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Use before implementation planning when feature intent is clear but implementation decisions are still unresolved, and the user needs those decisions locked first.

Use when implementing approved Pulse beads, either as a swarm worker or as a single worker when swarming is unavailable.

Use when the user asks for a manual consolidation pass over runtime artifacts into machine-readable Pulse memory outside the post-cycle compounding flow.

Use when the user asks to distill accumulated dev-notes into reader-facing topic knowledge, rather than to capture a new note or update machine memory.

Use after completed Pulse work when the user asks to capture post-cycle machine-readable learnings for future planning and execution.

Use when starting work in an unfamiliar repository, resuming after lost context, or when the user asks to bootstrap repo understanding before implementation.

Repo-wide or subsystem-wide architecture hygiene pass that surfaces deepening opportunities, shallow modules, leaky seams, and ownership drift. Default mode is report-only: no bead creation or execution unless explicitly requested.

Save current work progress to .bdk/save-progress/ for resuming in a future session. Use when context is large, work is in progress, and you want to stop and continue later.

Restore saved work progress from .bdk/save-progress/ to resume a previous session. Loads referenced plans, creates TaskList items for remaining work.

Read, extract and summarize PDF files with automatic OCR fallback for scanned/image-based PDFs. Use this skill whenever the user asks to read/extract/summarize PDF content. Triggers on: "read this PDF", "extract PDF content", "summarize this PDF", "what's in this PDF", "convert PDF to markdown", "batch process PDFs", "PDF 内容", "读取 PDF", "总结 PDF". This skill handles everything automatically — conve

Tool-tier guidance for code review (change detection, risk scoring, review context). Preloaded into reviewer subagents; not user-facing.

Design pattern principles (GoF, anti-patterns, pattern documentation). Preloaded into agents that propose or review code structure; not user-facing.