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Recommended Skill Stacks

These are the highest-value default stacks for this suite. Install only the exact skills needed for the current workflow, review the current source and audits, and keep native prompt execution as the fallback.

Prompt engineering core

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot --skill prompt-builder
npx skills add https://github.com/wshobson/agents --skill prompt-engineering-patterns
npx skills add https://github.com/google-labs-code/stitch-skills --skill enhance-prompt
npx skills add https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code --skill prompt-optimizer
npx skills add https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot --skill boost-prompt

Use with MD-165 through MD-168 and MD-178. Do not accept optimization claims without representative fixtures.

Academic research and review

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill research
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill edit-article
npx skills add https://github.com/lllllllama/ai-paper-reproduction-skill --skill paper-context-resolver
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill docx

Use with MD-79, MD-80, MD-82, MD-87, MD-88, and MD-129. academic-researcher and academic-paper-reviewer are native aliases rather than invented installable packages.

Reports and executive artifacts

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill document-generate
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill make-pdf
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill docx
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pptx
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill xlsx
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill edit-article

Use with MD-159, MD-169, and MD-170. Verify source numbers, exhibit consistency, accessibility, and exact exports.

Design and frontend core

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npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill web-design-guidelines
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill vercel-composition-patterns
npx skills add https://github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill design-taste-frontend
npx skills add https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable --skill critique
npx skills add https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable --skill polish
npx skills add https://github.com/arvindrk/extract-design-system --skill extract-design-system
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill web-artifacts-builder

Use for language-model-driven interfaces, layouts, components, web artifacts, and design systems. Image generation is not included.

Presentation and visual communication

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill design-html
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill diagram
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pptx
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design
npx skills add https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable --skill polish

Use with MD-101 through MD-109 and MD-170. Review exact exports, data integrity, keyboard access, text alternatives, and responsive behavior.

Engineering delivery and QA

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill spec
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill plan-eng-review
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill review
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill qa
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill test-driven-development
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill verification-before-completion
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill systematic-debugging
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli --skill playwright-cli

Use with MD-124 and existing engineering, debugging, testing, delivery, and release prompts. Shipping and deployment remain APPLY_APPROVED actions.

Strategy and organization

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill office-hours
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill plan-ceo-review
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill autoplan
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill retro
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill document-generate

Use for problem framing, corporate or product strategy, operating models, department plans, decisions, and retrospectives.

Research and OSINT

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill research
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill investigate
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill scrape
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill document-generate

Use only for authorized public-source research. Preserve provenance, collection time, identity confidence, contradictions, privacy minimization, and non-deceptive collection.

Marketing and content

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill content-strategy
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill seo-audit
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill site-architecture
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill copywriting
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill social-content
npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill analytics-tracking

Use with source truth, brand, accessibility, privacy, and anti-spam controls. Search optimization may not override audience usefulness or factual integrity.

Skill discovery and creation

Reference
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill skill-creator
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill skillify

Use only after confirming that native prompt composition cannot meet the need cleanly. New skills require a narrow contract, permissions declaration, fixtures, adversarial cases, and conformance validation.

Conditional skill orchestration

Installed local skills: find-skills, skill-creator, brainstorming, grill-me, grill-with-docs, writing-skills, visual-assets, and strudel. Use them through MD-191 through MD-198; do not install or execute a skill simply because it is present.

Code-native visual assets

Use the personal visual-assets skill for SVG, HTML, CSS, vanilla-JS illustrations, infographics, report exhibits, presentation assets, and animated explanatory graphics. It is a code-native visual-production route, not model image generation.

Music code

Use the personal strudel skill for Strudel composition and live-coding music programs. The misspelling strudle is retained only as an alias.

Personal code-native creative skills

These skills are already present in the supplied OpenCode inventory and do not use external install commands:

Reference
visual-assets
strudel

Use visual-assets through MD-192 and MD-196 for a genuine need for custom SVG, HTML, CSS, or vanilla-JavaScript infographics, illustrations, vector systems, report exhibits, presentation assets, mock assets, or accessible animation. Use MD-197 only for a finite asset queue or measurable refinement loop, with MD-198 deciding every continuation.

Use strudel through the same generic adapter for Strudel music code, patterns, and arrangements. Neither skill is invoked merely because it is installed.