Skills Directory

Use this skill when writing integration tests for ColdBox that use real dependencies (database, WireBox, ColdBox context), testing full request/response cycles with execute(), setting up and tearing down test databases, testing services with real data, or using BaseTestCase for end-to-end handler tests with actual WireBox injections.

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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 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()/registerMiddleware()/.withoutMiddleware(), sharing route metadata through a group() meta option, 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 writing browser tests with bx-playwright in BoxLang: TestBox's BrowserSpec (testbox.system.BrowserSpec, browse(), this.playwright(), browserProfile and baseURL annotations), the TestBox browser matchers (toSee, toHaveTitle, toHavePath, toHaveURL, toHaveText, toBeVisible, toBeHidden, toHaveCount, toHaveValue), automatic screenshot/trace/video attachments, spec retries and the --failed and --web-server runner options, ColdBox's BrowserTestCase (routeURL, visitRoute, assertRouteIs), logged-in tests with saved sessions, plain TestBox specs with playwright().browse(), artifact policies, debugging with traces, page objects (models.PageObject@playwright), page components, macros, console error and smoke checks, axe-core accessibility audits, and visual regression with assertScreenshotMatches().

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Use this skill when writing, running, or debugging tests for BoxLang applications using TestBox: BDD-style describe/it specs, xUnit-style test classes, expectations (expect/toBe matchers), assertions ($assert), life-cycle methods (beforeAll/afterAll/beforeEach/afterEach/aroundEach), MockBox mocking (createMock/prepareMock/$()/$results()), mock data generation (mockData()), async testing, exception testing, focused/skipped specs, attaching files to specs (attach()), spec retries (it retries argument, retries annotation, --retries), rerunning only failures (--failed, the Run Failed button of the HTML reports, TestResult.getFailedTargets()), choosing reporters (HTML reporters with Run Failed and Ask AI, the Agent reporter for AI agents), and running tests via the BoxLang CLI runner. For browser tests (BrowserSpec, BrowserTestCase) also load bx-playwright-testing.

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Use this skill when building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems with BoxLang AI: aiDocuments() loaders, chunking and toMemory() ingestion, aiEmbed() embeddings and providers, vector memory stores, retrieval with getRelevant(), and exposing retrieval to agents as a tool.

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Use this skill when implementing memory in BoxLang AI: aiMemory() types (window, summary, session, file, cache, jdbc, hybrid, vector stores), multi-tenant isolation with userId and conversationId, the memory API, using memory with agents, and choosing the right memory type.

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Use this skill when writing BoxLang markup templates (.bxm files), mixing HTML with BoxLang output expressions, using template components like bx:output, bx:loop, bx:if, bx:include, bx:script, building views, or creating any HTML-generating template files.

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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 working with audio in bx-ai: text-to-speech with aiSpeak(), streaming speech with aiSpeakStream() (voice agents, telephony, browser playback), speech-to-text with aiTranscribe(), audio translation with aiTranslate(), choosing audio providers (Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Mistral, Gemini, Grok, Groq), voice gender keywords, and audio events and settings.

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Use this skill when creating AI tools (function calling) with aiTool(): parameter descriptions, tool registries, using tools with aiChat() and agents, the aiToolRegistry() BIF (register, scanClass with @AITool annotations, built-in tool sets), aiGlobalSkills(), and best practices for tool design.

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Use this skill when configuring AI models with aiModel(): selecting providers, the full provider list with capabilities and API key resolution, setting default parameters, using aiService(), and pre-configuring providers in module settings (provider, apiKey, defaultParams, providers).

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Use this skill when building AI agents with aiAgent(): instructions, custom models, tools, skills (always-on and lazy), MCP servers, memory, fluent configuration, sub-agents and multi-agent hierarchies, streaming, middleware (logging, retry, guardrails, flight recorder), human in the loop approvals with suspend/resume, run control (cancelRun/steerRun), and gateways (aiGateway, aiGatewaySession).

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Use this skill when building AI pipelines with BoxLang AI: aiMessage() templates, aiModel() steps, aiTransform() steps and extractors, aiParallel(), chaining with .to() and .transform(), the _input system variable, multi-model pipelines, streaming pipelines, and structured output in pipelines.

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Use this skill when writing BoxLang AI chat code: aiChat(), aiChatAsync(), aiChatStream(), aiMessage(), params (temperature, max_tokens, model), options (provider, apiKey, returnFormat, timeout), provider selection, return formats, multi-turn conversations, normalized reasoning, and error handling.

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Set up and write a blog, versioned docs, translated (i18n) locales, and numbered courses in bx-sites (ortus-boxlang/bx-sites) - docs/blog/posts frontmatter and authors.yml, post:new, categories/archives/RSS, docs/versions/ and version:new, bxsites.yaml's versions.default (publish a version at the site root, docs/ at /next/), docs/i18n/ and i18n:new, composing versions with locales, theme-chrome translation strings, redirects (frontmatter redirect_from and bxsites.yaml's redirects), and docs/data/courses.yaml with per-lesson progress tracking. Use this whenever a user wants to add a blog post, cut a new docs version, add a translated locale, keep an old URL working after a page moves, or turn a set of pages into a guided lesson-by-lesson course. For the ::: course ::: index block itself, see bx-sites-content-blocks.

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