composable-dxp

Opinionated toolkit for keeping an Obsidian vault organized, tagged correctly, and structurally healthy. 12 skills (9 advice + 3 orchestrator-shaped) covering tag taxonomy, frontmatter (Properties) schemas, folder architecture, filename conventions, Maps of Content, and vault audits. One agent (obsidian-agent) that knows when to use each skill. Four slash commands (/audit, /sweep, /cleanup-tags, /bootstrap) for the most common workflows.

Claude tooling skills for Cowork and Claude Code. Two skills: claude-plugin-creator scaffolds new plugins (folder structure, manifest, .plugin build, Cowork install) with empirically-established validation rules; claude-orchestrator designs the orchestration layer for new Cowork projects (CLAUDE.md routing, multi-phase commands, agent teams). One slash command (/plugin-help).

Seven behavioral-economics specialists grounded in canonical sources — Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Thaler & Sunstein's Nudge, Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Wendel's Designing for Behavior Change — plus Slalom's 6-stage Behavioral Design Model. Six ready-to-use templates: Behavioral Profile, Choice Architecture, Nudges/Biases, Intervention Design, Use-Case Scoring, Use-Case Validation.

Six brand specialists: strategy (positioning, narrative, voice, audience), naming (five-category framework, six-step process), identity-system (logo direction, color, type, photography, iconography), voice-tone (attributes with not-X pairings, tone register matrix, filler-words bans), guidelines-composer (9-chapter deliverable, sized to brand context), and audit (drift detection across identity, voice, surface application, governance). Outputs feed the design plugin and marketing plugin.

Eight management-consulting and digital-strategy advisors covering the full engagement lifecycle, grounded in canonical sources: Block's Flawless Consulting, Kubr's Management Consulting, Burtonshaw-Gunn's Essential Tools, Mabee's Consulting Discipline, Robbins & Judge's Essentials of OB, Voss's Never Split the Difference, and Dixon & Adamson's Challenger Sale. Four ready-to-use templates: Engagement Scoping, Negotiation Prep, Challenger Sale Pursuit, Change Readiness & Discovery. Specialists cover management consulting, digital strategy, change management, proposals, SOW risk, sales/BD, negotiation, and client humanization. Innovation work moved to the dedicated `innovation` plugin (formerly consulting-innovation-strategist); DT books shared via cross-reference.

Eleven innovation specialists grounded in canonical sources — Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, Dyer/Gregersen/Christensen's Innovator's DNA, Furr & Dyer's Innovator's Method, Doblin's Ten Types, Ramanujam & Tacke's Monetizing Innovation, Innovation Lab Excellence, Kelley's Ten Faces, Catmull's Creativity Inc, Dyer/Furr/Lefrandt's Innovation Capital, Rogers's Driving Digital Strategy, Tushman/Anand's Why Digital Transformations Fail, and Kane et al's Technology Fallacy — plus HBR Must-Reads on Innovation and Design a Better Business. Skills cover strategy, portfolio governance, value engineering across horizons, JTBD discovery, lean validation, ten-types diagnosis, willingness-to-pay monetization, lab design, disruption analysis, creative leadership/political capital, and digital transformation. One agent (innovation-agent) sequences them. Eight slash commands (audit, strategy, portfolio, discover, validate, value-case, charter, disruption-test) provide high-leverage recurring operations. Six templates: Three Horizons canvas, Ambition Matrix, JTBD Interview Guide, Ten Types diagnostic, Value Engineering canvas, Innovation Charter.

Ten facilitation skills grounded in canonical sources: Rob Evans' Collaboration Code (Patterns, Tools, Models, Casebook — the EY/MG Taylor wavespace tradition), Klein & Newman's Facilitating Collaboration (Value Web), Lewrick et al.'s The Design Thinking Playbook, Hoffman's Meeting Design, van der Pijl/Lokitz/Solomon's Design a Better Business, and Gray/Brown/Macanufo's Gamestorming. A senior facilitator persona plus nine specialists: meeting architect, multi-day workshop designer, collaboration pattern librarian, design thinking coach, strategic visualizer (canvases), decision architect, group dynamics coach, virtual/hybrid specialist, and gamestorming coach. Nine ready-to-use templates. One agent (facilitation-agent) sequences them. Six slash commands cover the lifecycle: /scope, /design-session, /pick-game, /triage-meeting, /decision-rule, /recap. v0.3 added the gamestorming coach skill with a 123-game catalog. v0.2 added deep per-pattern (91), per-tool (~110), per-model (33), and per-case (19) catalogs from the Collaboration Code series — the skills carry the depth so you don't have to crack the source PDFs.

Nine customer-experience specialists: customer research, jobs-to-be-done, persona development, journey mapping, service design, information architecture, product trend research, customer-feedback synthesis, and personalization strategy. Information architecture outputs feed directly into the engineering plugin's content modeling.

Fifteen UI/UX/web/mobile/surface design specialists plus operational task workflows. Includes design-taste (anti-bland override layer with dials, intent-first protocol, named AI tells, four pre-show checks), product/web/screen design, motion-and-interaction (with Emil Kowalski's Animation Decision Framework, Sonner/Vaul defaults), accessibility, design audits, dev-ready handoff, design process discipline, plus surface-specific authoring for 16:9 decks, 8.5x11 long-form documents, social assets (LinkedIn/Instagram), iconography (Lucide/Phosphor/Flaticon), visualization (Mermaid/napkin.ai/shadcn-charts/commission), and imagery (higgsfield: nano banana 2, seedance 2). Includes shadcn ecosystem inventories shared with the software-engineering plugin.

