How to produce ad creative that converts at performance scale. Hook patterns, format selection, video pacing, variation systems, sequential testing methodology, fatigue detection, brand-voice alignment without conversion dilution, and platform-specific creative norms. Triggers on ad creative, ad design, hook patterns, ad video pacing, creative testing, ad variations, creative refresh, creative fatigue, refresh ad creative, video ads for Meta, TikTok creative, LinkedIn ad creative, ad asset library. Also triggers when a team is producing creative at scale, planning a creative test cycle, or auditing why creative is not converting.

Run a structured after-action review (postmortem, retrospective) on a launch, incident, or completed project to capture timeline, root cause analysis, contributing factors, and actionable lessons. Use this skill whenever the user wants to run a postmortem, retrospective, AAR, or after-action review on any past event. Triggers on after-action report, AAR, postmortem, retrospective, retro, post-incident review, what went well what didn't, lessons learned, blameless postmortem, root cause analysis, RCA, five whys. Also triggers when the user has just shipped something or just resolved an incident and wants to capture learnings.

Plan and run backups, set recovery objectives, and run disaster recovery drills. Use this skill when defining RPO/RTO targets, designing backup architecture, deciding what to back up and how often, planning for full-region or platform outages, or running a restoration drill. Triggers on backup, restore, RPO, RTO, disaster recovery, DR, business continuity, what if the database is gone, what if our hosting goes down, recovery drill, ransomware planning. Also triggers when an incident reveals a gap in restoration capability.

Running closed and open betas that produce real signal. Beta participant selection, structured feedback collection, beta-to-GA decision criteria, and the difference between soft-launch (no structure, no signal), kitchen-sink (everyone in, no actionable feedback), and structured beta (calibrated cohort, intentional feedback loops, clear graduation criteria). Triggers on beta program, alpha test, beta cohort, beta participant, beta feedback, beta to GA decision, design partner, early access program, closed beta, open beta, RC release. Also triggers when a feature is approaching launch and the team needs structured pre-GA validation, when prior betas produced noise rather than signal, or when the team has soft-launched before but wants more structured feedback this time.

Run upstream brand discovery covering audience research, competitive landscape, category dynamics, problem space, and positioning territory exploration. Use this skill at the very start of a brand or website project when the user needs to understand who they're for, who they compete with, what the audience actually needs, and where the brand could plausibly stand. Triggers on brand discovery, audience research, market research, competitive scan, category research, customer research, who is this for, who are we, positioning research, intake, kickoff. Also triggers when a creative brief is requested but the upstream inputs (audience, competitors, problem space) are not yet clear.

Generate, evaluate, and narrow brand concepts during early ideation including positioning territories, naming candidates, mood directions, and narrative angles. Use this skill whenever the user is in the early phase of brand creation, exploring brand directions, brainstorming names, building moodboards, generating positioning options, or trying to choose between multiple brand directions. Triggers on brand ideation, brand concept, naming, brand name, name candidates, positioning, brand positioning, mood board, brand directions, exploring brands, early brand work, brand exploration, brand brainstorm, brand options. Also triggers when the user has multiple half-formed brand ideas and needs help converging on one, even if they do not say 'ideation' explicitly.

Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create brand guidelines, document an existing brand, build a brand book, audit an existing style guide for completeness, or produce the artifact that other teams will reference for years. Triggers on style guide, brand guidelines, brand book, brand standards, brand manual, style sheet, brand documentation, brand reference. Also triggers when the brand identity is finished and needs to be documented for handoff to designers, developers, vendors, or future team members.

Review web application code for bugs, security issues, performance problems, and stack-specific anti-patterns. Use this skill whenever the user wants to review code, debug a production issue, investigate a build failure, audit security, or check a PR before merging. Triggers on code review, review my code, debug, build error, broken, not working, why is X failing, check this code, security check, PR review, audit code, refactor. Also triggers when investigating 4xx or 5xx errors, deploy failures, environment variable issues, and CMS integration problems.

Write or edit website copy, blog content, and editorial pieces with attention to voice, structure, and goal. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write an article, draft website copy, edit existing content for clarity or voice, write a blog post, or produce general editorial content. Triggers on write a blog post, draft an article, write copy for, edit this, rewrite this, write content, write a guide, draft a how-to, write web copy. Also triggers when content has been outlined and now needs to be written, or when existing content needs voice or clarity edits.

How to author a content brief that actually guides a writer (human or AI) to produce a piece that ranks, converts, or both. Per-piece editorial brief: target keyword and cluster, search intent, audience and JTBD, heading structure, entity coverage for AEO/GEO, internal linking strategy, success criteria. The middle path between thin briefs (a keyword and a deadline) and thick briefs (a 4-page document nobody reads). Triggers on content brief, brief the writer, brief the article, brief authoring, content brief template, brief audit, per-piece brief, editorial brief, target keyword brief, search intent brief. Also triggers when briefing a human writer or an AI agent on a single content piece.

