Christy Jacob

Autonomous full-stack engineer that takes a requirement from idea to production-ready code. Researches best approaches, prototypes unknowns, builds a comprehensive plan broken into waves of parallel tasks, executes via sub-agents, tests everything, audits for security, and delivers a final handoff report with any manual steps needed. Use this agent when the user wants to build something substantial — a feature, service, app, tool, integration, migration, or any non-trivial engineering task.

Look up any arxiv paper on alphaxiv.org to get a structured AI-generated overview. This is faster and more reliable than trying to read a raw PDF.

Autonomous research loop that iteratively improves code through experiments. Runs experiments on local or remote GPUs, tracks results, keeps improvements, discards failures, and never stops. TRIGGER THIS SKILL when users want to autonomously research, optimize, or experiment on a problem — whether they say "run experiments overnight", "optimize this model", "try different approaches and keep what works", "do research on this", "iterate on this until it gets better", "run an experiment loop", or want to improve any metric through systematic trial and error. Also trigger when users mention autonomous experimentation, hyperparameter search, architecture search, ablation studies, or want Claude to keep trying things while they step away. This skill works for ML training, compiler optimization, algorithm tuning, performance benchmarking, or any problem with a measurable metric.

Explains codebases visually with ASCII architecture diagrams, code flow tracing, and interactive deep-dives. TRIGGER THIS SKILL when users want to understand, learn about, or get oriented in a codebase — whether they say "explain this codebase", "what does this project do", "how does this work", "walk me through the code", "show me the architecture", or just seem unfamiliar with a repo. Common trigger patterns include — understanding project structure or architecture, tracing how a request/action flows through code, figuring out how components connect, inheriting or onboarding onto unfamiliar code, exploring what a repo does before making changes, mapping dependencies between modules, asking "how does X work in this codebase", wanting a bird's-eye view of a large project. Also trigger when users ask to trace specific code paths (e.g. "what happens when a user clicks submit", "trace the request lifecycle", "how does auth work end to end"). Do NOT trigger for bug fixes, writing new code, refactoring, CI/CD setup, test writing, PR reviews, or SQL optimization — those are implementation tasks, not understanding tasks.

Debug and fix failing tests or errors

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

Adaptive guided learning skill that teaches any concept by tracing backward to prerequisites, assessing the learner's level, and dynamically switching between Socratic, Bloom's taxonomy, and Visual teaching styles based on responses. Uses web search for accuracy and research papers via alphaxiv when relevant. Produces runnable code examples and a polished shareable HTML page. TRIGGER THIS SKILL when users want to learn, study, understand, or build intuition for any concept — whether they say "teach me about X", "I want to learn X", "explain X from scratch", "help me understand X", "walk me through X", "give me a deep dive on X", or express curiosity about a topic they don't fully grasp. Common trigger patterns include — wanting to learn a technical concept (transformers, distributed consensus, React hooks, TCP/IP, etc.), needing to build intuition from first principles, asking "what do I need to know to understand X", wanting a structured learning path, requesting an explanation that builds up from basics. Do NOT trigger for codebase exploration (use code-explainer), bug fixes, writing code, refactoring, or other implementation tasks.

Deep investigation of bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior. TRIGGER THIS SKILL when users report bugs, errors, performance regressions, unexpected behavior, or ask to investigate, debug, diagnose, or find the root cause of any issue — whether they say "why is this broken", "investigate this bug", "find the root cause", "debug this issue", "this is failing and I don't know why", "performance degraded", or share error messages and stack traces. Do NOT trigger for feature requests, code reviews, refactoring, or general code questions.

Comprehensive OpenTUI skill for building terminal user interfaces. Covers the core imperative API, React reconciler, and Solid reconciler. Use for any TUI development task including components, layout, keyboard handling, animations, and testing.

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.

Create stunning interactive slide deck presentations on any topic. Researches the topic using web search and academic papers (via alphaxiv), extracts figures and diagrams from papers (via pdf skill), gathers case studies and real-world examples, then produces a self-contained interactive HTML slide deck with D3.js charts, Anime.js animations, and a companion markdown file with speaker notes. TRIGGER THIS SKILL when users want to create a presentation, slide deck, talk, pitch deck, lecture slides, keynote, or any slide-based content — whether they say "make a presentation on X", "create slides about X", "build a deck for my talk on X", "I need slides for X", "prepare a presentation", "make a pitch deck", or any request involving slides, decks, or presentations.