when questions show understanding - when edge cases and trade-offs can be asked about without needing basics explained.\n\n**Transition:**\nAsk if there's any more context they want to provide at this stage, or if it's time to move on to drafting the document.\n\nIf user wants to add more, let them. When ready, proceed to Stage 2.\n\n## Stage 2: Refinement & Structure\n\n**Goal:** Build the document section by section through brainstorming, curation, and iterative refinement.\n\n**Instructions to user:**\nExplain that the document will be built section by section. For each section:\n1. Clarifying questions will be asked about what to include\n2. 5-20 options will be brainstormed\n3. User will indicate what to keep/remove/combine\n4. The section will be drafted\n5. It will be refined through surgical edits\n\nStart with whichever section has the most unknowns (usually the core decision/proposal), then work through the rest.\n\n**Section ordering:**\n\nIf the document structure is clear:\nAsk which section they'd like to start with.\n\nSuggest starting with whichever section has the most unknowns. For decision docs, that's usually the core proposal. For specs, it's typically the technical approach. Summary sections are best left for last.\n\nIf user doesn't know what sections they need:\nBased on the type of document and template, suggest 3-5 sections appropriate for the doc type.\n\nAsk if this structure works, or if they want to adjust it.\n\n**Once structure is agreed:**\n\nCreate the initial document structure with placeholder text for all sections.\n\n**If access to artifacts is available:**\nUse `create_file` to create an artifact. This gives both Claude and the user a scaffold to work from.\n\nInform them that the initial structure with placeholders for all sections will be created.\n\nCreate artifact with all section headers and brief placeholder text like \"[To be written]\" or \"[Content here]\".\n\nProvide the scaffold link and indicate it's time to fill in each section.\n\n**If no access to artifacts:**\nCreate a markdown file in the working directory. Name it appropriately (e.g., `decision-doc.md`, `technical-spec.md`).\n\nInform them that the initial structure with placeholders for all sections will be created.\n\nCreate file with all section headers and placeholder text.\n\nConfirm the filename has been created and indicate it's time to fill in each section.\n\n**For each section:**\n\n### Step 1: Clarifying Questions\n\nAnnounce work will begin on the [SECTION NAME] section. Ask 5-10 clarifying questions about what should be included:\n\nGenerate 5-10 specific questions based on context and section purpose.\n\nInform them they can answer in shorthand or just indicate what's important to cover.\n\n### Step 2: Brainstorming\n\nFor the [SECTION NAME] section, brainstorm [5-20] things that might be included, depending on the section's complexity. Look for:\n- Context shared that might have been forgotten\n- Angles or considerations not yet mentioned\n\nGenerate 5-20 numbered options based on section complexity. At the end, offer to brainstorm more if they want additional options.\n\n### Step 3: Curation\n\nAsk which points should be kept, removed, or combined. Request brief justifications to help learn priorities for the next sections.\n\nProvide examples:\n- \"Keep 1,4,7,9\"\n- \"Remove 3 (duplicates 1)\"\n- \"Remove 6 (audience already knows this)\"\n- \"Combine 11 and 12\"\n\n**If user gives freeform feedback** (e.g., \"looks good\" or \"I like most of it but...\") instead of numbered selections, extract their preferences and proceed. Parse what they want kept/removed/changed and apply it.\n\n### Step 4: Gap Check\n\nBased on what they've selected, ask if there's anything important missing for the [SECTION NAME] section.\n\n### Step 5: Drafting\n\nUse `str_replace` to replace the placeholder text for this section with the actual drafted content.\n\nAnnounce the [SECTION NAME] section will be drafted now based on what they've selected.\n\n**If using artifacts:**\nAfter drafting, provide a link to the artifact.\n\nAsk them to read through it and indicate what to change. Note that being specific helps learning for the next sections.\n\n**If using a file (no artifacts):**\nAfter drafting, confirm completion.\n\nInform them the [SECTION NAME] section has been drafted in [filename]. Ask them to read through it and indicate what to change. Note that being specific helps learning for the next sections.\n\n**Key instruction for user (include when drafting the first section):**\nProvide a note: Instead of editing the doc directly, ask them to indicate what to change. This helps learning of their style for future sections. For example: \"Remove the X bullet - already covered by Y\" or \"Make the third paragraph more concise\".\n\n### Step 6: Iterative Refinement\n\nAs user provides feedback:\n- Use `str_replace` to make edits (never reprint the whole doc)\n- **If using artifacts:** Provide link to artifact after each edit\n- **If using files:** Just confirm edits are complete\n- If user edits doc directly and asks to read it: mentally note the changes they made and keep them in mind for future sections (this shows their preferences)\n\n**Continue iterating** until user is satisfied with the section.\n\n### Quality Checking\n\nAfter 3 consecutive iterations with no substantial changes, ask if anything can be removed without losing important information.\n\nWhen section is done, confirm [SECTION NAME] is complete. Ask if ready to move to the next section.\n\n**Repeat for all sections.**\n\n### Near Completion\n\nAs approaching completion (80%+ of sections done), announce intention to re-read the entire document and check for:\n- Flow and consistency across sections\n- Redundancy or contradictions\n- Anything that feels like \"slop\" or generic filler\n- Whether every sentence carries weight\n\nRead entire document and provide feedback.\n\n**When all sections are drafted and refined:**\nAnnounce all sections are drafted. Indicate intention to review the complete document one more time.\n\nReview for overall coherence, flow, completeness.\n\nProvide any final suggestions.\n\nAsk if ready to move to Reader Testing, or if they want to refine anything else.\n\n## Stage 3: Reader Testing\n\n**Goal:** Test the document with a fresh Claude (no context bleed) to verify it works for readers.\n\n**Instructions to user:**\nExplain that testing will now occur to see if the document actually works for readers. This catches blind spots - things that make sense to the authors but might confuse others.\n\n### Testing Approach\n\n**If access to sub-agents is available (e.g., in Claude Code):**\n\nPerform the testing directly without user involvement.\n\n### Step 1: Predict Reader Questions\n\nAnnounce intention to predict what questions readers might ask when trying to discover this document.\n\nGenerate 5-10 questions that readers would realistically ask.\n\n### Step 2: Test with Sub-Agent\n\nAnnounce that these questions will be tested with a fresh Claude instance (no context from this conversation).\n\nFor each question, invoke a sub-agent with just the document content and the question.\n\nSummarize what Reader Claude got right/wrong for each question.\n\n### Step 3: Run Additional Checks\n\nAnnounce additional checks will be performed.\n\nInvoke sub-agent to check for ambiguity, false assumptions, contradictions.\n\nSummarize any issues found.\n\n### Step 4: Report and Fix\n\nIf issues found:\nReport that Reader Claude struggled with specific issues.\n\nList the specific issues.\n\nIndicate intention to fix these gaps.\n\nLoop back to refinement for problematic sections.\n\n---\n\n**If no access to sub-agents (e.g., claude.ai web interface):**\n\nThe user will need to do the testing manually.\n\n### Step 1: Predict Reader Questions\n\nAsk what questions people might ask when trying to discover this document. What would they type into Claude.ai?\n\nGenerate 5-10 questions that readers would realistically ask.\n\n### Step 2: Setup Testing\n\nProvide testing instructions:\n1. Open a fresh Claude conversation: https://claude.ai\n2. Paste or share the document content (if using a shared doc platform with connectors enabled, provide the link)\n3. Ask Reader Claude the generated questions\n\nFor each question, instruct Reader Claude to provide:\n- The answer\n- Whether anything was ambiguous or unclear\n- What knowledge/context the doc assumes is already known\n\nCheck if Reader Claude gives correct answers or misinterprets anything.\n\n### Step 3: Additional Checks\n\nAlso ask Reader Claude:\n- \"What in this doc might be ambiguous or unclear to readers?\"\n- \"What knowledge or context does this doc assume readers already have?\"\n- \"Are there any internal contradictions or inconsistencies?\"\n\n### Step 4: Iterate Based on Results\n\nAsk what Reader Claude got wrong or struggled with. Indicate intention to fix those gaps.\n\nLoop back to refinement for any problematic sections.\n\n---\n\n### Exit Condition (Both Approaches)\n\nWhen Reader Claude consistently answers questions correctly and doesn't surface new gaps or ambiguities, the doc is ready.\n\n## Final Review\n\nWhen Reader Testing passes:\nAnnounce the doc has passed Reader Claude testing. Before completion:\n\n1. Recommend they do a final read-through themselves - they own this document and are responsible for its quality\n2. Suggest double-checking any facts, links, or technical details\n3. Ask them to verify it achieves the impact they wanted\n\nAsk if they want one more review, or if the work is done.\n\n**If user wants final review, provide it. Otherwise:**\nAnnounce document completion. Provide a few final tips:\n- Consider linking this conversation in an appendix so readers can see how the doc was developed\n- Use appendices to provide depth without bloating the main doc\n- Update the doc as feedback is received from real readers\n\n## Tips for Effective Guidance\n\n**Tone:**\n- Be direct and procedural\n- Explain rationale briefly when it affects user behavior\n- Don't try to \"sell\" the approach - just execute it\n\n**Handling Deviations:**\n- If user wants to skip a stage: Ask if they want to skip this and write freeform\n- If user seems frustrated: Acknowledge this is taking longer than expected. Suggest ways to move faster\n- Always give user agency to adjust the process\n\n**Context Management:**\n- Throughout, if context is missing on something mentioned, proactively ask\n- Don't let gaps accumulate - address them as they come up\n\n**Artifact Management:**\n- Use `create_file` for drafting full sections\n- Use `str_replace` for all edits\n- Provide artifact link after every change\n- Never use artifacts for brainstorming lists - that's just conversation\n\n**Quality over Speed:**\n- Don't rush through stages\n- Each iteration should make meaningful improvements\n- The goal is a document that actually works for readers"
