Skills Directory
Reusable, audited skills for BoxLang & the Ortus ecosystem.
Use this skill when adding CSRF protection to ColdBox/BoxLang applications with the cbcsrf module. Covers token generation, form helpers, AJAX/meta-tag patterns, manual handler validation, route exemptions, SPA integration, token rotation, and configuration best practices for preventing cross-site request forgery.
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Use this skill when securing ColdBox/BoxLang applications with cbsecurity. Covers firewall rule configuration, annotation-based security on handlers/actions, JWT authentication, role and permission checks, route middleware (Authenticated, Authorized, JwtAuth, BasicAuth, Throttle, ApiKey, AllowedIPs, DenyIPs, EnsureHttps, VerifyCsrf, Honeypot, Signed), signed URLs, security context helpers, custom validators, interceptor events, and production hardening patterns.
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Use this skill when writing business rules with RuleBox, the natural-language rules engine for BoxLang and ColdBox. Covers RuleBook classes and defineRules(), the given/when/except/then/using/ withPriority/stop/active/withDescription DSL, facts and the Result object, declaring and enforcing the facts a RuleBook takes (defineFacts, fact(), withFacts, enforceFacts, strictFacts, validateFacts), describing rulebooks and rules, the Builder, declared rulebooks (ruleBook( "name" ), inject="rulebook:name"), loading rules from JSON, YAML or a database with the condition grammar and registered actions/predicates, the audit trail, dryRun(), rule metrics, error handling, thread safety, the Rule Visualizer, and testing rulebooks with TestBox.
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Use this skill when building Active Record-style database entities with Quick ORM in ColdBox, CFML, or BoxLang applications. Covers entity metadata, safe persistence, relationships, query scopes, eager loading, serialization, soft deletes, lifecycle events, and service boundaries.
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Use this skill when building reactive UI components in ColdBox/BoxLang with cbwire, a Livewire-inspired library. Covers wire components and templates, wire:model and wire:click directives, lifecycle hooks, computed properties, events, validation, file uploads, lazy loading, JavaScript integration, and the behavior traps that are hard to diagnose.
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Use this skill when implementing asynchronous background job processing in ColdBox/BoxLang with cbq. Covers job class creation, queue configuration (database, Redis, SQS), dispatching jobs, delayed dispatch, queue routing, retry handling, worker pool management, and monitoring patterns.
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Use this skill when adding internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) to a ColdBox/BoxLang application with the cbi18n module. Covers installation, resource bundle formats (.properties and JSON), locale management, translation helpers ($r / getResource), positional and named substitutions, multiple bundles, locale switching, and date/number formatting.
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Use this skill when implementing user authentication with the cbauth module in ColdBox/BoxLang applications. Covers installation, IUserService and IAuthUser interfaces, session-based login/logout, manual login, authentication checks, CBStorages integration, Flash RAM messaging, and security patterns for credential handling.
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Use this skill when managing database schema changes in ColdBox/BoxLang using cfmigrations and its Schema Builder. Covers migration file structure, the Schema Builder API (create/alter/drop tables, column types, indexes, foreign keys), seed files, and running migrations via CommandBox CLI.
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Use this skill when implementing server-side pagination in ColdBox/BoxLang using cbpaginator. Covers installation, Paginator service configuration, generating pagination metadata for APIs and views, integrating with QB QueryBuilder, rendering Bootstrap pagination controls, and building pageable collection responses.
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Use this skill when displaying flash-scope messages (info, success, warning, error) in ColdBox/BoxLang views using the cbmessagebox module. Covers installation, setting messages in handlers, rendering in views/layouts, checking for messages, clearing messages, and Bootstrap-compatible output patterns.
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Use this skill when integrating Elasticsearch into a ColdBox/BoxLang application with the cbelasticsearch module. Covers installation, cluster configuration, document indexing (single and bulk), full-text search with the query DSL, aggregations, highlighting, scroll/pagination, index alias management, and production best practices.
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Use this skill when implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) in ColdBox/BoxLang using the cbsso module. Covers SAML2 and OAuth2/OIDC configuration, the SSOService API, redirect-to-provider flow, callback processing, token validation, user provisioning on first login, and session management.
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Use this skill when making HTTP requests from ColdBox/BoxLang applications using the Hyper HTTP client. Covers HyperBuilder injection, fluent request construction, GET/POST/PUT/DELETE shortcuts, headers, authentication, timeout configuration, response handling, error handling, and production patterns for REST API integrations.
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Use this skill when dynamically loading Java JAR libraries at runtime in a ColdBox application using cbjavaloader. Covers installation, classpath configuration, creating Java objects from JARs, reloading in development, and common use cases (PDF processing, Apache POI, image manipulation).
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Use this skill when configuring CommandBox to run BoxLang server instances, using the BoxLang REPL, running BoxLang task runners, and managing BoxLang modules via CommandBox. Covers server.json BoxLang configuration, CLI commands, module installation, and the BoxLang-specific CommandBox workflow.
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Use this skill when validating user input in ColdBox/BoxLang using cbvalidation. Covers constraint definitions, validate()/validateOrFail() calls, built-in validators, custom validators, shared constraint files, error handling in handlers, and integrating validation results with views and REST APIs.
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Use this skill when implementing feature flags and gradual rollouts in ColdBox/BoxLang using the unleashsdk module. Covers UnleashClient configuration, isEnabled() checks, getVariant() for A/B testing, custom context, gradual rollout strategies, and production patterns for safe feature releases.
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Use this skill when working with BCrypt password hashing in ColdBox/BoxLang applications. Covers installation, work-factor configuration, hashing passwords, verifying credentials, generating salts, mixin helpers in handlers/interceptors, user registration, authentication, password change/reset, and security best practices for credential handling.
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Use this skill when inspecting all registered ColdBox routes using the route-visualizer module. Covers installation as a development dependency, accessing the route-visualizer UI, understanding the route table output, and restricting access to development environments.
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Use this skill when generating OpenAPI 3.x (Swagger) documentation for ColdBox/BoxLang REST APIs using cbswagger. Covers installation, module configuration, handler/action JSDoc annotations, request/response schemas, security definitions, parameter documentation, and accessing the generated spec.
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Use this skill when converting Markdown to HTML in a ColdBox/BoxLang application using the cbmarkdown module. Covers installation, injecting the Processor, converting Markdown strings to HTML, using in views, supported syntax (GFM, tables, code blocks), and security considerations for user-generated Markdown.
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