skills/riqor-core/references/specialists.md

# Riqor Specialists

The Riqor plugin exposes these native specialist roles as portable bundled Skills for ChatGPT and Codex.

- `$agents-orchestrator` — Autonomous pipeline manager that orchestrates the entire development workflow. You are the leader of this process.
- `$design-brand-guardian` — Expert brand strategist and guardian specializing in brand identity development, consistency maintenance, and strategic brand positioning
- `$design-image-prompt-engineer` — Expert photography prompt engineer specializing in crafting detailed, evocative prompts for AI image generation. Masters the art of translating visual concepts into precise language that produces stunning, professional-…
- `$design-inclusive-visuals-specialist` — Representation expert who defeats systemic AI biases to generate culturally accurate, affirming, and non-stereotypical images and video.
- `$design-persona-walkthrough` — Simulate cognitive walkthroughs of web pages from a defined persona's psychological perspective — captures emotional reactions and rational thought at each scroll position, then delivers structured CRO reports grounded…
- `$design-ui-designer` — Expert UI designer specializing in visual design systems, component libraries, and pixel-perfect interface creation. Creates beautiful, consistent, accessible user interfaces that enhance UX and reflect brand identity
- `$design-ui-finish-gate-reviewer` — Product-interface reviewer who catches generic, interchangeable UI before it ships by grounding critique in real product evidence, a written design contract, and a hard implementation finish gate.
- `$design-ux-architect` — Technical architecture and UX specialist who provides developers with solid foundations, CSS systems, and clear implementation guidance
- `$design-ux-researcher` — Expert user experience researcher specializing in user behavior analysis, usability testing, and data-driven design insights. Provides actionable research findings that improve product usability and user satisfaction
- `$design-visual-storyteller` — Expert visual communication specialist focused on creating compelling visual narratives, multimedia content, and brand storytelling through design. Specializes in transforming complex information into engaging visual st…
- `$design-whimsy-injector` — Expert creative specialist focused on adding personality, delight, and playful elements to brand experiences. Creates memorable, joyful interactions that differentiate brands through unexpected moments of whimsy
- `$docs-researcher` — Documentation specialist that verifies APIs, framework behavior, and release notes.
- `$engineering-ai-data-remediation-engineer` — "Specialist in self-healing data pipelines — uses air-gapped local SLMs and semantic clustering to automatically detect, classify, and fix data anomalies at scale. Focuses exclusively on the remediation layer: intercept…
- `$engineering-ai-engineer` — Expert AI/ML engineer specializing in machine learning model development, deployment, and integration into production systems. Focused on building intelligent features, data pipelines, and AI-powered applications with e…
- `$engineering-api-platform-engineer` — Expert API platform engineer for public and partner APIs — contract-first design (OpenAPI/gRPC), versioning and deprecation policy, SDK generation, API gateway concerns (auth, rate limiting, quotas), and developer-porta…
- `$engineering-autonomous-optimization-architect` — Intelligent system governor that continuously shadow-tests APIs for performance while enforcing strict financial and security guardrails against runaway costs.
- `$engineering-backend-architect` — Senior backend architect specializing in scalable system design, database architecture, API development, and cloud infrastructure. Builds robust, secure, performant server-side applications and microservices
- `$engineering-cms-developer` — Drupal and WordPress specialist for theme development, custom plugins/modules, content architecture, and code-first CMS implementation
- `$engineering-code-reviewer` — Expert code reviewer who provides constructive, actionable feedback focused on correctness, maintainability, security, and performance — not style preferences.
- `$engineering-codebase-onboarding-engineer` — Expert developer onboarding specialist who helps new engineers understand unfamiliar codebases fast by reading source code, tracing code paths, and stating only facts grounded in the code.
- `$engineering-data-engineer` — Expert data engineer specializing in building reliable data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and scalable data infrastructure. Masters ETL/ELT, Apache Spark, dbt, streaming systems, and cloud data platforms to turn r…
- `$engineering-data-visualization-engineer` — Expert data visualization engineer — chart-type selection by data and question, perceptually honest encodings, colorblind-safe data palettes, accessible and interactive charts, and rendering large datasets performantly…
- `$engineering-database-optimizer` — Expert database specialist focusing on schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and modern databases like Supabase and PlanetScale.
- `$engineering-database-reliability-engineer` — Expert database reliability engineer (DBRE) — high availability and replication, automated failover, backup and point-in-time recovery, zero-downtime online schema migrations, connection pooling, and disaster-recovery d…
- `$engineering-desktop-app-engineer` — Expert desktop application engineer for Electron and Tauri — secure IPC and process isolation, code signing and notarization, auto-update pipelines, native OS integration, and resource-footprint discipline.
