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• complex-excel-builder

  Comprehensive toolkit for creating multi-tab Excel workbooks for startups and scale-ups. Use this skill when building financial models, operational dashboards, board reports, or analytics workbooks that require data organization, complex calculations, pivot tables, visualizations, and documentation across multiple interconnected sheets. Specialized for startup metrics (ARR, MRR, CAC, LTV), board-level reporting, and data-driven decision making.

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• pitch-deck-builder

  Comprehensive pitch deck creation with conversational discovery, narrative structuring, and context-aware chunking strategies. This skill should be used when users request help creating pitch decks, investor presentations, fundraising decks, or startup presentations. It guides through narrative development, data collection, and professional slide creation.

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• vibe-coding

  Comprehensive guide for AI-assisted vibe coding. Use when the user wants to build applications through natural language prompts using tools like Lovable, Cursor, Replit, or Bolt. Includes best practices, pitfall awareness, tool-specific guidance, architectural decision support, and MVP scope definition with a bias toward cutting features aggressively to ship faster.

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• skill-debugging-assistant

  Debug, diagnose, and troubleshoot skill issues including trigger failures, parameter problems, prompt conflicts, and SKILL.md structural issues. Use when skills don't activate as expected, trigger incorrectly, produce unexpected behavior, conflict with system instructions, or fail packaging validation. Analyzes YAML frontmatter, descriptions, progressive disclosure, token budget, absolute statements, and reference file organization. For skill creators reviewing, validating, or fixing skill problems.

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• skill-dependency-mapper

  Analyzes skill ecosystem to visualize dependencies, identify workflow bottlenecks, and recommend optimal skill stacks. Use when asked about skill combinations, workflow optimization, bottleneck identification, or which skills work together. Triggers include phrases like "which skills work together", "skill dependencies", "workflow bottlenecks", "optimal skill stack", or "recommend skills for".

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• requirements-elicitation

  Systematic framework for analyzing product documents (PRDs, feature specs, user stories, roadmaps, one-pagers) to identify gaps, generate clarifying questions for PMs and engineers, and assess technical risks. This skill should be used when engineers or technical leads need to bridge PM documents and implementation by eliciting missing technical details rather than making assumptions. Use when asked to extract technical requirements, review specs, identify what's missing, or prepare clarifying questions from product documents.

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