tribunal-kit 8.0.0 → 9.0.1

package/.agent/skills/duckdb-analytical-sql/SKILL.md

@@ -1,27 +1,53 @@
 ---
 name: duckdb-analytical-sql
-description: Embedded OLAP analytics, high-speed Parquet/JSON processing, in-memory analytical SQL, and DuckDB integrations in Node.js, Python, and WASM.
-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write
-version: 3.0.0
-last-updated: 2026-08-05
-script: .agent/scripts/schema_validator.js
-scripts-binding:
-  - .agent/scripts/schema_validator.js
+description: Use when Embedded OLAP analytics, high-speed Parquet/JSON processing, in-memory analytical SQL, and DuckDB integrations in Node.js, Python, and WASM.
+version: 5.0.0
+last-updated: 2026-09-13
 skills:
   - sql-pro
   - database-design
   - performance-profiling
+tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write
+scripts-binding:
+  - .agent/scripts/schema_validator.js
+  - .agent/scripts/lint_runner.js
+  - .agent/scripts/verify_all.js
 ---
 
 # DuckDB Analytical SQL — Embedded Analytics
 
 ## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
 
-Before writing analytical queries:
+Before generating, refactoring, or reviewing code in the `duckdb-analytical-sql` domain, inspect these 5 critical parameters:
+
+1. **System Boundaries & Dependencies**: Verify that all required dependencies exist in target package manifests and environment paths.
+2. **Runtime Context & Platform Invariants**: Confirm target platform constraints (Node.js, Browser, Mobile OS, Edge runtime) before applying APIs.
+3. **Execution Guardrails**: Identify potential side-effects, state mutations, and unhandled asynchronous exceptions.
+4. **Validation & Type Contracts**: Validate input data schemas and strict type constraints across all module interfaces.
+5. **Observability & Proof of Execution**: Ensure execution produces tangible verification signals (terminal output, tests, metrics).
+
+## Activation Boundaries
+
+- **Activate when:** Use when Embedded OLAP analytics, high-speed Parquet/JSON processing, in-memory analytical SQL, and DuckDB integrations in Node.js, Python, and WASM.
+- **DO NOT activate when:** The task falls outside the `duckdb-analytical-sql` domain or is managed by a different dedicated specialist.
 
-1. Direct File Querying → Query Parquet/CSV/JSON directly without importing into a traditional DB
-2. Memory Allocation → Set explicit memory limit (`SET max_memory = '4GB'`) to prevent OOM
-3. Vectorized Engine Usage → Use column-oriented aggregation over line-by-line loops
+## 🔁 Multi-Pass Execution Protocol
+
+Execute all non-trivial tasks through this 7-pass cognitive loop:
+
+| Pass | Phase | Core Action |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Pass 1** | **Understand** | Deconstruct the user's explicit objective, implicit requirements, and platform constraints. |
+| **Pass 2** | **Plan** | Decompose the task into smallest logical steps; map dependencies and required tool calls. |
+| **Pass 3** | **Execute** | Implement the solution with production-grade craft, zero placeholders, and strict typing. |
+| **Pass 4** | **Verify** | Run linters, unit tests, or compiler checks to validate structural correctness. |
+| **Pass 5** | **Attack** | Perform an adversarial review searching for edge-case failures, race conditions, and traps. |
+| **Pass 6** | **Improve** | Eliminate discovered friction, optimize performance, and harden error boundaries. |
+| **Pass 7** | **Quality Gate** | Enforce Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) with concrete terminal proof before finalizing. |
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ Technical Architecture & Reference Recipes
 
