Art & Design

API gateway and reverse proxy configuration with Kong, Nginx, Traefik, routing, and auth middleware. Activate on: API gateway, reverse proxy, Kong, Nginx, Traefik, load balancer, ingress, auth middleware. NOT for: rate limiting algorithms (use api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert), service mesh (use service-mesh-microservices-expert).

API migration strategies, deprecation workflows, and header/URL/content versioning. Activate on: API versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, breaking change, API migration, v1 v2, sunset header. NOT for: schema evolution in data (use schema-evolution-manager), gateway routing (use api-gateway-reverse-proxy-expert).

Architecture and systems design for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers the memory hierarchy (core/recall/archival), persistence layers, agent server infrastructure, vector stores, and framework selection. Provides concrete deployment patterns for agents that maintain identity and learn across sessions. Activate on: "always-on agent", "persistent agent architecture", "episodic memory system", "agent memory design", "long-running agent", "stateful agent", "agent that remembers", "MemGPT architecture", "Letta deployment", "/always-on-agent-architecture". NOT for: choosing what data to feed the agent (use always-on-agent-inputs), brainstorming applications (use always-on-agent-applications), safety and privacy concerns (use always-on-agent-safety), general agentic patterns (use agentic-patterns).

How to design contextual inputs for an always-on AI agent with episodic memory. Covers what data to feed the agent, how to structure observations and triggers, ambient context capture (screen, audio, calendar), context window budgeting, and retrieval strategies that keep the agent grounded in what's actually happening. Activate on: "what should the agent observe", "context inputs for agent", "ambient context capture", "agent triggers", "agent input design", "screenpipe integration", "context window budget", "what data to feed my agent", "/always-on-agent-inputs". NOT for: memory architecture and storage (use always-on-agent-architecture), application ideas (use always-on-agent-applications), safety concerns (use always-on-agent-safety).

Safety, privacy, cost management, and frank advice for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers data hygiene, privacy risk surfaces, runaway cost prevention, scope creep, psychological effects of persistent AI companions, and responsible deployment patterns. This is the skill that tells you what can go wrong and how to prevent it. Activate on: "agent safety", "always-on agent privacy", "agent cost control", "persistent agent risks", "AI companion safety", "agent data hygiene", "runaway agent costs", "parasocial AI risk", "/always-on-agent-safety". NOT for: architecture design (use always-on-agent-architecture), input design (use always-on-agent-inputs), application brainstorming (use always-on-agent-applications), healthcare compliance specifically (use hipaa-compliance).

>- Choose multi-agent architectures using environment-first analysis, coordination pressure, commitment tuning, and knowledge levels. Use for autonomy design, protocol choice, and coordination failures. NOT for single-agent planning, centralized schedulers, or prompt-only swarms.

Logic-based agent programming language implementing BDI architecture for practical autonomous agent development

Apache Airflow DAGs, operators, SLA monitoring, and workflow orchestration. Activate on: Airflow, DAG, operator, sensor, scheduler, task dependency, SLA, backfill, XCom. NOT for: dbt transformations (use dbt-analytics-engineer), streaming pipelines (use streaming-pipeline-architect).

Foundational concurrent computation model where actors communicate exclusively through asynchronous message passing

>- Design AgentSpeak(L)-style BDI agents with context-guarded plans, selection functions, and intention stacks. Use for interruptible autonomy, agent policy, and multi-agent orchestration in dynamic environments. NOT for simple rule engines, static planners, or centralized workflows.

Introduce people to AI, agentic AI, and AI skills with appropriate pedagogy for any audience. Covers LLM analogies, progressive complexity paths, aha-moment demos, audience-tailored explanations, workshop design, and overcoming emotional barriers to AI adoption. Activate on 'explain AI', 'introduce AI', 'AI workshop', 'AI demo', 'teach AI', 'AI literacy', 'onboard to AI', 'AI evangelism', 'explain agentic', 'explain skills to', 'AI training session', 'AI onboarding'. NOT for teaching ML engineering (use ai-engineer), not for building AI features (use ai-engineer), not for prompt engineering (use prompt-engineer), not for building training data pipelines.

Temporal interval algebra for reasoning about time relationships in planning and knowledge representation

Android background task specialist for WorkManager, Foreground Services, Doze mode, and battery optimization. Activate on: WorkManager, background task Android, Foreground Service, Doze mode, battery optimization, periodic work, background sync Android, JobScheduler. NOT for: iOS background tasks (use swiftui-data-flow-expert), React Native background (use mobile-offline-sync-architect), UI architecture (use jetpack-compose-navigation-expert).

Build production-ready LLM applications, advanced RAG systems, and intelligent agents. Implements vector search, multimodal AI, agent orchestration, and enterprise AI integrations. Use PROACTIVELY for LLM features, chatbots, AI agents, or AI-powered applications.

