Skills Directory
Reusable, audited skills for BoxLang & the Ortus ecosystem.
Use this skill to render HTML forms in BoxLang using the bx-ui-forms module: bx:form, bx:input, bx:select, bx:slider, bx:textarea components, form actions and methods, preservedata for sticky forms, input types and labels, and styling considerations.
Use this skill when compiling BoxLang applications to server-side WebAssembly (WASM) using MatchBox's --target wasm flag, running WASM with Wasmtime or WasmEdge, building minimal OCI containers from WASM binaries, and deploying to edge platforms like Fastly Compute or Cloudflare Workers (WASI).
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Use this skill when setting up GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for BoxLang projects, including the setup-boxlang action, supported inputs/outputs, installing modules, CommandBox integration, multi-engine testing, and complete workflow templates.
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Use this skill when configuring BoxLang runtime settings via boxlang.json, setting environment variables for config overrides, configuring datasources, caches, executors, modules, logging, security, or schedulers — or when helping someone understand the BoxLang configuration system.
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Use this skill when deploying BoxLang as an enterprise Java servlet application using CommandBox, configuring server.json for BoxLang, installing BoxLang modules, enabling SSL and rewrites, using BoxLang+ or BoxLang++ subscriptions with CommandBox PRO features, and production server configuration.
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Use this skill when working with BoxLang lambdas, closures, arrow functions, higher-order functions, functional array/struct pipelines (map, filter, reduce, flatMap, groupBy, etc.), destructuring, or spread syntax.
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Use this skill when writing BoxLang classes, components, interfaces, inheritance hierarchies, annotations, properties, constructors, or applying object-oriented design patterns in BoxLang.
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Use this skill when installing, configuring, or using BoxLang modules: box install, boxlang.json module settings, BoxLang+ premium modules (bx-pdf, bx-redis, bx-csv, bx-spreadsheet), CFML compatibility, ORM, mail, and module introspection.
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Use this skill when deploying BoxLang applications to DigitalOcean App Platform using the official BoxLang starter kit, setting up auto-deployment from GitHub, and understanding the MiniServer + multi-stage Docker build architecture used in the starter.
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Use this skill when using MatchBox, the Rust-based native implementation of BoxLang that requires no JVM, including installation, understanding the available compilation targets (native, wasm, js, esp32), the philosophy and tradeoffs vs JVM BoxLang, and choosing the right target for CLI tools, edge deployments, browser WASM, and embedded devices.
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Use this skill when understanding BoxLang internals: BoxRuntime services, IBoxContext hierarchy, scope chain resolution, DynamicObject, type system (IBoxType), parsing pipeline (source to bytecode), class loader isolation, virtual threads, or using --bx-printast for AST debugging.
Use this skill when building AI pipelines with BoxLang AI: aiMessage() templates, aiModel() in pipelines, aiTransform() steps, chaining with .to() and .transform(), the _input system variable, multi-model pipelines, streaming pipelines, and structured output in pipelines.
Use this skill when parsing, querying, or sanitizing HTML in BoxLang with the bx-jsoup module: htmlParse(), htmlClean(), CSS selectors, XSS protection, HTML to JSON/XML conversion, and safe HTML allowlisting.
Use this skill to create charts and graphs in BoxLang with the bx-charts module: bx:chart, bx:chartseries, bx:chartdata, chart types (bar, line, pie, doughnut, radar, polarArea, area, horizontalbar, scatter, bubble), responsive charts, custom colors, legends, and axis configuration.
Use this skill for image manipulation in BoxLang with the bx-image module: ImageNew, ImageRead, ImageWrite, ImageResize, ImageScaleToFit, ImageCrop, ImageRotate, ImageFlip, ImageGrayScale, ImageBlur, ImageSharpen, imageAddBorder, imageDrawText, the fluent BoxImage builder API, and the bx:image component.
Use this skill to generate API documentation from BoxLang source code using DocBox: CLI usage, programmatic DocBox.addStrategy().generate(), HTML themes (default SPA and frames), JSON output, UML/XMI output, project title configuration, source exclusions, and commandbox integration.
Use this skill when converting Markdown to HTML or HTML to Markdown in BoxLang using the bx-markdown module. Covers markdown() and HtmlToMarkdown() BIFs.
Use this skill when defining BoxLang ORM entities: the persistent annotation, entity names, table mapping, property annotations, fieldtype, ormType, identifiers/primary keys, composite keys, version fields, and entity inheritance.
Use this skill when writing BoxLang AI chat code: aiChat(), aiChatAsync(), aiChatStream(), parameters (temperature, max_tokens, model), provider selection, API keys, return formats, multi-turn conversations, and error handling.
Use this skill when building BoxLang web applications: Application.bx lifecycle, request/response handling, sessions, forms, REST APIs, HTTP clients, routing, CSRF protection, Server-Sent Events, or configuring CommandBox/MiniServer.
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Use this skill when writing browser tests for a ColdBox application with coldbox.system.testing.BrowserTestCase (BoxLang + bx-playwright): choosing browser tests vs BaseTestCase integration tests, browse() with isolated pages, the baseURL and browserProfile annotations, this.playwright(), browserAvailable() and browserUnavailableReason(), the named route helpers routeURL(), visitRoute() and assertRouteIs() (with or without params, name@module and module:name routes), logging users in and out with loginAs() and logout() through the test-only BrowserTesting core module (moduleSettings.browserTesting enabled/token/login/logout, X-Browser-Testing-Token header, testing environment only, 404 otherwise), running the app server for the browser (CommandBox server or TestBox --web-server), and CI setup.
Use this skill when writing or running browser tests with TestBox on BoxLang: extending testbox.system.BrowserSpec, installing bx-playwright and Chromium (install-bx-module bx-playwright, bxPlaywright install), the browserProfile and baseURL class annotations, browse() with one isolated page per callback argument, this.playwright() and browserAvailable(), the browser matchers (toHaveTitle, toHaveURL, toHavePath, toSee, toHaveText, toBeVisible, toBeHidden, toHaveCount, toHaveValue and their not forms), automatic screenshot/trace/video attachments, attach(), spec retries (it retries argument, retries bundle or method annotation, --retries), rerunning failures with --failed, starting the app with --web-server/--web-server-url/--web-server-timeout, CI setup, and debugging failed browser specs with bxPlaywright show-trace.
Use this skill when rendering views and partials in ColdBox, creating reusable view components, caching view output, passing data to views, rendering views from services, using renderView() inline, or dynamically selecting views based on context.
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Use this skill to understand which ColdBox testing base class to extend for a given test type, configure test bundle annotations (appMapping, configMapping, unloadColdBox, loadColdBox, coldboxAppKey), set up the tests/ harness (Application.cfc, folder structure), or choose between integration testing (BaseTestCase), isolated handler testing (BaseHandlerTest), model unit testing (BaseModelTest), interceptor unit testing (BaseInterceptorTest), and real-browser testing of the running app (BrowserTestCase, BoxLang + bx-playwright).
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