Superior Trade

Deliberate-choice procedure for a medium-to-high-stakes engineering fork — when the first plausible solution (the instinct, the default next-token pull) would be costly to get wrong. Fires AUTONOMOUSLY: invoke proactively whenever a fork fits, never wait to be asked — mechanical triggers include a fix failing for the 2nd-3rd time, adding a dependency, schema/migration design, deleting or deprecating things others depend on, changing a public API, choosing an architecture or stack. Refuse the premature collapse: hold real options open (urge · contrarian · synthesis · out-of-box · intuitive dots · precedent · first-principles), ground each branch in at least one fact from outside the model (codebase, docs, benchmark, spike), future-model consequences (blast radius, reversibility, maintenance, pre-mortem), collapse by deliberate choice, then try to refute the winner before acting. Log the decision and rejected branches in docs/decision_logs/. Not for routine calls — a decision worth more than one forward pass.

Processes Excel spreadsheet files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv). Creates workbooks, builds formulas, preserves formatting, analyzes tabular data, and validates financial models with zero-formula-error delivery. Use when working with spreadsheet files or tabular data analysis. Do NOT use for Word documents, PDFs, presentations, or database pipelines.

DevOps knowledge reference covering Git workflows, testing strategies, DevSecOps, release pipeline orchestration (release.yml, multi-arch images, cosign integration), CI/CD pipelines, database management, observability, and performance optimization. Use when working with Git, CI/CD, release pipelines, ghcr image publishing, testing, monitoring, or infrastructure automation.

Architecture knowledge reference covering API design, security architecture, cloud-native patterns, caching strategies, message queues, and data security. Use when designing system architecture, APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure.

KiCad EDA orchestration via kicad-mcp MCP server. Routes 17 tools for schematic creation, PCB layout, autorouting, DRC, and Gerber export. Enforces serialized PCB ops, library-first lookup, and autoroute-only routing.

Triage, repair, and close MCP attribution issues from the local report API with evidence-driven decisions and isolated Worktrunk worktrees. Use this skill when Codex needs to process `tool` attribution issues and skills-related attribution issues, inspect related runs, decide whether the issue is actionable in `mcp/src` or `config/source/skills`, update attribution fields as `owner=codex`, and then complete the fix loop through GitHub issue tracking, worktree-based code changes, PR submission, and follow-up iteration when the problem is repairable.