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• documents

  Read, write, convert, and analyze documents — routes to PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX sub-skills for creation, editing, extraction, and format conversion. USE WHEN document, process file, create document, convert format, extract text, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, Word, Excel, spreadsheet, PowerPoint, presentation, slides, consulting report, large PDF, merge PDF, fill form, tracked changes, redlining.

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• council

  Multi-agent collaborative debate that produces visible round-by-round transcripts with genuine intellectual friction. All council members are custom-composed via ComposeAgent (Agents skill) with domain expertise, unique voice, and personality tailored to the specific topic — never built-in generic types. ComposeAgent invoked as: bun run ~/.claude/skills/Agents/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts. Two workflows: DEBATE (3 rounds, full transcript + synthesis, parallel execution within rounds, 40-90 seconds total) and QUICK (1 round, fast perspective check). Context files: CouncilMembers.md (agent composition instructions), RoundStructure.md (three-round structure and timing), OutputFormat.md (transcript format templates). Agents are designed per debate topic to create real disagreement; 4-6 well-composed agents outperform 12 generic ones. Council is collaborative-adversarial (debate to find best path); for pure adversarial attack on an idea, use RedTeam instead. NOT FOR parallel task execution across agents (use Delegation skill). USE WHEN council, debate, multiple perspectives, weigh options, deliberate, get different views, multi-agent discussion, what would experts say, is there consensus, pros and cons from multiple angles.

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• redteam

  Military-grade adversarial analysis that deploys 32 parallel expert agents (engineers, architects, pentesters, interns) to stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans — not systems or infrastructure. Two workflows: ParallelAnalysis (5-phase: decompose into 24 atomic claims → 32-agent parallel attack → synthesis → steelman → counter-argument, each 8 points) and AdversarialValidation (competing proposals synthesized into best solution). Context files: Philosophy.md (core principles, success criteria, agent types), Integration.md (how to combine with FirstPrinciples, Council, and other skills; output format). Targets arguments, not network vulnerabilities. Findings ranked by severity; goal is to strengthen, not destroy — weaknesses delivered with remediation paths. Collaborates with FirstPrinciples (decompose assumptions before attacking) and Council (Council debates to find paths; RedTeam attacks whatever survives). Also invoked internally by Ideate (TEST phase) and WorldThreatModel (horizon stress-testing). NOT FOR AI instruction set auditing (use BitterPillEngineering). NOT FOR network/system vulnerability testing (use a security assessment skill). USE WHEN red team, attack idea, counterarguments, critique, stress test, devil's advocate, find weaknesses, break this, poke holes, what could go wrong, strongest objection, adversarial validation, battle of bots.

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• prompting

  Meta-prompting standard library — the PAI system for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically. Owns three pillars: Standards (Anthropic Claude 4.x best practices, context engineering principles, 1,500+ paper synthesis, Fabric pattern system, markdown-first / no-XML-tags); Templates (Handlebars-based — Briefing.hbs, Structure.hbs, Gate.hbs, DynamicAgent.hbs, and eval-specific templates Judge.hbs, Rubric.hbs, TestCase.hbs, Comparison.hbs, Report.hbs used by Agents and Evals skills); and Tools (RenderTemplate.ts for CLI/TypeScript rendering with data-content separation). Philosophy: prompts that write prompts — structure is code, content is data. Delivered 65% token reduction across PAI (53K → 18K tokens) via template extraction. Output is always a prompt to be used elsewhere, not final content. Reference files: Standards.md (complete prompt engineering guide), Tools/RenderTemplate.ts (rendering implementation). NOT FOR generating final content or answers — this skill produces prompts only (for content, use the appropriate domain skill). USE WHEN meta-prompting, template generation, prompt optimization, prompt engineering, write a prompt for, generate an agent prompt, create system prompt, programmatic prompt, Handlebars template, optimize this prompt, prompt hygiene, context engineering, eval prompt, judge prompt, agent briefing.

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• agents

  Compose CUSTOM agents from Base Traits + Voice + Specialization for specialized perspectives. USE WHEN create custom agents, spin up agents, specialized agents, agent personalities, available traits, list traits, agent voices, compose agent, load agent context, agent profile, spawn parallel agents, launch agents. NOT for agent teams/swarms (use Delegation skill → TeamCreate).

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• core

  Personal AI Infrastructure core. AUTO-LOADS at session start. The authoritative reference for how the PAI system works, how to use it, and all system-level configuration. USE WHEN any session begins, user asks about the system, identity, configuration, workflows, security, or any other question about how the PAI system operates.

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