A capability orchestra of 74 lean agent skills for AI IDE agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, and Hermes Agent).
software-maestro structures skills into 12 core domains. Redundant micro-skills are consolidated into Unified Hero Hubs to reduce cognitive choice paralysis, eliminate near-synonym overlap, and prevent prompt token bloat while preserving 100% of expert frameworks.
product/ (21 skills across 6 subdomains)
product/archetypes/(1 skill): Master Product Management router covering 0-to-1 search, growth loops, feature optimization, and 2-sided marketplaces (product-management).product/orchestration/(4 skills): God-Marduk master phased sequencing, Michael Bolton Pod Conductor, Bolton Delegation Doctrine, and Swarm Concurrency with Andon Cord & small-batch rules (god-marduk,michael-bolton-pod-conductor,michael-bolton-rule,swarm-rules).product/planning-and-cadence/(5 skills): Janna Bastow Now-Next-Later horizon roadmapping, Christina Wodtke Radical Focus Outcome OKRs & weekly rhythms, Teresa Torres & Marty Cagan Opportunity Solution Tree continuous discovery, Annie Duke & Adam Thomas premortem kill criteria / survival metrics, and Jeff Patton User Story Mapping & walking skeletons (now-next-later-roadmaps,outcome-okrs-and-cadence,opportunity-solution-mapping,premortem-kill-criteria,user-story-mapping).product/strategy/(5 skills): Melissa Perri Decision Stack & portfolio governance, Tara Seshan empirical hypothesis loop, product pricing strategy, Gibson Biddle DHM narrative & Hamilton Helmer 7 Powers moats, and Rahul Vohra PMF engine with Brian Balfour compounding growth loops (decision-stack-governance,product-hypothesis-loop,product-pricing-strategy,product-strategy-narrative,pmf-engine-and-growth-loops).product/discovery-and-specs/(3 skills): Outcome-oriented PRD compiler with BDD/Gherkin and Definition of Done gates, Tracer-bullet ticket compiler with blocking DAGs, and Voice of Customer synthesis (create-prd,prd-to-tickets,voc-insights-pipeline).product/operations-and-gtm/(3 skills): Continuous product loop, GTM release readiness gating, and systems retrospective pruning (continuous-product-loop,release-readiness-gtm,systems-retro-pruning).
design/ (11 skills across 5 subdomains)
design/sprints-and-ideation/(2 skills): Jake Knapp Design Sprint master hub and Min Basadur / IDEO How Might We (HMW) generative problem reframing (design-sprint,how-might-we).design/systems-and-foundations/(1 skill): Foundational design system tokens, visual typography scale, and aesthetic principles (design-system-rules).design/interaction-and-layout/(3 skills): Responsive layout breakpoints, motion physics, and wayfinding architecture (design-responsive-rules,design-animation,design-information-architecture-rules).design/experience-and-flows/(3 skills): First-time user onboarding, Hollywood prototype facades with rapid validation, and cognitive chart visualization (design-user-onboarding-ux,design-rapid-prototype-facade,chart-communication).design/evaluation-and-quality/(2 skills): Nielsen Norman usability heuristics and structured 5-Act user interview testing (design-usability-rules,design-5-act-user-interview-testing).
engineering/ (11 skills across 3 subdomains)
engineering/development-and-quality/(8 skills): Core engineering craft, code review checklists, Test-Driven Development (TDD), evaluation-driven AI development, ASD-STE100 technical writing standards, info-to-ink token compression, open source contribution etiquette, and TypeSafe Jev workflow design (developer-development-rules,developer-code-review-rules,developer-test-driven-development,developer-eval-driven-development,technical-language-rules,info-to-ink,open-source-contributor,typesafe-jev).engineering/architecture-and-resiliency/(2 skills): Clean/Hexagonal system architecture with circuit breakers and zero-key web search grounding (system-architecture-rules,grounded-search-rules).engineering/cloud-and-infrastructure/(1 skill): Multi-cloud architecture, hybrid cloud networking, and reusable Terraform IaC modules (multi-cloud-architecture).