- `$engineering-devops-automator` — Expert DevOps engineer specializing in infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline development, and cloud operations
- `$engineering-drupal-performance` — Expert Drupal 10/11 performance engineer specializing in Core Web Vitals, render and dynamic page caching, BigPipe, cache tags and contexts, database query and Views optimization, CSS/JS aggregation, responsive images a…
- `$engineering-drupal-shopping-cart` — Expert Drupal e-commerce engineer specializing in Drupal Commerce for product catalog management, payment gateway integration, checkout workflow design, order management, tax and promotion configuration, and high-reliab…
- `$engineering-email-intelligence-engineer` — Expert in extracting structured, reasoning-ready data from raw email threads for AI agents and automation systems
- `$engineering-embedded-firmware-engineer` — Specialist in bare-metal and RTOS firmware - ESP32/ESP-IDF, PlatformIO, Arduino, ARM Cortex-M, STM32 HAL/LL, Nordic nRF5/nRF Connect SDK, FreeRTOS, Zephyr
- `$engineering-feishu-integration-developer` — Full-stack integration expert specializing in the Feishu (Lark) Open Platform — proficient in Feishu bots, mini programs, approval workflows, Bitable (multidimensional spreadsheets), interactive message cards, Webhooks,…
- `$engineering-filament-optimization-specialist` — Expert in restructuring and optimizing Filament PHP admin interfaces for maximum usability and efficiency. Focuses on impactful structural changes — not just cosmetic tweaks.
- `$engineering-finops-engineer` — Expert cloud cost engineer for AWS/GCP/Azure — cost allocation and tagging, rightsizing, commitment planning (reserved instances/savings plans), egress and storage optimization, and unit-economics dashboards that tie sp…
- `$engineering-frontend-developer` — Expert frontend developer specializing in modern web technologies, React/Vue/Angular frameworks, UI implementation, and performance optimization
- `$engineering-gaussdb-expert` — Expert database specialist focusing on GaussDB OLTP — Huawei's self-developed enterprise-grade relational database (NOT GaussDB(DWS) OLAP, NOT GaussDB(for openGauss) cloud service, NOT GaussDB(for MySQL)). Covers schema…
- `$engineering-git-workflow-master` — Expert in Git workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices including conventional commits, rebasing, worktrees, and CI-friendly branch management.
- `$engineering-i18n-engineer` — Expert i18n engineer for ICU MessageFormat, CLDR plural rules, RTL and bidirectional layouts, locale-aware date/number/currency formatting, string extraction pipelines, and pseudo-localization testing.
- `$engineering-identity-access-engineer` — Expert identity engineer for OAuth 2.0/OIDC flows, enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) and SCIM provisioning, passkeys/WebAuthn, session architecture, and multi-tenant authorization with RBAC/ABAC.
- `$engineering-incident-response-commander` — Expert incident commander specializing in production incident management, structured response coordination, post-mortem facilitation, SLO/SLI tracking, and on-call process design for reliable engineering organizations.
- `$engineering-iot-fleet-engineer` — Expert IoT and edge fleet engineer — device provisioning and identity, MQTT/telemetry pipelines, staged over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates with rollback, edge compute, and observability across fleets of unreliable, int…
- `$engineering-it-service-manager` — Expert IT service management specialist using ITIL 4 framework for service catalog design, incident and problem management, change control, SLA governance, CMDB maintenance, and continual service improvement — ensuring…
- `$engineering-llm-post-training-engineer` — Evidence-driven owner for SFT, preference optimization, RLHF/RLVR, MoE post-training, and the release gates that turn a checkpoint into a defensible model change.
- `$engineering-minimal-change-engineer` — Engineering specialist focused on minimum-viable diffs — fixes only what was asked, refuses scope creep, prefers three similar lines over a premature abstraction. The discipline that prevents bug-fix PRs from becoming r…
- `$engineering-mobile-app-builder` — Specialized mobile application developer with expertise in native iOS/Android development and cross-platform frameworks
- `$engineering-mobile-release-engineer` — Expert mobile release and distribution engineer for iOS and Android — code signing, provisioning, fastlane pipelines, App Store Connect and Play Console submission, phased rollouts, and crash-triaged release health.
- `$engineering-multi-agent-systems-architect` — Systems architect specializing in the design, coordination, and governance of multi-agent AI pipelines — covering topology selection, context management, inter-agent trust, failure recovery, human-in-the-loop gating, an…
- `$engineering-network-engineer` — Expert network engineer for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE, Cisco ASA/FTD, Juniper Junos, and Palo Alto PAN-OS routing, switching, firewalling, and troubleshooting.
- `$engineering-orgscript-engineer` — Expert in designing, parsing, and implementing OrgScript grammar, AST validation, and business logic definitions.
- `$engineering-payments-billing-engineer` — Expert payments engineer for PSP integrations (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal), idempotent payment flows, webhook processing, subscription billing, SCA/3DS, PCI scope reduction, and financial reconciliation.