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"body": "# DOCX creation, editing, and analysis\n\nA `.docx` is a ZIP archive of XML files. Choose your approach by task:\n\n| Task | Approach |\n|---|---|\n| **Create** a new document | Write a `docx` (npm) script — see gotchas below |\n| **Edit** an existing document | `unzip` → edit `word/document.xml` → `zip` (docx-js cannot open existing files) |\n| **Read** content | `pandoc -t markdown file.docx` |\n\n> Script paths below are relative to this skill's directory.\n\n## Creating with docx-js — gotchas\n\n`docx` is preinstalled — do not run `npm install` first; write the script and `require('docx')` directly. Only if that require fails: `npm install docx`. The model knows the API; these are the footguns:\n\n- **Page size defaults to A4.** For US Letter set `page: { size: { width: 12240, height: 15840 } }` (DXA; 1440 = 1″).\n- **Landscape:** pass portrait dimensions and `orientation: PageOrientation.LANDSCAPE` — docx-js swaps width/height internally.\n- **Tables need dual widths:** set `columnWidths` on the table AND `width` on every cell, both in `WidthType.DXA` (PERCENTAGE breaks in Google Docs). Column widths must sum to the table width.\n- **Table shading:** use `ShadingType.CLEAR`, never `SOLID` (renders black).\n- **Lists:** never insert `•` literally; use a `numbering` config with `LevelFormat.BULLET`.\n- **`ImageRun` requires `type:`** (`\"png\"`, `\"jpg\"`, …).\n- **`PageBreak` must be inside a `Paragraph`.**\n- **Never use `\\n`** — use separate `Paragraph` elements.\n- **TOC:** headings must use built-in `HeadingLevel.*`; custom heading styles need `outlineLevel` set or they won't appear.\n- **Don't use a table as a horizontal rule** — use a paragraph bottom border instead.\n- **Dot-leader / right-aligned-on-same-line:** use `PositionalTab` (`alignment: PositionalTabAlignment.RIGHT`, `leader: PositionalTabLeader.DOT`) inside a `TextRun`, not literal `.` or space padding.\n\n## Verify the output\n\nAfter writing a `.docx`, render it and look at it:\n\n```bash\npython scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pdf output.docx\npdftoppm -jpeg -r 100 output.pdf page\nls page-*.jpg # then Read the images\n```\n\n`pdftoppm` zero-pads page numbers to the width of the page count (`page-01.jpg`…`page-12.jpg`).\n\n## Editing existing documents\n\nLegacy `.doc` files must be converted first: `python scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to docx file.doc`.\n\n```bash\nunzip -q doc.docx -d unpacked/\nfind unpacked -type l -delete # strip symlink entries — docx from external parties is untrusted\npython scripts/merge_runs.py unpacked/ # coalesce fragmented runs so text is findable\n# edit unpacked/word/document.xml in place — do NOT reformat or pretty-print\n(cd unpacked && rm -f ../out.docx && zip -Xr ../out.docx .)\npython scripts/office/validate.py out.docx --original doc.docx # XSD checks; --auto-repair fixes common issues\n# redlining? add --author \"<the name you redlined under>\" to check every edit is tracked\n```\n\nWord splits text across many `<w:r>` runs (revision ids, spell-check markers), so a phrase you can see in the document often doesn't exist as a contiguous string in the XML. `merge_runs.py` merges adjacent identically-formatted runs in `word/document.xml` without changing content or rendering; it also accepts a `.docx` directly (`python scripts/merge_runs.py doc.docx -o merged.docx`).\n\n**Tracked changes:** when redlining, validate with `--author \"<the name you redlined under>\"` (needs `--original`) — it reports any text you changed without a `<w:ins>`/`<w:del>` around it, which is easy to do by accident and invisible in the accepted view. Wrap runs in `<w:ins>`/`<w:del>` with `w:id`, `w:author`, `w:date` attributes. Inside `<w:del>`, the text element is `<w:delText>`, not `<w:t>`. A deleted paragraph mark (`<w:pPr><w:rPr><w:del w:id=\"..\" w:author=\"..\" w:date=\"..\"/></w:rPr></w:pPr>`) means \"merge this paragraph into the next\" — so deleting a paragraph outright is that plus a `<w:del>` around every run. The `<w:del/>` must come before the rPr's other children; their order is schema-enforced.\n\nTo produce a clean copy with all tracked changes accepted: `python scripts/accept_changes.py in.docx out.docx`.\n\nAccepting a deleted paragraph mark should join that paragraph to the one below it, so a paragraph whose runs are *all* deleted vanishes. Word does this; `accept_changes.py` and `pandoc --track-changes=accept` don't always. Both fail the same way — they strip the deleted text but leave the emptied paragraph behind, which reads as a stray empty bullet when it was auto-numbered:\n\n- `pandoc --track-changes=accept` never joins the paragraphs.\n- `accept_changes.py` (LibreOffice) joins them correctly, except when the deleted paragraph is followed by an empty spacer paragraph.\n\nAn empty bullet in either view is an artifact of that view, not a defect in the document. Check paragraph deletions in the XML.\n\n## Comments\n\nComments require six cross-linked files. Use the helper — directory mode when you'll also be editing `document.xml` (saves an unzip/rezip cycle), `.docx`-direct mode otherwise:\n\n```bash\n# Against an already-unpacked directory (preferred when also placing markers)\npython scripts/comment.py unpacked/ \"Fees & expenses cap is too low\"\npython scripts/comment.py unpacked/ \"Agreed\" --parent 0\n\n# Against a .docx directly\npython scripts/comment.py contract.docx \"This cap is too low\" -o annotated.docx\n```\n\nThe script writes `comments.xml`, `commentsExtended.xml`, `commentsIds.xml`, `commentsExtensible.xml`, the relationships, and the content-type overrides. Comment IDs are auto-assigned. 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The subject's industry, subject matter, materials, and vernacular are where distinctive visual choices come from — a design for a toy for girls aged 8–11 will be very aesthetically different from a dashboard for financial analysts. Build with the brief's real content and subject matter throughout.\n\n## Design principles\n\nFor web designs, the hero is the first thing viewers will see. Open with the most characteristic thing in the subject's world, in the form that is most appropriate: a headline, an image, an animation, a live demo, an interactive moment, or other treatments. Be deliberate with your choice: a big number with a small label, supporting stats, and a gradient accent is the default treatment, so only use it if that's truly the best option.\n\nTypography carries the personality of the page. You don't need a different typeface for display or headline text and body content: use one family or two, and if two, make them clearly distinct.\n\nChoose your typefaces deliberately, not the default families you would reach for on any other project, and set a clear type scale following the default guidance of The Elements of Typographic Style with intentional weights, widths, and spacing. When type is used as a headline or visual element, use the type treatment itself as an active part of the design, not a neutral delivery vehicle for the content.\n\nDefault to line lengths of less than 80 characters. Serif typefaces can have slightly longer line lengths; give serif body text slightly more line-height than a sans-serif.\n\nAvoid these default typographic treatments; they are the commonest tells of a generated page:\n- Accenting just a single word or phrase in a headline, like putting one word in italic/bold or a different color.\n- Using all caps for labels.\n- Adding unnecessary typographic labels above content.\n\nVisual structure is information. Structural devices like outlines, borders, numbering, eyebrows, dividers, labels, etc., encode useful information about the content rather than 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 stepped process or a timeline. Before adding numbered markers, check the content really is a sequence.\n\nUse non-user-triggered motion sparingly and deliberately, only to draw attention. A single orchestrated moment — one page-load sequence or one reveal — lands better than scattered effects; fade-and-slide-up entrances on each section and hover transitions on every card are the generic default and read as AI-generated. Motion that answers a person's action (opening, expanding, confirming) is welcome when it shows what changed.\n\nConsider written content carefully. Often a design brief may not contain real content, and it's up to you to come up with copy and placeholder content. Copy can make a design feel as templated as the design itself. See the below section on writing for more guidance.\n\n## Process: plan, review against the brief, build, critique\n\nFor calibration, AI-generated design right now clusters around some traits:\n1. a warm cream background (near #F4F1EA) with a high-contrast serif display and a terracotta or warm-clay accent (often near #D97757 — Anthropic's own Claude-interaction accent, so on a user's brief it reads as a tell);\n2. a near-black background with a single bright acid-green or vermilion accent;\n3. a broadsheet-style layout with hairline rules, zero border-radius, and dense newspaper-like columns;\n4. the SaaS-card kit: content chopped into identical rounded cards, one border-radius on everything regardless of hierarchy, the same soft grey shadow (rgba(0,0,0,.1)) under each, and gradient washes as decoration;\n5. template chrome that appears whatever the subject: a tracked-out ALL-CAPS eyebrow label above every heading; meta strings joined with middle dots ('A · B · C'); labels built as 'WORD — fragment' with a spaced em dash; tinted near-black (#0B0B0B, #111) standing in for black; a monospace face for small data labels; a '→' appended to link and button text.\n\nAll traits 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. As with a hired human designer, there's often a careful balance between doing what you're good at and taking each project as a chance to experiment and learn.\n\nWork in two passes. First, brainstorm a short design plan based on the client's design brief: create a compact token system with color, type, layout, and principles.\n- Color: describe the core base palette as 4–6 named hex values.\n- Type: the typefaces and their roles.\n- Layout: a layout concept, using one-sentence prose descriptions and ASCII wireframes to ideate and compare. Include alignment guidance; should the content be left aligned, center aligned, justified?\n- Principles: the high-level guidance for what makes this page unique.\n\nThen 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.\n\nWhen 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 an element-based selector like .cta). This can happen often with padding/margin between sections.\n\n## Restraint and self-critique\n\nSpend your boldness in one place. Let one element be the memorable thing, keep everything around it quiet and disciplined, and cut any decoration that does not serve the brief. Build to a quality floor without announcing it: responsive down to mobile, visible keyboard focus, reduced motion respected, visually accessible, harmonious color palettes. Critique your own work as you build, taking screenshots to review 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 creatives 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.\n\n## More on writing in design\n\nWords appear in a design for one reason: to make it easier to understand and use. They are design content, not decoration. Bring the same intentionality and minimalism to copywriting 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.\n\nWrite from the end user's perspective. Name things by what users will understand in simple language, not by how the system is built. A user manages notifications, not webhook config. Describe what something is or does in plain terms rather than selling it. Being specific and legible to new users is always better than being clever.\n\nUse active voice as default. A CTA says exactly what happens when it is 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.\n\nTreat failure and emptiness as moments for direction, not mood. 