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poteto-mode poteto's agent style for concise, detailed responses, deliberate subagents, unslopped prose, simple code, and verifie…

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arena Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it. Use for /…

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automate-me Use for "automate me", "create/update/refresh my -mode skill", "turn/capture my preferences or working style into a s…

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deslop Remove AI slop from the code a branch changed, before a commit and without changing behavior: narrating comments, gua…

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principle-experience-first Apply when product, UX, or feature-scope tradeoffs come up. Choose user delight over implementation convenience; ship…

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pstack-harness Maps pstack's delegation and portable resource primitives to the current CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build,…

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reflect Spawn three parallel review subagents over the active transcript, surface learnings, and route each to a concrete edi…

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setup-pstack Check installed pstack personas, optionally register native agents, configure which models pstack uses per role and a…

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show-me-your-work Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why,…

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spec-probes Apply when writing or reviewing a spec, requirements, acceptance criteria, user stories, or tickets, before any code …

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unslop Before responding to the user or writing any text, you must use this skill to remove AI tells. Required for every rep…

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why Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thr…

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architect Sketch types, signatures, and module structure before code, then stay in the loop while implementation fills in. Use …

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benchmark-checklist Vet a perf measurement (limiter, tuning, limits, errors, repeatability, relevance, and whether the work happened) bef…

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blast-radius Find what a change could break somewhere else before it ships, beyond the diff, and prove the one fact it's safe beca…

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bro Restate the last message in plain human language, with no jargon.

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correct Find the mistakes agents keep repeating in this repo and make each one impossible. Try architecture first, then types…

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create-verification-skill Generate a project-local verification skill that drives your app the way a user does — any language, framework, or pl…

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documentation-impact Check documentation impact before completing a change or declaring it ready to ship. Use when a change may affect use…

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figure-it-out Design an auditable playbook when no narrower one fits: a large migration, an ambitious multi-part change, or work a …

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how Use for "how does X work", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering question…

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interrogate Use for "interrogate", "adversarial review", "multi-model review", "challenge this", "stress test this code", "find b…

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ketchup Catch the user up on everything in this chat since their last message, in plain words. Give each action item an execu…

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maintain-verification-skill Periodic pass that keeps a project's verification skill and feature map honest: parallel source readers per feature, …

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make-bot-ui Use when building a custom UI (page, dashboard, buttons) that should wake a Grok Bot over a webhook, when the user mu…

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no-comments Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.

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poteto-help Guides users through pstack setup, /poteto-mode, and picking the skill, playbook, or principle for a task. Type /pote…

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poteto-tdd Use only when the user explicitly asks for TDD, a failing test, or a regression test, OR when the bug has an obvious …

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poteto-teach Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. Runs the `how` and `why` skills and weaves what t…

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principle-attack-the-premise Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate. Take a census of which actors hold the…

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principle-boundary-discipline Apply when wiring validation, error handling, or framework adapters. Concentrate guards at system boundaries (CLI, co…

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principle-build-the-lever Apply to any non-trivial work, not just bulk work: edits, migrations, analyses, checks. Build the tool that does it o…

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principle-encode-lessons-in-structure Apply when you catch yourself writing the same instruction a second time, or notice a recurring correction. Encode th…

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principle-exhaust-the-design-space Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase. Build 2-3 compe…

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principle-explain-the-number Apply before you trust, report, or act on a number you measured: a speedup, a regression, a throughput, a latency, or…

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principle-fix-root-causes Apply when debugging. Trace each symptom to its root cause and fix it there; reproduce first, ask why until you reach…

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principle-foundational-thinking Apply before writing logic: choosing core types and data structures, sequencing scaffold-vs-feature work, asking what…

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principle-guard-the-context-window Apply before a large read, a long command output, or a subagent brief, not only when context is filling up. Route bul…

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principle-laziness-protocol Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias towar…

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principle-make-operations-idempotent Apply when designing commands, lifecycle steps, or processing loops that run amid crashes, restarts, and retries. Con…

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principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis Apply when introducing a new internal API while old callers still exist. Migrate callers and delete the old API in th…

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principle-minimize-reader-load Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state…

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principle-model-the-domain Apply when writing stateful logic, or when code branches a lot or repeats a shape assumption across files.

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principle-never-block-on-the-human Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.

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principle-outcome-oriented-execution Apply during planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries. Converge on the target architecture; don…

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principle-prove-it-works Apply after completing a task, before declaring done. Verify against the real artifact (run the feature, read the act…

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principle-redesign-from-first-principles Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design.

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principle-separate-before-serializing-shared-state Apply when concurrent actors might write to the same file, branch, key, or state object. Eliminate the sharing first;…

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principle-sequence-verifiable-units Apply to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs. Break work…

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principle-subtract-before-you-add Apply when sequencing an addition, refactor, or rewrite. Remove dead code, redundant validators, and stub references …

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