finance/ (1 skill)
finance-payments-tax-and-treasury: Multi-rail settlement reconciliation (FedNow, RTP, SEPA, Pix, Card Networks), multi-jurisdiction tax nexus & statutory reporting (1099-K, DAC7, VAT, TOT), automated chargeback dispute defense, and treasury liquidity rebalancing.
trust/ (1 skill)
trust-safety-fraud-and-claims: Multimodal content moderation, counterfeit goods & policy enforcement, KYC/KYB & OFAC/PEP sanctions screening, and binding physical damage claim adjudication (AirCover, damaged shipments).
legal/ (1 skill)
legal-contracts-and-compliance: Autonomous enterprise contract redlining (MSAs, DPAs, SLAs), security questionnaire automation (Whistic, Conveyor, OneTrust), and continuous audit evidence harvesting (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, EU AI Act).
ops/ (1 skill)
ops-incident-and-crisis-response: Mission-critical SEV-0/1 war room triage, canary kill & traffic shedding containment, public status communications, high-empathy customer crisis override resolution, and blameless 5-Whys RCAs.
data-and-api/ (5 skills)
api-design-guidelines: REST/GraphQL schema contracts, RFC 7807 error patterns, and database caching.data-persistence-caching: Database schema indexing, cache-aside patterns, and query performance tuning.data-science-causal-inference: Causal inference (DiD, Synthetic Control, CUPED), metric triage, and dbt dimensional semantic layers.data-warehouse-semantic-layer: Enterprise metric layers, dimensional modeling (dbt / Cube / LookML), and single source of truth analytics definitions.product-data-metric-investigation-triage: Diagnostic metric triage, cohort degradation decomposition, and anomaly root-cause attribution.
security/ (2 skills)
developer-security: Backend/frontend threat modeling, OWASP Top 10 mitigation, CSP headers, and CI/CD secrets management.auth-and-identity-rules: OAuth 2.1 PKCE, JWT session control, and zero-trust mTLS service identity.
growth/ (7 skills)
analytics-event-tracking: Behavioral telemetry taxonomies, retention modeling, and CRM lifecycle automation.commerce-ux-rules: Shopping cart optimization, checkout friction reduction, and multi-step wizard forms.developer-seo: Technical search engine optimization, semantic metadata, and structured schema tags.experimentation-hypothesis-engine: Statistical A/B testing, MDE sample sizing, SRM validation, and 3-way post-mortems.conversion-copywriting: High-conversion landing page copy, value propositions, and concise prose.american-dialect: Research-backed regional American English rewrites that preserve author voice and avoid caricature.negotiation-maximizer: Ethical, low-theater negotiation for compensation, purchases, renewals, contracts, and commercial terms.
quality/ (8 skills)
a11y-debugging: WCAG AA accessibility compliance, keyboard navigation, and ARIA tree auditing.chrome-devtools: Headless browser automation, page element snapshot inspection, and console debugging.cost-optimization: Multi-cloud FinOps spending analysis, resource rightsizing, and cost governance.deployment-pipeline-design: Multi-stage CI/CD deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI) with canary gates.dogfood: Systematic exploratory web testing with step-by-step bug reproduction videos and screenshots.observability-telemetry: Structured logging, OpenTelemetry tracing, and service mesh monitoring.peekaboo: macOS native desktop GUI automation, window management, and system dialog interactions.web-perf: Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) performance auditing and resource optimization.
productivity-maestro/ (5 skills across 2 subdomains)
productivity-maestro/executive-and-async/(2 skills): Multi-paradigm meeting intelligence (McKinsey SCQA / Amazon PR/FAQ) and Axios Smart Brevity asynchronous decision memos (meeting-transcription-notes,executive-async-memo).productivity-maestro/scrum-cadences/(3 skills): Original Scrum Cybernetic Behavioral Harness cadences paired by cycle phase: (1) Sprint Planning & DEEP Backlog Refinement, (2) Daily Synchronization & 24h Drift Triage, and (3) Sprint Review (DoD) & Egoless Retrospective (Kaizen) (scrum-planning-and-refinement,scrum-daily-sync,scrum-review-and-retro).
