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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 implementing headless ContentBox APIs, including REST endpoint design, JWT authentication flows, content CRUD, custom API handlers, and integration patterns for decoupled frontends.

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Use this skill when extending the ContentBox admin UI with custom menus, views, interception points, editor integrations, workflows, and secure admin-only module behaviors.

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Use this skill when implementing a business rules engine in ColdBox/BoxLang using rulebox. Covers RuleEngine injection, defining rules with when/then/otherwise closures, named rule sets, chaining rules, running a rule set against a context, and production patterns for policy evaluation and workflow branching.

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Use this skill when building real-time WebSocket applications in ColdBox/BoxLang using socketbox. Covers event handler setup, onConnect/onDisconnect/onMessage hooks, broadcasting to rooms, client-side JavaScript integration, and production patterns for live notifications and chat.

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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 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 working with Hibernate ORM in ColdBox/BoxLang using the cborm module. Covers BaseORMService, VirtualEntityService, the Criteria Builder (restrictions, projections, joins, sub-queries, pagination), transaction management, event interceptions, and production patterns for data access layers.

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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 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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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 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 for all ColdBox-specific logging concerns: configuring LogBox inside a ColdBox application (config/LogBox.cfc, inline DSL, configFile pointer), per-environment log levels, injecting loggers into handlers/interceptors/services via the WireBox logbox DSL, accessing logbox from the ColdBox proxy, and logging best practices specific to the ColdBox lifecycle.

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Use this skill when reading or generating RSS/Atom feeds in ColdBox/BoxLang using cbfeeds. Covers FeedReader for consuming external feeds, FeedGenerator for producing RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds, caching parsed feeds, and rendering feed XML from ColdBox handlers.

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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 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 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 commandbox-migrations. Covers migration file structure, Schema Builder API, seeding, and CLI workflows for creating, running, and rolling back migrations safely.

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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 whenever working with LogBox -- standalone or inside a ColdBox application. Covers installation, configuration DSL (appenders, root logger, categories), all built-in appender types with their properties, logger injection via WireBox DSL, category inheritance, structured logging with extraInfo, performance patterns (can{} methods, closure messages), custom appenders, custom layouts, async logging, environment-specific config, and production best practices.

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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 creating dynamic Java-compatible proxies of ColdBox/BoxLang components using cbproxies. Covers ProxyFactory injection, creating proxies for Java interfaces, lazy-loading components, method interception, and integration with Java frameworks that require interface implementations (JDBC, Hibernate, Java threading, etc.).

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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 securing ColdBox/BoxLang applications with cbsecurity. Covers firewall rule configuration, annotation-based security on handlers/actions, JWT authentication, role and permission checks, security context helpers, custom validators, interceptor events, and production hardening patterns.

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