assistant_skill

Overview

This skill is a proactive assistant for Staff Engineer workflow and career tracking. It monitors git and file activity, suggests timely actions, enforces gentle time boundaries, and helps capture context to reduce task switching friction. It focuses on status generation, quality guidance, and measurable Staff Engineer signals rather than general coding help.

How this skill works

The skill continuously inspects git activity (commits, PRs, reviews), TypeScript/React file changes, session state, and configured work hours. After significant events it generates concise, actionable suggestions (e.g., save context, run quality-check, draft an ADR). It also exposes commands for standups, weekly summaries, context save/restore, quality checks, and staff-progress dashboards and integrates with developer and knowledge plugins for deeper analysis.

When to use it

• When you want proactive workflow assistance (not general coding help)
• To generate /standup or /weekly-summary automatically from recent work
• When tracking career progress toward Staff Engineer signals
• To enforce work/life boundaries and get gentle end-of-day reminders
• When you need consistent, non-blocking quality validation before reviews
• To save and restore task mental models during context switches

Best practices

• Treat suggestions as advisory — follow or dismiss as fits your flow
• Invoke /quality-check before requesting reviews on TypeScript/React changes
• Use /context-save at session end or mid-task to preserve mental models and TODOs
• Run /staff-progress regularly to correlate activity with quarterly goals
• Let the skill learn: respond to suggestions so proactivity adjusts to your preference

Example use cases

• Run /standup each morning to produce a conversational status from the last 24 hours of git activity
• Invoke /quality-check before requesting reviewers on a PR touching React/TS files
• Use /context-save when switching tasks to store mental model, links, and TODOs for easy resume
• Receive a 5:45pm soft reminder to wrap up, save context, or commit work
• Run /staff-progress monthly to measure ADRs, substantive reviews, system ownership, and cross-team impact