 ## Node.js DuckDB Parquet Query Pattern
 
@@ -53,7 +79,47 @@ export async function runAnalyticalReport(parquetGlobPath: string) {
 }
 ```
 
-## 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
+---
+
+## 🚨 Edge-Case & Failure Mode Matrix
+
+| Scenario | Risk | Mitigation Strategy |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Empty or Null Inputs** | Unhandled exception or unexpected rendering collapse | Enforce fallback guards, optional chaining, and explicit empty state handlers |
+| **Network Timeout / Latency** | Hanging operations or duplicate side-effects | Implement bounded abort controllers, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys |
+| **Concurrency / Race Conditions** | Stale state overwrite or inconsistent data mutations | Use atomic transactions, mutex locking, or cancel-on-resubmit controls |
+| **Invalid Schema / Malformed Payload** | Downstream runtime errors or security injection | Validate boundary payloads with Zod/Pydantic schemas prior to execution |
+| **Resource / Memory Saturation** | OOM errors, frame drops, or memory leaks | Clean up listeners, cancel active timers, and enforce pagination/virtualization |
+
+---
+
+## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps Table
+
+| Anti-Pattern | What AI Commonly Does Wrong | What Is Actually Correct |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Full Table Scan Blindspot** | Querying high-cardinality tables without index coverage | Verify query plans with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and add composite B-Tree indexes |
+| **Non-Atomic Batch Mutation** | Executing multiple related DB writes sequentially without transaction wrapper | Wrap multi-table updates in an atomic transaction with automatic rollback |
+| **Destructive Schema Migration** | Dropping or renaming columns in production without multi-phase migration | Use expand-and-contract: add new column, sync data, migrate callers, drop old |
+
+---
+
+## 🏛️ Tribunal Verification & Guardrails
+
+**Active Reviewers:** `database-architect` · `sql-pro` · `security-auditor` · `schema-validator`
+**Slash Command:** `/review` or `/tribunal-full`
+
+### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit Checklist
+
+```
+✅ Are all queries parameterized against SQL injection vulnerabilities?
+✅ Are indexes defined for all foreign keys, joins, and filtered query clauses?
+✅ Are transactions wrapped atomically with rollbacks on failure?
+✅ Are migration scripts backwards-compatible (expand-and-contract pattern)?
+✅ Did I verify column names against active schema definitions?
+```
+
+### 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
 
-- Verify query execution on sample Parquet dataset without loading entire file into RAM.
-- Benchmark query throughput against memory constraints.
+**CRITICAL:** You must follow a strict "evidence-based closeout" state machine.
+- ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring a task complete because the output "looks correct."
+- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing test suites, compiler success, or equivalent operational proof) that your output works as intended.

package/.agent/skills/edge-ai-mobile/SKILL.md

@@ -1,27 +1,53 @@
 ---
 name: edge-ai-mobile
-description: On-device mobile AI, CoreML, Android NNAPI, ONNX Runtime Web/Mobile, local LLM execution (SLMs), and sub-10ms privacy-first edge inference.
-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write
-version: 3.0.0
-last-updated: 2026-08-05
-script: .agent/scripts/bundle_analyzer.js
-scripts-binding:
-  - .agent/scripts/bundle_analyzer.js
+description: Use when On-device mobile AI, CoreML, Android NNAPI, ONNX Runtime Web/Mobile, local LLM execution (SLMs), and sub-10ms privacy-first edge inference.
+version: 5.0.0
+last-updated: 2026-09-13
 skills:
   - mobile-developer
   - browser-native-ai
   - performance-profiling
+tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write
+scripts-binding:
+  - .agent/scripts/bundle_analyzer.js
+  - .agent/scripts/lint_runner.js
+  - .agent/scripts/verify_all.js
 ---
 
 # Edge AI & On-Device Mobile Machine Learning
 
 ## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
 
-Before deploying on-device AI models:
+Before generating, refactoring, or reviewing code in the `edge-ai-mobile` domain, inspect these 5 critical parameters:
+
+1. **System Boundaries & Dependencies**: Verify that all required dependencies exist in target package manifests and environment paths.
+2. **Runtime Context & Platform Invariants**: Confirm target platform constraints (Node.js, Browser, Mobile OS, Edge runtime) before applying APIs.
+3. **Execution Guardrails**: Identify potential side-effects, state mutations, and unhandled asynchronous exceptions.
+4. **Validation & Type Contracts**: Validate input data schemas and strict type constraints across all module interfaces.
+5. **Observability & Proof of Execution**: Ensure execution produces tangible verification signals (terminal output, tests, metrics).
+
+## Activation Boundaries
+
+- **Activate when:** Use when On-device mobile AI, CoreML, Android NNAPI, ONNX Runtime Web/Mobile, local LLM execution (SLMs), and sub-10ms privacy-first edge inference.
+- **DO NOT activate when:** The task falls outside the `edge-ai-mobile` domain or is managed by a different dedicated specialist.
 
-1. Model Quantization → Use 4-bit/8-bit quantized models (GGUF/ONNX) to fit mobile RAM budgets (<500MB)
-2. Hardware Acceleration → Bind inference engine to Apple Neural Engine (ANE) or Android NPU
-3. Fallback Mechanism → Fall back gracefully to cloud LLM API if local inference exceeds latency budget (>200ms)
+## 🔁 Multi-Pass Execution Protocol
+
+Execute all non-trivial tasks through this 7-pass cognitive loop:
+
+| Pass | Phase | Core Action |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Pass 1** | **Understand** | Deconstruct the user's explicit objective, implicit requirements, and platform constraints. |
+| **Pass 2** | **Plan** | Decompose the task into smallest logical steps; map dependencies and required tool calls. |
+| **Pass 3** | **Execute** | Implement the solution with production-grade craft, zero placeholders, and strict typing. |
+| **Pass 4** | **Verify** | Run linters, unit tests, or compiler checks to validate structural correctness. |
+| **Pass 5** | **Attack** | Perform an adversarial review searching for edge-case failures, race conditions, and traps. |
+| **Pass 6** | **Improve** | Eliminate discovered friction, optimize performance, and harden error boundaries. |
+| **Pass 7** | **Quality Gate** | Enforce Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) with concrete terminal proof before finalizing. |
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ Technical Architecture & Reference Recipes
 
 ## Mobile ONNX Edge Inference Pattern
 
@@ -44,7 +70,47 @@ export async function runLocalEmbeddings(textTokens: number[]): Promise<Float32A
 }
 ```
 
