garrytan

47 named skills · highest rank 5★

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Named Skills

All named implementations attributed to @garrytan in the Gaia registry.

2★
Gstack Health — Automated Test Suite Runner

Executes the full automated test suite, collects pass/fail counts and coverage deltas, and surfaces any newly introduced failures with concise root-cause notes.

automated-testingciquality
GRADE C
3★
Gstack Design Consultation

Builds a complete design system by researching the product and competitors, then proposing a coherent package of typography, colours, spacing, layout, and motion — persisted as a DESIGN.md file that serves as the project's authoritative design source of truth.

design-systemtypographycolorsdesign-tokens
GRADE B
3★
Engineering Plan Review

Comprehensive, interactive architecture and implementation review before coding begins, systematically evaluating scope, architecture, code quality, test coverage, and performance through structured questioning — synthesising findings into actionable tasks and an explicit not-in-scope section.

engineeringarchitecture-reviewplan-reviewpre-implementation
GRADE B
3★
Gstack Code Review

Pre-landing code review combining structured checklist analysis with specialist subagents covering testing, security, and performance — plus adversarial review from both Claude and Codex — to catch SQL safety issues, LLM trust boundary violations, conditional side effects, and structural problems before merging.

code-reviewsecuritymulti-agentadversarial-review
GRADE B
4★
Founder Mode Autoplan

The definitive autonomous "Founder mode" review and decision suite. An auto-review pipeline that reads the full CEO, design, engineering, and DX review skills from disk and runs them sequentially with auto-decisions using 6 decision principles.

founder-modeautoplandecision-suiteceo-revieworchestration
GRADE A
3★
Gstack Ship

Automated end-to-end deployment workflow that merges the base branch, runs tests, reviews the diff, bumps the VERSION file, updates the CHANGELOG, commits, pushes to the remote, and creates a pull request in a single command.

shipdeploypr-automationrelease
GRADE B
3★
Diataxis Doc Generator

Generates structured documentation using the Diataxis framework — tutorials, how-to guides, reference materials, and explanations — by thoroughly researching the codebase before writing, tailored to the needs of different reader types.

documentationdiataxistutorialsreference-docs
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Document Release — Release Note Authoring

Reads the diff between two version tags and drafts concise, user-facing release notes following the Gstack changelog format.

document-editingreleasechangelog
GRADE C
3★
Gstack Browse — Directed Browser Navigation

Drives a browser to a target URL, navigates multi-step user journeys, and captures screenshots or structured observations for downstream verification or reporting.

browser-controlnavigationqa
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Open Browser — Browser Session Launch

Launches a new headless or headed browser session with the Gstack environment variables and extension profile pre-loaded, ready for automation commands.

browser-controlsetupautomation
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Setup Browser Cookies — Auth Cookie Injection

Injects pre-authenticated session cookies into the browser context so subsequent automation steps can access gated pages without a manual login flow.

browser-controlauthsetup
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Scrape — Structured Web Extraction

Fetches target URLs with a headless browser, parses structured data from rendered HTML, and returns clean JSON or markdown ready for downstream analysis or ingestion.

web-scrapedata-extractionautomation
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Benchmark Models — LLM Performance Profiling

Runs a standardised prompt suite across multiple model versions, records latency and quality scores, and produces a ranked comparison table to guide model selection.

skill-performance-benchmarkingllmevaluation
GRADE C
3★
Gstack Benchmark

Web performance benchmarking that captures baseline metrics, compares current performance against those baselines, and identifies regressions in load times, Core Web Vitals, and bundle sizes across specified pages.

performancebenchmarkingcore-web-vitalsregression
GRADE B
3★
CEO Plan Review

Rigorous product strategy and scope review in four modes — SCOPE EXPANSION, SELECTIVE EXPANSION, HOLD SCOPE, and SCOPE REDUCTION — evaluating architecture, security, data flows, testing, and edge cases to ensure plans ship at the highest standard before implementation begins.

