iamakbarsha1/whetstone

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/a-memory-is-not-a-trigger/SKILL.md · Use when you're relying on a stored memory, a recalled note, an injected session-start banner, or a description-matched…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/audit-before-you-build/SKILL.md · Use as the FIRST step of any implementation task handed to you from a checklist, ticket, milestone, or spec — the first…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/confirm-the-premise-first/SKILL.md · Use during design or brainstorming when a user's choice depends on a technical property they assert or imply — state…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/consistency-is-local-first/SKILL.md · Use before writing new code in an existing module — match the nearest sibling's pattern first; a repo-wide convention…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/diff-each-side-against-merge-base/SKILL.md · Use when resolving a merge or rebase conflict, or reviewing a merge commit — conflict markers show where git gave up…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/diff-the-install-footprint/SKILL.md · Use when deciding whether to adopt a tool that installs into a shared environment — a plugin, framework, agent harness…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/distill-the-scar/SKILL.md · Use when you just hit a real failure worth keeping — a bug, a wrong fix, a wasted hour — and want to turn it into a…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/enumerate-artifacts-not-references/SKILL.md · Use when writing or reviewing a check that pulls candidate paths, names, IDs, or links out of prose and then confirms…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/findings-list-is-not-a-todo-list/SKILL.md · Use when re-engaged to "act on" or "fix the rest of" a review, audit, or recommendation list — the list is not a to-do…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/grep-the-blast-radius/SKILL.md · Use when changing a shared contract — a flag, column, enum/union member, shared type, exported symbol, endpoint shape…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/harness-config-audit/SKILL.md · Use when applying an external write-up — an article, a "here is my setup" post, a best-practice guide, a vendor doc —…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/inject-ambient-inputs/SKILL.md · Use when writing or refactoring logic that reads ambient state — the clock (now/today), randomness, environment…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/know-your-aggregate-command-scope/SKILL.md · Use before trusting a named aggregate command — a `test`, `lint`, `type-check`, or `build` script that wraps a tool…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/macos-malware-triage/SKILL.md · Use when asked to check a running macOS machine for compromise, malware, or unwanted persistence — "is my Mac…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/manufacture-review-independence/SKILL.md · Use when reviewing your own work, or when the author-equals-reviewer guard is deliberately overridden — real…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/measure-the-delta-not-the-absolute/SKILL.md · Use when judging whether your change is clean against a red or noisy baseline — failing tests you didn't touch…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/name-the-boundary-between-siblings/SKILL.md · Use when adding, renaming, or rewriting the description of a skill, command, or agent that will sit beside others in…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/negative-invariant-testing/SKILL.md · Use when a system has a load-bearing "never" constraint — never holds funds, never logs secrets, never calls a…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/plan-cross-encoding-review/SKILL.md · Use when reviewing an implementation plan, spec, or task breakdown before handing it to an implementer — catches the…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/prove-the-test-can-fail/SKILL.md · Use after writing a test, or before trusting one that passed — a test that has never failed is unverified. Do one…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/publish-oss-repo/SKILL.md · Use when preparing a repository for public release, or auditing one that already has working code but still reads as…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/read-the-real-failing-call/SKILL.md · Use when hardening against a failure mode or fixing an intermittent/partial failure — instrument the real failing…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/running-long-background-jobs/SKILL.md · Use before launching any long-running, backgrounded, detached, or nohup'd process (backfills, batch migrations, bulk…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/safe-data-export/SKILL.md · Use when a task's output is sensitive or large data and the destination is a path inside a version-controlled tree —…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/scan-generated-files-for-artifacts/SKILL.md · Use when reviewing or signing off on a file an agent produced with a write tool — a doc, README, config, data file, or…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/spike-falsification/SKILL.md · Use when validating a third-party dependency — an API, SDK, contract, or protocol — before designing on top of it…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/test-fixture-realism/SKILL.md · Use when writing tests against a shared store or with fabricated fixtures — a test only proves something if its…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/third-party-tool-onboarding/SKILL.md · Use when standing up a third-party tool you did not write — a CLI, an MCP server, a plugin, an SDK — on a host that…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/validate-the-users-proposed-mechanism/SKILL.md · Use when a user specifies a platform, tool, library, or approach as part of a request — their choice is a proposed…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/verify-absence-claims/SKILL.md · Use when you're about to act on a "there is no X / none exists / not found / nothing handles this" claim — especially…

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · skills/verify-through-the-real-path/SKILL.md · Use before claiming something works, is done, is safe, or is fast — verify through the actual trigger, real data, and…