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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 when configuring a ColdBox application in ColdBox.cfc, setting up environments, managing module settings, defining datasources, configuring logging with LogBox, setting up caching with CacheBox, or wiring dependencies with WireBox settings.

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Use this skill when implementing caching inside a ColdBox application -- configuring CacheBox via ColdBox.cfc or config/CacheBox.cfc, injecting caches with WireBox (cachebox:name), using getCache() in handlers, event output caching with action cache annotations (including etag/etagWeak/lastModified/cacheControl auto-computed HTTP caching), route-level cache rules with Router.withCache(), view fragment caching with renderView(cache=true), query caching, cache listeners as ColdBox interceptors, engine-native providers (BoxLangColdBoxProvider, LuceeColdBoxProvider, CFColdBoxProvider), Redis/distributed provider setup, or choosing between default and template caches.

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Use this skill when integrating AI capabilities into a ColdBox application using the BoxLang AI library (bx-ai module) -- including simple chat, streaming (see coldbox-sse-streaming for first-class SSE), pipelines, agents, RAG with vector memory, document loading, tool calling, auto-scaffolding a REST API for an IAiRunnable with route( ... ).toAi(), exposing an AI Gateway over HTTP with route( ... ).toAiGateway() for platform webhooks and human-in-the-loop approvals, and injecting the AI service into handlers or models.

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Use this skill when working with the ColdBox event object (prc/rc), managing request collections, rendering views and data responses, handling redirects with relocate(), controlling HTTP status codes, or implementing event caching in ColdBox handlers.

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Use this skill when creating ColdBox interceptors for cross-cutting concerns, listening to framework lifecycle events, implementing security checks, logging, CORS, rate limiting, request/response transformation, firing and listening to custom interception points, or detecting whether announce() was short-circuited by a listener.

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Use this skill when creating reusable ColdBox modules, writing ModuleConfig.cfc, defining module-specific routes, models, settings, and interceptors, packaging modules for ForgeBox, or building internal application sub-systems as modules.

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Use this skill when working with the ColdBox RequestContext object (event), managing rc and prc collections, building URLs with buildLink(), detecting HTTP methods, reading the original un-spoofed HTTP verb with getOriginalHTTPMethod(), setting HTTP caching primitives (etag/lastModified/cacheControl), accessing request metadata, working with flash scope, handling AJAX requests, or reading HTTP headers and body content.

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Use this skill when building RESTful APIs in ColdBox using RestHandler, creating CRUD API endpoints, implementing API versioning, handling JWT/bearer token authentication, building structured error responses, using the Response object's fluent builders (setData() message/location, withETag(), withCacheControl()), adding HTTP caching to responses, or creating resource representations with mementos.

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Use this skill when configuring ColdBox routes, setting up RESTful resource routes, creating route groups, implementing URL pattern matching with constraints, defining named routes, answering a route inline with a toResponse() closure, attaching route-scoped middleware with .middleware()/middlewareGroup()/.withoutMiddleware(), declaring route-level cache rules with Router.withCache(), streaming a route with Router.toSSE(), exposing BoxLang AI surfaces with the toAi(), toMCP() and toAiGateway() route terminators, or working with Router.cfc in a ColdBox application.

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Use this skill when creating ColdBox scheduled tasks, building Scheduler.cfc files, registering task frequencies, preventing overlapping runs with withNoOverlaps(), constraining tasks to a time-of-day window with between()/startOnTime()/endOnTime(), managing task life-cycles (before/after/onFailure/onSuccess), checking scheduler state via started/startedAt, using server fixation for clustered apps, or configuring module schedulers.

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Use this skill when streaming Server-Sent Events (SSE) from a ColdBox handler or route with event.sse(), building a route that always streams with Router.toSSE(), sending data/events/errors through an SSEEmitter, reacting to SSE connect/disconnect/error via the preSSEConnection/postSSEConnection/onSSEError interception points, or configuring the this.sse settings block (keep-alive interval, reconnect hints, CORS defaults).

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Use this skill when testing ColdBox event handlers with execute(), asserting rc/prc collections, verifying view selection and rendered output, mocking relocations, mocking the incoming request body with execute()'s body argument, testing renderData() and getHandlerResults(), setting HTTP methods and headers, injecting mocks into handlers, or using BaseHandlerTest for isolated handler unit tests.

