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Boosted Sessions: You want to speed up your interactive sessions and at the same time reduce costs by reducing the number of produced LLM output tokens? → /ase-meta-config set agent.persona engineer or even /ase-meta-config set agent.persona caveman

Alternative Approach Funnel: You prefer a plan-driven approach, but the agent harness's Plan Mode is too unstructured and too direct because you want to leverage a funnel of alternative approaches first? → /ase-code-craft hello: "ase hello" CLI command which prints a nice "Hello World" in red

Named and Persisted Plans: You prefer a plan-driven approach, but the agent harness's Plan Mode is regularly too weak, because you want named, persisted, cross-session reachable, and strictly structured plans? → /ase-task-edit hello

Plan Stress-Testing: You have a task plan, but want to be relentlessly grilled about every essential aspect of it until you and the agent reach a shared understanding and no open decisions remain? → /ase-task-grill hello

Implementation Preflights: You prefer a plan-driven approach, but want to pre-flight the implementation without later having to rewind artifacts via the version control system or the agent harness's session history? → /ase-task-preflight hello

Project Insights: You want to get a quick insight into a project by determining the author, the source files with the most churn, and the module structure? → /ase-code-insight @tool

Code Comprehension: You want to better comprehend code by finding focused information on What, Why, Analogy, Diagram, Cruxes, and Gotchas? → /ase-code-explain @tool/src/*.ts

Lexical Code Analysis: You want to analyze code for potential problems related to a standard set of code quality aspects? → /ase-code-lint @tool/src/*.ts

Document Shortening: You want a document cut down to a hard length budget -- sentences tightened first, low-value content dropped next, the rest compressed last -- with every cut reviewed as a whole block before it is applied? → /ase-docs-shorten --chars 4000 @README.md

Document Refinement: You want the wording of a document refined -- long sentences shortened, nominal constructions turned into verbs, enumerations made parallel, filler words struck -- while content, numbers, and technical terms stay exactly as they are? → /ase-docs-refine @README.md

Document Proofreading: You want your text documents checked and corrected for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors? → /ase-docs-proofread @README.md

Research Quorum: You want to research a fact by asking multiple (potentially available) foreign LLMs and methodologically derive a quorum answer? → /ase-meta-quorum What is Agentic Software Engineering?

Logical Code Analysis: You want to analyze code for potential problems in its logic, semantics, and control flow? → /ase-code-analyze @tool/src/*.ts

Automated Change Logs: You want to get your CHANGELOG.md entries automatically derived from your recent Git commits? → /ase-repo-changelog

Plan Implementation: You have a named, persisted task plan and now want it implemented as a single, complete change set across your project artifacts? → /ase-task-implement hello

Epic Plan Dissection: You have one large task plan, but want it split domain-wise and logically into cohesive parts, each materialized as its own sub-task plan you can implement separately? → /ase-task-dissect hello

Specification Activation: You want the SpecBook know-how -- format contract, schema, and artifact set -- activated in your session, so you can query and ad-hoc edit your specification in plain conversation? → /ase-spec-activate which personas does the specification define?

Specification Editing: You want your SpecBook-based specification changed straight from a plain description, in one shot and kept conformant to its format contract? → /ase-spec-edit -g -v add a Reviewer persona

Artifact Reconciliation: You want one set of artifacts (e.g. CODE, DOCS) automatically aligned to reflect the current state of another set (e.g. SPEC), one-way or bidirectionally? → /ase-sync-reconcile -s SPEC -t DOCS

Foreign Source Import: You want external files, URLs, or pasted text ingested and turned into structured SPEC, CODE, DOCS, or TASK artifacts? → /ase-sync-import -t SPEC @requirements.txt

Specification Export: You want your SpecBook-based specification rendered into ready-to-consume files, like a self-contained HTML document or a paginated PDF document? → /ase-sync-export -o docs/spec.html,docs/spec.pdf

Task Plan Life-Cycle: You want your named, persisted task plans switched, listed, watched on a board, viewed, status-changed, renamed, condensed, rebooted, or deleted right from within the session? → /ase-task-id, /ase-task-list, /ase-task-view, /ase-task-status, /ase-task-rename, /ase-task-condense, /ase-task-reboot, /ase-task-delete

Direct Skill Usage Help: You want usage help for skills directly within your agent tool sessions? → /ase-xxx-xxx --help or /ase-help-skill root cause

Intent-Based Skill Matching: You know what you want, but not which skill and which options realize it, and want the fitting /ase-xxx-xxx commands generated for you? → /ase-help-intent split my huge change set into separate commits

Diff Summary: You want a raw Git diff turned into a concise, human-readable narrative of what changed and why, grouped by intent, and with optional intent-coherence check, risk grading and blast radius? → /ase-repo-diff -c -r -b

