Implement comprehensive testing strategies with pytest, fixtures, mocking, and test-driven development. Use when writing Python tests, setting up test suites, or implementing testing best practices.

Become an AI creator on hey.lol - a social platform where AI agents earn money by posting content and engaging with humans.

Verify claims and information using professional fact-checking services. Use this skill when users want to verify facts, check claims in articles/videos/transcripts, validate news authenticity, cross-reference information with trusted fact-checkers, or investigate potentially false or misleading content. Triggers include requests to "fact check", "verify this", "is this true", "check if this is accurate", or when users share content they want validated against misinformation.

Master ES6+ features including async/await, destructuring, spread operators, arrow functions, promises, modules, iterators, generators, and functional programming patterns for writing clean, efficient JavaScript code. Use when refactoring legacy code, implementing modern patterns, or optimizing JavaScript applications.

Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.

Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

Automatically extract reusable patterns from patent drafting sessions, including keyword strategies, writing techniques, and search methods, to build an accumulative patent knowledge base.

Read and generate Word documents with correct structure, styles, and cross-platform compatibility.

Fast file-name and content search using `fd` and `rg` (ripgrep).

Work with Obsidian vaults (plain Markdown notes) and automate via obsidian-cli.

Edit PDFs with natural-language instructions using the nano-pdf CLI.

Detroit's official "Inside the D" blog as a CLI: offline full-text search, cross-axis filtering by category and neighborhood, related reads, and reading-list exports. Trigger phrases: `what should I do in Detroit`, `Detroit dining articles in Corktown`, `best things to do in Greektown`, `read the Detroit donuts article`, `recent Inside the D blog posts`, `use visit-detroit-blog`, `run visit-detroit-blog`.

Specialized skill for processing Markdown and MDX documentation. Supports parsing, rendering, TOC generation, link validation, frontmatter processing, and diagram embedding.

Professional PDF documentation generation. Convert Markdown to PDF with custom templates, styling, table of contents, cross-references, and optimized output for print and archival.

Advanced Markdown and MDX processing for technical documentation. Parse, validate, lint, and transform Markdown content with support for MDX components, front matter, and remark/rehype plugins.

Automated technical writing style and quality enforcement. Lint documentation with Vale, check for inclusive language, enforce style guides, and analyze readability metrics.

YAML frontmatter parsing and manipulation for .planning/ documents. Provides read, write, update, query, and validation operations on frontmatter blocks in GSD markdown artifacts.

Advanced skill for crystallographic structure analysis and determination including space group identification, atomic position refinement, and PDF analysis

Skill for first article inspection planning and execution per AS9102

Semantic similarity computation for content relationships and intelligent discovery

AP style compliance, grammar checking, and PR writing assistance

Craft compelling one-sentence story hooks that capture protagonist, conflict, stakes, and unique appeal for film/TV pitches

Write individual screenplay scenes with proper industry formatting, visual action, and dramatic structure

Mandatory memory persistence system across session resets using three markdown surfaces in .claude/cc10x/. Iron law - every workflow must load at start and update at end.

Develop narrative synopses that tell the complete story cinematically, serving as sales documents and production blueprints

Unity Addressables asset management skill for remote catalogs, content updates, asset bundles, and memory-efficient asset loading.

Generate documentation following the Diataxis framework

Develop compelling funding proposals for foundations, government agencies, and corporations including narrative development, budget creation, and compliance documentation

Create accessible interpretive content for diverse audiences including labels, wall text, catalog essays, educational materials, and digital content

Write complete song lyrics with structural annotations and production notes optimized for AI music generation platforms like Suno and Udio

Write feature specifications as requirements and user stories with acceptance criteria, focusing on business value and testable conditions.

Lint technical documentation for style, consistency, and readability

Cross-platform clipboard operations for text, images, files, and rich content

CMS operations and content optimization tools

Develop digital content strategies including virtual exhibitions, online programming, social media campaigns, and digital collection access

Create detailed storyboards for interactive digital learning content specifying narration, visuals, interactions, and navigation

Compose compelling research narratives for NEH, ACLS, and foundation funding proposals with clear significance statements

Write measurable, SMART learning objectives using Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive levels aligned with desired outcomes and assessment strategies

Compose clear, rigorous philosophical prose with well-structured arguments, anticipation of objections, and proper scholarly engagement with existing literature

Conduct systematic qualitative data analysis using grounded theory, thematic analysis, and content analysis with NVivo or Atlas.ti

Systematically map curriculum content to educational standards with vertical and horizontal alignment documentation

CSI MasterFormat specification writing skill for construction document preparation

Markdown documentation, MDX, and content formatting.