Systematic content refresh discipline. Quarterly audits, refresh prioritization (which pieces, when, how deep), refresh-vs-merge-vs-delete decisions, the lifecycle that distinguishes intentional refresh from set-and-forget decay. Builds on the refresh sections of pillar-content-architecture and editorial-qa with a program-level discipline. Triggers on content refresh, content decay, content audit, refresh prioritization, content lifecycle, refresh strategy, traffic decay, ranking drop, content freshness, evergreen content, content maintenance. Also triggers when traffic is eroding silently across an aging content library, when teams cannot decide which pieces to refresh, or when refresh work is happening but the impact is unclear.

Apply production-grade design standards when building or reviewing pages, components, or UI. Use this skill whenever the user asks to build a page, design a component, lay out a section, review the UI, fix the layout, or check design quality. Triggers on build a page, create a component, design a section, hero, card, CTA, layout, review the UI, fix the design, design system, design tokens, spacing, typography scale, button standards, mobile design. Also triggers for any production design decision where contrast, accessibility, spacing, or visual hierarchy matters.

Turning research artifacts into actionable PM insight. Customer interviews, user research notes, support ticket reviews, sales call transcripts, survey data, in-app feedback, all synthesized into the decisions they are meant to inform. The discipline of moving from raw discovery data to clear product direction without losing signal in the synthesis or fabricating insight that was not actually there. Triggers on research synthesis, customer interview synthesis, user research analysis, discovery readout, research insights, sales call analysis, support ticket analysis, qualitative data analysis. Also triggers when a team has done research but cannot turn it into decisions, when synthesis is producing pretty decks but no roadmap movement, or when an upcoming PM decision needs to be grounded in research already conducted.

Plan, manage, and optimize a domain portfolio. Use this skill for DNS architecture decisions, redirect strategies, registrar choice, parking unused domains, multi-site setups, and domain consolidation or split planning. Triggers on DNS, domain, registrar, redirect, parking, subdomain, apex, www vs non-www, multi-site, portfolio, hreflang setup, domain migration. Also triggers when planning a new site that needs domain decisions made before launch.

Design and write email campaigns and sequences including onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, transactional emails, newsletters, and broadcast sends. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write email copy, plan an email sequence, design an onboarding drip, or set up lifecycle email campaigns. Triggers on email sequence, drip campaign, onboarding email, lifecycle email, welcome email, transactional email, newsletter, email broadcast, nurture sequence, abandoned cart, re-engagement, win-back. Also triggers when planning email automation flows or writing email subject lines for campaigns.

How to read experiment results without fooling yourself. Confidence intervals, p-values, multiple testing, sequential testing, CUPED, heterogeneous treatment effects, ratio metrics, network effects, dashboard reconciliation, and the interpretation failures that produce confidently wrong shipping decisions.

A platform decision framework for experimentation. When to use Statsig vs PostHog vs GrowthBook vs Optimizely vs Amplitude vs Eppo vs Kameleoon. How to migrate between them. How to coordinate when multi-platform is genuinely warranted. The decisions that compound for years and the ones you can defer. Triggers on which experimentation platform, choose Statsig vs PostHog, evaluate experimentation tools, switch experimentation platform, migrate from Optimizely, consolidate experimentation tools, multi-platform experimentation, experimentation platform decision, ab test platform selection, feature flag platform vs experiment platform, warehouse-native experiments, vendor lock-in experimentation. Also triggers when a team is asking about cost, governance, or migration cost across experimentation tools, or when an evaluation is starting.

The operational playbook for launching a feature well. Positioning, internal alignment, customer comms, sales enablement, support readiness, rollout strategy, monitoring with pre-defined rollback triggers, post-launch measurement against spec hypotheses, and the discipline that distinguishes shipping from releasing from actually launching. Triggers on launch plan, feature launch, launch checklist, ship vs release, rollout strategy, gradual rollout, sales enablement, support readiness, launch announcement, post-launch measurement, launch failure, declared victory too early. Also triggers when planning a launch (any size, any segment), auditing an existing launch process, fixing the we shipped it but the metric did not move problem, or building a launch checklist for the team.

Build production-ready frontend components with accessible markup, sensible props, defined states, and tested behavior. Use this skill whenever the user wants to build a component from scratch, refactor an existing one, design a component API, or implement a UI element with proper states and accessibility. Triggers on build a component, create a button, create a modal, create a form input, component API, props design, component states, refactor component, accessible component. Also triggers when implementing UI from a design that needs to be reusable.

Architecting cross-tool conversion flows that match audience and stage. Landing page to lead magnet to nurture sequence to offer to advanced funnels. Honest about silo-funnels (every tool standalone), kitchen-sink-funnels (every audience squeezed through one path), and matched-funnels (architecture matched to audience-and-stage) patterns. Triggers on funnel design, conversion architecture, marketing funnel, growth funnel, lifecycle architecture, nurture sequence design, multi-tool funnel orchestration. Also triggers when the team's growth tools are working individually but not together, when audience segments share one nurture path, or when a funnel is being architected from scratch.