Quick Start

After installation, Spellbook skills are available immediately. Skills are invoked automatically when your coding assistant detects a matching trigger, or manually with /<skill-name>.

Common Workflows

Starting a New Feature or Project

Invoke the develop skill. It handles the entire lifecycle: research, discovery, design, planning, and implementation with quality gates at every phase.

I want to add dark mode to the settings page.

That's it. The develop skill activates automatically when you describe what you want to build, or invoke it explicitly with /develop. It coordinates subagents for research, design review, TDD, code review, and fact-checking.

Debugging an Issue

Describe the bug or paste a stack trace. The debugging skill activates automatically.

This test is failing with a timeout on CI but passes locally.

Or invoke explicitly with /debugging. It selects between scientific debugging, systematic elimination, and CI-specific investigation based on the problem type.

Code Review

Requesting review before a PR:

Review my changes using /requesting-code-review

The requesting-code-review skill assembles context, dispatches review agents, triages findings, and produces a remediation plan.

Deep multi-phase review:

Use advanced-code-review for historical context analysis, fact-checked findings, and tiered severity reporting.

Key Skills

Skill	What it does
develop	Full-lifecycle feature implementation with research, design, planning, and execution
debugging	Structured bug investigation with methodology selection and hypothesis tracking
fractal-thinking	Recursive question decomposition for deep exploration of complex topics
dehallucination	Verifies claims and references are grounded in reality, not fabricated
auditing-green-mirage	Detects tests that pass but don't actually verify behavior