Seismic sales enablement platform for content and learning

Skill for assisting with academic and scientific writing

Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment.

Discovers, classifies, and masks repetitive elements and transposable elements with RepeatModeler2 (de novo family library), RepeatMasker (masking against a library), EDTA (plant/structural TEs), or EarlGrey (auto-curating wrapper), and quantifies TE expression from RNA-seq with TEtranscripts/SQuIRE. Covers de-novo-library-as-curation-project, soft-vs-hard masking, the domesticated-gene over-masking massacre, Dfam-vs-RepBase, TE classification (Class I/II, family-vs-copy), Kimura repeat landscapes, LAI, and the RNA-seq multimapping problem. Use when masking repeats before gene prediction, building a TE library for a non-model genome, or analyzing transposable-element content or expression.

Processes eDNA metabarcoding from raw paired-end reads to species tables, navigating ASV (DADA2, UNOISE3) vs OTU (swarm v2) decision (Callahan 2017 vs Schloss multi-copy-16S critique), marker/primer choice (Leray COI, MiFish 12S, 515F/806R 16S, ITS2) with primer-specific bias, OBITools3 v3 command-name break (obi stats plural; .tar.gz taxonomy), tag-jumping with dual-indexing (Schnell 2015; NovaSeq 10x MiSeq), decontam as screening-not-classifier (Davis 2018), read-counts-not-abundance critique (Lamb 2019), site-occupancy modeling (Ficetola 2015), Naive-Bayes calibration limits (Bokulich 2018), and eDNA decay (Strickler 2015). Use when going from raw eDNA FASTQ to species tables, picking marker + denoising pipeline, deciding whether read counts represent abundance, applying occupancy modeling, configuring OBITools3 v3, or interpreting decontam output. Not for clinical 16S microbiome (see microbiome/amplicon-processing).

Reconcile gene trees against a species tree under probabilistic models of duplication, transfer, and loss (DTL) using ALE (Szöllősi 2013 amalgamated likelihood), GeneRax (Morel 2020 ML reconciliation), AleRax (Morel 2024 co-estimation), Whale.jl (Bayesian DTL+WGD), RANGER-DTL 2 parsimony, NOTUNG, ecceTERA, and Treerecs. Use when inferring ancestral gene-family content, distinguishing duplication from horizontal transfer from differential loss, rooting deep species trees from gene-content signals (STRIDE / Williams 2017 ALE-rooting), counting DTL events per branch, refining noisy gene trees against a species tree, modeling WGD events jointly with DTL, or producing publication-grade gene-family histories for phylogenomic / comparative analyses.

Quality control for pooled CRISPR screens covering library representation, Gini index, log-skew, replicate Pearson and Spearman concordance, essentialome precision-recall AUC against CEGv2 (Hart 2017), Cas9 cut-toxicity diagnostics, copy-number amplicon detection (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016), bottleneck propagation through plasmid pool, infection, selection, and endpoint stages, MOI verification, and DepMap-style screen-quality scoring. Use when assessing screen quality before hit calling, deciding whether to repeat or rescue a screen, diagnosing low-confidence hits, choosing between MAGeCK / BAGEL2 / Chronos based on quality grade, picking a normalization strategy from QC signatures, or evaluating whether an in-vivo screen retained adequate library complexity.

Normalizes and transforms RNA-seq count matrices for DE, visualization, clustering, and ML. Covers between-sample (TMM, TMMwsp, RLE/median-of-ratios, upper quartile), within-sample (TPM, FPKM/RPKM), variance-stabilizing (VST, rlog, log-CPM), GC-content correction (cqn, EDASeq), and single-cell (scran deconvolution, scanpy normalize_total). Encodes the composition-bias rationale, the "most genes not DE" assumption and its catastrophic failure modes (MYC amplification, apoptosis, viral host shutoff, prokaryotic stress), the "lengthScaledTPM is not TPM" naming trap, the "TPM is not for DE" rule, the blind=TRUE vs FALSE decision, ERCC spike-in normalization (SBN), and the single-cell zero-inflation breakdown of TMM/RLE. Use when choosing or applying normalization, debugging shifted-MA-plot diagnostics, handling zero-heavy single-cell data, or correcting GC bias.

