spring-boot

Refresh Spring Boot research docs and check which skills need updating for the latest Spring Boot version

Comprehensive Spring Boot implementation review with smart skill detection and parallel execution

Verify Spring Boot project upgrade readiness with parallel multi-skill analysis

Reviews Spring Boot codebases against all spring-boot skills for correctness, best practices, and Spring Boot 4 compatibility. Use when reviewing Spring Boot projects, validating implementations, or user mentions "review my Spring Boot code", "check Spring best practices", "Spring Boot review", "validate Spring configuration".

Verifies Spring Boot upgrade readiness using parallel multi-skill analysis. Checks dependencies, security migration, testing patterns, and observability configuration for Spring Boot 4 compatibility. Use when user mentions "upgrade Spring Boot", "migrate to Spring Boot 4", "Spring Boot migration", "check upgrade readiness", "Spring Boot compatibility".

Expert guidance for Domain-Driven Design architecture and implementation. Use when designing complex business systems, defining bounded contexts, structuring domain models, choosing between modular monolith vs microservices, implementing aggregates/entities/value objects, or when users mention "DDD", "domain-driven design", "bounded context", "aggregate", "domain model", "ubiquitous language", "event storming", "context mapping", "domain events", "anemic domain model", strategic design, tactical patterns, or domain modeling. Helps make architectural decisions, identify subdomains, design aggregates, and avoid common DDD pitfalls.

Analyze and consolidate Flyway SQL migrations into clean, domain-grouped CREATE TABLE migrations for pre-production projects. Use when consolidating database migrations, refactoring Flyway schemas, simplifying migration history, grouping tables by domain, or when user mentions "consolidate migrations", "merge migrations", "clean up Flyway", "refactor schema", "baseline migrations".

Spring Boot 4 data layer implementation for Domain-Driven Design. Use when implementing JPA or JDBC aggregates, Spring Data repositories, transactional services, projections, or entity auditing. Covers aggregate roots with AbstractAggregateRoot, value object mapping, EntityGraph for N+1 prevention, and Spring Boot 4 specifics (JSpecify null-safety, AOT repositories). For DDD concepts and design decisions, see the domain-driven-design skill.

Spring Modulith 2.0 implementation for bounded contexts in Spring Boot 4. Use when structuring application modules, implementing @ApplicationModuleListener for event-driven communication, testing with Scenario API, enforcing module boundaries, externalizing events to Kafka/AMQP, building a modular monolith, defining module dependencies, managing inter-module events, or organizing DDD modules as packages. Covers package-based module boundaries, named interfaces, event publication, and Scenario API testing. For architecture decisions, see domain-driven-design skill.

Spring Boot 4 observability with Actuator, Micrometer, and OpenTelemetry. Use when configuring health indicators, health checks, custom metrics, distributed tracing, production endpoint exposure, Kubernetes probes, Cloud Run probes, logging, or monitoring. Covers Actuator endpoint security, Micrometer Timer/Counter/Gauge patterns, OpenTelemetry span customization, liveness/readiness probe setup, and metric tag best practices.

Smart code scanner that detects Spring Boot patterns and routes to appropriate skills. Use when editing Java or Kotlin files in Spring Boot projects, working with pom.xml/build.gradle containing spring-boot-starter, or when context suggests Spring Boot development. Detects annotations (@RestController, @Entity, @EnableWebSecurity, @SpringBootTest) to determine relevant skills and provides contextual guidance. Uses progressive automation - auto-invokes for low-risk patterns (web-api, data, DDD), confirms before loading high-risk skills (security, testing, verify).

Spring Security 7 implementation for Spring Boot 4. Use when configuring authentication, authorization, OAuth2/JWT resource servers, method security, or CORS/CSRF. Covers the mandatory Lambda DSL migration, SecurityFilterChain patterns, @PreAuthorize, and password encoding. For testing secured endpoints, see spring-boot-testing skill.

Spring Boot 4 testing strategies and patterns. Use when writing unit tests, slice tests (@WebMvcTest, @DataJpaTest), integration tests, Testcontainers with @ServiceConnection, security testing (@WithMockUser, JWT), or Modulith event testing with Scenario API. Covers the critical @MockitoBean migration from @MockBean.

Verify Spring Boot 4.x projects for correct dependencies, configuration, and migration readiness. Use when analyzing pom.xml, build.gradle, application.yml, discussing Spring Boot project setup, dependency versions, configuration validation, version compatibility, migration to Spring Boot 4, deprecated dependencies, or when user mentions "verify project", "check dependencies", "upgrade Spring Boot", "migration readiness", "Jackson 3", "@MockBean deprecated", or "Spring Security 7".

Spring Boot 4 REST API implementation patterns. Use when creating REST controllers, REST endpoints, request validation, exception handlers with ProblemDetail (RFC 9457), API versioning, content negotiation, WebFlux reactive endpoints, HTTP clients with @HttpExchange, JSON serialization with Jackson 3, error handling, or CORS configuration. Covers @RestController patterns, Bean Validation 3.1, global error handling, and declarative HTTP clients.

Check Spring Boot skill content freshness against latest research and flag skills needing updates. Use when running /spring-refresh, or when user mentions "refresh spring skills", "spring boot update check", "skill freshness", "stale spring content", "update spring boot skills".