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When uncertain, prioritize comprehensive API coverage.\n\n**Tool Naming and Discoverability:**\nClear, descriptive tool names help agents find the right tools quickly. Use consistent prefixes (e.g., `github_create_issue`, `github_list_repos`) and action-oriented naming.\n\n**Context Management:**\nAgents benefit from concise tool descriptions and the ability to filter/paginate results. Design tools that return focused, relevant data. Some clients support code execution which can help agents filter and process data efficiently.\n\n**Actionable Error Messages:**\nError messages should guide agents toward solutions with specific suggestions and next steps.\n\n#### 1.2 Study MCP Protocol Documentation\n\n**Navigate the MCP specification:**\n\nStart with the sitemap to find relevant pages: `https://modelcontextprotocol.io/sitemap.xml`\n\nThen fetch specific pages with `.md` suffix for markdown format (e.g., `https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft.md`).\n\nKey pages to review:\n- Specification overview and architecture\n- Transport mechanisms (streamable HTTP, stdio)\n- Tool, resource, and prompt definitions\n\n#### 1.3 Study Framework Documentation\n\n**Recommended stack:**\n- **Language**: TypeScript (high-quality SDK support and good compatibility in many execution environments e.g. MCPB. 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Use web search and WebFetch as needed.\n\n**Tool Selection:**\nPrioritize comprehensive API coverage. List endpoints to implement, starting with the most common operations.\n\n---\n\n### Phase 2: Implementation\n\n#### 2.1 Set Up Project Structure\n\nSee language-specific guides for project setup:\n- [⚡ TypeScript Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/node_mcp_server.md) - Project structure, package.json, tsconfig.json\n- [🐍 Python Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/python_mcp_server.md) - Module organization, dependencies\n\n#### 2.2 Implement Core Infrastructure\n\nCreate shared utilities:\n- API client with authentication\n- Error handling helpers\n- Response formatting (JSON/Markdown)\n- Pagination support\n\n#### 2.3 Implement Tools\n\nFor each tool:\n\n**Input Schema:**\n- Use Zod (TypeScript) or Pydantic (Python)\n- Include constraints and clear descriptions\n- Add examples in field descriptions\n\n**Output Schema:**\n- Define `outputSchema` where possible for structured data\n- Use `structuredContent` in tool responses (TypeScript SDK feature)\n- Helps clients understand and process tool outputs\n\n**Tool Description:**\n- Concise summary of functionality\n- Parameter descriptions\n- Return type schema\n\n**Implementation:**\n- Async/await for I/O operations\n- Proper error handling with actionable messages\n- Support pagination where applicable\n- Return both text content and structured data when using modern SDKs\n\n**Annotations:**\n- `readOnlyHint`: true/false\n- `destructiveHint`: true/false\n- `idempotentHint`: true/false\n- `openWorldHint`: true/false\n\n---\n\n### Phase 3: Review and Test\n\n#### 3.1 Code Quality\n\nReview for:\n- No duplicated code (DRY principle)\n- Consistent error handling\n- Full type coverage\n- Clear tool descriptions\n\n#### 3.2 Build and Test\n\n**TypeScript:**\n- Run `npm run build` to verify compilation\n- Test with MCP Inspector: `npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector`\n\n**Python:**\n- Verify syntax: `python -m py_compile your_server.py`\n- Test with MCP Inspector\n\nSee language-specific guides for detailed testing approaches and quality checklists.\n\n---\n\n### Phase 4: Create Evaluations\n\nAfter implementing your MCP server, create comprehensive evaluations to test its effectiveness.\n\n**Load [✅ Evaluation Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/evaluation.md) for complete evaluation guidelines.**\n\n#### 4.1 Understand Evaluation Purpose\n\nUse evaluations to test whether LLMs can effectively use your MCP server to answer realistic, complex questions.\n\n#### 4.2 Create 10 Evaluation Questions\n\nTo create effective evaluations, follow the process outlined in the evaluation guide:\n\n1. **Tool Inspection**: List available tools and understand their capabilities\n2. **Content Exploration**: Use READ-ONLY operations to explore available data\n3. **Question Generation**: Create 10 complex, realistic questions\n4. **Answer Verification**: Solve each question yourself to verify answers\n\n#### 4.3 Evaluation Requirements\n\nEnsure each question is:\n- **Independent**: Not dependent on other questions\n- **Read-only**: Only non-destructive operations required\n- **Complex**: Requiring multiple tool calls and deep exploration\n- **Realistic**: Based on real use cases humans would care about\n- **Verifiable**: Single, clear answer that can be verified by string comparison\n- **Stable**: Answer won't change over time\n\n#### 4.4 Output Format\n\nCreate an XML file with this structure:\n\n```xml\n<evaluation>\n <qa_pair>\n <question>Find discussions about AI model launches with animal codenames. 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What number X was being determined for the model named after a spotted wild cat?</question>\n <answer>3</answer>\n </qa_pair>\n<!-- More qa_pairs... -->\n</evaluation>\n```\n\n---\n\n# Reference Files\n\n## 📚 Documentation Library\n\nLoad these resources as needed during development:\n\n### Core MCP Documentation (Load First)\n- **MCP Protocol**: Start with sitemap at `https://modelcontextprotocol.io/sitemap.xml`, then fetch specific pages with `.md` suffix\n- [📋 MCP Best Practices](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/mcp_best_practices.md) - Universal MCP guidelines including:\n - Server and tool naming conventions\n - Response format guidelines (JSON vs Markdown)\n - Pagination best practices\n - Transport selection (streamable HTTP vs stdio)\n - Security and error handling standards\n\n### SDK Documentation (Load During Phase 1/2)\n- **Python SDK**: Fetch from `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/main/README.md`\n- **TypeScript SDK**: Fetch from `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/main/README.md`\n\n### Language-Specific Implementation Guides (Load During Phase 2)\n- [🐍 Python Implementation Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/python_mcp_server.md) - Complete Python/FastMCP guide with:\n - Server initialization patterns\n - Pydantic model examples\n - Tool registration with `@mcp.tool`\n - Complete working examples\n - Quality checklist\n\n- [⚡ TypeScript Implementation Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/node_mcp_server.md) - Complete TypeScript guide with:\n - Project structure\n - Zod schema patterns\n - Tool registration with `server.registerTool`\n - Complete working examples\n - Quality checklist\n\n### Evaluation Guide (Load During Phase 4)\n- [✅ Evaluation Guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/reference/evaluation.md) - Complete evaluation creation guide with:\n - Question creation guidelines\n - Answer verification strategies\n - XML format specifications\n - Example questions and answers\n - Running an evaluation with the provided scripts"
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If you need to fill out a PDF form, read FORMS.md and follow its instructions.\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```python\nfrom pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter\n\n# Read a PDF\nreader = PdfReader(\"document.pdf\")\nprint(f\"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}\")\n\n# Extract text\ntext = \"\"\nfor page in reader.pages:\n text += page.extract_text()\n```\n\n## Python Libraries\n\n### pypdf - Basic Operations\n\n#### Merge PDFs\n```python\nfrom pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader\n\nwriter = PdfWriter()\nfor pdf_file in [\"doc1.pdf\", \"doc2.pdf\", \"doc3.pdf\"]:\n reader = PdfReader(pdf_file)\n for page in reader.pages:\n writer.add_page(page)\n\nwith open(\"merged.pdf\", \"wb\") as output:\n writer.write(output)\n```\n\n#### Split PDF\n```python\nreader = PdfReader(\"input.pdf\")\nfor i, page in enumerate(reader.pages):\n writer = PdfWriter()\n writer.add_page(page)\n with open(f\"page_{i+1}.pdf\", \"wb\") as output:\n writer.write(output)\n```\n\n#### Extract Metadata\n```python\nreader = PdfReader(\"document.pdf\")\nmeta = reader.metadata\nprint(f\"Title: {meta.title}\")\nprint(f\"Author: {meta.author}\")\nprint(f\"Subject: {meta.subject}\")\nprint(f\"Creator: {meta.creator}\")\n```\n\n#### Rotate Pages\n```python\nreader = PdfReader(\"input.pdf\")\nwriter = PdfWriter()\n\npage = reader.pages[0]\npage.rotate(90) # Rotate 90 degrees clockwise\nwriter.add_page(page)\n\nwith open(\"rotated.pdf\", \"wb\") as output:\n writer.write(output)\n```\n\n### pdfplumber - Text and Table Extraction\n\n#### Extract Text with Layout\n```python\nimport pdfplumber\n\nwith pdfplumber.open(\"document.pdf\") as pdf:\n for page in pdf.pages:\n text = page.extract_text()\n print(text)\n```\n\n#### Extract Tables\n```python\nwith pdfplumber.open(\"document.pdf\") as pdf:\n for i, page in enumerate(pdf.pages):\n tables = page.extract_tables()\n for j, table in enumerate(tables):\n print(f\"Table {j+1} on page {i+1}:\")\n for row in table:\n print(row)\n```\n\n#### Advanced Table Extraction\n```python\nimport pandas as pd\n\nwith pdfplumber.open(\"document.pdf\") as pdf:\n all_tables = []\n for page in pdf.pages:\n tables = page.extract_tables()\n for table in tables:\n if table: # Check if table is not empty\n df = pd.DataFrame(table[1:], columns=table[0])\n all_tables.append(df)\n\n# Combine all tables\nif all_tables:\n combined_df = pd.concat(all_tables, ignore_index=True)\n combined_df.to_excel(\"extracted_tables.xlsx\", index=False)\n```\n\n### reportlab - Create PDFs\n\n#### Basic PDF Creation\n```python\nfrom reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter\nfrom reportlab.pdfgen import canvas\n\nc = canvas.Canvas(\"hello.pdf\", pagesize=letter)\nwidth, height = letter\n\n# Add text\nc.drawString(100, height - 100, \"Hello World!\")\nc.drawString(100, height - 120, \"This is a PDF created with reportlab\")\n\n# Add a line\nc.line(100, height - 140, 400, height - 140)\n\n# Save\nc.save()\n```\n\n#### Create PDF with Multiple Pages\n```python\nfrom reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter\nfrom reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer, PageBreak\nfrom reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet\n\ndoc = SimpleDocTemplate(\"report.pdf\", pagesize=letter)\nstyles = getSampleStyleSheet()\nstory = []\n\n# Add content\ntitle = Paragraph(\"Report Title\", styles['Title'])\nstory.append(title)\nstory.append(Spacer(1, 12))\n\nbody = Paragraph(\"This is the body of the report. \" * 20, styles['Normal'])\nstory.append(body)\nstory.append(PageBreak())\n\n# Page 2\nstory.append(Paragraph(\"Page 2\", styles['Heading1']))\nstory.append(Paragraph(\"Content for page 2\", styles['Normal']))\n\n# Build PDF\ndoc.build(story)\n```\n\n#### Subscripts and Superscripts\n\n**IMPORTANT**: Never use Unicode subscript/superscript characters (₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉, ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹) in ReportLab PDFs. The built-in fonts do not include these glyphs, causing them to render as solid black boxes.