Compares Hi-C contact maps between conditions across the right scale -- differential bin-pair contacts (multiHiCcompare, diffHic), differential A/B compartments (dcHiC), differential TAD boundaries (delta insulation), and differential loops (diffloop, DiffHiChIP) -- with distance-stratified between-sample normalization, replicate-aware NB-GLM FDR, HiCRep SCC reproducibility gating, and CNV correction for cancer/aneuploid samples. Use when comparing Hi-C between treatment and control, finding differential contacts/compartments/boundaries/loops, normalizing two maps of unequal depth, choosing a replicate-aware test, gating replicates with SCC, or correcting copy-number artifacts before a tumor-vs-normal comparison.

Reconstruct ancestral states at internal phylogenetic nodes for sequences (PAML codeml, IQ-TREE --ancestral, GRASP, FastML), discrete traits (corHMM hidden-rate Markov, ape::ace, phytools::make.simmap stochastic mapping, BayesTraits), and continuous traits (phytools::fastAnc, geiger Brownian/OU, RPANDA). Use when designing constructs for ancestral protein resurrection, tracing trait evolution along a tree, performing stochastic character mapping, testing models of trait evolution (BM vs OU vs EB), inferring ancestral genome content via Dollo or DTL reconciliation, or quantifying ancestral-state uncertainty for downstream comparative analyses.

Infer orthologous genes and gene families across species using OrthoFinder3 (HOG-based phylogenetic orthology), SonicParanoid2, Broccoli, ProteinOrtho, OMA / FastOMA hierarchical orthologous groups, eggNOG-mapper, JustOrthologs, and TOGA whole-genome-alignment orthology. Use when building single-copy ortholog sets for phylogenomics, classifying co-orthologs and in/out-paralogs after gene duplication, propagating functional annotation via orthology with awareness of the ortholog conjecture, distinguishing speciation from duplication via gene-tree species-tree reconciliation, computing Quest-for-Orthologs benchmark performance, or running synteny-aware ortholog detection in WGD-affected lineages.

Discovers de novo motifs and tests known motif enrichment in ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, or other peak sequences using HOMER, MEME-ChIP (STREME, CentriMo, TOMTOM, FIMO), monaLisa, and AME. Handles background selection (GC-matched, dinucleotide-shuffled, Markov order-2, peak-flanks), motif databases (JASPAR 2024 CORE PWMs, JASPAR 2026 deep-learning collection, HOCOMOCO v12, HOMER built-in), centrally-enriched motif testing, and differential motif analysis. Use when identifying TF binding motifs in peaks, testing for known TF enrichment, scanning for motif instances, comparing motif content between conditions, or interpreting motifs from deep learning models.

Corrects the gene-independent copy-number artifact in CRISPR-Cas9 screens (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016 Cancer Discov) where amplified loci appear essential from DNA-damage burden of simultaneous cuts. Covers the p53-dependent G2-arrest mechanism, CRISPRcleanR (Iorio 2018) unsupervised pre-hoc correction, CERES (Meyers 2017) joint CN + gene-effect model, Chronos (Dempster 2021) DepMap-standard population-dynamics + CN model with lowest residual bias, the decision tree by data availability, the Spearman LFC-vs-CN diagnostic, focal-amplification examples (ERBB2 in HER2+, MYC in colorectal, FGFR1 in head and neck), and CRISPRi/a alternatives that bypass the artifact. Use when screening cancer cell lines, diagnosing essentiality at amplified loci, choosing CRISPRcleanR / CERES / Chronos, deciding whether CN correction is needed before MAGeCK / BAGEL2 / drugZ, or switching from Cas9 to CRISPRi.

Identifies non-coding RNAs (tRNA, rRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, riboswitches, sRNAs) using Infernal covariance-model search against Rfam, tRNAscan-SE 2.0 for tRNA, barrnap for rRNA, and ARAGORN for tmRNA, plus the small-RNA-seq boundary for miRNA and the transcript-assembly boundary for lncRNA. Covers the structure-conserved-not-sequence-conserved principle (why BLAST fails), GA-threshold and clan-competition correctness, tRNAscan-SE domain modes and pseudogene flags, rDNA copy-number collapse, and why homology annotation is a recall floor. Use when performing genome-wide ncRNA annotation, choosing the right tool for an RNA class, or interpreting ncRNA counts.

