> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.usesyndicate.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skills catalog

> All 100 built-in skills, grouped by domain, with what each one does.

Every built-in skill, grouped by domain. Agents get skills through their [specialization](/guides/agent-marketplace/built-in-syndicate-agents); invoke them with **/** in chat. How skills work: [Skills](/features/skills).

## Coordination and management

| Skill             | What it does                                                                                                  |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/manager-design` | Orchestrate multi-agent teams with strategic planning, review pipelines, scope control, and sprint management |
| `/delegate`       | Break a task into sub-tasks and assign to agents with clear acceptance criteria                               |
| `/status`         | Check all agent statuses and summarize team progress, blockers, and attention items                           |
| `/pipeline`       | Run an automated multi-phase review pipeline (strategy, design, engineering) on a plan                        |
| `/think`          | Strategic thinking session that pressure-tests assumptions before building begins                             |
| `/launch`         | Automated shipping workflow: merge base, tests, diff review, changelog, PR, verification                      |
| `/safeguard`      | Safety controls: warn before destructive commands, restrict edit scope, audit posture                         |
| `/scope`          | Restrict agent editing to specific files or directories                                                       |
| `/reflect`        | Sprint retrospective: what worked, what did not, actionable improvements                                      |
| `/learn`          | Save important context, decisions, and patterns to memory for future sessions                                 |

## Backend and APIs

| Skill             | What it does                                                                              |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/backend-design` | Architect robust backend systems with clean APIs and secure data handling                 |
| `/api-review`     | Review endpoints for consistency, HTTP methods, error handling, pagination, REST practice |
| `/api-docs`       | Generate API reference documentation with endpoints, parameters, examples, error codes    |
| `/api-document`   | Generate API documentation with request/response examples and auth requirements           |
| `/schema-check`   | Review database schema: normalization, indexing, constraints, naming, performance         |
| `/optimize-query` | Find and fix slow queries, N+1 problems, missing indexes                                  |
| `/error-handling` | Structured error handling: classification, logging, retries, friendly responses           |
| `/migrate`        | Review migration safety: backward compatibility, rollback, locks, deployment order        |
| `/test-plan`      | Comprehensive test plan for endpoints: integration tests, edge cases, fixtures            |
| `/benchmark`      | Measure performance baselines before and after changes                                    |
| `/secure`         | Audit backend code for injection, auth bypass, data exposure, insecure config             |

## Frontend and design

| Skill         | What it does                                                                           |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/fe-design`  | Create distinctive, production-grade interfaces: layout, color, typography, motion     |
| `/fe-review`  | Holistic interface evaluation: hierarchy, cognitive load, accessibility, anti-patterns |
| `/fe-layout`  | Fix layout, spacing, typography, and visual rhythm                                     |
| `/fe-color`   | Strategic color: semantic meaning, hierarchy, tone, accessibility                      |
| `/fe-clean`   | Polish and simplify: alignment, spacing consistency, design-system alignment           |
| `/fe-enhance` | Purposeful motion, micro-interactions, loading states, moments of delight              |
| `/fe-fortify` | Production hardening: responsive, error states, i18n, overflow, touch targets          |
| `/fe-check`   | Technical quality checks: accessibility, performance, theming, bundle analysis         |
| `/fe-welcome` | Onboarding flows, empty states, first-run experiences, feature discovery               |

## Quality and testing

| Skill               | What it does                                                                      |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/qa-design`        | Comprehensive testing strategy: integration coverage, regression detection, gates |
| `/test-coverage`    | Find coverage gaps and generate tests for uncovered critical paths                |
| `/smoke-test`       | Quick sanity check across critical paths after deploys or changes                 |
| `/qa-browser`       | Real browser tests with Playwright or Puppeteer: flows, visual state, responsive  |
| `/edge-cases`       | Find edge cases, boundary conditions, and failure modes                           |
| `/bug-report`       | Investigate a bug, find root cause, write a reproduction test, suggest a fix      |
| `/regression-check` | Verify recent changes have not broken existing functionality                      |
| `/review`           | General-purpose read-only review of code, writing, docs, plans, product work      |
| `/fact-check`       | Verify claims and data accuracy in technical content                              |

## DevOps and reliability

| Skill                | What it does                                                                  |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/devops-design`     | CI/CD pipelines, container configs, monitoring, deployment strategies         |
| `/containerize`      | Production Dockerfiles: multi-stage builds, security, caching, size           |
| `/pipeline-check`    | CI/CD configuration review: reliability, speed, security                      |
| `/deploy-review`     | Deployment safety: rollback capability, zero-downtime                         |
| `/monitor-setup`     | Monitoring, alerting, and observability: metrics, logs, traces, health checks |
| `/canary`            | Post-deploy health watch: error rates, latency, key metrics                   |
| `/incident-response` | Triage, diagnose, mitigate, and write post-mortems                            |
| `/rollback`          | Plan and execute rollbacks: code, database state, recovery verification       |
| `/scale`             | Scaling analysis and auto-scaling: bottlenecks, thresholds, load testing      |