\n\nInstead, use ReportLab's XML markup tags in Paragraph objects:\n```python\nfrom reportlab.platypus import Paragraph\nfrom reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet\n\nstyles = getSampleStyleSheet()\n\n# Subscripts: use <sub> tag\nchemical = Paragraph(\"H<sub>2</sub>O\", styles['Normal'])\n\n# Superscripts: use <super> tag\nsquared = Paragraph(\"x<super>2</super> + y<super>2</super>\", styles['Normal'])\n```\n\nFor canvas-drawn text (not Paragraph objects), manually adjust font the size and position rather than using Unicode subscripts/superscripts.\n\n## Command-Line Tools\n\n### pdftotext (poppler-utils)\n```bash\n# Extract text\npdftotext input.pdf output.txt\n\n# Extract text preserving layout\npdftotext -layout input.pdf output.txt\n\n# Extract specific pages\npdftotext -f 1 -l 5 input.pdf output.txt # Pages 1-5\n```\n\n### qpdf\n```bash\n# Merge PDFs\nqpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf file2.pdf -- merged.pdf\n\n# Split pages\nqpdf input.pdf --pages . 1-5 -- pages1-5.pdf\nqpdf input.pdf --pages . 6-10 -- pages6-10.pdf\n\n# Rotate pages\nqpdf input.pdf output.pdf --rotate=+90:1 # Rotate page 1 by 90 degrees\n\n# Remove password\nqpdf --password=mypassword --decrypt encrypted.pdf decrypted.pdf\n```\n\n### pdftk (if available)\n```bash\n# Merge\npdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdf\n\n# Split\npdftk input.pdf burst\n\n# Rotate\npdftk input.pdf rotate 1east output rotated.pdf\n```\n\n## Common Tasks\n\n### Extract Text from Scanned PDFs\n```python\n# Requires: pip install pytesseract pdf2image\nimport pytesseract\nfrom pdf2image import convert_from_path\n\n# Convert PDF to images\nimages = convert_from_path('scanned.pdf')\n\n# OCR each page\ntext = \"\"\nfor i, image in enumerate(images):\n text += f\"Page {i+1}:\\n\"\n text += pytesseract.image_to_string(image)\n text += \"\\n\\n\"\n\nprint(text)\n```\n\n### Add Watermark\n```python\nfrom pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter\n\n# Create watermark (or load existing)\nwatermark = PdfReader(\"watermark.pdf\").pages[0]\n\n# Apply to all pages\nreader = PdfReader(\"document.pdf\")\nwriter = PdfWriter()\n\nfor page in reader.pages:\n page.merge_page(watermark)\n writer.add_page(page)\n\nwith open(\"watermarked.pdf\", \"wb\") as output:\n writer.write(output)\n```\n\n### Extract Images\n```bash\n# Using pdfimages (poppler-utils)\npdfimages -j input.pdf output_prefix\n\n# This extracts all images as output_prefix-000.jpg, output_prefix-001.jpg, etc.\n```\n\n### Password Protection\n```python\nfrom pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter\n\nreader = PdfReader(\"input.pdf\")\nwriter = PdfWriter()\n\nfor page in reader.pages:\n writer.add_page(page)\n\n# Add password\nwriter.encrypt(\"userpassword\", \"ownerpassword\")\n\nwith open(\"encrypted.pdf\", \"wb\") as output:\n writer.write(output)\n```\n\n## Quick Reference\n\n| Task | Best Tool | Command/Code |\n|------|-----------|--------------|\n| Merge PDFs | pypdf | `writer.add_page(page)` |\n| Split PDFs | pypdf | One page per file |\n| Extract text | pdfplumber | `page.extract_text()` |\n| Extract tables | pdfplumber | `page.extract_tables()` |\n| Create PDFs | reportlab | Canvas or Platypus |\n| Command line merge | qpdf | `qpdf --empty --pages ...` |\n| OCR scanned PDFs | pytesseract | Convert to image first |\n| Fill PDF forms | pdf-lib or pypdf (see FORMS.md) | See FORMS.md |\n\n## Next Steps\n\n- For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see REFERENCE.md\n- For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see REFERENCE.md\n- If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md\n- For troubleshooting guides, see REFERENCE.md"
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"body": "# PPTX creation, editing, and analysis\n\nA `.pptx` is a ZIP archive of XML files. Choose your approach by task:\n\n| Task | Approach |\n|---|---|\n| **Create** a new deck | Write a `pptxgenjs` script — see gotchas below |\n| **Edit** an existing deck, or build from a template | unzip → edit `ppt/slides/slideN.xml` → zip |\n| **Read** content | `markitdown deck.pptx` (one block per slide under `<!-- Slide number: N -->` markers); visual grid: `python scripts/thumbnail.py deck.pptx` |\n\n## Scripts\n\nPaths are relative to this skill's directory. Everything else is plain Python, `node`, or shell.\n\n| Script | What it does |\n|---|---|\n| `scripts/thumbnail.py deck.pptx [prefix]` | Labeled grid of every slide, for picking template layouts. `.pptx` only. Pass `prefix` — it defaults to `thumbnails`, which overwrites the grids of any other deck done in the same directory |\n| `scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ slide2.xml [--after slideN.xml]` | Duplicate a slide (or a `slideLayoutN.xml`) with all the package bookkeeping. Also takes a `.pptx` directly with `-o out.pptx` |\n| `scripts/clean.py unpacked/` | Delete slides, media, and rels no longer referenced. Run **after** `<p:sldIdLst>` is final |\n| `scripts/office/validate.py deck.pptx [--original src.pptx]` | Schema, relationship, content-type, chart and slide checks; each failure names its fix. Pass `--original` for any template-derived deck — it baselines the schema checks against the template, so the template's own XSD errors don't read as yours |\n| `scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pdf deck.pptx` | LibreOffice wrapper — bare `soffice` hangs in this sandbox |\n\n## Creating with pptxgenjs — gotchas\n\n`pptxgenjs` is preinstalled — do not run `npm install` first; write the script and `require('pptxgenjs')` directly. Only if that require fails: `npm install pptxgenjs`. The model knows the API; these are the footguns:\n\n- **Set `pres.layout` before adding slides.** The default canvas is `LAYOUT_16x9` = **10\" × 5.625\"**, not 13.3\" wide. Coordinates past the edge are written, not clamped — the shape just isn't on the slide. (`LAYOUT_WIDE` is 13.3\" × 7.5\".)\n- **Hex colors: never `#`, never 8 digits.** `color: \"FF0000\"`. Both `\"#FF0000\"` and alpha baked into the hex (`\"00000020\"`) **corrupt the file**. For translucency: `transparency: 0-100` on fills and images, `opacity: 0.0-1.0` on shadows — each is silently ignored on the other.\n- **pptxgenjs mutates option objects in place** (converts values to EMU on first use). Never share one `shadow`/options object across two `add*` calls — build a fresh object each time.\n- **Shadow `offset` must be ≥ 0** — a negative offset corrupts the file. To cast a shadow upward, use `angle: 270` with a positive offset.\n- **`letterSpacing` is silently ignored** — the real option is `charSpacing`.\n- **Lists:** `bullet: true` on each item, never a literal `•` (renders double bullets). Set `breakLine: true` on every array item except the last. Space bulleted paragraphs with `paraSpaceAfter`, not `lineSpacing` (huge gaps).\n- **One `new pptxgen()` per output file** — never reuse an instance.\n- **`rectRadius` only works on `ROUNDED_RECTANGLE`**, not `RECTANGLE`.\n- **Gradient fills aren't supported** — use a gradient image as the background instead.\n- **Text boxes have built-in internal padding** — set `margin: 0` whenever text must align with a shape, line, or icon at the same x.\n- **Speaker notes go in `slide.addNotes(\"...\")`** (plain text, once per slide), never in a text box on the slide.\n- **Keep charts native.** Use `addChart()` for everything PowerPoint can chart (pass an array of `{type, data, options}` for combos). For PowerPoint-native features the library doesn't expose (trendlines, error bars), compute the extra series yourself or post-process the generated OOXML — do not fall back to a rendered image. Only chart types PowerPoint has no native form for (Sankey, network, chord) go in as images.\n- **Default charts render bare** — no title, no data labels, dated palette. Set `showTitle` + `title`, `showValue: true` + `dataLabelPosition`, `chartColors: [...]` from your palette, and quiet the frame (`catAxisLabelColor`/`valAxisLabelColor`, `valGridLine: { color, size }`, `catGridLine: { style: \"none\" }`, `showLegend: false` for a single series).\n- **On a stacked bar or column chart, `dataLabelPosition` must be `ctr`, `inEnd`, or `inBase`.** `outEnd` **corrupts the file**.\n- **A combo series using `secondaryValAxis`/`secondaryCatAxis` needs both `valAxes` and `catAxes` on the chart options, two entries each.** Without them pptxgenjs writes axis *ids* it never declares, and PowerPoint **discards that chart** and reports the file as corrupt. Supplying only `valAxes` is not enough.\n- **After `writeFile()`, run `python scripts/office/validate.py deck.pptx`.** It reports the two chart faults above and the slide-XML defects PowerPoint refuses, and names the fix for each. Fix them in your generator, not by hand-editing the packed XML.\n- **Never reorder the children of `<p:presentation>`.** pptxgenjs writes `<p:notesMasterIdLst>` right after `<p:sldIdLst>` and points both masters at one theme part. PowerPoint reads that happily — move the element and the same deck becomes unopenable.\n- **Icons:** render `react-icons` to SVG (`ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup`), rasterize with `sharp` at ≥256px, and insert via `addImage({ data: \"image/png;base64,\" + buf.toString(\"base64\") })` — the `image/png;base64,` prefix is required (`react-icons`, `react`, `react-dom`, and `sharp` are preinstalled — `npm install react-icons react react-dom sharp` only if a require fails).\n\n## Editing existing decks and templates\n\nPick layouts first: `python scripts/thumbnail.py template.pptx template-thumbs` writes a labeled grid of every slide and prints the file(s) it created — `template-thumbs.jpg`, split into `template-thumbs-N.jpg` past 12 slides. **Always pass that second argument, named after the deck.** It defaults to `thumbnails`, so two decks thumbnailed in one directory silently overwrite each other's grids — the first deck's are simply gone (template analysis only — visual QA needs the full-resolution renders from [Converting to Images](#converting-to-images); it only accepts `.pptx`, so copy a `.potx` to a `.pptx` name first). Use it with `markitdown` to map each content section onto a template slide, and vary the layouts — don't put every section on the same title-and-bullets slide.\n\n```bash\npython3 -c \"import sys,zipfile; zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[1]).extractall('unpacked')\" deck.pptx\npython scripts/add_slide.py unpacked/ slide2.xml --after slide2.xml # duplicate a slide (or slideLayoutN.xml); prints the new slide's path\n# reorder / delete slides = edit <p:sldIdLst> in ppt/presentation.xml\npython scripts/clean.py unpacked/ # after deletions: removes orphaned slides, media, rels\n# edit slide content in ppt/slides/slideN.xml\n(cd unpacked && rm -f ../out.pptx && zip -Xr ../out.pptx .) # zip from INSIDE the dir; rm first or deleted parts survive\npython scripts/office/validate.py out.pptx --original deck.pptx\n```\n\n- **Do all structural work — add, delete, reorder — before editing any slide's content.** `add_slide.py` copies a slide file verbatim, so duplicating after you edit clones the edited content; and `clean.py` deletes any slide missing from `<p:sldIdLst>`, including one you just wrote.\n- **Never copy a slide file by hand** — `add_slide.py` does every registration a new slide needs and reports what it made (`Created ppt/slides/slide17.xml from slide2.xml`). It also works directly on a file: `add_slide.py deck.pptx slide2.xml -o out.pptx` — **pass `-o`, or it rewrites the input deck in place.