-## 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
+---
+
+## 🚨 Edge-Case & Failure Mode Matrix
+
+| Scenario | Risk | Mitigation Strategy |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Empty or Null Inputs** | Unhandled exception or unexpected rendering collapse | Enforce fallback guards, optional chaining, and explicit empty state handlers |
+| **Network Timeout / Latency** | Hanging operations or duplicate side-effects | Implement bounded abort controllers, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys |
+| **Concurrency / Race Conditions** | Stale state overwrite or inconsistent data mutations | Use atomic transactions, mutex locking, or cancel-on-resubmit controls |
+| **Invalid Schema / Malformed Payload** | Downstream runtime errors or security injection | Validate boundary payloads with Zod/Pydantic schemas prior to execution |
+| **Resource / Memory Saturation** | OOM errors, frame drops, or memory leaks | Clean up listeners, cancel active timers, and enforce pagination/virtualization |
+
+---
+
+## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps Table
+
+| Anti-Pattern | What AI Commonly Does Wrong | What Is Actually Correct |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **JS Thread Animation Lag** | Driving gestures and scrolling physics on the React Native JS thread | Use React Native Reanimated worklets running directly on the UI thread |
+| **Missing Keyboard Offset** | Forms hidden behind native software keyboard on iOS/Android | Wrap form views in KeyboardAvoidingView with platform-calibrated behavior |
+| **Uncached Image Flooding** | Rendering raw image URLs in list items without memory caching | Use FastImage or Expo Image with disk cache policies and thumbnail previews |
+
+---
+
+## 🏛️ Tribunal Verification & Guardrails
+
+**Active Reviewers:** `mobile-reviewer` · `frontend-reviewer` · `type-safety`
+**Slash Command:** `/review` or `/tribunal-full`
+
+### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit Checklist
+
+```
+✅ Do touch targets satisfy the 44x44px minimum touch boundary standard?
+✅ Are gesture handlers and native thread animations offloaded via Reanimated?
+✅ Are keyboard avoiding views, safe areas, and notch offsets handled?
+✅ Is offline storage and state hydration handled with optimistic sync?
+✅ Did I verify compatibility across iOS, Android, and varying densities?
+```
+
+### 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
 
-- Verify local memory usage remains under 300MB during active model inference.
-- Measure battery consumption impact.
+**CRITICAL:** You must follow a strict "evidence-based closeout" state machine.
+- ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring a task complete because the output "looks correct."
+- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing test suites, compiler success, or equivalent operational proof) that your output works as intended.

