Highest-trust agent skills

Blameless post-mortem structure, incident timeline reconstruction, response evaluation, and organizational learning

Monitoring, observability, operational procedures, CI/CD lessons learned, and quality gate definitions. Load when assessing production readiness or validating operational excellence.

Agent safety boundaries - input validation, output filtering, scope constraints, and document creation policy

Progressive L1-L6 refactoring hierarchy, 22 code smell taxonomy, atomic transformations, test code smells, and Fowler refactoring catalog

Property-based testing strategies, mutation testing, shrinking, and combined PBT+mutation workflow for test quality validation

Quality gates - 11 commit readiness gates, build/test protocol, validation checkpoints, and quality metrics

Type-specific validation checklists, six quality characteristics, and quality gate thresholds for documentation assessment

SQL and NoSQL query optimization techniques, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, JOIN algorithms, cardinality estimation, and database-specific query patterns

Applies the Refactoring Priority Premise (RPP) levels L1-L6 for systematic code refactoring. Use when improving code quality through structured refactoring passes.

Gathers knowledge from web and files, cross-references across multiple sources, and produces cited research documents. Use when investigating technologies, patterns, or decisions that need evidence backing.

Research output templates, distillation workflow, and quality standards for evidence-driven research

Dispatches an expert reviewer agent to critique workflow artifacts. Use when a roadmap, implementation, or step needs quality review before proceeding.

YAML output format and approval criteria for platform design reviews. Load when generating review feedback.

Detailed review process, v2 validation checklist, and scoring methodology for agent definition reviews

Selects a quality-vs-token-consumption profile (lean, standard, thorough, exhaustive, custom, inherit) and persists it globally (~/.nwave/global-config.json) or per-project (.nwave/des-config.json). Use when tuning how…

Creates a phased roadmap.json for a feature goal with acceptance criteria and TDD steps. Use when planning implementation steps before execution.

Roadmap-specific validation checks for architecture reviews. Load when reviewing roadmaps for implementation readiness.

Root cause analysis and debugging

Critique dimensions and scoring for research document reviews

Architecture quality critique dimensions for peer review. Load when invoking solution-architect-reviewer or performing self-review of architecture documents.

Architecture quality critique dimensions for peer review. Load when performing architecture document reviews.

Reviewer critique dimensions for peer review - implementation bias detection, test quality validation, completeness checks, and priority validation

25 real-world system design case studies condensed from Alex Xu's System Design Interview Vol 1 and 2 - requirements, architecture, deep dive insights, key takeaways

4-step system design framework with back-of-envelope estimation, scaling ladder, and common pitfalls