** A duplicated slide still *references* its source's chart/SmartArt/embedded-object parts rather than cloning them, so editing one slide's chart changes the other's.\n- **If you use `python-pptx`**, three things it won't do: duplicate a slide (its only entry point is `add_slide(layout)`), preserve formatting through `text_frame.text = \"...\"` (that collapses the paragraph to a single unstyled run — assign `run.text` instead), or read the SVG/EMF most template art uses (`add_picture` raises `UnidentifiedImageError`).\n- Legacy `.ppt` must be converted first: `python scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pptx file.ppt`. `.potx` templates unpack and pack identically — keep the `.potx` extension on the output.\n- To reuse a template icon or image, duplicate a slide or layout that already contains it.\n\nWhen filling in a template:\n\n- If you script an XML transform, parse with `defusedxml.minidom` — round-tripping OOXML through `xml.etree.ElementTree` rewrites namespace prefixes and corrupts the deck.\n- **Template slots ≠ source items.** If the template shows 4 team members and you have 3, delete the 4th member's entire group (image + text boxes), not just its text — then check for orphaned visuals in QA.\n- One `<a:p>` per list item — never concatenate items into a single paragraph. Copy the sibling `<a:pPr>` to preserve spacing, and put `b=\"1\"` on the `<a:rPr>` of titles, section headers, and inline labels (`Status:`, `Owner:`).\n- Let bullets inherit from the layout; only add `<a:buChar>`, `<a:buAutoNum>` (numbered), or `<a:buNone>` to override — never a literal `•` in the text.\n- Text with leading or trailing spaces needs `xml:space=\"preserve\"` on its `<a:t>`.\n\n## Design Ideas\n\n**Don't create boring slides.** Plain bullets on a white background won't impress anyone. Consider ideas from this list for each slide.\n\n### Before Starting\n\n- **Pick a bold, content-informed color palette**: The palette should feel designed for THIS topic. If swapping your colors into a completely different presentation would still \"work,\" you haven't made specific enough choices.\n- **Dominance over equality**: One color should dominate (60-70% visual weight), with 1-2 supporting tones and one sharp accent. Never give all colors equal weight.\n- **Dark/light contrast**: Dark backgrounds for title + conclusion slides, light for content (\"sandwich\" structure). Or commit to dark throughout for a premium feel.\n- **Commit to a visual motif**: Pick ONE distinctive element and repeat it — rounded image frames, icons in colored circles. Carry it across every slide. **Do not use a color bar or accent stripe as your motif** (see Avoid list).\n\n### Color Palettes\n\nChoose colors that match your topic — don't default to generic blue. Use these palettes as inspiration:\n\n| Theme | Primary | Secondary | Accent |\n|-------|---------|-----------|--------|\n| **Midnight Executive** | `1E2761` (navy) | `CADCFC` (ice blue) | `FFFFFF` (white) |\n| **Forest & Moss** | `2C5F2D` (forest) | `97BC62` (moss) | `F5F5F5` (cream) |\n| **Coral Energy** | `F96167` (coral) | `F9E795` (gold) | `2F3C7E` (navy) |\n| **Warm Terracotta** | `B85042` (terracotta) | `E7E8D1` (sand) | `A7BEAE` (sage) |\n| **Ocean Gradient** | `065A82` (deep blue) | `1C7293` (teal) | `21295C` (midnight) |\n| **Charcoal Minimal** | `36454F` (charcoal) | `F2F2F2` (off-white) | `212121` (black) |\n| **Teal Trust** | `028090` (teal) | `00A896` (seafoam) | `02C39A` (mint) |\n| **Berry & Cream** | `6D2E46` (berry) | `A26769` (dusty rose) | `ECE2D0` (cream) |\n| **Sage Calm** | `84B59F` (sage) | `69A297` (eucalyptus) | `50808E` (slate) |\n| **Cherry Bold** | `990011` (cherry) | `FCF6F5` (off-white) | `2F3C7E` (navy) |\n\n### For Each Slide\n\n**Every slide needs a visual element** — image, chart, icon, or shape. Text-only slides are forgettable.\n\n**Layout options:**\n- Two-column (text left, illustration on right)\n- Icon + text rows (icon in colored circle, bold header, description below)\n- 2x2 or 2x3 grid (image on one side, grid of content blocks on other)\n- Half-bleed image (full left or right side) with content overlay\n\n**Data display:**\n- Large stat callouts (big numbers 60-72pt with small labels below)\n- Comparison columns (before/after, pros/cons, side-by-side options)\n- Timeline or process flow (numbered steps, arrows)\n\n**Visual polish:**\n- Icons in small colored circles next to section headers\n- Italic accent text for key stats or taglines\n\n### Typography\n\n**Font names you write into the .pptx are rendered by the user's PowerPoint, not by this environment.** Your visual QA renders via LibreOffice, which substitutes fonts it doesn't have — and for some fonts the substitute has different widths, so your QA preview can show text overflow (or fit) that the real deck won't have. To keep your QA trustworthy:\n\n- **Safe fonts** (render true-to-width in QA *and* ship with Office): **Arial, Calibri, Cambria, Times New Roman, Courier New, Bookman Old Style, Century Schoolbook**. Use these for body text and anything where fit matters.\n- **Headers with personality at zero QA risk**: pair a safe-list serif header (Cambria, Bookman Old Style, Century Schoolbook) with a safe-list sans body (Calibri or Arial). You get visual contrast without giving up reliable overflow checks.\n- **If the user asks for a font outside the safe list** (e.g. Georgia or Trebuchet MS): use it where the user asked, but size those containers with extra slack (~10%) and don't trust QA text-fit on those elements — the preview of that font is approximate. If the user hasn't specified, prefer safe-list fonts for body text.\n- **QA-unreliable fonts** (substitute has different widths — overflow checks can be wrong): Georgia, Trebuchet MS, Impact, Arial Black, Garamond, Consolas, Palatino Linotype. Calibri Light substitution varies by environment; treat as QA-unreliable. Fine for titles/accents with slack; don't trust QA text-fit on these.\n- **Never default to Aptos** — Office's post-2023 default has no metric-compatible substitute here *and* is missing from older Office installs, so it's unreliable on both ends.\n\n| Element | Size |\n|---------|------|\n| Slide title | 36-44pt bold |\n| Section header | 20-24pt bold |\n| Body text | 14-16pt |\n| Captions | 10-12pt muted |\n\n### Spacing\n\n- 0.5\" minimum margins\n- 0.3-0.5\" between content blocks\n- Leave breathing room—don't fill every inch\n\n### Avoid (Common Mistakes)\n\n- **Don't repeat the same layout** — vary columns, cards, and callouts across slides\n- **Don't center body text** — left-align paragraphs and lists; center only titles\n- **Don't skimp on size contrast** — titles need 36pt+ to stand out from 14-16pt body\n- **Don't default to blue** — pick colors that reflect the specific topic\n- **Don't mix spacing randomly** — choose 0.3\" or 0.5\" gaps and use consistently\n- **Don't style one slide and leave the rest plain** — commit fully or keep it simple throughout\n- **Don't create text-only slides** — add images, icons, charts, or visual elements; avoid plain title + bullets\n- **Don't forget text box padding** — when aligning lines or shapes with text edges, set `margin: 0` on the text box or offset the shape to account for padding\n- **Don't use low-contrast elements** — icons AND text need strong contrast against the background; avoid light text on light backgrounds or dark text on dark backgrounds\n- **NEVER use accent lines under titles** — these are a hallmark of AI-generated slides; use whitespace or background color instead\n- **NEVER add decorative color bars or accent stripes** — this includes: header/footer bars spanning the slide width, vertical sidebar stripes down one edge of the slide, thin accent stripes along one edge of a card or content block, and \"single-side borders\" on rectangles. These read as AI-generated filler. If you want to set a card apart, use a subtle background tint, a drop shadow, or an icon — not an edge stripe.\n- **Don't default to cream/beige backgrounds** — when no background is specified, use white (`FFFFFF`) or the user's brand palette; avoid warm-neutral defaults like `F5F5DC`, `FAF0E6`, `FAEBD7`, `FFF8E1`\n- **Don't ship text that overflows its shape** — if text doesn't fit, reduce font size, split across slides, or enlarge the container; never leave content cut off or spilling past bounds\n\n## QA (Required)\n\nYour first render usually has a few real issues — overlaps, overflow, misalignment. Find and fix those, re-render only the slides you changed, and stop.\n\n### Content QA\n\n```bash\nmarkitdown output.pptx\n```\n\nCheck for missing content, typos, wrong order.\n\n**When using templates, check for leftover placeholder text:**\n\n```bash\nmarkitdown output.pptx | grep -iE \"\\bx{3,}\\b|lorem|ipsum|\\bTODO|\\[insert|this.*(page|slide).*layout\"\n```\n\nIf grep returns results, fix them before declaring success.\n\n### File QA (required)\n\n```bash\npython scripts/office/validate.py output.pptx # built from scratch\npython scripts/office/validate.py output.pptx --original src.pptx # built from a template\n```\n\n**If the deck came from a template, always pass `--original`.** A template may itself\ncontain parts the XSD rejects, so a bare run can report failures you never caused — and\na genuine regression can hide among them. `--original` baselines\nthe schema and slide checks against the template, suppressing errors it already had.\nThe structural checks — relationships, content types, charts — ignore `--original` and\nreport template-inherited problems either way, so read those on their own merits.\n\npptxgenjs emits chart XML PowerPoint refuses to open, and every other tool\naccepts: python-pptx opens those decks, LibreOffice renders them, the XSD\npasses them. Every failure names its fix. Fix it in the generator and rebuild.\n\n### Visual QA\n\nConvert the slides to images (see [Converting to Images](#converting-to-images)) and inspect every one. After staring at the generating code you tend to see what you expect rather than what rendered, so look at the images fresh (a subagent works well for this if you have one). User-visible defects to look for:\n\n- **Text overflow or text cut off at a box or slide boundary — check this first.** It is the most common defect and always user-visible. (For a font the previewer renders unreliably per Typography, the preview is approximate: trust the ~10% slack you left, not its apparent fit.)\n- Overlapping elements (text through shapes, lines through words, stacked elements)\n- Source citations or footers colliding with content above\n- Elements too close (< 0.3\" gaps) or cards/sections nearly touching\n- Uneven gaps (large empty area in one place, cramped in another)\n- Insufficient margin from slide edges (< 0.5\")\n- Columns or similar elements not aligned consistently\n- Low-contrast text (e.g., light gray text on cream-colored background)\n- Template decoration mispositioned after text replacement — e.g., a title underline positioned for one line, but the replaced title wrapped to two\n- Low-contrast icons (e.g., dark icons on dark backgrounds without a contrasting circle)\n- Text boxes too narrow causing excessive wrapping\n- Leftover placeholder content\n\n## Converting to Images\n\nConvert presentations to individual slide images for visual inspection:\n\n```bash\npython scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to pdf output.pptx\nrm -f slide-*.jpg\npdftoppm -jpeg -r 150 output.pdf slide\nls -1 \"$PWD\"/slide-*.jpg\n```\n\n**Pass the absolute paths printed above directly to the view tool.** The `rm` clears stale images from prior runs. `pdftoppm` zero-pads based on page count: `slide-1.jpg` for decks under 10 pages, `slide-01.jpg` for 10-99, `slide-001.jpg` for 100+.\n\n**After fixes, rerun all four commands above** — the PDF must be regenerated from the edited `.pptx` before `pdftoppm` can reflect your changes.\n\n## Dependencies\n\n`pptxgenjs` (npm, preinstalled — install only if `require('pptxgenjs')` fails) · `markitdown[pptx]`, `Pillow`, `defusedxml`, `lxml` (pip — text dump, thumbnail, clean, validate) · LibreOffice (`soffice`, auto-configured for sandboxed environments via `scripts/office/soffice.py`) · `pdftoppm` (Poppler)"