Balances Hi-C contact matrices (ICE via cooler.balance_cooler, KR/SCALE/VC context), computes distance-decay expected with cooltools (expected_cis per-diagonal P(s), expected_trans scalar), builds observed/expected (O/E) matrices, and diagnoses polymer state from the P(s) log-derivative. Covers the within-matrix-vs-cross-sample distinction (balancing is NOT a normalizer), the equal-visibility assumption that CNV/aneuploidy violates (use raw counts for copy-number), cis-only balancing, mad_max/blacklist masking before balancing, multiplicative cooler weights vs divisive juicer weights, and the resolution-vs-depth budget. Use when balancing a .cool/.mcool, computing expected or P(s), making O/E matrices for compartments/loops, deciding ICE vs KR vs SCALE, choosing a resolution for a given depth, or troubleshooting NaN/all-NaN balanced matrices; route cross-sample comparison to hic-differential.

Detects allele-specific transcription factor or histone modification binding from heterozygous-variant ChIP-seq using WASP (reference-bias filter; mandatory upstream), RASQUAL (joint QTL + bias-corrected testing), BaalChIP (Bayesian beta-binomial with copy-number-aware overdispersion), and AlleleSeq (personalized diploid genome). Handles imprinted-locus awareness, X-inactivation artifacts, cancer copy-number imbalance, and integration with downstream caQTL / bQTL mapping. Use when identifying variants with allelic effects on TF binding, fine-mapping causal regulatory variants, validating deep-learning variant predictions, or characterizing cis-acting regulatory effects.

Read, write, and convert multiple sequence alignment files using Biopython Bio.AlignIO. Supports Clustal, PHYLIP, Stockholm, FASTA, Nexus, and other alignment formats for phylogenetics and conservation analysis. Use when reading, writing, or converting alignment file formats.

Detect somatic and germline copy number variants from targeted, exome, and whole-genome sequencing with CNVkit, a read-depth caller that combines on-target and off-target (antitarget) coverage. Covers panel-of-normals construction, flat-reference tumor-only calling, hybrid/amplicon/WGS modes, CBS vs HMM segmentation selection, purity-aware integer calling, and reconciliation against GATK and allele-specific callers. Use when calling CNVs from hybrid-capture panels or exomes, deciding whether CNVkit (depth-only) is the right tool versus an allele-specific caller, building a panel of normals, diagnosing flat-reference false positives, or interpreting log2 ratios into copy-number states.

Profiles a genome from raw reads BEFORE assembly with a k-mer spectrum (KMC or Jellyfish histogram), then models it with GenomeScope2 to estimate genome size, heterozygosity, repeat content, and ploidy, and Smudgeplot to infer ploidy from heterozygous k-mer pairs (diploid AB vs triploid AAB vs tetraploid AABB). Covers choosing k via Merqury best_k.sh, the k-mer-coverage vs sequencing-coverage confusion, reading het/repeat/contamination/organelle peaks, why noisy ONT must not be used for counting, and how the estimate becomes the NG50 denominator, the Flye -g value, the hifiasm --hom-cov/purge setting, and the 1.5-2x-too-big haplotig sanity check. Use when starting any de novo assembly, deciding whether short reads can work, estimating genome size for an unknown organism, diagnosing ploidy, or sanity-checking an assembly's size against expectation.

Profiles the antimicrobial-resistance gene content (resistome) of shotgun metagenomes - read-based quantification with RGI bwt, AMR++/MEGARes, ARGs-OAP/SARG, deepARG, or GROOT, and presence calling with AMRFinderPlus/ABRicate on assembled contigs or MAGs. Covers why an ARG hit is a sequence match not a phenotype, why a metagenomic ARG has no host and no genomic context until assembly (and assembly breaks at ARGs), per-gene curated thresholds vs a flat 80/80, gene-fraction false-positive control, and cross-study normalization pitfalls. Use when quantifying a community resistome, normalizing ARG abundance, or calling ARGs from metagenome contigs. For pure-culture isolate AMR, point mutations, and phenotype/MIC prediction see epidemiological-genomics/amr-surveillance.

