Reference
All skills and agents available in Ultra Claude. Skills with /uc:* commands are user-invocable — run them directly in Claude Code.
Skills
Setup & Onboarding
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Setup | /uc:setup | One-time machine config: installs tmux/Node.js, configures shell for 1M context and agent teams, optimizes tmux, and (optionally, Linux/systemd, opt-in) installs a tmux disconnected-session reaper for VSCode Remote SSH users. Idempotent. |
| Migrate | /uc:migrate | Brings projects into Ultra Claude — fresh initialization, legacy detection, version-aware upgrades. Scaffolds docs, config, and standards. |
| VS Code Setup | /uc:vscode-setup | Configures VS Code remote and client settings for Claude Code workflows, tmux integration, and terminal profiles. |
| VS Code Launch | /uc:vscode-launch | Generates .vscode/launch.json debug configurations for Node.js/TypeScript projects. |
Planning & Research
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Discovery Mode | /uc:discovery-mode | Product research as Head of Product. Spawns parallel internal + external research agents. Produces product description, research, requirements, personas. |
| Roadmap | /uc:roadmap | Decomposes a product into sequenced plan stubs with dependency graph and topological ordering. |
| Feature Mode | /uc:feature-mode | Plans features through 4-stage scope challenge, research, discussion, and structured plan output. Extends the planning framework. |
| Debug Mode | /uc:debug-mode | Hypothesis-driven bug investigation with parallel evidence gathering. Produces fix plan with regression criteria. Extends the planning framework. |
| Critical Brainstorm | /uc:critical-brainstorm | Devil's advocate mode: stress-tests solutions, identifies risks, stays in dialogue until you're satisfied. |
| Research | /uc:research | Cache-first external research — library/API docs, architectural patterns, market/competitor analysis via a single auto-classified interface. Writes committed research files under documentation/technology/research/ (libraries + patterns) or documentation/product/research/ (market) with per-entry staleness (library 10d, patterns 90d, market 30d, historical frozen). |
Execution
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Plan Execution | /uc:plan-execution | Orchestrates per-task mini-teams (Executor/Reviewer/Tester) with live dashboard and checkpoint recovery. |
| Checkpoint | /uc:checkpoint | Saves execution state for session recovery. Triggered automatically every 3 tasks or on usage pause. |
Documentation & Verification
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Docs Manager | /uc:docs-manager | Guards canonical documentation/ structure. Routes docs to correct directories, enforces layout, maintains index. |
| Verification | /uc:doc-code-verification-mode | Compares doc claims against code reality using Checker agents. Classifies discrepancies with fix types. Extends the planning framework. |
| Context Management | /uc:context-management | Manages context/ directory for external API docs and SDK references with git submodule support. |
Project Management
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Backlog | /uc:backlog | Four-category backlog (bugs/questions/ideas/debt) with priorities and blocking relationships. User-initiated only. |
| Plan Status Sync | /uc:plan-status-sync | Scans plans, infers status from execution artifacts, reconciles README with plan.json. |
| Help | /uc:help | System advisor: recommends the right skill, agent, or workflow for any task. Shows recent changelog. |
Infrastructure
| Skill | Command | Description |
|---|
| Railway | /uc:railway | Manages Railway.com deployments via CLI with multi-account token switching and config-as-code. |
| Tailscale Setup | /uc:tailscale-setup | Exposes local services via Tailscale serve/funnel with HTTPS wrapping. |
| Update | /uc:update | Updates Ultra Claude via marketplace, restarts layout daemon, checks for pending migrations. |
Reference Libraries
Reference libraries are shared instruction sets — not skills. Planning modes inherit them and extend them per-stage via files in their own references/ directories.
| Library | Path | Description |
|---|
| Planning Framework |
references/planning-framework/ |
4-stage planning flow (Understand → Research → Discuss → Write), conversational rules, existing-plan handling, approval gates, and post-approval hard stop. Inherited by feature-mode, debug-mode, and doc-code-verification-mode via per-stage extensions in each mode's references/stage-N.md. |
Agents
Agents are spawned by skills as persistent teammates during execution. They coordinate through the full task lifecycle.
| Agent | Model | Role |
|---|
| Task Executor | Opus | Per-task team hub: explores codebase, writes plan, implements code, drives review/test cycles |
| Code Reviewer | Sonnet | Read-only quality gate: reads standards early, gives plan feedback, formal pass/fail review |
| Task Tester | Sonnet | Tests against product docs, writes missing coverage, verifies UI in browser |
| Project Manager | Sonnet | Event-driven coordinator: live dashboard, validates watchdog alerts, per-task budget tracking, operational reports. No cron — wakes only on messages. |
| Watchdog | Haiku | 1-min cron sensor: two rate-limit windows (5h 80%/90%, 7d 90%/95%) and stall detection. Window-qualified signals to PM only. Costs ~$0.03/5h. |
| Researcher | Sonnet | Stateless one-shot researcher spawned by the /uc:research skill on cache miss. Fetches library/pattern/market docs via Ref.tools or web search, writes to documentation/technology/research/ or documentation/product/research/, atomically updates the index. Never reads project source code. |
| Checker | Sonnet | Single-topic doc-vs-code comparison with severity levels and file:line references |
| Code Surveyor | Sonnet | Fast structural code scan: catalogs files, components, patterns for orchestrators |
| Doc Surveyor | Sonnet | Documentation section exploration: identifies content types, topics, specs |
| System Tester | Sonnet | Scientific bug reproduction: follows exact steps, tries variations, never fixes code |