package/.agent/skills/edge-computing/SKILL.md

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 ---
 name: edge-computing
-description: Edge computing mastery. Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Durable Objects, edge-compatible data patterns, cold start elimination, caching policies (Stale-While-Revalidate), and global data locality. Use when designing globally distributed, extreme low-latency applications architectures.
-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write
-version: 3.0.0
-last-updated: 2026-07-30
+description: Use when Edge computing mastery. Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Durable Objects, edge-compatible data patterns, cold start elimination, caching policies (Stale-While-Revalidate), and global data locality. Use when designing globally distributed, extreme low-latency applications architectures.
+version: 5.0.0
+last-updated: 2026-09-13
 skills:
   - nextjs-react-expert
   - local-first-architecture
   - backend-security-expert
+tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write
 scripts-binding:
   - .agent/scripts/lint_runner.js
   - .agent/scripts/verify_all.js
@@ -15,15 +15,41 @@ scripts-binding:
 
 # Edge Computing — Global Latency Mastery
 
+## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
+
+Before generating, refactoring, or reviewing code in the `edge-computing` domain, inspect these 5 critical parameters:
+
+1. **System Boundaries & Dependencies**: Verify that all required dependencies exist in target package manifests and environment paths.
+2. **Runtime Context & Platform Invariants**: Confirm target platform constraints (Node.js, Browser, Mobile OS, Edge runtime) before applying APIs.
+3. **Execution Guardrails**: Identify potential side-effects, state mutations, and unhandled asynchronous exceptions.
+4. **Validation & Type Contracts**: Validate input data schemas and strict type constraints across all module interfaces.
+5. **Observability & Proof of Execution**: Ensure execution produces tangible verification signals (terminal output, tests, metrics).
+
+## Activation Boundaries
+
+- **Activate when:** Use when Edge computing mastery. Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Durable Objects, edge-compatible data patterns, cold start elimination, caching policies (Stale-While-Revalidate), and global data locality. Use when designing globally distributed, extreme low-latency applications architectures.
+- **DO NOT activate when:** The task falls outside the `edge-computing` domain or is managed by a different dedicated specialist.
+
+## 🔁 Multi-Pass Execution Protocol
+
+Execute all non-trivial tasks through this 7-pass cognitive loop:
+
+| Pass | Phase | Core Action |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Pass 1** | **Understand** | Deconstruct the user's explicit objective, implicit requirements, and platform constraints. |
+| **Pass 2** | **Plan** | Decompose the task into smallest logical steps; map dependencies and required tool calls. |
+| **Pass 3** | **Execute** | Implement the solution with production-grade craft, zero placeholders, and strict typing. |
+| **Pass 4** | **Verify** | Run linters, unit tests, or compiler checks to validate structural correctness. |
+| **Pass 5** | **Attack** | Perform an adversarial review searching for edge-case failures, race conditions, and traps. |
+| **Pass 6** | **Improve** | Eliminate discovered friction, optimize performance, and harden error boundaries. |
+| **Pass 7** | **Quality Gate** | Enforce Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) with concrete terminal proof before finalizing. |
+
 ---
 
-## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
+## 🛠️ Technical Architecture & Reference Recipes
 
-Before engineering edge computing handlers or Cloudflare Workers, you MUST inspect:
+---
 
-1. Edge Runtime Restrictions (Section 25) → Strictly ban Node.js native core modules (`fs`, `child_process`, native `bcrypt`); use Web APIs (`fetch`, `crypto.subtle`)
-2. Stale-While-Revalidate Caching (Section 47) → Use `Cache-Control: s-maxage=60, stale-while-revalidate=86400` and asynchronous `ctx.waitUntil()` cache puts
-3. Edge Database Access (Section 81) → Never open direct raw TCP connections to DBs; use HTTP connection poolers (Prisma Accelerate, LibSQL, Supabase Pooler)
 
 ## Hallucination Traps (Read First)
 
@@ -33,8 +59,6 @@ Before engineering edge computing handlers or Cloudflare Workers, you MUST inspe
 
 ---
 
-# Edge Computing — Global Latency Mastery
-
 ---
 
 ## 1. The Edge Model (V8 Isolates vs Node.js)
@@ -150,91 +174,45 @@ export class ChatRoom {
 
 ---
 
----
-
-AI coding assistants often fall into specific bad habits when dealing with this domain. These are strictly forbidden:
+## 🚨 Edge-Case & Failure Mode Matrix
 
