Internal Skills

These skills are not user-invocable

Internal skills are loaded automatically (just-in-time) by user-facing commands when needed. You do not type these as slash commands. They are documented here for transparency and troubleshooting -- understanding what happens behind the scenes (like how memory sidecars, ground truth, and rubrics work) can help when you encounter unexpected behavior.

Memory and state management

gaia-memory-management internal Core memory operations: session load/save, decision-log formatting, context summarization, stale detection, and budget monitoring.
gaia-memory-management-cross-agent internal Cross-agent memory extensions: cross-reference loading and shared budget monitoring.
gaia-ground-truth-management internal Ground truth operations for the validator: entry structure, refresh strategies, conflict resolution, and archival.

Validation internals

gaia-validation-patterns internal Reusable validation patterns: factual claim extraction, filesystem verification, cross-referencing, and severity classification.
gaia-document-rulesets internal Document-specific validation rulesets for artifact type detection and structural quality checks.

Development knowledge

gaia-code-review-standards internal Universal review checklist, SOLID violation detection, complexity thresholds, and review gate completion rules.
gaia-testing-patterns internal Red-Green-Refactor TDD cycle, Arrange-Act-Assert patterns, integration test isolation, and test doubles.
gaia-documentation-standards internal README structure, ADR format, inline code comments (JSDoc/docstrings), and API documentation conventions.
gaia-api-design internal REST conventions, GraphQL schema patterns, OpenAPI specs, API versioning, and error standards.
gaia-database-design internal Schema design conventions, forward-only migrations, index optimization, and N+1 prevention.
gaia-docker-workflow internal Multi-stage Dockerfile patterns, Docker Compose for local development, and image security scanning.
gaia-git-workflow internal Git branching strategy, commit conventions, merge/rebase policies, and conflict resolution patterns.
gaia-security-basics internal Foundational security knowledge: input validation, output encoding, auth patterns, secrets handling.
gaia-shell-idioms internal Reusable shell and awk idioms for scripts and tests, including canonical anti-pattern fixes.

Analysis helpers

gaia-edge-cases internal Structured edge-case analysis loaded by /gaia-create-story to enumerate boundary, error, and timing scenarios.

Deprecated aliases

gaia-test-design deprecated Retired. Use /gaia-test-strategy --plan instead.
gaia-test-framework deprecated Retired. Use /gaia-test-strategy --scaffold instead.
gaia-security-review deprecated Retired alias. Use /gaia-review-security instead.