## Security and compliance

| Skill               | What it does                                                     |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/compliance-check` | Audit for SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and financial regulations          |
| `/audit-trail`      | Design and verify audit trails for transactions and data changes |

## Research and analysis

| Skill                | What it does                                                                |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/researcher-design` | Systematic research: source evaluation, synthesis, evidence-based reporting |
| `/investigate`       | Deep research on a topic with multi-source evidence and citations           |
| `/synthesize`        | Combine sources into a coherent summary with insights and recommendations   |
| `/compare-options`   | Structured comparisons with pros/cons, trade-offs, and a recommendation     |
| `/source-eval`       | Evaluate reliability, authority, and bias of sources                        |

## Data science

| Skill             | What it does                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/datasci-design` | Data pipelines, statistical analyses, and visualization strategies  |
| `/data-clean`     | Clean, validate, and transform messy data with documented decisions |
| `/stat-analysis`  | Hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, significance reporting    |
| `/visualize-data` | Clear, accurate visualizations that do not mislead                  |
| `/etl-review`     | ETL pipeline review: reliability, performance, data quality checks  |
| `/report-gen`     | Financial reports, summaries, and dashboards from transaction data  |

## AI and ML

| Skill               | What it does                                                              |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/aiml-design`      | AI/ML systems: evaluation, prompt engineering, RAG, agent patterns        |
| `/agent-design`     | Agent architectures: tool use, planning, memory, multi-agent coordination |
| `/prompt-engineer`  | Prompt design: structured outputs, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought    |
| `/rag-review`       | RAG pipeline review: chunking, embedding, retrieval, generation quality   |
| `/embedding-review` | Embedding pipeline quality, dimensionality, similarity accuracy, indexing |
| `/model-eval`       | Model evaluation: metrics, cross-validation, bias detection               |
| `/model-benchmark`  | Compare models across accuracy, latency, cost, and quality                |

## Documentation and writing

| Skill             | What it does                                                            |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/writer-design`  | Clear technical documentation: API docs, tutorials, changelogs, READMEs |
| `/tutorial-write` | Step-by-step tutorials that take users from zero to working             |
| `/readme-gen`     | Generate or improve READMEs: installation, usage, API, contributions    |
| `/changelog-gen`  | Changelogs from git history, PRs, or diffs, categorized                 |
| `/style-guide`    | Create or audit style guides: voice, tone, formatting, terminology      |

## Finance

| Skill              | What it does                                                              |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/finance-design`  | Financial systems: accurate modeling, compliance, audit trails, reporting |
| `/financial-model` | Build and validate models with proper precision and currency handling     |
| `/risk-analysis`   | Risk exposure analysis, vulnerabilities, mitigation strategies            |

## Marketing and e-commerce

| Skill                | What it does                                                          |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/marketing-design`  | Data-driven marketing: SEO, content planning, campaigns, conversion   |
| `/seo-audit`         | Technical SEO, content quality, internal linking, performance         |
| `/content-strategy`  | Audience targeting, topic clusters, publishing calendar, distribution |
| `/campaign-analyze`  | Campaign performance: attribution, ROI, optimization                  |
| `/analytics-setup`   | Event definitions, conversion goals, funnels, dashboards              |
| `/ab-test`           | A/B test design and analysis with proper statistics                   |
| `/ecommerce-design`  | Catalogs, checkout flows, inventory, pricing strategies               |
| `/catalog-review`    | Catalog structure, search, filtering, SEO                             |
| `/checkout-optimize` | Conversion-focused checkout: less friction, less abandonment          |
| `/pricing-strategy`  | Dynamic pricing, discounts, promotional rules                         |
| `/inventory-check`   | Inventory accuracy, reservation logic, stock sync                     |
| `/conversion-audit`  | Funnel audit: drop-off points and optimization opportunities          |

## Mobile and games

| Skill                 | What it does                                                          |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/mobile-design`      | Platform-native patterns, offline-first, responsive, store compliance |
| `/mobile-patterns`    | Architecture review: navigation, components, native conventions       |
| `/responsive-mobile`  | Screen sizes, orientations, accessibility, touch targets              |
| `/offline-first`      | Offline sync, caching, conflict resolution                            |
| `/push-notify`        | Push notifications: permissions, delivery, deep links, preferences    |
| `/app-store-review`   | Pre-flight check for App Store and Play Store submission              |
| `/gamedev-design`     | Game systems: loops, state machines, physics, multiplayer             |
| `/game-loop`          | Game loop review: fixed timestep, update order, frame independence    |
| `/state-machine`      | FSMs for entities, UI flows, and game states                          |
| `/physics-check`      | Physics accuracy, performance, collision detection                    |
| `/asset-pipeline`     | Asset loading for textures, models, audio, level data                 |
| `/multiplayer-review` | Netcode, state sync, lag compensation, anti-cheat                     |