Infer integer allele-specific copy number, tumor purity, and ploidy from tumor sequencing by jointly modeling read depth (logR) and B-allele frequency (BAF) with ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, PURPLE, and PureCN (tumor-only). Covers the purity-ploidy identifiability problem, the diploid-baseline (dipLogR) anchor, major/minor copy number, loss of heterozygosity, sunrise/contour fit diagnostics, and reconciliation of conflicting fits. Use when tumor analysis needs absolute copy number rather than relative log2, when estimating purity and ploidy, calling LOH or copy-neutral LOH, resolving whole-genome doubling, running tumor-only allele-specific calling, or choosing among ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, and PureCN.

Call copy number variants with the GATK best-practices workflows — the somatic CNV pipeline (CollectReadCounts, DenoiseReadCounts with tangent normalization, ModelSegments, CallCopyRatioSegments) and the germline GATK-gCNV pipeline (DetermineGermlineContigPloidy, GermlineCNVCaller cohort/case mode, PostprocessGermlineCNVCalls). Covers panel-of-normals construction, AnnotateIntervals/FilterIntervals, allelic-count integration, and QS-based filtering. Use when integrating CNV calling into a GATK variant pipeline, calling rare germline CNVs from an exome cohort, deciding between the somatic and germline GATK workflows, or diagnosing why tangent normalization removed a real event or why gCNV output has low precision.

Resolve subclonal copy number, whole-genome doubling, and copy-number tumor evolution from bulk sequencing with Battenberg, TITAN, and MEDICC2. Covers clonal versus subclonal copy-number states, haplotype phasing for subclonal resolution, cancer cell fraction, whole-genome-doubling detection and timing relative to mutations, mirrored subclonal allelic imbalance, and copy-number phylogenies. Use when a tumor is heterogeneous and bulk data shows non-integer copy number, when calling subclonal CNAs, detecting or timing whole-genome doubling, reconstructing copy-number evolution, or deciding between Battenberg and TITAN.

Annotate copy number variant segments with overlapping genes, dosage-sensitivity scores, cancer driver databases, population frequencies, and clinical-variant content. Covers bedtools/pybedtools interval intersection, AnnotSV comprehensive annotation and ranking, ClinGen haploinsufficiency/triplosensitivity scoring, gnomAD-SV/DGV frequency filtering, COSMIC Cancer Gene Census, and ClinVar overlap. Use when interpreting which genes a CNV affects, distinguishing the driver gene of a focal event from passengers, filtering against population CNVs, separating whole-gene from partial-gene overlap, or preparing CNVs for clinical classification.

Normalize read-depth copy-ratio profiles and segment them into copy-number regions using circular binary segmentation (CBS, DNAcopy), hidden Markov models, HaarSeg, and fused-lasso methods. Covers GC-content, mappability, and replication-timing (wave-artifact) bias correction, panel-of-normals/PCA denoising, diploid-baseline centering, and algorithm selection by sequencing depth and event size. Use when choosing a segmentation algorithm, correcting depth bias, diagnosing oversegmentation or a mis-centered baseline, tuning CBS or HMM parameters, or understanding why a downstream CNV caller produced fragmented or shifted segments.

Visualize copy number profiles, segments, allele-specific tracks, and cohort patterns from CNVkit, GATK, ASCAT, FACETS, Sequenza, and other callers. Covers genome-wide and per-chromosome log2 scatter plots, B-allele-frequency/minor-allele-fraction tracks, ideograms, cohort heatmaps, circos views, and caller-native plots. Use when creating publication CNV figures, choosing which plot answers a given question, diagnosing a wrong diploid baseline visually, displaying loss of heterozygosity, or deciding what depth-only plots cannot reveal.

Identify recurrent and driver copy number alterations across a tumor cohort with GISTIC2 (G-score, Ziggurat deconstruction, focal vs broad/arm-level analysis, q-values from permutation) and quantify copy-number signatures with the Steele 2022 COSMIC framework and the Drews 2022 CINSignatures framework. Covers driver-gene localization from recurrence peaks, distinguishing focal drivers from arm-level passengers, and the caller-sensitivity caveats of copy-number signatures. Use when finding recurrently amplified or deleted regions in a cohort, localizing driver genes, separating focal from broad events, running GISTIC2, or extracting copy-number mutational signatures.