-1. **Over-engineering:** Proposing complex abstractions or distributed systems when a simpler approach suffices.
-2. **Hallucinated Libraries/Methods:** Using non-existent methods or packages. Always `// VERIFY` or check `package.json` / `requirements.txt`.
-3. **Skipping Edge Cases:** Writing the "happy path" and ignoring error handling, timeouts, or data validation.
-4. **Context Amnesia:** Forgetting the user's constraints and offering generic advice instead of tailored solutions.
-5. **Silent Degradation:** Catching and suppressing errors without logging or re-raising.
+| Scenario | Risk | Mitigation Strategy |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Empty or Null Inputs** | Unhandled exception or unexpected rendering collapse | Enforce fallback guards, optional chaining, and explicit empty state handlers |
+| **Network Timeout / Latency** | Hanging operations or duplicate side-effects | Implement bounded abort controllers, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys |
+| **Concurrency / Race Conditions** | Stale state overwrite or inconsistent data mutations | Use atomic transactions, mutex locking, or cancel-on-resubmit controls |
+| **Invalid Schema / Malformed Payload** | Downstream runtime errors or security injection | Validate boundary payloads with Zod/Pydantic schemas prior to execution |
+| **Resource / Memory Saturation** | OOM errors, frame drops, or memory leaks | Clean up listeners, cancel active timers, and enforce pagination/virtualization |
 
 ---
 
-**Slash command: `/review` or `/tribunal-full`**
-**Active reviewers: `logic-reviewer` · `security-auditor`**
-
-### ❌ Forbidden AI Tropes
-
-1. **Blind Assumptions:** Never make an assumption without documenting it clearly with `// VERIFY: [reason]`.
-2. **Silent Degradation:** Catching and suppressing errors without logging or handling.
-3. **Context Amnesia:** Forgetting the user's constraints and offering generic advice instead of tailored solutions.
+## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps Table
 
-Review these questions before confirming output:
-
-```
-✅ Did I rely ONLY on real, verified tools and methods?
-✅ Is this solution appropriately scoped to the user's constraints?
-✅ Did I handle potential failure modes and edge cases?
-✅ Have I avoided generic boilerplate that doesn't add value?
-```
-
-### 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
-
-**CRITICAL:** You must follow a strict "evidence-based closeout" state machine.
-
-- ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring a task complete because the output "looks correct."
-- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing tests, compile success, or equivalent proof) that your output works as intended.
-
-## Pre-Flight Checklist
-
-- [ ] Have I reviewed the user's specific constraints and requests?
-- [ ] Have I checked the environment for relevant existing implementations?
-
-## VBC Protocol (Verification-Before-Completion)
-
-You MUST verify existing code signatures and variables before attempting to modify or call them. No hallucination is permitted.
-
----
-
-## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps
-
-AI coding assistants often fall into specific bad habits when dealing with this domain. These are strictly forbidden:
-
-1. **Over-engineering:** Proposing complex abstractions or distributed systems when a simpler approach suffices.
-2. **Hallucinated Libraries/Methods:** Using non-existent methods or packages. Always `// VERIFY` or check `package.json` / `requirements.txt`.
-3. **Skipping Edge Cases:** Writing the "happy path" and ignoring error handling, timeouts, or data validation.
-4. **Context Amnesia:** Forgetting the user's constraints and offering generic advice instead of tailored solutions.
-5. **Silent Degradation:** Catching and suppressing errors without logging or re-raising.
+| Anti-Pattern | What AI Commonly Does Wrong | What Is Actually Correct |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Unchecked Payload Cast** | Casting request bodies to TypeScript types without runtime schema validation | Parse request payloads through Zod/Pydantic schemas before business logic |
+| **Silent Error Swallowing** | Catching errors with empty catch blocks or logging without rethrowing | Propagate structured errors with status codes and contextual stack traces |
+| **Unparameterized Query** | Concatenating user inputs into SQL/Prisma query strings | Always use parameterized bindings or type-safe ORM query builders |
 
 ---
 
-## 🏛️ Tribunal Integration (Anti-Hallucination)
-
-**Slash command: `/review` or `/tribunal-full`**
-**Active reviewers: `logic-reviewer` · `security-auditor`**
-
-### ❌ Forbidden AI Tropes
+## 🏛️ Tribunal Verification & Guardrails
 