Cryptographic security for agentic systems — zero-trust agent networking, signed message envelopes (JWS/JWE), capability-based security (ocaps), Merkle tree audit trails, WASM sandboxing, and formal verification. Covers CLI dev tool security, mTLS between agents, permission boundaries (least privilege for AI agents), and supply chain security for skills/plugins. Activate on: "agent security", "zero trust agents", "secure agent communication", "capability-based security", "ocap", "signed messages between agents", "agent audit trail", "sandbox agent execution", "agent permissions", "mTLS agents", "cryptographic verification", "agent supply chain", "OWASP agentic", "prove agent did X", "tamper-proof agent logs". NOT for: application-level SAST scanning (use security-auditor), network firewall rules (use infrastructure), SOC2/HIPAA compliance (organizational), or prompt injection defense (use prompt-engineer).

What you can build and do with an always-on AI agent that has episodic memory. Covers concrete product ideas, workflows, emergent capabilities from persistence plus memory, and real-world examples of deployed persistent agents. Helps you go from "I have the architecture" to "here's what it actually does for me." Activate on: "what can an always-on agent do", "persistent agent use cases", "agent applications", "proactive agent ideas", "what to build with episodic memory", "always-on agent product", "personal AI assistant ideas", "/always-on-agent-applications". NOT for: building the architecture (use always-on-agent-architecture), designing inputs (use always-on-agent-inputs), safety and privacy (use always-on-agent-safety).

Strategic patterns for solving intractable problems through cascading approximation, self-improvement, and heterogeneous evaluation from DeepMind's AlphaGo system

Automated discovery and matching of agent skills for dynamic task routing and capability assessment

Fundamental patterns for effective agentic behavior. Teaches decomposition, tool orchestration, error recovery, context management, quality self-assessment, and knowing when to stop. Model-agnostic principles that make any agent more effective regardless of domain. Activate on: "how should I structure this agent", "agentic workflow", "agent patterns", "multi-step task", "tool orchestration", "/agentic-patterns", "decompose this", "agent best practices", "chain of actions", "when should the agent stop", "agent loop design". NOT for: creating agent infrastructure (use agent-creator), building DAGs (use windags-architect), specific tool implementation.

Data structures and serialization formats for agent-to-agent communication. Covers message envelopes, structured output schemas, capability declarations, task handoff payloads, error/retry signaling, and context windows as data structures. Deep comparison of A2A protocol, MCP, OpenAI function calling, and LangChain message types. Teaches when to use rigid schemas vs free-form with validation, typed vs untyped, streaming vs batch. Activate on: "agent message format", "agent communication schema", "agent-to-agent protocol", "A2A protocol", "MCP message format", "structured output for agents", "agent interop", "interchange format", "agent serialization", "task handoff format", "capability declaration". NOT for: what agents say to each other (use agent-conversation-protocols), orchestration topology (use multi-agent-coordination), building agent infrastructure (use agentic-infrastructure-2026).

Build and adopt production AI agent infrastructure in 2026. Covers framework selection (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP), orchestration patterns, evaluation, observability, memory systems, and tool use. Also covers the SOCIAL dimension: how to sell agent infrastructure internally, change management, measuring ROI, building trust in autonomous systems, and scaling adoption across teams. Activate on: "agent infrastructure", "agent framework comparison", "which agent framework", "sell AI tools internally", "agent adoption", "agent observability", "agent evaluation", "MCP architecture", "agentic mesh", "enterprise AI agents", "AI change management", "agent ROI". NOT for: building specific agents (use ai-engineer), designing agent behavior patterns (use agentic-patterns), prompt tuning (use prompt-engineer).

AI-powered calendar management and agent-based scheduling coordination. Covers calendar APIs (Google Calendar, CalDAV/iCal), AI scheduling assistants (Reclaim, Clockwise, Motion, Cal.com), building custom calendar agents with MCP, multi-calendar merging, timezone management, focus block protection, meeting fatigue detection, and agent-to-agent meeting negotiation protocols. Activate on: "calendar agent", "AI scheduling", "calendar coordination", "meeting scheduling", "calendar API", "focus time protection", "calendar optimization", "Google Calendar MCP", "Reclaim", "Clockwise", "Motion", "Cal.com", "smart scheduling", "calendar-aware agent", "timezone scheduling", "agent negotiation meetings". NOT for: manual calendar UI component design (use form-validation-architect), project management scheduling or Gantt charts (use project-management-guru-adhd), general time-tracking or pomodoro apps (use adhd-daily-planner for time-awareness), building the agent itself from scratch (use agent-creator).

Implement WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA compliance with automated testing, keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and focus management. Activate on: accessibility audit, WCAG compliance, keyboard navigation, screen reader, aria attributes, axe-core, focus trap. NOT for: design-level accessibility review (use design-accessibility-auditor), color contrast only (use css-in-js-architect).

Meta-agent for creating new custom agents, skills, and MCP integrations. Expert in agent design, MCP development, skill architecture, and rapid prototyping. Activate on 'create agent', 'new skill', 'MCP server', 'custom tool', 'agent design'. NOT for using existing agents (invoke them directly), general coding (use language-specific skills), or infrastructure setup (use deployment-engineer).