product-strategyscope-reviewceo-reviewpre-implementation
GRADE B
3★
Gstack Canary

Post-deployment monitoring that captures pre-release baseline screenshots, then continuously watches pages for console errors, performance regressions, and broken links — designed to surface failures within the first 10 minutes so problems are caught before they reach users at scale.

monitoringpost-deploycanaryanomaly-detection
GRADE B
3★
Gstack Careful — Conservative Execution Mode

Activates a conservative execution profile that pauses before irreversible actions, requests explicit confirmation for destructive operations, and logs all side effects.

guardrailssafetyconfirmation
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Freeze — Change Freeze Enforcement

Sets a change-freeze flag that blocks non-critical commits and PR merges until explicitly lifted, protecting release branches or post-incident windows.

guardrailsfreezerelease-management
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Guard — Safety Guardrail Enforcement

Applies configurable content and output guardrails to agent responses, flagging or blocking unsafe outputs and logging violations with structured evidence for audit.

guardrailssafetycompliance
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Unfreeze — Change Freeze Lift

Clears the active change-freeze flag and restores normal merge permissions, logging the unfreeze event with a timestamp and justification.

guardrailsfreezerelease-management
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Codex — Multi-Agent Code Debate

Spins up a structured Claude-versus-Codex debate over a proposed implementation, with each agent mounting adversarial critiques, to surface hidden design flaws before code lands.

multi-agent-debatecode-reviewadversarial
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Context Restore — Session State Recovery

Reads a saved context snapshot and reconstructs a warm session state, surfacing the last decision point and pending tasks so work can resume without recap.

context-compressionsessioncontinuity
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Context Save — Session State Snapshot

Compresses the current session context into a compact summary file that can be restored later, enabling long-running workflows to survive context-window limits.

context-compressionsessioncontinuity
GRADE C
3★
Chief Security Officer Mode

Infrastructure-first security audit focusing on secrets archaeology, dependency supply chain, and CI/CD security. Includes OWASP Top 10, STRIDE threat modeling, and active verification with daily (zero-noise) and monthly (comprehensive) scan modes.

securityinfrastructureauditthreat-modelingcso
GRADE B
3★
Design to Production HTML

Generates production-quality, Pretext-native HTML/CSS with real text reflow and dynamic layout from approved design mockups, CEO plans, or user descriptions — producing fully self-contained files with computed heights, responsive behaviour, and zero external dependencies.

htmlcssdesign-to-codeproduction
GRADE B
3★
Design Plan Review

Interactive, designer-led audit of UI/UX plans rating seven dimensions — information architecture, interaction states, user journey, AI slop risk, design system alignment, responsive/accessibility, and unresolved decisions — before implementation begins, with optional visual mockup generation.

uxdesign-auditplan-reviewui-ux
GRADE B
3★
Developer Experience Review

Interactive multi-pass DX review for developer-facing products — APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and libraries — scoring eight UX dimensions from onboarding to error messaging via persona discovery and competitive benchmarking, producing an actionable improvement plan rather than just a score.

developer-experiencedxapi-uxonboarding
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Design Review — UX Audit Pass

Runs a structured UX audit over a product interface, scoring layout clarity, affordance, and accessibility against the Gstack design rubric to surface actionable improvements.

ux-auditdesignreview
GRADE C
2★
Gstack DevEx Review — Developer Experience Audit

Audits CLI ergonomics, API surface clarity, and onboarding friction from a developer perspective, producing a scored report with prioritised fixes.

ux-auditdeveloper-experiencereview
GRADE C
3★
Design Shotgun

Rapid design exploration that generates multiple AI design variants, opens a comparison board for the user, collects structured feedback, and iterates until a preferred visual direction is reached.

ui-uxdesign-explorationprototypingvisual-qa
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Upgrade — Workspace Dependency Upgrade

Scans the workspace for outdated dependencies, runs upgrades within semver-compatible bounds, re-runs tests, and commits a clean dependency bump PR.