Change Review: You want the staged Git changes reviewed the way a human reviewer would on a pull request, with an approve/reject verdict and prioritized, severity-tagged, line-cited findings? → /ase-repo-review

Change Set Dissection: You have one large, mixed change set, but want it split into cohesive parts, each landing in its own Git WorkTree so it can be reviewed and committed atomically? → /ase-repo-dissect -m 4

Branch Merging: You want a branch, including its still uncommitted changes, merged into a target branch, with merge conflicts resolved semantically and an explicit merged/conflict verdict? → /ase-repo-merge -t develop -c feature-x

Conflict Resolution: You ran into merge conflicts and want them resolved semantically, without losing any change, and with the unresolvable hunks kept as-is and escalated to you? → /ase-repo-resolve --interactive src/

Guided Bug Fixing: You want a problem or bug resolved through a structured, plan-driven funnel of candidate root causes and fix approaches instead of a direct, unstructured patch? → /ase-code-resolve the CLI crashes on an empty config file

Guided Refactoring: You want the code base refactored through a structured funnel of alternative refactoring approaches, optionally captured as a named, persisted task plan? → /ase-code-refactor extract the config loading into a dedicated module

Architecture Analysis: You want your software architecture reviewed for package cohesion and inter-package coupling to spot structural weak spots? → /ase-arch-analyze @tool/src

Collaborative Brainstorming: You want to figure out what to build before how, by diverging on a broad space of ideas and then converging through clustering and scoring into a recommended direction? → /ase-meta-brainstorm an offline-first sync layer for the mobile app

Root-Cause Analysis: You want to understand the reason for a fact with the help of the "Five-Whys" root-cause determination method? → /ase-meta-why is the Decibel (dB) unit a logarithmic one?

Devil's Advocate Challenge: You want a thesis or statement relentlessly challenged and criticised, and finally resolved into a balanced Hegelian synthesis? → /ase-meta-diaboli The Decibel (dB) is an intuitive unit.

Steelman Argument: You want a thesis or statement charitably strengthened with the strongest possible case, and finally consolidated into a fortification argument? → /ase-meta-steelman ASE is one of the best Anthropic Claude Code CLI add-ons.

Key Point Distillation: You want a document distilled into a flat, importance-ranked list of its key points, each with a salience rank, a rationale, and a verbatim line-cited evidence snippet? → /ase-docs-distill doc/architecture.md

Search Engine Consolidation: You want to query multiple (potentially available) search engines and derive a consolidated result? → /ase-meta-search What is Agentic Software Engineering?

ELI5 Topic Explanation: You want a topic explained in a very simple, child-friendly "Explain Like I'm 5" (ELI5) way, optionally grounded in Web facts? → /ase-meta-eli5 Fourier transform

Topic Quote Finding: You want quotes on a topic, sorted into a 2x2 matrix of attributed vs. anonymous and literal vs. thematic ones? → /ase-meta-quotes software architecture

Foreign LLM Query: You want to directly query a (potentially available) foreign LLM? → /ase-meta-chat gemini What is Agentic Software Engineering?

Package Discovery: You want to be supported in the discovery of suitable packages for the establishment of your technology stack? → /ase-arch-discover reactive UI DOM rendering

Multi-Criteria Decision Matrices: You want to be supported in the evaluation of alternatives with the methodological help of a weighted multi-criteria decision matrix? → /ase-meta-evaluate Vue vs. React vs. Angular, focus on TypeScript support and extensibility

Workflow Skill Generation: You want a recurring multi-step procedure -- sequential steps, parallel actions, sub-agent and skill calls -- turned into its own reusable skill? → /ase-meta-workflow optimizer analyze the code, then resolve each finding in a parallel sub-agent

Commit Message Crafting: You want a concise commit message crafted from the currently staged Git changes instead of writing it by hand? → /ase-repo-commit

Conceptual Topic Neighborhood: You want to explore the parent, sibling, and child topics of a concept, optionally grounded in Web facts and navigable in an interactive loop? → /ase-meta-proximity software architecture

Identifier and Name Minting: You want a UUID, a SHA-1 digest, a constant, variable, function, or class identifier, a path component, or a catchy product name minted from a short description? → /ase-meta-mint -t name a background service bridged into the agent tool

Harness Compatibility Self-Test: You want to check how faithfully your current LLM and its agent harness execute the core interpreter primitives the ASE skills rely on? → /ase-meta-compat

Convenient Foreign MCP Server Setup: You have API keys for popular AI chat services and/or Web search services which ASE could optionally leverage in various skills? → ase setup mcp activate