For development · 14 skills
Skills for development. Ship code inside your second brain.
These are the skills that run when the job is to build software. Test-driven development. Executing plans with review checkpoints. Dispatching parallel agents. Finishing a development branch.
Axon owns the review end. Cortex coordinates the parallel work. These skills stay out of your way when you are thinking and make you faster when you are shipping.
Most Agent0 users never touch this category directly. But when they need it — extending a skill, building a new integration, shipping a feature — these are the skills that turn hours into minutes.
Dispatching Parallel Agents
Three independent failures. One sequential debug. That math is wrong. Dispatch in parallel.
Executing Plans
Load the plan, review it critically, execute each task, verify, hand off to branch-finish.
Finishing a Development Branch
Tests pass, now what. Merge, PR, keep, or discard. Four options, one confirmation, clean worktree.
Code Review Reception
Process review feedback with technical rigor. No "you're absolutely right" reflex. Verify, push back, or act.
Requesting Code Review
Dispatch Axon as a fresh reviewer with the right context. Not a log of your thought process, just the delta to review.
Subagent-Driven Development
Fresh subagent per task, two-stage review after each. Spec compliance first, then code quality, no shortcuts.
Systematic Debugging
Root cause before any fix. Symptom patches are failure, not speed. Four phases, no shortcuts.
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
No production code without a failing test first. Watch it fail. Minimal code to green. Refactor under green.
UI Design Intelligence
Style, palette, typography, and UX rules so agents don't fly blind on visual decisions. 67 styles, one opinion per step.
UI Implementation
Turn design decisions into shadcn plus Tailwind plus Next code. Mobile-first, accessible, dark-mode-ready.
Using Git Worktrees
Isolated workspaces per feature. Safe directory selection, gitignore check, no accidental commits of worktree junk.
Verification Before Completion
Evidence before claims. If you didn't run the verification in this message, you can't say it passes.
Writing Plans
Turn an approved spec into bite-sized tasks an engineer with zero context could ship. DRY, YAGNI, TDD, frequent commits.
Writing Skills
TDD applied to process docs. Watch the agent fail without the skill, write the skill, watch it pass.
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