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Skills (v1.4)

Skills are intent-based instructions that define agent behaviour. You don't memorize names or syntax — you write what you want, and the agent picks the right skill. Slash-prefix (/plan, /ship) explicitly invokes one.

After bootstrap, 13 core skills ship with TAUSIK from harness/skills/ (plus /brain conditionally when the project has Notion configured — see Shared Brain). Additional official / vendor skills (20) are available on demand: install per-skill via tausik skill install <name>, or expand the whole bundle via python .tausik-lib/bootstrap/bootstrap.py --include-official (alias: --include-vendor). Map of repo skills: Skill ecosystem (one page). Bulk install by group: Skill Bundles.

v1.4.x default change. Before v1.4.x bootstrap auto-deployed all 38 source + registry skills (~1,520 tok in the system-reminder list). v1.4.x ships 13 + brain conditional (~480 tok) by default — saving ~1,040 tokens per turn. Re-run bootstrap with --include-official if you want the full set surfaced to the agent. v1.4.0 also dropped 5 redundant skills (/go, /next, /diff, /onboard, /init) — bringing the vendor count to 20. See Skill Bundles Migration.

Multi-host variants: skills can ship optional variants/<profile>.md overlays — see Skill profiles & variants.

Core Skills (13 + brain conditional)

These are always available after bootstrap — the workflow primitives every TAUSIK project needs. /brain is the 14th core skill but only deployed when tausik brain init has set up Notion config (so projects that never use the shared brain don't pay its token cost).

Workflow

Skill	When
/start	Begin a work session — loads handoff, status, memory block
/end	Wrap up the session — saves metrics + handoff
/checkpoint	Save context without ending the session (recommended every 30–50 tool calls)
/plan	Plan a task from a free-form description (interview phase + AC)
/task	Work on an existing task with QG-0/QG-2 enforcement
/ship	Wrap up a task: review + test + gates + commit
/commit	Create a standardized git commit

Knowledge

Skill	When
/brain (conditional)	Query/store cross-project knowledge in the Shared Brain (Notion + local mirror). Deployed only when tausik brain init has populated brain.notion_db_ids in .tausik/config.json.
/explore	Time-boxed investigation (default 30 min) before committing to an approach
/interview	Socratic Q&A — at most 3 questions to pin down requirements
/reason	Record a structured reasoning trace (intent→premise→action→verification) on a task — see Reasoning Trace

Quality

Skill	When
/review	Code review against 28-point SENAR checklist (5 parallel agents, iterative)
/test	Run or write tests, track coverage
/debug	Reproduce → isolate root cause → fix

Official / Vendor Skills (20)

Not auto-deployed by default. Two ways to surface them:

• Per-skill (recommended). tausik skill install <name> from skills-official/ or the tausik-skills repo, then tausik skill activate <name>. Adds only what you ask for to the system-reminder list.
• Whole bundle. Re-run python .tausik-lib/bootstrap/bootstrap.py --include-official (alias: --include-vendor). Generates lightweight stubs for every entry in skills-official/registry.json. Use when you want the v1.3.x behaviour (~38 skills always visible).

Quality / Discipline (opt-in)

Skill	When
/zero-defect	Session-scoped precision mode for high-stakes work (auth/payment/migration). Slows velocity 2–3× but reduces defects. Maestro-inspired.
/skill-test	Meta tool for skill authors — auto-generate and run scenarios for any skill

Document Extraction (opt-in)

Skill	When
/markitdown	Convert DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/HTML/EPUB/PDF to markdown via the markitdown CLI (requires pip install markitdown)

Installed from the tausik-skills repo. Use tausik skill install <name> to add, tausik skill activate <name> to enable.

Productivity / Wrap-up

Skill	When
/daily	Today's summary: completed tasks, commits, time
/run	Autonomous batch execution of a markdown plan
/loop-task	Autonomous task execution loop with fresh context
/dispatch	Orchestrate parallel worker agents on independent tasks

Analysis

Skill	When
/audit	Code-quality audit — static analysis, metrics, actionable report
/security	Security audit (OWASP Top 10, secrets scan)
/optimize	Performance optimization — bottleneck analysis
/ultra	Deep 10-point analysis for complex architectural decisions
/retro	Retrospective on recent work
/presale	Presale estimation — capacity planning + proposal

Integrations (external services via MCP)

Skill	When
/jira	Jira issue management (create/update/search) via MCP
/bitrix24	Bitrix24 CRM — tasks, deals, contacts via webhook API
/confluence	Confluence publishing — create/update pages
/sentry	Sentry error monitoring via MCP

Documentation / Extraction

Skill	When
/markitdown	Convert DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/HTML/EPUB/PDF to markdown via the markitdown CLI (requires pip install markitdown)
/excel	Read/analyze/generate Excel/CSV
/pdf	Read/extract/analyze PDF documents
/docs	Generate or update documentation (jsdoc/docstrings)

Lifecycle

.tausik/tausik skill list                    # active + vendored + available
.tausik/tausik skill repo add <url>          # register a TAUSIK-compatible repo
.tausik/tausik skill install <name>          # clone + copy + pip deps
.tausik/tausik skill activate <name>         # copy from harness/skills → .claude/skills
.tausik/tausik skill deactivate <name>       # remove from .claude/skills (keep vendored copy)
.tausik/tausik skill uninstall <name>        # remove completely

The official vendor repo: https://github.com/Kibertum/tausik-skills. Custom repos are supported — see Skill Adaptation Guide.

Bulk install via bundles

tausik skill install <name> installs one skill at a time. For groups (integrations, data-formats, quality-pro, automation, workflow-helpers), use bundles instead — see Skill Bundles:

.tausik/tausik skill bundle list                    # discover bundles
.tausik/tausik skill bundle install integrations    # install jira/bitrix24/confluence/sentry in one call

v1.4 deprecations: /go, /next, /diff, /onboard, /init were removed — each duplicated built-in functionality. Migration table in Skill Bundles Migration.

What's Next

• Workflow — how skills compose into a work day
• CLI Commands — calling TAUSIK from the terminal directly
• MCP Tools — programmatic surface for agents
• Vendor Skills — installing and authoring skill packages