Tools
Development tools, utilities, and productivity aids
17720 skills in this category
Subcategories
ui-styling
Create beautiful, accessible user interfaces with shadcn/ui components (built on Radix UI + Tailwind), Tailwind CSS utility-first styling, and canvas-based visual designs. Use when building user interfaces, implementing design systems, creating responsive layouts, adding accessible components (dialogs, dropdowns, forms, tables), customizing themes and colors, implementing dark mode, generating visual designs and posters, or establishing consistent styling patterns across applications.
better-auth
Implement authentication and authorization with Better Auth - a framework-agnostic TypeScript authentication framework. Features include email/password authentication with verification, OAuth providers (Google, GitHub, Discord, etc.), two-factor authentication (TOTP, SMS), passkeys/WebAuthn support, session management, role-based access control (RBAC), rate limiting, and database adapters. Use when adding authentication to applications, implementing OAuth flows, setting up 2FA/MFA, managing user sessions, configuring authorization rules, or building secure authentication systems for web applications.
When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch
Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck
ai-multimodal
Process and generate multimedia content using Google Gemini API. Capabilities include analyze audio files (transcription with timestamps, summarization, speech understanding, music/sound analysis up to 9.5 hours), understand images (captioning, object detection, OCR, visual Q&A, segmentation), process videos (scene detection, Q&A, temporal analysis, YouTube URLs, up to 6 hours), extract from documents (PDF tables, forms, charts, diagrams, multi-page), generate images (text-to-image, editing, composition, refinement). Use when working with audio/video files, analyzing images or screenshots, processing PDF documents, extracting structured data from media, creating images from text prompts, or implementing multimodal AI features. Supports multiple models (Gemini 2.5/2.0) with context windows up to 2M tokens.
shopify
Build Shopify applications, extensions, and themes using GraphQL/REST APIs, Shopify CLI, Polaris UI components, and Liquid templating. Capabilities include app development with OAuth authentication, checkout UI extensions for customizing checkout flow, admin UI extensions for dashboard integration, POS extensions for retail, theme development with Liquid, webhook management, billing API integration, product/order/customer management. Use when building Shopify apps, implementing checkout customizations, creating admin interfaces, developing themes, integrating payment processing, managing store data via APIs, or extending Shopify functionality.
Systematic Debugging
Four-phase debugging framework that ensures root cause investigation before attempting fixes. Never jump to solutions.
Simplification Cascades
Find one insight that eliminates multiple components - "if this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z"
context-engineering
Master context engineering for AI agent systems. Use when designing agent architectures, debugging context failures, optimizing token usage, implementing memory systems, building multi-agent coordination, evaluating agent performance, or developing LLM-powered pipelines. Covers context fundamentals, degradation patterns, optimization techniques (compaction, masking, caching), compression strategies, memory architectures, multi-agent patterns, LLM-as-Judge evaluation, tool design, and project development.
chrome-devtools
Browser automation, debugging, and performance analysis using Puppeteer CLI scripts. Use for automating browsers, taking screenshots, analyzing performance, monitoring network traffic, web scraping, form automation, and JavaScript debugging.
aesthetic
Create aesthetically beautiful interfaces following proven design principles. Use when building UI/UX, analyzing designs from inspiration sites, generating design images with ai-multimodal, implementing visual hierarchy and color theory, adding micro-interactions, or creating design documentation. Includes workflows for capturing and analyzing inspiration screenshots with chrome-devtools and ai-multimodal, iterative design image generation until aesthetic standards are met, and comprehensive design system guidance covering BEAUTIFUL (aesthetic principles), RIGHT (functionality/accessibility), SATISFYING (micro-interactions), and PEAK (storytelling) stages. Integrates with chrome-devtools, ai-multimodal, media-processing, ui-styling, and web-frameworks skills.
docs-seeker
Searching internet for technical documentation using llms.txt standard, GitHub repositories via Repomix, and parallel exploration. Use when user needs: (1) Latest documentation for libraries/frameworks, (2) Documentation in llms.txt format, (3) GitHub repository analysis, (4) Documentation without direct llms.txt support, (5) Multiple documentation sources in parallel
mcp-management
Manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers - discover, analyze, and execute tools/prompts/resources from configured MCP servers. Use when working with MCP integrations, need to discover available MCP capabilities, filter MCP tools for specific tasks, execute MCP tools programmatically, access MCP prompts/resources, or implement MCP client functionality. Supports intelligent tool selection, multi-server management, and context-efficient capability discovery.
drafting-pr
Use when creating or updating draft pull requests without code review - streamlines draft PR workflow with meaningful descriptions and commit messages, focusing on work-in-progress documentation
executing-plans
Use when partner provides a complete implementation plan to execute in controlled batches with review checkpoints - loads plan, reviews critically, executes tasks in batches, reports for review between batches
using-skills
Use when starting any conversation - establishes mandatory workflows for finding and using skills, including using Skill tool before announcing usage, alignment before implementation, and creating TodoWrite todos for checklists
creating-pr
Use when creating or updating pull requests with comprehensive descriptions and meaningful commits - streamlines PR workflow with branch management and commit best practices
fabric
Intelligent pattern selection for Fabric CLI. Automatically selects the right pattern from 242+ specialized prompts based on your intent - threat modeling, analysis, summarization, content creation, extraction, and more. USE WHEN processing content, analyzing data, creating summaries, threat modeling, or transforming text.
create-skill
Guide for creating new skills in Kai's personal AI infrastructure. Use when user wants to create, update, or structure a new skill that extends capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations. Follows both Anthropic skill standards and PAI-specific patterns.
system-createcli
Generate production-quality TypeScript CLIs with full documentation, error handling, and best practices. Creates deterministic, type-safe command-line tools following PAI's CLI-First Architecture. USE WHEN user says "create a CLI", "build a command-line tool", "make a CLI for X", or requests CLI generation. (user)
git-worktree
This skill manages Git worktrees for isolated parallel development. It handles creating, listing, switching, and cleaning up worktrees with a simple interactive interface, following KISS principles.