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Use this skill when using the TestBox $assert object for xUnit-style assertions: isTrue, isFalse, isTruthy, isFalsy, isEqual, isSameInstance, includes, includesAll, includesAny, includesNone, isEmpty, key, deepKey, instanceOf, throws, between, closeTo, lengthOf, match, null, typeOf, isJSON and others; grouping assertions with $assert.all() / assertAll() so every failure is reported at once; registering custom assertion functions with addAssertions(); or using BoxLang dynamic assertion methods (assertIsTrue, assertBetween, etc.).

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Use this skill when writing xUnit-style tests in TestBox using test functions (testXxx()), setup/teardown lifecycle (beforeTests/afterTests/setup/teardown), the $assert assertion object, grouped assertions with $assert.all() / assertAll(), skipping a single test or an entire test class with the class-level skip annotation, engine detection helpers (isBoxLang/isLucee/isAdobe), or the Arrange-Act-Assert (AAA) pattern for unit testing services, models, and utilities in isolation.

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Use this skill when setting up the full CBSecurity framework in ColdBox, configuring the security firewall, creating authentication services, implementing security event handlers, configuring security rules and validators, or building a complete security layer for a ColdBox application.

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Use this skill when working with CacheBox as a standalone caching framework (outside ColdBox) -- installing, creating and bootstrapping the CacheFactory, configuring the DSL, choosing object stores and eviction policies, selecting cache providers (CacheBoxProvider, BoxLang, CF, Lucee), implementing cache-aside/stampede-protection patterns, registering standalone listeners, named caches, disk/JDBC stores, reaping, shutdown, or monitoring cache performance.

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Use this skill when implementing JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication in ColdBox REST APIs with CBSecurity, generating access/refresh tokens, validating bearer tokens, configuring JWT settings and secret keys, implementing token refresh endpoints, or securing API routes with JWT authentication middleware.

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Use this skill when implementing authorization in ColdBox with CBSecurity, defining security rules for events and URLs, checking user roles with cbsecurity.has(), checking permissions with cbsecurity.can(), implementing role-based route protection, using @secured annotations on handler actions, or blocking unauthorized access.

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Use this skill when implementing user authentication in ColdBox with CBAuth, creating user services with retrieveUserById/retrieveUserByUsername, hashing passwords with BCrypt, managing login/logout sessions, implementing remember me functionality, or setting up the CBAuth module configuration.

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Use this skill when building WebSocket features with SocketBox in ColdBox/CFML/BoxLang. Covers the real SocketBox APIs for core WebSocket handling and STOMP broker usage, including correct base classes, method signatures, server-side sends, and client examples.

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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 writing fluent expectations in TestBox using expect(), the collection modes (expectAll, expectAny, expectSome, expectNone), expectation context with withContext(), and the built-in matchers: toBe, toBeTrue, toBeFalse, toBeTruthy, toBeFalsy, toBeNull, toBeArray, toBeStruct, toBeEmpty, toHaveLength, toHaveSize, toBeTypeOf, toBeInstanceOf, toBeSameInstanceAs, toHaveKey, toHaveDeepKey, toInclude, toIncludeWithCase, toIncludeAll, toIncludeAny, toIncludeNone, toMatch, toBeGT, toBeGTE, toBeLT, toBeLTE, toBeBetween, toBeCloseTo, toSatisfy, toThrow, toThrowMatching; the BoxLang-only Set matchers (toBeASet, toEqualSet, toBeSubsetOf, toBeSupersetOf, toBeDisjointFrom, toHaveUnion, toHaveIntersection, toHaveDifference, toHaveSymmetricDifference); the BoxLang-only Range matchers (toBeRange, toContainValue, toContainRange, toBeInRange, toBeBeforeRange, toBeAfterRange, toBeBounded, toBeUnbounded, toBeHalfBounded, toBeIterable, toBeAscending, toBeDescending, toHaveStep, toClampTo); the BoxLang-only Data Navigator matchers (toHavePath, toHavePathValue, toHavePathType, toHavePathSatisfying, path, queryPath); the not operator (notToBe, notToBeEmpty, etc.); chaining matchers on one expect(); or creating custom matchers with addMatchers().

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