cortex-engineering

Plugin cortex-engineering from marketplace side-quest-marketplace in nathanvale/side-quest-marketplace. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 5 days ago.

Skills (9)

• arena

  Adversarial research -- biased teams argue opposite sides, a judge delivers the verdict. Use for comparing technologies, evaluating trade-offs, or resolving debates with structured evidence from Reddit, X, and the web. Do not use for single-source research or quick questions -- use /cortex-engineeri

• brainstorm

  Brainstorm ideas building on existing Cortex knowledge. Use when the user wants to brainstorm, explore ideas, or think through an approach.

• design-system

  Design system foundations for visual artifacts -- 8px grid spacing, typography scales, color contrast, border weights, vertical rhythm, and colorblind-safe palettes. Use when creating or styling any visual artifact -- diagrams, charts, presentations, documents, or exports. Provides concrete token va

• frontmatter

  Knows the frontmatter contract for all Cortex knowledge systems. Routes to the correct base fields + system-specific extras when writing docs. Other skills delegate to this skill for doc creation.

• mermaid-diagrams

  Expert knowledge for creating print-ready Mermaid diagrams -- syntax, styling, theming, and print optimization. Use when generating or reviewing any Mermaid diagram.

• naming-conventions

  Naming conventions for Claude Code plugin components -- plugins (tier prefixes: kb-*, dx-*, int-*), skills, commands, agents, argument hints, and descriptions. Use when creating, renaming, or auditing any plugin component to ensure correct naming patterns, description quality, and context budget opt

• research

  Research topics and save structured findings to the Cortex knowledge system. Use when the user asks to research a topic, investigate something, or create a research note.

• skill-authoring

  Expert guidance for creating Claude Code skills and slash commands. Use when authoring new skills, improving existing skills, creating commands, or understanding skill structure and best practices.

• visualize

  Generates diagrams from any document, topic, or concept. Routes mind maps to Markmap, everything else to Mermaid. Use when someone wants to visualize, diagram, or map out anything.

Slash commands (6)

• /cortex-engineering:add

  Capture existing conversation research as a Cortex document

• /cortex-engineering:brainstorm

  Brainstorm an idea, building on existing Cortex knowledge

• /cortex-engineering:create-skill

  Creates, audits, or improves Claude Code skills and commands. Use when scaffolding a new skill, reviewing an existing skill against best practices, or adding components like references, workflows, or templates.

• /cortex-engineering:heal-skill

  Fix incorrect SKILL.md files when a skill has wrong instructions or outdated API references

• /cortex-engineering:research

  Research a topic and save findings as a Cortex document

• /cortex-engineering:visualize

  Generate a visual diagram from any document, topic, or concept

Subagents (1)

• beat-reporter

  Community intelligence agent that uses the @side-quest/word-on-the-street CLI to gather engagement-ranked Reddit, X, and YouTube results for a topic, then runs supplementary web research. Use when you need real community sentiment with upvotes, likes, and comments. Use proactively when dispatching r

MCP servers (1)

• x-api

  runs: bunx --bun @side-quest/x-api

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