- `$engineering-privacy-engineer` — Expert privacy engineer who implements privacy in code — PII discovery and classification, data minimization, consent enforcement at the API layer, automated DSAR and deletion across services, pseudonymization/tokenizat…
- `$engineering-prompt-engineer` — Specialist in crafting, testing, and systematically optimizing prompts for LLMs — turning vague instructions into reliable, production-grade AI behaviors.
- `$engineering-rag-pipeline-engineer` — Production RAG specialist focused on chunking strategy, retrieval quality, hybrid search, re-ranking, and eval-driven iteration. Builds pipelines that actually retrieve the right context — not just pipelines that run.
- `$engineering-rapid-prototyper` — Specialized in ultra-fast proof-of-concept development and MVP creation using efficient tools and frameworks
- `$engineering-realtime-collaboration-engineer` — Expert realtime systems engineer for WebSocket/SSE infrastructure, presence, CRDT and OT-based collaborative editing, offline-first sync engines, and fan-out scaling with reconnect-safe protocols.
- `$engineering-rust-refactoring-specialist` — Expert Rust engineer for repository-scale refactoring, safe renames, module restructuring, duplication removal, panic hardening, ownership improvements, and compiler or Clippy remediation.
- `$engineering-search-relevance-engineer` — Expert search engineer for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch — index and analyzer design, BM25 query tuning, hybrid lexical+vector retrieval, and judgment-based relevance evaluation with nDCG and online experiments.
- `$engineering-section-508-specialist` — Expert U.S. federal Section 508 accessibility engineer (the 508 legal baseline is WCAG 2.0 Level AA; WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA are recommended best practice, and ADA Title II requires WCAG 2.1 AA for state/local government) speci…
- `$engineering-senior-developer` — Premium implementation specialist - Masters Laravel/Livewire/FluxUI, advanced CSS, Three.js integration
- `$engineering-software-architect` — Expert software architect specializing in system design, domain-driven design, architectural patterns, and technical decision-making for scalable, maintainable systems.
- `$engineering-solidity-smart-contract-engineer` — Expert Solidity developer specializing in EVM smart contract architecture, gas optimization, upgradeable proxy patterns, DeFi protocol development, and security-first contract design across Ethereum and L2 chains.
- `$engineering-sre` — Expert site reliability engineer specializing in SLOs, error budgets, observability, chaos engineering, and toil reduction for production systems at scale.
- `$engineering-technical-writer` — Expert technical writer specializing in developer documentation, API references, README files, and tutorials. Transforms complex engineering concepts into clear, accurate, and engaging docs that developers actually read…
- `$engineering-uswds-developer` — Expert U.S. Web Design System frontend developer specializing in USWDS components and design tokens, accessible-by-default patterns, responsive government UI, Sass settings/theming, the federal design language, integrat…
- `$engineering-video-streaming-engineer` — Expert video streaming engineer for adaptive bitrate delivery — HLS/DASH packaging, ffmpeg transcode ladders, CMAF low-latency, DRM, CDN delivery, and QoE-driven player tuning.
- `$engineering-voice-ai-integration-engineer` — Expert in building end-to-end speech transcription pipelines using Whisper-style models and cloud ASR services — from raw audio ingestion through preprocessing, transcript cleanup, subtitle generation, speaker diarizati…
- `$engineering-webassembly-engineer` — Expert WebAssembly engineer — compiling Rust/C++/Go to Wasm, JS interop and the boundary marshalling cost, WASI and server-side runtimes (Wasmtime/Wasmer), the component model, and near-native performance tuning.
- `$engineering-wechat-mini-program-developer` — Expert WeChat Mini Program developer specializing in 小程序 development with WXML/WXSS/WXS, WeChat API integration, payment systems, subscription messaging, and the full WeChat ecosystem.
- `$engineering-wordpress-performance` — Expert WordPress performance engineer specializing in Core Web Vitals, object caching (Redis/Memcached), page caching, database and WP_Query optimization, the Transients API, asset minification/deferral/critical CSS, im…
- `$engineering-wordpress-shopping-cart` — Expert WordPress e-commerce engineer specializing in WooCommerce for product catalog management, payment gateway integration, checkout customization, order management, tax and coupon configuration, and conversion-optimi…
- `$explorer` — Read-only codebase explorer for gathering evidence before changes are proposed.
- `$product-sprint-prioritizer` — Expert product manager specializing in agile sprint planning, feature prioritization, and resource allocation. Focused on maximizing team velocity and business value delivery through data-driven prioritization framework…
- `$project-management-experiment-tracker` — Expert project manager specializing in experiment design, execution tracking, and data-driven decision making. Focused on managing A/B tests, feature experiments, and hypothesis validation through systematic experimenta…
- `$project-management-project-shepherd` — Expert project manager specializing in cross-functional project coordination, timeline management, and stakeholder alignment. Focused on shepherding projects from conception to completion while managing resources, risks…
- `$project-manager-senior` — Converts specs to tasks and remembers previous projects. Focused on realistic scope, no background processes, exact spec requirements
- `$reviewer` — PR reviewer focused on correctness, security, and missing tests.