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"body": "# Skill Creator\n\nA skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them.\n\nAt a high level, the process of creating a skill goes like this:\n\n- Decide what you want the skill to do and roughly how it should do it\n- Write a draft of the skill\n- Create a few test prompts and run claude-with-access-to-the-skill on them\n- Help the user evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively\n - While the runs happen in the background, draft some quantitative evals if there aren't any (if there are some, you can either use as is or modify if you feel something needs to change about them). Then explain them to the user (or if they already existed, explain the ones that already exist)\n - Use the `eval-viewer/generate_review.py` script to show the user the results for them to look at, and also let them look at the quantitative metrics\n- Rewrite the skill based on feedback from the user's evaluation of the results (and also if there are any glaring flaws that become apparent from the quantitative benchmarks)\n- Repeat until you're satisfied\n- Expand the test set and try again at larger scale\n\nYour job when using this skill is to figure out where the user is in this process and then jump in and help them progress through these stages. So for instance, maybe they're like \"I want to make a skill for X\". You can help narrow down what they mean, write a draft, write the test cases, figure out how they want to evaluate, run all the prompts, and repeat.\n\nOn the other hand, maybe they already have a draft of the skill. In this case you can go straight to the eval/iterate part of the loop.\n\nOf course, you should always be flexible and if the user is like \"I don't need to run a bunch of evaluations, just vibe with me\", you can do that instead.\n\nThen after the skill is done (but again, the order is flexible), you can also run the skill description improver, which we have a whole separate script for, to optimize the triggering of the skill.\n\nCool? Cool.\n\n## Communicating with the user\n\nThe skill creator is liable to be used by people across a wide range of familiarity with coding jargon. If you haven't heard (and how could you, it's only very recently that it started), there's a trend now where the power of Claude is inspiring plumbers to open up their terminals, parents and grandparents to google \"how to install npm\". On the other hand, the bulk of users are probably fairly computer-literate.\n\nSo please pay attention to context cues to understand how to phrase your communication! In the default case, just to give you some idea:\n\n- \"evaluation\" and \"benchmark\" are borderline, but OK\n- for \"JSON\" and \"assertion\" you want to see serious cues from the user that they know what those things are before using them without explaining them\n\nIt's OK to briefly explain terms if you're in doubt, and feel free to clarify terms with a short definition if you're unsure if the user will get it.\n\n---\n\n## Creating a skill\n\n### Capture Intent\n\nStart by understanding the user's intent. The current conversation might already contain a workflow the user wants to capture (e.g., they say \"turn this into a skill\"). If so, extract answers from the conversation history first — the tools used, the sequence of steps, corrections the user made, input/output formats observed. The user may need to fill the gaps, and should confirm before proceeding to the next step.\n\n1. What should this skill enable Claude to do?\n2. When should this skill trigger? (what user phrases/contexts)\n3. What's the expected output format?\n4. Should we set up test cases to verify the skill works? Skills with objectively verifiable outputs (file transforms, data extraction, code generation, fixed workflow steps) benefit from test cases. Skills with subjective outputs (writing style, art) often don't need them. Suggest the appropriate default based on the skill type, but let the user decide.\n\n### Interview and Research\n\nProactively ask questions about edge cases, input/output formats, example files, success criteria, and dependencies. Wait to write test prompts until you've got this part ironed out.\n\nCheck available MCPs - if useful for research (searching docs, finding similar skills, looking up best practices), research in parallel via subagents if available, otherwise inline. Come prepared with context to reduce burden on the user.\n\n### Write the SKILL.md\n\nBased on the user interview, fill in these components:\n\n- **name**: Skill identifier\n- **description**: When to trigger, what it does. This is the primary triggering mechanism - include both what the skill does AND specific contexts for when to use it. All \"when to use\" info goes here, not in the body. Note: currently Claude has a tendency to \"undertrigger\" skills -- to not use them when they'd be useful. To combat this, please make the skill descriptions a little bit \"pushy\". So for instance, instead of \"How to build a simple fast dashboard to display internal Anthropic data.\", you might write \"How to build a simple fast dashboard to display internal Anthropic data. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user mentions dashboards, data visualization, internal metrics, or wants to display any kind of company data, even if they don't explicitly ask for a 'dashboard.'\"\n- **compatibility**: Required tools, dependencies (optional, rarely needed)\n- **the rest of the skill :)**\n\n### Skill Writing Guide\n\n#### Anatomy of a Skill\n\n```\nskill-name/\n├── SKILL.md (required)\n│ ├── YAML frontmatter (name, description required)\n│ └── Markdown instructions\n└── Bundled Resources (optional)\n ├── scripts/ - Executable code for deterministic/repetitive tasks\n ├── references/ - Docs loaded into context as needed\n └── assets/ - Files used in output (templates, icons, fonts)\n```\n\n#### Progressive Disclosure\n\nSkills use a three-level loading system:\n1. **Metadata** (name + description) - Always in context (~100 words)\n2. **SKILL.md body** - In context whenever skill triggers (300 lines), include a table of contents\n\n**Domain organization**: When a skill supports multiple domains/frameworks, organize by variant:\n```\ncloud-deploy/\n├── SKILL.md (workflow + selection)\n└── references/\n ├── aws.md\n ├── gcp.md\n └── azure.md\n```\nClaude reads only the relevant reference file.\n\n#### Principle of Lack of Surprise\n\nThis goes without saying, but skills must not contain malware, exploit code, or any content that could compromise system security. A skill's contents should not surprise the user in their intent if described. Don't go along with requests to create misleading skills or skills designed to facilitate unauthorized access, data exfiltration, or other malicious activities. Things like a \"roleplay as an XYZ\" are OK though.\n\n#### Writing Patterns\n\nPrefer using the imperative form in instructions.\n\n**Defining output formats** - You can do it like this:\n```markdown\n## Report structure\nALWAYS use this exact template:\n# [Title]\n## Executive summary\n## Key findings\n## Recommendations\n```\n\n**Examples pattern** - It's useful to include examples. You can format them like this (but if \"Input\" and \"Output\" are in the examples you might want to deviate a little):\n```markdown\n## Commit message format\n**Example 1:**\nInput: Added user authentication with JWT tokens\nOutput: feat(auth): implement JWT-based authentication\n```\n\n### Writing Style\n\nTry to explain to the model why things are important in lieu of heavy-handed musty MUSTs. Use theory of mind and try to make the skill general and not super-narrow to specific examples. Start by writing a draft and then look at it with fresh eyes and improve it.\n\n### Test Cases\n\nAfter writing the skill draft, come up with 2-3 realistic test prompts — the kind of thing a real user would actually say. Share them with the user: [you don't have to use this exact language] \"Here are a few test cases I'd like to try. Do these look right, or do you want to add more?\" Then run them.\n\nSave test cases to `evals/evals.json`. Don't write assertions yet — just the prompts. You'll draft assertions in the next step while the runs are in progress.\n\n```json\n{\n \"skill_name\": \"example-skill\",\n \"evals\": [\n {\n \"id\": 1,\n \"prompt\": \"User's task prompt\",\n \"expected_output\": \"Description of expected result\",\n \"files\": []\n }\n ]\n}\n```\n\nSee `references/schemas.md` for the full schema (including the `assertions` field, which you'll add later).\n\n## Running and evaluating test cases\n\nThis section is one continuous sequence — don't stop partway through. Do NOT use `/skill-test` or any other testing skill.\n\nPut results in `<skill-name>-workspace/` as a sibling to the skill directory. Within the workspace, organize results by iteration (`iteration-1/`, `iteration-2/`, etc.) and within that, each test case gets a directory (`eval-0/`, `eval-1/`, etc.). Don't create all of this upfront — just create directories as you go.\n\n### Step 1: Spawn all runs (with-skill AND baseline) in the same turn\n\nFor each test case, spawn two subagents in the same turn — one with the skill, one without. This is important: don't spawn the with-skill runs first and then come back for baselines later. Launch everything at once so it all finishes around the same time.\n\n**With-skill run:**\n\n```\nExecute this task:\n- Skill path: <path-to-skill>\n- Task: <eval prompt>\n- Input files: <eval files if any, or \"none\">\n- Save outputs to: <workspace>/iteration-<N>/eval-<ID>/with_skill/outputs/\n- Outputs to save: <what the user cares about — e.g., \"the .docx file\", \"the final CSV\">\n```\n\n**Baseline run** (same prompt, but the baseline depends on context):\n- **Creating a new skill**: no skill at all. Same prompt, no skill path, save to `without_skill/outputs/`.\n- **Improving an existing skill**: the old version. Before editing, snapshot the skill (`cp -r <skill-path> <workspace>/skill-snapshot/`), then point the baseline subagent at the snapshot. Save to `old_skill/outputs/`.\n\nWrite an `eval_metadata.json` for each test case (assertions can be empty for now). Give each eval a descriptive name based on what it's testing — not just \"eval-0\". Use this name for the directory too. If this iteration uses new or modified eval prompts, create these files for each new eval directory — don't assume they carry over from previous iterations.\n\n```json\n{\n \"eval_id\": 0,\n \"eval_name\": \"descriptive-name-here\",\n \"prompt\": \"The user's task prompt\",\n \"assertions\": []\n}\n```\n\n### Step 2: While runs are in progress, draft assertions\n\nDon't just wait for the runs to finish — you can use this time productively. Draft quantitative assertions for each test case and explain them to the user. If assertions already exist in `evals/evals.json`, review them and explain what they check.