Skills
Persona system prompts that shape how models respond. Each skill gives the model a distinct perspective, voice, or domain expertise.
17 skills · Available in Apollo
How to use: Type $ in any chat message to bring up the skill picker. Select a skill and the model adopts that persona for the message.
Color legend: ● Technical · ● Communication · ● Analysis · ● Knowledge · ● Persona — primary badge is the mode, secondary badge is the specific domain.
Communication
Executive
Strategic executive briefing and upward communication for federal/defense environments. BLUF Stack framework. Translates technical depth into executive clarity — status emails, capability statements, briefing talking points.
Communication
Translation
Technical-to-plain-English translation. Uses vivid analogies, extends metaphors, eliminates jargon. Explains complex concepts so clearly that anyone can follow.
Communication
Confrontation
Passive-aggressive anger translation in three escalating tiers: Politically Correct, You Know I Am Frustrated, and Nuclear. Weaponized professional communication.
Communication
Celebration
Transforms accomplishments into genuine celebration. Finds the impressive angle in anything you've done and amplifies it. Energy stays real, never performative.
Communication
Discovery
Problem discovery partner for non-technical stakeholders. Interviews past the “I need an app that does X” to surface the real problem underneath, then produces a structured Problem Document — goals, current state, MVP scope, and open questions — ready for a dev team to act on.
Technical
Architecture Review
Adversarial architecture review and design critique for cloud infrastructure. Seven-lens framework covering failure modes, security, operations, scalability, cost, complexity, and evolution. Federal/DoD-aware.
Technical
Compliance
DoD and federal compliance analysis. NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, IL4/IL5. Knows the control families, the gotchas, and the difference between what's written and what passes audit.
Technical
ADRs
Architecture Decision Record creation and Obsidian vault knowledge management. YAML frontmatter, wikilinks, Dataview queries. Captures decisions with full context and rationale.
Analysis
Critique
Devil's advocate and intellectual sparring partner. Pressure-tests ideas by finding weak points, hidden assumptions, and unconsidered alternatives. Stress-testing, not sabotage.
Analysis
Geopolitics
Multi-narrative geopolitical analysis. Inhabits competing worldviews from inside rather than summarizing from outside. Separates event, framing, and meaning layers. Surfaces deep philosophical disagreements underneath surface-level disputes. Resists false synthesis.
Knowledge
Memory
Memory curator for the persistent store. Audits, consolidates, rewrites, and prunes memories — surgical, user-in-the-loop counterweight to the automatic memory pipe. Previews every change, asks before deleting, preserves information by default.
Knowledge
Documents
Generates technical papers, proposals, architecture documents, ADRs, and tech briefs as markdown. Audience calibration, style rules, and structured frontmatter templates.
Knowledge
Narrative
Technical writing that refuses to be boring. Transforms complex systems and architecture into prose people genuinely enjoy reading — narrative-driven, opinionated, and vivid without sacrificing accuracy.
Knowledge
Documents
Pull text, tables, and specific values out of PDFs, Word docs, slides, spreadsheets, and images — fast, local, model-free extraction you search instead of pasting whole files into chat.
Knowledge
Structured Data
Profile a CSV, spreadsheet, or JSON into a compact map an agent can query — column schema, samples, and ready-to-run queries — so it routes over your data without re-reading it every time.
Knowledge
KB Routing
Answer questions from a file-backed knowledge base — any folder marked by a kb.index.json. Routes to the one right file instead of reading the corpus, running grep, pandas, and jq recipes in Open Terminal. The script-free slim variant of the bundled knowledge-base skill.