Chris Ayers
Community@codebytes · Tampa, FL
Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Father | Speaker | Gamer | Reader | Opinions are my own
Agent Skills by Chris Ayers
Showing 47 vetted skills indexed across 1 GitHub repositories.
codebytessession-recovery
Detect and resume interrupted Copilot CLI sessions by querying the session_store SQLite database.
codebytesagent-collaboration
Standardizes worktree awareness, decision recording, and cross-agent communication patterns for squad agents.
codebytesreviewer-protocol
Enforces reviewer rejection workflows with strict author lockout semantics in multi-agent coordination.
codebytesgit-workflow
Implements a dev-first branching model with worktrees and multi-repo coordination for Git workflows.
codebyteserror-recovery
Applies structured recovery patterns to agent failures including retries, fallbacks, and escalation.
codebytessquad-conventions
Documents coding conventions and patterns for the Squad CLI codebase.
codebytessecret-handling
Prevents reading .env files and committing credentials to git-tracked team files.
codebytestest-discipline
Enforces updating tests in the same commit as API or file changes.
codebytesplaywright-cli
Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction.
codebytesaspireify
Wire an Aspire AppHost by scanning repos, proposing resource graphs, and validating with aspire start.
codebytesdotnet-inspect
Inspect .NET API surfaces across NuGet packages, platform libraries, and local assemblies.
codebytesaspire-deployment
Deploy Aspire applications from AppHost models to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, or AWS.
codebytesaspire
Routes Aspire AppHost operations to orchestration, deployment, and monitoring sub-skills via the Aspire CLI.
codebytesaspire-orchestration
Manages Aspire AppHost lifecycle and recovers from file locks, port conflicts, and orphaned processes.
codebytesaspire-init
Scaffolds an Aspire AppHost skeleton in repositories using aspire init or aspire new templates.
codebytesaspire-monitoring
Inspects Aspire app logs, traces, metrics, and resource state via the Aspire CLI.
codebytesarchitectural-proposals
Write structured architectural proposals with problem statements, decisions, risks, and scope definitions.
codebytespr-review-response
Replies to GitHub PR review comment threads after fixes using gh CLI and GraphQL.
codebytesdistributed-mesh
Configures git-based state synchronization for squads distributed across multiple machines.
codebyteshistory-hygiene
Record confirmed final outcomes to history files instead of intermediate or reversed decisions.
codebytesralph-two-pass-scan
Filters GitHub issues with a lightweight list scan before selectively hydrating full issue details.
codebytesiterative-retrieval
Structures sub-agent spawning with a 3-cycle protocol, WHY context, and coordinator validation.
codebytesdocs-standards
Applies Microsoft Style Guide and Squad formatting conventions to documentation.
codebytespersonal-squad
Configures user-level AI agents that persist across projects via a global squad directory.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chris Ayers
FAQPage SchemaWhat tasks can I accomplish with codebytes' Aspire skills?▼
The Aspire skill family covers the full distributed app lifecycle: aspire-init scaffolds AppHost skeletons, aspireify wires resource graphs with ServiceDefaults and OpenTelemetry, aspire-orchestration handles start/stop/wait and lock recovery, aspire-deployment publishes to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, or AWS, and aspire-monitoring surfaces logs, traces, and metrics.
Who are these skills designed for?▼
The skills target .NET developers building cloud-native Aspire applications and engineering teams running multi-agent 'squad' setups. Personas include platform engineers deploying to Azure Container Apps or AKS, maintainers enforcing semver and CI validation gates, and teams coordinating agents across machines via git-based task queuing.
How do the squad orchestration skills work in practice?▼
Squad skills define charters, branching models, and coordination protocols: agents follow dev-first git workflows, reply to PR review threads for traceability, route notifications by type to prevent alert fatigue, and use tiered hot/cold/wiki memory to cut context payloads by 20-55% per spawn. Cross-machine coordination uses git as the transport layer.
Are these skills open source and what do they cost?▼
Several skills carry explicit MIT licenses, including the Aspire family (authored by Microsoft, version 0.0.1), error-recovery, iterative-retrieval, and reflect. All skills are free to use; the github-multi-account skill originates from tamirdresher's squad-skills repository and is installed by reading the skill and running its guided setup.
What prerequisites and dependencies do these skills require?▼
Aspire skills require the aspire CLI and an AppHost (C#, file-based C#, or TypeScript); deployment targets need the corresponding Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, or AWS CLIs. GitHub skills depend on the gh CLI or GitHub MCP server, pr-screenshots needs Playwright, and session-recovery requires SQL access to the Copilot CLI session_store database.