\n\nGood assertions are objectively verifiable and have descriptive names — they should read clearly in the benchmark viewer so someone glancing at the results immediately understands what each one checks. Subjective skills (writing style, design quality) are better evaluated qualitatively — don't force assertions onto things that need human judgment.\n\nUpdate the `eval_metadata.json` files and `evals/evals.json` with the assertions once drafted. Also explain to the user what they'll see in the viewer — both the qualitative outputs and the quantitative benchmark.\n\n### Step 3: As runs complete, capture timing data\n\nWhen each subagent task completes, you receive a notification containing `total_tokens` and `duration_ms`. Save this data immediately to `timing.json` in the run directory:\n\n```json\n{\n \"total_tokens\": 84852,\n \"duration_ms\": 23332,\n \"total_duration_seconds\": 23.3\n}\n```\n\nThis is the only opportunity to capture this data — it comes through the task notification and isn't persisted elsewhere. Process each notification as it arrives rather than trying to batch them.\n\n### Step 4: Grade, aggregate, and launch the viewer\n\nOnce all runs are done:\n\n1. **Grade each run** — spawn a grader subagent (or grade inline) that reads `agents/grader.md` and evaluates each assertion against the outputs. Save results to `grading.json` in each run directory. The grading.json expectations array must use the fields `text`, `passed`, and `evidence` (not `name`/`met`/`details` or other variants) — the viewer depends on these exact field names. For assertions that can be checked programmatically, write and run a script rather than eyeballing it — scripts are faster, more reliable, and can be reused across iterations.\n\n2. **Aggregate into benchmark** — run the aggregation script from the skill-creator directory:\n ```bash\n python -m scripts.aggregate_benchmark <workspace>/iteration-N --skill-name <name>\n ```\n This produces `benchmark.json` and `benchmark.md` with pass_rate, time, and tokens for each configuration, with mean ± stddev and the delta. If generating benchmark.json manually, see `references/schemas.md` for the exact schema the viewer expects.\nPut each with_skill version before its baseline counterpart.\n\n3. **Do an analyst pass** — read the benchmark data and surface patterns the aggregate stats might hide. See `agents/analyzer.md` (the \"Analyzing Benchmark Results\" section) for what to look for — things like assertions that always pass regardless of skill (non-discriminating), high-variance evals (possibly flaky), and time/token tradeoffs.\n\n4. **Launch the viewer** with both qualitative outputs and quantitative data:\n ```bash\n nohup python <skill-creator-path>/eval-viewer/generate_review.py \\\n <workspace>/iteration-N \\\n --skill-name \"my-skill\" \\\n --benchmark <workspace>/iteration-N/benchmark.json \\\n > /dev/null 2>&1 &\n VIEWER_PID=$!\n ```\n For iteration 2+, also pass `--previous-workspace <workspace>/iteration-<N-1>`.\n\n **Cowork / headless environments:** If `webbrowser.open()` is not available or the environment has no display, use `--static <output_path>` to write a standalone HTML file instead of starting a server. Feedback will be downloaded as a `feedback.json` file when the user clicks \"Submit All Reviews\". After download, copy `feedback.json` into the workspace directory for the next iteration to pick up.\n\nNote: please use generate_review.py to create the viewer; there's no need to write custom HTML.\n\n5. **Tell the user** something like: \"I've opened the results in your browser. There are two tabs — 'Outputs' lets you click through each test case and leave feedback, 'Benchmark' shows the quantitative comparison. When you're done, come back here and let me know.\"\n\n### What the user sees in the viewer\n\nThe \"Outputs\" tab shows one test case at a time:\n- **Prompt**: the task that was given\n- **Output**: the files the skill produced, rendered inline where possible\n- **Previous Output** (iteration 2+): collapsed section showing last iteration's output\n- **Formal Grades** (if grading was run): collapsed section showing assertion pass/fail\n- **Feedback**: a textbox that auto-saves as they type\n- **Previous Feedback** (iteration 2+): their comments from last time, shown below the textbox\n\nThe \"Benchmark\" tab shows the stats summary: pass rates, timing, and token usage for each configuration, with per-eval breakdowns and analyst observations.\n\nNavigation is via prev/next buttons or arrow keys. When done, they click \"Submit All Reviews\" which saves all feedback to `feedback.json`.\n\n### Step 5: Read the feedback\n\nWhen the user tells you they're done, read `feedback.json`:\n\n```json\n{\n \"reviews\": [\n {\"run_id\": \"eval-0-with_skill\", \"feedback\": \"the chart is missing axis labels\", \"timestamp\": \"...\"},\n {\"run_id\": \"eval-1-with_skill\", \"feedback\": \"\", \"timestamp\": \"...\"},\n {\"run_id\": \"eval-2-with_skill\", \"feedback\": \"perfect, love this\", \"timestamp\": \"...\"}\n ],\n \"status\": \"complete\"\n}\n```\n\nEmpty feedback means the user thought it was fine. Focus your improvements on the test cases where the user had specific complaints.\n\nKill the viewer server when you're done with it:\n\n```bash\nkill $VIEWER_PID 2>/dev/null\n```\n\n---\n\n## Improving the skill\n\nThis is the heart of the loop. You've run the test cases, the user has reviewed the results, and now you need to make the skill better based on their feedback.\n\n### How to think about improvements\n\n1. **Generalize from the feedback.** The big picture thing that's happening here is that we're trying to create skills that can be used a million times (maybe literally, maybe even more who knows) across many different prompts. Here you and the user are iterating on only a few examples over and over again because it helps move faster. The user knows these examples in and out and it's quick for them to assess new outputs. But if the skill you and the user are codeveloping works only for those examples, it's useless. Rather than put in fiddly overfitty changes, or oppressively constrictive MUSTs, if there's some stubborn issue, you might try branching out and using different metaphors, or recommending different patterns of working. It's relatively cheap to try and maybe you'll land on something great.\n\n2. **Keep the prompt lean.** Remove things that aren't pulling their weight. Make sure to read the transcripts, not just the final outputs — if it looks like the skill is making the model waste a bunch of time doing things that are unproductive, you can try getting rid of the parts of the skill that are making it do that and seeing what happens.\n\n3. **Explain the why.** Try hard to explain the **why** behind everything you're asking the model to do. Today's LLMs are *smart*. They have good theory of mind and when given a good harness can go beyond rote instructions and really make things happen. Even if the feedback from the user is terse or frustrated, try to actually understand the task and why the user is writing what they wrote, and what they actually wrote, and then transmit this understanding into the instructions. If you find yourself writing ALWAYS or NEVER in all caps, or using super rigid structures, that's a yellow flag — if possible, reframe and explain the reasoning so that the model understands why the thing you're asking for is important. That's a more humane, powerful, and effective approach.\n\n4. **Look for repeated work across test cases.** Read the transcripts from the test runs and notice if the subagents all independently wrote similar helper scripts or took the same multi-step approach to something. If all 3 test cases resulted in the subagent writing a `create_docx.py` or a `build_chart.py`, that's a strong signal the skill should bundle that script. Write it once, put it in `scripts/`, and tell the skill to use it. This saves every future invocation from reinventing the wheel.\n\nThis task is pretty important (we are trying to create billions a year in economic value here!) and your thinking time is not the blocker; take your time and really mull things over. 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After creating or improving a skill, offer to optimize the description for better triggering accuracy.\n\n### Step 1: Generate trigger eval queries\n\nCreate 20 eval queries — a mix of should-trigger and should-not-trigger. Save as JSON:\n\n```json\n[\n {\"query\": \"the user prompt\", \"should_trigger\": true},\n {\"query\": \"another prompt\", \"should_trigger\": false}\n]\n```\n\nThe queries must be realistic and something a Claude Code or Claude.ai user would actually type. Not abstract requests, but requests that are concrete and specific and have a good amount of detail. For instance, file paths, personal context about the user's job or situation, column names and values, company names, URLs. A little bit of backstory. Some might be in lowercase or contain abbreviations or typos or casual speech. Use a mix of different lengths, and focus on edge cases rather than making them clear-cut (the user will get a chance to sign off on them).\n\nBad: `\"Format this data\"`, `\"Extract text from PDF\"`, `\"Create a chart\"`\n\nGood: `\"ok so my boss just sent me this xlsx file (its in my downloads, called something like 'Q4 sales final FINAL v2.xlsx') and she wants me to add a column that shows the profit margin as a percentage. The revenue is in column C and costs are in column D i think\"`\n\nFor the **should-trigger** queries (8-10), think about coverage. You want different phrasings of the same intent — some formal, some casual. Include cases where the user doesn't explicitly name the skill or file type but clearly needs it. 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"body": "# Slack GIF Creator\n\nA toolkit providing utilities and knowledge for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack.\n\n## Slack Requirements\n\n**Dimensions:**\n- Emoji GIFs: 128x128 (recommended)\n- Message GIFs: 480x480\n\n**Parameters:**\n- FPS: 10-30 (lower is smaller file size)\n- Colors: 48-128 (fewer = smaller file size)\n- Duration: Keep under 3 seconds for emoji GIFs\n\n## Core Workflow\n\n```python\nfrom core.gif_builder import GIFBuilder\nfrom PIL import Image, ImageDraw\n\n# 1. Create builder\nbuilder = GIFBuilder(width=128, height=128, fps=10)\n\n# 2. Generate frames\nfor i in range(12):\n frame = Image.new('RGB', (128, 128), (240, 248, 255))\n draw = ImageDraw.Draw(frame)\n\n # Draw your animation using PIL primitives\n # (circles, polygons, lines, etc.)\n\n builder.add_frame(frame)\n\n# 3. Save with optimization\nbuilder.save('output.gif', num_colors=48, optimize_for_emoji=True)\n```\n\n## Drawing Graphics\n\n### Working with User-Uploaded Images\nIf a user uploads an image, consider whether they want to:\n- **Use it directly** (e.g., \"animate this\", \"split this into frames\")\n- **Use it as inspiration** (e.g., \"make something like this\")\n\nLoad and work with images using PIL:\n```python\nfrom PIL import Image\n\nuploaded = Image.open('file.png')\n# Use directly, or just as reference for colors/style\n```\n\n### Drawing from Scratch\nWhen drawing graphics from scratch, use PIL ImageDraw primitives:\n\n```python\nfrom PIL import ImageDraw\n\ndraw = ImageDraw.Draw(frame)\n\n# Circles/ovals\ndraw.ellipse([x1, y1, x2, y2], fill=(r, g, b), outline=(r, g, b), width=3)\n\n# Stars, triangles, any polygon\npoints = [(x1, y1), (x2, y2), (x3, y3), ...]