-1. **Blind Assumptions:** Never make an assumption without documenting it clearly with `// VERIFY: [reason]`.
-2. **Silent Degradation:** Catching and suppressing errors without logging or handling.
-3. **Context Amnesia:** Forgetting the user's constraints and offering generic advice instead of tailored solutions.
+**Active Reviewers:** `logic-reviewer` · `security-auditor` · `api-architect` · `resilience-reviewer`
+**Slash Command:** `/review` or `/tribunal-full`
 
-### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit
-
-Review these questions before confirming output:
+### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit Checklist
 
 ```
-✅ Did I rely ONLY on real, verified tools and methods?
-✅ Is this solution appropriately scoped to the user's constraints?
-✅ Did I handle potential failure modes and edge cases?
-✅ Have I avoided generic boilerplate that doesn't add value?
+✅ Are all inputs and boundary payloads validated against schemas (Zod/Pydantic)?
+✅ Are SQL and database queries parameterized with zero string concatenation?
+✅ Are error boundaries and timeout/retry policies explicitly declared?
+✅ Are authentication checks performed before business logic execution?
+✅ Did I verify that imported dependencies exist in package.json/requirements.txt?
 ```
 
 ### 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
 
 **CRITICAL:** You must follow a strict "evidence-based closeout" state machine.
-
 - ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring a task complete because the output "looks correct."
-- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing tests, compile success, or equivalent proof) that your output works as intended.
+- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing test suites, compiler success, or equivalent operational proof) that your output works as intended.

package/.agent/skills/emil-design-eng/SKILL.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: emil-design-eng
-description: Encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great. Helps agents shape interfaces that feel refined through spacing, typography, interaction, and animation choices, aiming for subtle details and high-quality polish that elevate the whole product.
-version: 3.0.0
-last-updated: 2026-07-30
+description: Use when Encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great. Helps agents shape interfaces that feel refined through spacing, typography, interaction, and animation choices, aiming for subtle details and high-quality polish that elevate the whole product.
+version: 5.0.0
+last-updated: 2026-09-13
 skills:
   - apple-design
   - motion-engineering
@@ -15,15 +15,41 @@ scripts-binding:
 
 # Design Engineering
 
+## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
+
+Before generating, refactoring, or reviewing code in the `emil-design-eng` domain, inspect these 5 critical parameters:
+
+1. **System Boundaries & Dependencies**: Verify that all required dependencies exist in target package manifests and environment paths.
+2. **Runtime Context & Platform Invariants**: Confirm target platform constraints (Node.js, Browser, Mobile OS, Edge runtime) before applying APIs.
+3. **Execution Guardrails**: Identify potential side-effects, state mutations, and unhandled asynchronous exceptions.
+4. **Validation & Type Contracts**: Validate input data schemas and strict type constraints across all module interfaces.
+5. **Observability & Proof of Execution**: Ensure execution produces tangible verification signals (terminal output, tests, metrics).
+
+## Activation Boundaries
+
+- **Activate when:** Use when Encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great. Helps agents shape interfaces that feel refined through spacing, typography, interaction, and animation choices, aiming for subtle details and high-quality polish that elevate the whole product.
+- **DO NOT activate when:** The task falls outside the `emil-design-eng` domain or is managed by a different dedicated specialist.
+
+## 🔁 Multi-Pass Execution Protocol
+
+Execute all non-trivial tasks through this 7-pass cognitive loop:
+
+| Pass | Phase | Core Action |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Pass 1** | **Understand** | Deconstruct the user's explicit objective, implicit requirements, and platform constraints. |
+| **Pass 2** | **Plan** | Decompose the task into smallest logical steps; map dependencies and required tool calls. |
+| **Pass 3** | **Execute** | Implement the solution with production-grade craft, zero placeholders, and strict typing. |
+| **Pass 4** | **Verify** | Run linters, unit tests, or compiler checks to validate structural correctness. |
+| **Pass 5** | **Attack** | Perform an adversarial review searching for edge-case failures, race conditions, and traps. |
+| **Pass 6** | **Improve** | Eliminate discovered friction, optimize performance, and harden error boundaries. |
+| **Pass 7** | **Quality Gate** | Enforce Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) with concrete terminal proof before finalizing. |
+
 ---
 
-## Mandatory Pre-Flight Context Inspection
+## 🛠️ Technical Architecture & Reference Recipes
 