workspace-automationdependenciesmaintenance
GRADE C
5★
Gstack — Garry Tan's Full-Stack Agent Suite

The legendary fusion of Garry Tan's complete agent discipline library — browser QA, security auditing, design exploration, vertical-slice planning, and founder-mode orchestration — unified into a single autonomous product-development workflow.

founder-modefull-stackbrowser-automationsecurity-auditdesign-exploration
GRADE S
3★
Gstack Investigate

Systematic root-cause debugging enforcing an Iron Law — no fix without first identifying root cause — guiding through four phases: investigation, analysis, hypothesis formation, and verified implementation with evidence gathering and pattern matching before any code changes.

debuggingroot-causeinvestigationsystematic
GRADE B
3★
Land and Deploy

Automates the final production shipping stages — merging a PR, monitoring CI/deploy completion, and verifying live site health through canary checks — picking up where /ship leaves off with safety gates at each step to prevent broken deployments reaching users.

deploymentproductionmergecanary
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Setup Deploy — Deployment Environment Init

Provisions the deployment environment by creating secrets, configuring environment variables, and running infrastructure-as-code init steps before the first deploy.

deployment-automationsetupinfrastructure
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Landing Report — Project Status Summary

Generates a one-page project landing report from open issues, recent commits, and milestone progress, giving stakeholders a quick read on health and next steps.

project-managementreportingstatus
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Learn — Persistent Memory Management

Reads the active memory store, consolidates new observations from the current session, deduplicates stale entries, and writes back an updated, ranked knowledge base for future sessions.

memory-managecontextknowledge
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Make PDF — Formatted Output Generator

Converts markdown or structured data into a polished PDF document with consistent heading styles, table formatting, and page layout ready for distribution.

format-outputpdfdocumentation
GRADE C
3★
YC Office Hours

YC-style startup and builder brainstorming. Startup mode uses six forcing questions (demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, future-fit) to expose reality. Builder mode focuses on design thinking for side projects and hackathons.

brainstormingstartup-strategydesign-thinkingy-combinatorideation
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Pair Agent — MCP Tool Integration

Wires a new MCP server into the Gstack agent environment, validates the tool manifest, and demonstrates round-trip invocation through a test prompt.

mcp-integrationtoolingagents
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Plan Tune — Prompt Refinement Pass

Takes a draft plan or system prompt, identifies vague or ambiguous instructions, and rewrites them to reduce hallucination and improve task completion rate.

prompt-optimizationplanningquality
GRADE C
3★
Gstack QA

Browser-driven web application testing that explores pages as a real user, documents bugs with annotated screenshots, fixes issues with atomic commits and re-verification, and produces structured reports with before/after evidence and health scores showing quality improvement.

qabrowser-testingbug-fixinge2e
GRADE B
2★
Gstack QA Only — Focused E2E Test Run

Runs the scoped end-to-end test suite for a single feature or route without launching the full QA pipeline, for fast targeted regression checks.

e2e-testingqatargeted
GRADE C
3★
Gstack Retro — Sprint Retrospective Report

Synthesises commit history, PR comments, and issue notes into a written sprint retrospective covering wins, misses, root causes, and action items.

write-reportretrospectivedocumentation
GRADE B
2★
Gstack Setup GBrain — Knowledge Base Initialisation

Bootstraps the GBrain knowledge store for a new project: creates the index structure, ingests seed documents, and validates retrieval with a sample query.

knowledge-managementsetupgbrain
GRADE C
2★
Gstack Sync GBrain — Knowledge Base Sync

Incrementally syncs new documents and updated pages into the GBrain index, deduplicates embeddings, and reports ingestion counts and any errors.

knowledge-managementsyncgbrain
GRADE C
3★
Gstack Skillify — Skill Authoring Pipeline

Converts a freeform prompt, repo pattern, or workflow description into a complete, registry-ready named skill: writes the SKILL.md definition, populates frontmatter fields, and opens a PR for review.

skill-authoringautomationmeta
GRADE B

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