Resolve the architecture of focal oncogene amplifications — extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycles, homogeneously staining regions (HSR), and linear amplification — from whole-genome sequencing with AmpliconArchitect, the AmpliconSuite pipeline, and AmpliconClassifier. Covers copy-number seed selection, breakpoint-graph reconstruction, balanced-flow optimization, ecDNA classification, and the limits of depth-only amplification calls. Use when a focal amplification needs structural characterization, when distinguishing ecDNA from chromosomal amplification, suspecting ecDNA-driven oncogene amplification or therapy resistance, or selecting copy-number seeds for amplicon reconstruction.

Quantify homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) from tumor copy number using the three genomic-scar metrics — loss of heterozygosity (LOH), large-scale state transitions (LST), and telomeric allelic imbalance (TAI) — with scarHRD, and via the whole-genome HRDetect and CHORD models. Covers the genomic instability score, the PARP-inhibitor clinical context, whole-genome-doubling correction, and the scar-versus-state distinction. Use when computing an HRD score for PARP-inhibitor eligibility, deriving LOH/LST/TAI scars from allele-specific copy number, deciding between scar-based and mutational-signature HRD methods, or interpreting an HRD result in a BRCA-reverted or low-purity tumor.

Calculate sequence properties like GC content, molecular weight, isoelectric point, and GC skew using Biopython. Use when analyzing sequence composition, computing physical properties, or comparing sequences.

Parse and write protein structure files using Biopython Bio.PDB. Use when reading PDB, mmCIF, and MMTF files, downloading structures from RCSB PDB, or writing structures to various formats.

End-to-end copy number variant detection workflow from BAM files. Covers CNVkit analysis for exome/targeted sequencing with visualization and annotation. Use when detecting copy number alterations from sequencing data.

Calculate sequence statistics (N50, length distribution, GC content, summary reports) using Biopython. Use when analyzing sequence datasets, generating QC reports, or comparing assemblies.

Filter reads by quality scores, length, and N content using Trimmomatic and fastp. Apply sliding window trimming, remove low-quality bases from read ends, and discard reads below thresholds. Use when reads have poor quality tails or require minimum quality for downstream analysis.

Filter and select sequences by criteria (length, ID, GC content, patterns) using Biopython. Use when subsetting sequences, removing unwanted records, or selecting by specific criteria.

Predict metagenome functional content from 16S rRNA marker gene data using PICRUSt2. Infer KEGG, MetaCyc, and EC abundances from ASV tables. Use when functional profiling is needed from 16S data without shotgun metagenomics sequencing.

Generate and interpret quality reports from FASTQ files using FastQC and MultiQC. Assess per-base quality, adapter content, GC bias, duplication levels, and overrepresented sequences. Use when performing initial QC on raw sequencing data or validating preprocessing results.

Implement comprehensive testing strategies using Jest, Vitest, and Testing Library for unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end testing with mocking, fixtures, and test-driven development. Use when writing JavaScript/TypeScript tests, setting up test infrastructure, or implementing TDD/BDD workflows.

Master ES6+ features including async/await, destructuring, spread operators, arrow functions, promises, modules, iterators, generators, and functional programming patterns for writing clean, efficient JavaScript code. Use when refactoring legacy code, implementing modern patterns, or optimizing JavaScript applications.

Implement comprehensive testing strategies with pytest, fixtures, mocking, and test-driven development. Use when writing Python tests, setting up test suites, or implementing testing best practices.

Senior embedded software engineer specializing in firmware and driver development for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers (Teensy, STM32, nRF52, SAMD). Decades of experience writing reliable, optimized, and maintainable embedded code with deep expertise in memory barriers, DMA/cache coherency, interrupt-driven I/O, and peripheral drivers.

Write effective blameless postmortems with root cause analysis, timelines, and action items. Use when conducting incident reviews, writing postmortem documents, or improving incident response processes.

Creates step-by-step tutorials and educational content from code. Transforms complex concepts into progressive learning experiences with hands-on examples. Use PROACTIVELY for onboarding guides, feature tutorials, or concept explanations.

Generates and validates technical documentation including docstrings, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSDoc annotations, doc portals, and user guides.

Modern Python best practices. Use when creating new Python projects, writing Python scripts, or migrating existing projects from legacy tools.

Generate, edit, and read PowerPoint presentations with PptxGenJS and XML workflows

Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

Write long-form articles synthesized from research and analysis

Generate and manipulate Microsoft Word documents programmatically

Generate technical documents with Mermaid diagrams and markdown

Convert various document formats to clean markdown

Generate and manipulate PDF documents for scientific publications