\ndraw.polygon(points, fill=(r, g, b), outline=(r, g, b), width=3)\n\n# Lines\ndraw.line([(x1, y1), (x2, y2)], fill=(r, g, b), width=5)\n\n# Rectangles\ndraw.rectangle([x1, y1, x2, y2], fill=(r, g, b), outline=(r, g, b), width=3)\n```\n\n**Don't use:** Emoji fonts (unreliable across platforms) or assume pre-packaged graphics exist in this skill.\n\n### Making Graphics Look Good\n\nGraphics should look polished and creative, not basic. Here's how:\n\n**Use thicker lines** - Always set `width=2` or higher for outlines and lines. Thin lines (width=1) look choppy and amateurish.\n\n**Add visual depth**:\n- Use gradients for backgrounds (`create_gradient_background`)\n- Layer multiple shapes for complexity (e.g., a star with a smaller star inside)\n\n**Make shapes more interesting**:\n- Don't just draw a plain circle - add highlights, rings, or patterns\n- Stars can have glows (draw larger, semi-transparent versions behind)\n- Combine multiple shapes (stars + sparkles, circles + rings)\n\n**Pay attention to colors**:\n- Use vibrant, complementary colors\n- Add contrast (dark outlines on light shapes, light outlines on dark shapes)\n- Consider the overall composition\n\n**For complex shapes** (hearts, snowflakes, etc.):\n- Use combinations of polygons and ellipses\n- Calculate points carefully for symmetry\n- Add details (a heart can have a highlight curve, snowflakes have intricate branches)\n\nBe creative and detailed! A good Slack GIF should look polished, not like placeholder graphics.\n\n## Available Utilities\n\n### GIFBuilder (`core.gif_builder`)\nAssembles frames and optimizes for Slack:\n```python\nbuilder = GIFBuilder(width=128, height=128, fps=10)\nbuilder.add_frame(frame) # Add PIL Image\nbuilder.add_frames(frames) # Add list of frames\nbuilder.save('out.gif', num_colors=48, optimize_for_emoji=True, remove_duplicates=True)\n```\n\n### Validators (`core.validators`)\nCheck if GIF meets Slack requirements:\n```python\nfrom core.validators import validate_gif, is_slack_ready\n\n# Detailed validation\npasses, info = validate_gif('my.gif', is_emoji=True, verbose=True)\n\n# Quick check\nif is_slack_ready('my.gif'):\n print(\"Ready!\")\n```\n\n### Easing Functions (`core.easing`)\nSmooth motion instead of linear:\n```python\nfrom core.easing import interpolate\n\n# Progress from 0.0 to 1.0\nt = i / (num_frames - 1)\n\n# Apply easing\ny = interpolate(start=0, end=400, t=t, easing='ease_out')\n\n# Available: linear, ease_in, ease_out, ease_in_out,\n# bounce_out, elastic_out, back_out\n```\n\n### Frame Helpers (`core.frame_composer`)\nConvenience functions for common needs:\n```python\nfrom core.frame_composer import (\n create_blank_frame, # Solid color background\n create_gradient_background, # Vertical gradient\n draw_circle, # Helper for circles\n draw_text, # Simple text rendering\n draw_star # 5-pointed star\n)\n```\n\n## Animation Concepts\n\n### Shake/Vibrate\nOffset object position with oscillation:\n- Use `math.sin()` or `math.cos()` with frame index\n- Add small random variations for natural feel\n- Apply to x and/or y position\n\n### Pulse/Heartbeat\nScale object size rhythmically:\n- Use `math.sin(t * frequency * 2 * math.pi)` for smooth pulse\n- For heartbeat: two quick pulses then pause (adjust sine wave)\n- Scale between 0.8 and 1.2 of base size\n\n### Bounce\nObject falls and bounces:\n- Use `interpolate()` with `easing='bounce_out'` for landing\n- Use `easing='ease_in'` for falling (accelerating)\n- Apply gravity by increasing y velocity each frame\n\n### Spin/Rotate\nRotate object around center:\n- PIL: `image.rotate(angle, resample=Image.BICUBIC)`\n- For wobble: use sine wave for angle instead of linear\n\n### Fade In/Out\nGradually appear or disappear:\n- Create RGBA image, adjust alpha channel\n- Or use `Image.blend(image1, image2, alpha)`\n- Fade in: alpha from 0 to 1\n- Fade out: alpha from 1 to 0\n\n### Slide\nMove object from off-screen to position:\n- Start position: outside frame bounds\n- End position: target location\n- Use `interpolate()` with `easing='ease_out'` for smooth stop\n- For overshoot: use `easing='back_out'`\n\n### Zoom\nScale and position for zoom effect:\n- Zoom in: scale from 0.1 to 2.0, crop center\n- Zoom out: scale from 2.0 to 1.0\n- Can add motion blur for drama (PIL filter)\n\n### Explode/Particle Burst\nCreate particles radiating outward:\n- Generate particles with random angles and velocities\n- Update each particle: `x += vx`, `y += vy`\n- Add gravity: `vy += gravity_constant`\n- Fade out particles over time (reduce alpha)\n\n## Optimization Strategies\n\nOnly when asked to make the file size smaller, implement a few of the following methods:\n\n1. **Fewer frames** - Lower FPS (10 instead of 20) or shorter duration\n2. **Fewer colors** - `num_colors=48` instead of 128\n3. **Smaller dimensions** - 128x128 instead of 480x480\n4. **Remove duplicates** - `remove_duplicates=True` in save()\n5. **Emoji mode** - `optimize_for_emoji=True` auto-optimizes\n\n```python\n# Maximum optimization for emoji\nbuilder.save(\n 'emoji.gif',\n num_colors=48,\n optimize_for_emoji=True,\n remove_duplicates=True\n)\n```\n\n## Philosophy\n\nThis skill provides:\n- **Knowledge**: Slack's requirements and animation concepts\n- **Utilities**: GIFBuilder, validators, easing functions\n- **Flexibility**: Create the animation logic using PIL primitives\n\nIt does NOT provide:\n- Rigid animation templates or pre-made functions\n- Emoji font rendering (unreliable across platforms)\n- A library of pre-packaged graphics built into the skill\n\n**Note on user uploads**: This skill doesn't include pre-built graphics, but if a user uploads an image, use PIL to load and work with it - interpret based on their request whether they want it used directly or just as inspiration.\n\nBe creative! 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"body": "# XLSX creation, editing, and analysis\n\n| Task | Approach |\n|---|---|\n| **Create** or **edit** with formulas/formatting | `openpyxl` — see gotchas below |\n| **Bulk data** in or out | `pandas` (`read_excel`, `to_excel`) |\n| **Quick look** at a sheet | `markitdown file.xlsx` — `## SheetName` per sheet; reads `.xlsm` too. No cell coordinates, so don't plan edits from it |\n| **Read** a model (formulas *and* values) | two `load_workbook` passes — see gotchas |\n\n> `openpyxl`, `pandas`, and `markitdown` are preinstalled — do not run `pip install` first; write the script and import directly. Only if an import fails (or the `markitdown` command is missing): `pip install` the missing package.\n\n> Script paths below are relative to this skill's directory.\n\n## Requirements for every output\n\n- **Professional font** (Arial, Times New Roman) throughout, unless the user says otherwise.\n- **Zero formula errors.** Never ship while `recalc.py` reports `errors_found`. If you think an error predates you, prove it: load the *original* with `data_only=True` and look at that cell. An error you introduced looks exactly like one you inherited.\n- **Use formulas, never hardcoded results.** Write `sheet['B10'] = '=SUM(B2:B9)'`, not the Python-computed total. The sheet must recalculate when its inputs change.\n- **Follow the user's spec literally.** Exact tab names, exact column headers, and the formula they spelled out. A redesign that computes something else fails, however elegant.\n- **Document every assumption and hardcoded number** where the reader will see it — a cell comment, or an adjacent cell at a table's end. Cite a real source when one exists (`Source: Company 10-K, FY2024, Page 45, Revenue Note, [SEC EDGAR URL]`); when the number came from the user, say so plainly.\n- **A workbook *you create* for someone to fill in** needs a short legend naming which cells to edit, and one example row of realistic values showing the expected format. Never add such a row to a file you were asked to edit.\n- **Editing an existing file: match its conventions exactly.** They override every guideline here. Find its designated input cells first — a distinct font color, fill, or shading marks them — write only there, and leave every existing formula untouched.\n\n## Recalculate (mandatory whenever the file contains formulas)\n\nopenpyxl writes formulas as strings with **no cached values**. Until you recalculate, every\nformula cell reads back as `None` to anything reading cached values — `pandas`,\n`load_workbook(data_only=True)`, and most previewers.\n\n```bash\npython scripts/recalc.py output.xlsx [timeout_seconds] # default 30\n```\n\nLibreOffice computes every formula, the file is **rewritten in place**, and you get JSON:\n`status` (`success` | `errors_found`), `total_formulas`, `total_errors`, and an\n`error_summary` naming up to 100 cells per error type (`locations_truncated` says how many it\nwithheld — trust `total_errors`, not the length of the list). Fix what it names and run it\nagain. **JSON with an `error` key instead of a `status` means nothing was recalculated**, and\nonly that case exits non-zero — `errors_found` exits 0, so never treat a clean exit as a clean\nworkbook.\n\n**A green recalc proves your formulas *evaluate*, not that they are *right*.** An off-by-one\nrange or a reference to the wrong row yields a clean, error-free file with wrong numbers.\nWrite 2–3 formulas first and check they pull the values you expect, before building out a grid.\n\n**A workbook that links to another file loses those links** if you re-save it with openpyxl and\nthen recalculate. Such a formula reads `='[1]Returns Analysis'!$B$2` — the `[1]` is an index\ninto the workbook's external-reference list, naming a *separate file on disk*, not a sheet.\nThat file is rarely present here, so the cell's cached value is the only thing holding its\ndata. openpyxl strips that value on save; LibreOffice then has to resolve the reference for\nreal, fails, writes `#NAME?`, and deletes every link. `recalc.py` refuses to run in that state\n— copy those cells' values out of the original before you save over them (`--force` overrides,\nand accepts the loss).\n\n## Choosing formulas that survive verification\n\nLibreOffice implements fewer functions than Excel, and one it cannot evaluate becomes a\nliteral `#NAME?` baked into the file you deliver.\n\n- **Prefer Excel-2007-era functions** — `SUMIFS`, `INDEX`, `MATCH`, `IFERROR`, `SUMPRODUCT` — which need no prefix.\n- **Six post-2007 functions work, but only with an `_xlfn.` prefix**, because openpyxl writes your formula into the XML verbatim and Excel stores post-2007 names prefixed (its UI hides the prefix): `_xlfn.TEXTJOIN`, `_xlfn.CONCAT`, `_xlfn.IFS`, `_xlfn.SWITCH`, `_xlfn.MAXIFS`, `_xlfn.MINIFS`. Written bare, each yields `#NAME?`.\n- **Never use `XLOOKUP`, `XMATCH`, `SORT`, `FILTER`, `UNIQUE`, or `SEQUENCE`.** The runtime's LibreOffice cannot evaluate them under *any* prefix. Newer builds do evaluate them, but they are spilling array functions and an openpyxl-written file has no spill metadata, so only the top-left cell of the range gets a value — and `recalc.py` reports `total_errors: 0` on the truncated result. Use `INDEX`/`MATCH` for lookups, and sort, filter, and de-duplicate in Python before writing the cells.\n- A formula LibreOffice could not parse is written back **lowercased** — a quick tell beside a `#NAME?`.\n\n## openpyxl gotchas\n\n- **Reading a model takes two loads.** `data_only=True` yields cached values with the formulas gone; the default yields formula strings with no values. 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