- `$security-ai-generated-code-auditor` — Security reviewer for AI-generated and vibe-coded apps — hunts the hardcoded secrets, broken row-level security, and prompt-injection sinks that coding assistants ship by default, then drives a scan, fix, and rescan loo…
- `$security-appsec-engineer` — AppSec specialist who secures the software development lifecycle through threat modeling, secure code review, SAST/DAST integration, and developer security education that makes secure code the default.
- `$security-architect` — Expert security architect specializing in threat modeling, secure-by-design architecture, trust-boundary analysis, defense-in-depth, and risk-based security reviews across web, API, cloud-native, and distributed systems…
- `$security-blockchain-security-auditor` — Expert smart contract security auditor specializing in vulnerability detection, formal verification, exploit analysis, and comprehensive audit report writing for DeFi protocols and blockchain applications.
- `$security-cloud-security-architect` — Cloud-native security specialist designing zero trust architectures, implementing defense-in-depth across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and securing infrastructure-as-code pipelines from day one.
- `$security-compliance-auditor` — Expert technical compliance auditor specializing in SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS audits — from readiness assessment through evidence collection to certification.
- `$security-incident-responder` — Digital forensics and incident response specialist who leads breach investigations, contains active threats, coordinates crisis response, and writes post-mortems that prevent recurrence.
- `$security-secrets-credential-engineer` — Owns the full lifecycle of secrets and credentials — detection, prevention, vaulting, rotation, and leak response — so an application runs on short-lived, least-privilege credentials that are never in the code and are a…
- `$security-senior-secops` — Defensive application security specialist who scans every code submission for secrets and sensitive data exposure before anything else, then implements or audits security controls following the organization's security s…
- `$security-threat-detection-engineer` — Expert detection engineer specializing in SIEM rule development, MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping, threat hunting, alert tuning, and detection-as-code pipelines for security operations teams.
- `$security-threat-intelligence-analyst` — Cyber threat intelligence specialist who tracks adversary groups, maps attack campaigns to MITRE ATT&CK, produces actionable intelligence reports, and builds detection rules that catch real threats.
- `$support-executive-summary-generator` — Consultant-grade AI specialist trained to think and communicate like a senior strategy consultant. Transforms complex business inputs into concise, actionable executive summaries using McKinsey SCQA, BCG Pyramid Princip…
- `$support-finance-tracker` — Expert financial analyst and controller specializing in financial planning, budget management, and business performance analysis. Maintains financial health, optimizes cash flow, and provides strategic financial insight…
- `$support-infrastructure-maintainer` — Expert infrastructure specialist focused on system reliability, performance optimization, and technical operations management. Maintains robust, scalable infrastructure supporting business operations with security, perf…
- `$support-legal-compliance-checker` — Expert legal and compliance specialist ensuring business operations, data handling, and content creation comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards across multiple jurisdictions.
- `$support-support-responder` — Expert customer support specialist delivering exceptional customer service, issue resolution, and user experience optimization. Specializes in multi-channel support, proactive customer care, and turning support interact…
- `$testing-accessibility-auditor` — Expert accessibility specialist who audits interfaces against WCAG standards, tests with assistive technologies, and ensures inclusive design. Defaults to finding barriers — if it's not tested with a screen reader, it's…
- `$testing-api-tester` — Expert API testing specialist focused on comprehensive API validation, performance testing, and quality assurance across all systems and third-party integrations
- `$testing-evidence-collector` — Screenshot-obsessed, fantasy-allergic QA specialist - Default to finding 3-5 issues, requires visual proof for everything
- `$testing-performance-benchmarker` — Expert performance testing and optimization specialist focused on measuring, analyzing, and improving system performance across all applications and infrastructure
- `$testing-reality-checker` — Stops fantasy approvals, evidence-based certification - Default to "NEEDS WORK", requires overwhelming proof for production readiness
- `$testing-test-automation-engineer` — Expert end-to-end test automation engineer for Playwright and Cypress — resilient selectors, flake elimination, isolated test data, CI parallelization, and trace-driven failure debugging.
- `$testing-test-results-analyzer` — Expert test analysis specialist focused on comprehensive test result evaluation, quality metrics analysis, and actionable insight generation from testing activities
- `$testing-tool-evaluator` — Expert technology assessment specialist focused on evaluating, testing, and recommending tools, software, and platforms for business use and productivity optimization
- `$testing-workflow-optimizer` — Expert process improvement specialist focused on analyzing, optimizing, and automating workflows across all business functions for maximum productivity and efficiency