huytieu/COG-second-brain

Auto Research decomposes a strategic question into parallel research threads and synthesizes findings into actionable analysis. Use it for market, competitive, or technology questions that need evidence from multiple sources.

Braindump captures stream-of-consciousness notes and turns them into structured analysis with themes, questions, decisions, and strategic insights. Use it when you want to get ideas out quickly and sort them by domain.

Closed-Loop Execute runs a V-model pipeline from plan to build, component verification, integration verification, and acceptance checks. Use it for tasks that need traceable evidence tied to acceptance criteria and post-condition validation.

Comprehensive Analysis generates a 7-day cross-source review for weekly reviews, board prep, and strategic planning. Use it when you need a full picture of team, product, and delivery health.

Content Factory scouts recent developments in a user’s field, scores them for trend fit and unique angle, and turns selected items into posts, blog drafts, or short videos in the user’s voice. It also enforces deduplication, volume caps, and publish verification.

Create User Story helps draft and create user stories or issues after checking for duplicates across active trackers like Linear, GitHub Issues, or Jira. Use it when you need a tracked feature request with acceptance criteria.

Daily Brief generates a personalized news briefing from verified sources published in the last 7 days. Use it for morning check-ins, tracking projects, and spotting relevant opportunities or threats.

Daily Journal appends short entries to a dated work log after meaningful work and can run a guided reflection on today or yesterday. Use it to keep a passive record of what you did, what you focused on, and what artifacts changed.

Data Forms helps you choose a chart or diagram form that makes a dataset readable in seconds. It covers common survey, benchmark, metric, and research cases, plus labeling and encoding rules that make the result clear.

Editorial Illustrations generates thesis-driven data illustrations in a monochrome house style with one accent. Use it when a post, essay, spec, or slide needs a chart or diagram that proves a claim rather than decorating the page.

Export Open Issues audits open issues from project trackers and produces a summary report with health checks for backlog planning. It is used when you need a snapshot of what is open, stale, blocked, or unassigned.

Generate PRD creates product requirements documents from a feature idea, including goals, user stories, solution details, and technical considerations. It can also publish the document to Confluence, Notion, or HackMD when those integrations are available.

Generate Release Notes collects changes from GitHub, Linear, Jira, or manual input and turns them into categorized release notes. Use it for versions, sprints, cycles, or changelog drafts with optional publishing.

Harvest captures session corrections, stable facts, process lessons, and skill gaps for later human review. Use it at the end of a session or from a staging hook when you want to propose durable knowledge without writing it automatically.

Knowledge Consolidation turns scattered braindumps, briefs, and check-ins into coherent frameworks and single-source-of-truth notes. Use it when you need to spot patterns, resolve contradictions, or maintain a knowledge base.

Loop Engineering defines shared patterns for iterative Claude Code skills, including verifiers, stop conditions, and context management. Use it when designing or debugging a loop that searches, retries, scans, or gates progress.

Meeting Transcript processes meeting recordings or notes into structured decisions, action items, themes, and team dynamics. Use it when you need a filtered summary from a transcript or want follow-up work extracted.

Memory Hygiene periodically re-verifies environment-dependent claims in persistent memory and knowledge notes. It stamps last_verified and confidence, and proposes archiving entries that have drifted or gone obsolete.

Museum Art sources authentic public-domain museum artwork for hero images, section breaks, social cards, and other decorative visuals. Use it when you want a real image instead of AI-generated or generic stock art.

No AI Slop edits drafts into clearer, more human writing while preserving the writer’s voice. It can also flag AI-slop patterns in a draft without rewriting it.

Onboarding collects your name, role, interests, and optional watchlist details to personalize COG. Use it first when setting up a new vault or updating your profile files.

Product UI Taste guides dense product surfaces like dashboards, tables, forms, and wizards. Use it for app UIs that must handle real data, edge cases, accessibility, and established design systems.

Publish To Confluence converts a markdown file from the vault into Confluence storage format and posts it to a chosen space and parent page. Use it when you need to share docs like PRDs or release notes in Confluence with an approval step.

Retro audits a completed run’s checkpoints, evidence quality, and open action items after ship or escalation. Use it to close the loop and feed lessons into the next run.

Review Cockpit produces one living document for sessions with multiple deliverables, combining progress, working files, context, and per-item review cards. Use it when you need to approve or request changes on several outputs in place.