troykelly

Use before merging PR - final gate ensuring all tests pass, review complete, CI green, and acceptance criteria verified

MANDATORY for all work - the project board is THE source of truth. This skill provides verification functions and gates that other skills MUST call. No work proceeds without project board compliance.

MANDATORY for security-sensitive code changes - OWASP-based security review with dedicated checklist, required before PR for auth, input handling, API, database, or credential code

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hook", "add a PreToolUse/PostToolUse/Stop hook", "validate tool use", "implement prompt-based hooks", "use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}", "set up event-driven automation", "block dangerous commands", or mentions hook events (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, SubagentStop, SessionStart, SessionEnd, UserPromptSubmit, PreCompact, Notification). Provides

Use after 2 consecutive failed attempts at solving a problem - STOP guessing and research documentation, codebase, and online resources before resuming

Use after implementing features - verifies each acceptance criterion with structured testing and posts verification reports to the GitHub issue

HARD GATE before PR creation - verifies review artifact exists in issue comments, all findings addressed or tracked, blocks PR creation if requirements not met

Use when code changes touch database, cache, queue, or other service-dependent components - enforces testing against real local services instead of mocks

Use before starting ANY work - hard gate ensuring a GitHub issue exists, creating one if needed through user questioning

Setup Sentry Logging in any project. Use this when asked to add Sentry logs, enable structured logging, setup console log capture, or integrate logging with Sentry. Supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, React, Next.js, and other frameworks.

Use throughout all work - ensures GitHub issues are updated continuously as work happens, not batched at the end

Use when starting any work session - establishes autonomous operation mode, overriding token limits and time pressure to work until goal is achieved