-Before designing or reviewing UI micro-animations, you MUST inspect:
+---
 
-1. Frequency Gate (Section 54) → Never animate keyboard actions or high-frequency controls (100+ times/day); keep UI animations under 300ms
-2. Easing Rule (Section 75) → Use strong `ease-out` (`cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1)`) for entering UI elements; ban `ease-in`
-3. Origin-Aware Popovers (Section 114) → Never animate scale from `scale(0)`; start at `scale(0.95)` with origin bound to trigger coordinates
 
 ## Initial Response
 
@@ -139,34 +165,45 @@ Popovers should scale in from their trigger, not from center. Explicitly set `tr
 
 ---
 
-## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps
+## 🚨 Edge-Case & Failure Mode Matrix
+
+| Scenario | Risk | Mitigation Strategy |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Empty or Null Inputs** | Unhandled exception or unexpected rendering collapse | Enforce fallback guards, optional chaining, and explicit empty state handlers |
+| **Network Timeout / Latency** | Hanging operations or duplicate side-effects | Implement bounded abort controllers, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys |
+| **Concurrency / Race Conditions** | Stale state overwrite or inconsistent data mutations | Use atomic transactions, mutex locking, or cancel-on-resubmit controls |
+| **Invalid Schema / Malformed Payload** | Downstream runtime errors or security injection | Validate boundary payloads with Zod/Pydantic schemas prior to execution |
+| **Resource / Memory Saturation** | OOM errors, frame drops, or memory leaks | Clean up listeners, cancel active timers, and enforce pagination/virtualization |
+
+---
+
+## 🤖 LLM-Specific Traps Table
 
-1. **Over-animating:** Applying animations to elements users interact with 100+ times a day.
-2. **Default Easings:** Using built-in CSS `ease` or `ease-in` for entering UI elements.
-3. **Sluggishness:** Proposing UI animations longer than 300ms.
-4. **Unnatural Entrances:** Animating elements from `scale(0)` or `opacity: 0` without a physical origin.
-5. **Ignoring Accessibility:** Failing to wrap animations in `prefers-reduced-motion` media queries.
+| Anti-Pattern | What AI Commonly Does Wrong | What Is Actually Correct |
+|:---|:---|:---|
+| **Hallucinated Tool Capabilities** | Assuming an external library or CLI command exists without verification | Run a verification check or verify package.json before referencing tools |
+| **Premature Completion Claim** | Declaring a task finished because code was generated without verification | Execute tests, linters, or terminal commands to provide concrete proof |
+| **Context Bloat Dumping** | Pasting entire multi-thousand-line files into prompt context | Extract targeted excerpts, symbols, and signatures to preserve tokens |
 
-## 🏛️ Tribunal Integration (Anti-Hallucination)
+---
 
-**Slash command: `/review` or `/tribunal-full`**
-**Active reviewers: `frontend-reviewer` · `accessibility-reviewer`**
+## 🏛️ Tribunal Verification & Guardrails
 
-### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit
+**Active Reviewers:** `orchestrator` · `agent-organizer` · `logic-reviewer`
+**Slash Command:** `/review` or `/tribunal-full`
 
-Review these questions before confirming output:
+### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit Checklist
 
 ```
-✅ Did I justify the animation's existence based on frequency?
-✅ Are all UI animations under 300ms?
-✅ Did I use `ease-out` (custom cubic-bezier) for entering elements?
-✅ Are popovers origin-aware and avoiding `scale(0)`?
-✅ Is `prefers-reduced-motion` respected?
+✅ Did I deconstruct the root objective before proposing architecture?
+✅ Did I identify dependencies, bottlenecks, and parallelizable sub-tasks?
+✅ Did I avoid over-engineering and select the simplest effective pattern?
+✅ Did I verify assumptions with concrete file reads instead of speculation?
+✅ Did I establish measurable verification criteria before completion?
 ```
 
 ### 🛑 Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) Protocol
 
 **CRITICAL:** You must follow a strict "evidence-based closeout" state machine.
-
-- ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring animation work complete because the code compiles.
-- ✅ **Required:** Provide evidence that the animation executes flawlessly at 60fps in the browser, adhering to the 300ms budget and easing rules.
+- ❌ **Forbidden:** Declaring a task complete because the output "looks correct."
+- ✅ **Required:** You are explicitly forbidden from finalizing any task without providing **concrete evidence** (terminal output, passing test suites, compiler success, or equivalent operational proof) that your output works as intended.