├── product/ # Product Management & Orchestration (21 skills)
│ ├── archetypes/ # Master PM archetype router (1 skill)
│ ├── orchestration/ # God-Marduk, Bolton Conductor, Bolton Rule, Swarm Rules (4 skills)
│ ├── planning-and-cadence/ # Roadmaps, OKRs, Opportunity Mapping, Kill Criteria, Story Mapping (5 skills)
│ ├── strategy/ # Decision Stack, Hypothesis Loop, Pricing, Strategy Narrative, PMF Loops (5 skills)
│ ├── discovery-and-specs/ # PRD Compiler, PRD-to-Tickets, VoC Pipeline (3 skills)
│ └── operations-and-gtm/ # Continuous Loop, GTM Release, Systems Retro Pruning (3 skills)
├── design/ # Visual Systems, Design Sprints, Layout & Motion (11 skills)
│ ├── sprints-and-ideation/ # Design Sprint & How Might We ideation (2 skills)
│ ├── systems-and-foundations/ # Design system tokens & visual scale (1 skill)
│ ├── interaction-and-layout/ # Responsive layouts, animation physics, IA wayfinding (3 skills)
│ ├── experience-and-flows/ # Onboarding UX, Prototype Facade, Chart viz (3 skills)
│ └── evaluation-and-quality/ # Usability heuristics & 5-Act interview testing (2 skills)
├── engineering/ # Code Quality, Architecture, Cloud & IaC (11 skills)
│ ├── development-and-quality/ # TDD, evals, code reviews, craft, STE prose, info-to-ink, OSS etiquette, Jev (8 skills)
│ ├── architecture-and-resiliency/ # System architecture, grounded search (2 skills)
│ └── cloud-and-infrastructure/ # Multi-cloud architecture & Terraform IaC (1 skill)
├── finance/ # Settlement rails, tax nexus, chargebacks & treasury (1 skill)
├── trust/ # Content moderation, KYC/AML, fraud & physical claims (1 skill)
├── legal/ # Enterprise contract redlining, security QA & audit vault (1 skill)
├── ops/ # SEV-0 incident command, crisis comms & blameless RCA (1 skill)
├── data-and-api/ # API guidelines, caching, causal inference, semantic layer, metric triage (5 skills)
├── security/ # Developer security & auth/identity rules (2 skills)
├── growth/ # Telemetry, commerce UX, SEO, experimentation, regional copy, negotiation (7 skills)
├── quality/ # CI/CD, FinOps, dogfooding, a11y, observability, web perf, peekaboo (8 skills)
└── productivity-maestro/ # Executive memos, meeting intelligence & 3-tier Scrum cadences (5 skills)
├── executive-and-async/ # Meeting intelligence & Smart Brevity async memos (2 skills)
└── scrum-cadences/ # Planning/Refinement, Daily Sync, Review/Retro (3 skills)
The canonical tree stays organized by lifecycle domain for Codex, Gemini, Claude, and other clients. Hermes taps scan only the immediate child directories of their configured path, so skills/ is a generated flat compatibility export.
The tap configuration is:
{"repo": "coreyone/software-maestro", "path": "skills/"}The export is tap-compatible, but Hermes controls source precedence. A Hermes version can resolve a matching repository skill through another indexed source before it uses the configured tap. Check the installed skill's recorded source if tap provenance matters; this repository does not change that resolver.
Regenerate the export after changing a canonical skill:
python3 scripts/export_hermes_skills.py --write
python3 scripts/export_hermes_skills.pyThe export copies each skill package, including references/, scripts/, and templates/ when present. Do not edit files under skills/ directly. The workflow checks that the export stays synchronized.
Instantly search, discover, and inspect all 74 local skills from your terminal:
# Keyword search across names, triggers, and expert frameworks
python3 scripts/find_skill.py "how might we"
# Filter by lifecycle domain
python3 scripts/find_skill.py --domain product
# Output structured JSON for tooling
python3 scripts/find_skill.py --json "okrs"Run automated local evaluation suites across all skills:
python3 scripts/check_binary_evals.py