Skill Development Rules

No Polling for Background Agents

Store a learning, pattern, or decision in the memory system for future recall

Router-First Architecture

Check reference SDK implementations using btca ask

Get a token-efficient overview of any project using the TLDR stack

LLM Tuning Patterns

Parallel Agent Type Contracts

Maps questions to the optimal tldr command. Use this to pick the right layer

AI-powered web search, research, and reasoning via Perplexity

Implement technical plans from thoughts/shared/plans with verification

Planning agent that creates implementation plans and handoffs from conversation context

Deep interview process to transform vague ideas into detailed specs. Works for technical and non-technical users.

Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.

[Skill] Perform thorough code reviews focusing on unused code, duplications, coding patterns, bugs, and optimizations. Use when user wants code reviewed or audited. Read-only - outputs findings...

Guide to the math cognitive stack - what tools exist and when to use each

Formal theorem proving with research, testing, and verification phases

Graceful Degradation with Helpful Messages

Deterministic router for math cognitive stack - maps user intent to exact CLI commands

Unit-aware computation with Pint - convert units, dimensional analysis, unit arithmetic