Leadership coaching, people-management, hiring, meetings and cadences, goal-setting, transitions, and stoic perspective. Seven specialized skills under one orchestrating agent. The two original skills (executive coach for neurodivergent leaders, people-leader for everyday craft) are joined by skills for hiring, meetings & cadences, onboarding & transitions, goals & OKRs, and stoic perspective. Each skill carries deep reference files distilled from canonical leadership texts — Hire With Your Head, The First 90 Days, Radical Focus, Drive, Good to Great, The Coaching Habit, Never Split the Difference, Meeting Design, The Effective Manager, Managing Humans, The Manager's Path, A Guide to the Good Life, How F*cked Up Is Your Management, Peopleware, Scaling Teams, Performance Appraisal Phrase Book, Exactly What to Say, How We Talk, Radical Candor, and 7 Habits.

Eight marketing and content specialists: copywriting (UX, conversion, landing pages), SEO/GEO/AEO, growth hacking, web analytics (GA4, GTM), social media, event organization, plus task-focused skills for SEO briefs and GEO content drafts.

Nine project-management and delivery skills grounded in canonical sources: Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow, Gothelf's Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking, and Josephs & Rubenstein's Risk Up Front. The senior PM persona plus task-focused workflows (RAID, requirements, user stories, sprint planning, retros, facilitation) plus two new specialists: flow-engineer (Cost of Delay, queue theory, batch sizing, WIP) and methodology-advisor (DT vs Lean vs Agile choice). Three ready-to-use templates: Flow Metrics, Methodology Selector, Risk Up Front. One agent (project-management-agent) sequences them.

Product management as a distinct discipline from project management. One skill — product-management-product-manager — grounded in Melissa Perri's Escaping the Build Trap (2018), with cross-references to Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow and Gothelf's Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking. Covers product strategy (Vision → Strategic Intents → Product Initiatives → Options), the Product Kata, outcomes vs. outputs, product discovery, and the project-to-product organizational shift. One template (Product Strategy). Will grow with skills for product discovery, product analytics, product operations, and product leadership.

Thirty technology and engineering specialists spanning architecture (composable, cloud, backend), engineering (frontend, mobile, design systems, DevOps, QA), AI/ML (AI engineering, agentic workflows), data (data engineering), security, technical writing, and content modeling — plus task-focused workflows for Next.js scaffolds, shadcn components, Tailwind tokens, accessibility audits, design implementation, component specs, and shadcn registry authoring — plus seven Next.js 16 deep dives (routing, server/client, cache + Suspense, server actions, errors/loading, performance/Web Vitals, config/security). One agent (software-engineering-agent) for general framework-level orchestration, with handoffs to vercel-agent and contentful-agent in adjacent plugins for platform-specific work. Four slash commands wire the Next.js skills into repeatable workflows: /nextjs-bootstrap, /nextjs-feature, /nextjs-upgrade, /nextjs-audit. Plugin-shared references include modern-javascript-essentials (ES2026, Temporal, iterator helpers, Set methods) and architecture-patterns-2026 (the ten patterns + MACH overlay).

Twelve specialist skills for implementing Contentful-based composable platforms — content modeling, React/Next.js wiring, space and environment architecture, CMA migrations via CLI, GraphQL Content API, webhooks, delivery and image optimization, App Framework extensions, Personalization (former Ninetailed), rich text rendering, localization, and the practical Contentful MCP / CLI workflows that drive agent-led delivery. Production-grade guidance for Slalom's Composable DXP practice.

Twelve specialist skills for Algolia-powered search: index design, relevance tuning, InstantSearch React/Next.js, Autocomplete, search-client, indexing pipelines (Contentful → Algolia, batch + streaming), API-key strategy, the Recommend API, AI search and Personalization (NeuralSearch), Insights events and A/B, Contentful ↔ Algolia integration, and Algolia MCP/CLI workflows.

Eleven specialist skills for shipping on Vercel — deploy pipeline (Production / Preview / Development), Fluid Compute and runtimes, the Edge Network and CDN, Vercel-managed storage (Blob, KV, Postgres, Edge Config), observability (Speed Insights, Web Analytics, Logs, Drains), security (WAF, BotID, Bot Management, Deployment Protection), the Vercel AI SDK and AI Gateway, v0 design-to-code, the Sandbox + Agent + Workflows agentic runtime, and the Vercel REST API. Adjacent to the software-engineering plugin's Next.js skills — that plugin owns the framework, this plugin owns the platform.

Twelve specialist skills for implementing and optimizing Bynder DAM-based composable platforms — asset modeling and metaproperties, Brand Guidelines, derivative templates, the bynder-js-sdk, Universal Compact View embedding, Bynder + Contentful pairing, portal and account architecture, permissions and workflow, webhooks and asset events, marketplace connectors, migrations into Bynder, and optimization audits for existing implementations. Production-grade guidance for Slalom's Composable DXP practice.

The Slalom Solution Factory — orchestrates the Frame → Draft → Polish → Ship pipeline for producing solution kits (8 deliverables) from idea to promoted artifact. Cowork-native: walks users through the intake via AskUserQuestion, sequences specialist skills across stages, applies brand and visual toolchain, routes promoted solutions to the right canonical home (10_Practice/Offerings/Solutions for DXP; 40_Library/Solution_Briefs for general).