Skill rating

Diff-scoped correctness review that reads the codebase around the change — callers, contracts, and invariants — and returns line-anchored findings ranked by severity with confidence, then a merge-risk

Strategic delegation for multi-step coding, research, or verification work. Use when a task can be split into parent reasoning plus focused sub-agent execution through the agent tool.

Triage N GitHub issues into a coverage matrix: fetch each, check current code, classify already-done/quick-fix/design/defer with cited evidence.

Hunt the issue/PR queue for highest value-over-risk wins: clean focused community PRs, already-implemented issues to close, safe quick-fixes.

Use when filing a new Codewhale GitHub issue: turn a bug or idea into a well-formed, actionable issue with repro, acceptance criteria, labels, and milestone.

Harvest one community PR into a release branch with authorship and credit preserved, verified green, and a warm thank-you.

Close resolved Codewhale issues only after verifying the landed commit/behavior, with a positive crediting comment; never from title alone.

Review a change, module, or surface for exploitable defects — trust boundaries, authn/authz, injection, secret exposure, filesystem and network reach, dependency risk. Use when the user asks for a sec

Create or improve codewhale skills. Use when the user wants a new skill, wants to update an existing skill, or needs guidance on when a skill should be a skill versus MCP, hooks, tools, or a plugin sc

Write a compact, decision-ready handoff so the next session (or the user) can continue without reconstructing the current one. Use when the session is ending, context is running low, the user asks for

Reproduce, minimize, localize, identify root cause, and distinguish diagnosis from an authorized fix. Prefer root-cause over symptom patches.

Turn a sufficiently understood task into an ordered implementation plan with dependencies and verification. Orchestrate Codewhale’s native plan state; do not build a parallel planner.

Use when working with deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash in thinking mode on multi-step or plan-driven tasks. Provides rules to prevent stale references, unverified plan assumptions, and vague plan

Read schedules, check availability, and create or update Google Calendar events when the user asks to work with their calendar.

Install, update, trust, or inspect Codewhale skills from GitHub or local skill folders. Use when the user asks for available skills or wants a community skill installed.

Start/reuse a local app, wait for readiness, inspect rendered state/console/network, act from observed selectors, and verify with evidence.

Use when managing, triaging, restarting, escalating, or summarizing Codewhale fleet runs and workers.

Find and start a zero-environment local MCP server when the session lacks a capability that no available tool, project script, or ordinary local code can cover.

Carry an authorized, defined request or approved plan through scoped edits and proportionate verification. Skill loading is not write authorization by itself.

Ask one useful structured question at a time only when material product/implementation choices are genuinely missing; remember answers and produce a brief/spec. Discoverable facts should be investigat

Use before claiming Codewhale release work is done: run the full gate sweep and list the manual QA targets.

Current external research using available web tools, primary sources where possible, links/citations, date awareness, synthesis, and unresolved uncertainty.

Improve clarity and reduce needless complexity after behavior is understood; preserve behavior and keep cleanup separate from correctness fixes.

Choose and produce an appropriate chart/dashboard/visual explanation from data, with legible encodings and source/assumption notes.

Break a large, parallelizable goal into bounded work units, coordinate existing agent/worktree machinery, integrate, and verify. Explicit-only.

Route a "how do I use Codewhale" question to the installed help, config, and doctor surfaces instead of reciting a manual from memory. Explicit-only.

Use to assign GitHub issues to a milestone and/or owners in bulk, verifying each.

Survey open Codewhale PRs and triage each for mergeability and disposition against the real landing branch.

Produce intentional, responsive, accessible UI work and perform visual QA instead of generic component assembly.

Search a local macOS Photos library and export selected copies when the user asks to find or use their own photos.

Exercise the real app/API/CLI and collect observable evidence; tests alone do not count as end-to-end verification.

Search, read, draft, and send Gmail when the user asks to work with their inbox or email.

Create/edit/inspect Word documents using available managed or host capabilities.

Create/edit/inspect/verify slide decks and PPTX presentations.

Detect the project’s test stack, run the narrowest useful tests, create tests when authorized, and report coverage/gaps honestly.

Create/edit/analyze/verify spreadsheet workbooks including XLSX/CSV/TSV.

Generate a small set of independent candidate solutions in worktrees, judge them against one explicit rubric, and apply the winner only after PASS verification.

Help the user remove a stored fact using Codewhale's Context Lens when they ask to forget or delete a memory.

GitHub via gh — issues, PRs, reviews, search, and CI runs. Use when: user mentions a repo, issue, PR, review, release, workflow run, or anything on github.com.

Bank accounts, balances, and transactions via Plaid. Use when: bank, balance, transactions, spending, accounts, or plaid.

Help a new contributor get productive on this checkout - inspect sync state against main, build, run the repository's exact verification gate, and produce a local what's-new digest. Never fetches, pul

Scaffold a local Codewhale plugin bundle with a versioned manifest, namespaced Skills, and an explicit trust review.

Find images on the web and save them locally. Use when: find an image, image search, stock photo, picture of, download an image, or need a visual.

Design, build, configure, or debug Model Context Protocol servers for codewhale, including stdio and HTTP/SSE transports.

Write or update repository/product documentation: README, user guides, API docs, architecture, migration notes, and changelog material. This is not the Word-document artifact skill.

Report a Codewhale bug or idea as a GitHub issue. Use when: codewhale bug, feature request, feedback on codewhale, report an issue, or this should work differently.

Product research — compare options, prices, and reviews. Use when: buy, shopping, product recommendation, compare prices, best X to buy, or is this a good deal.

Turn research into a spoken podcast — script, synthesize, stitch. Use when: podcast, generate a podcast, audio briefing, narrate, or turn this into audio.

Control Spotify playback and search the library and playlists. Use when: spotify, music, playlist, play, pause, or what's playing.

Set, review, and update the user's goals. Use when: goals, resolutions, track progress, what am I working toward, or holding me accountable.