Skills Directory

Use this skill when writing JavaDoc-style DocBox comments on BoxLang or CFML classes, properties, functions, and arguments; adding @author/@version/@since/@return/@throws/@deprecated block tags; using @doc.type for generic array/struct types; or preparing source code for API documentation generation with DocBox.

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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 writing end-to-end browser tests in ColdBox/BoxLang using the cbplaywright module (a Playwright wrapper). Covers test bundle setup, browser/page lifecycle, navigation, selectors, assertions, form interactions, screenshots, network interception, the Page Object pattern, and CI pipeline integration.

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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 running database migrations from the CommandBox CLI using commandbox-migrations, including migrate up/down/reset/refresh, creating migration files, running seeders, and checking migration status. Covers CI/CD usage, configuration, and all CLI commands for cfmigrations.

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Use this skill when using the ColdBox CLI (CommandBox module) to scaffold applications, generate handlers, models, services, views, layouts, interceptors, modules, ORM artifacts, tests, or manage AI integration. Covers all `coldbox create` commands, language flags (BoxLang vs CFML), app skeleton selection, feature flags (--docker, --vite, --rest, --migrations, --ai), template token patterns, layout detection, and AI integration sub-commands.

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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 unit testing ColdBox interceptors in isolation using BaseInterceptorTest, accessing the pre-wired interceptor variable, leveraging mock helpers (mockController, mockRequestService, mockLogger, mockLogBox, mockFlash), configuring interceptor properties with configProperties, calling interceptor announce points directly, or scaffolding interceptor tests with CommandBox.

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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, 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 WebAuthn/Passkeys authentication in ColdBox/BoxLang using the cbsecurity-passkeys module. Covers the credential repository interface, registration ceremony, authentication ceremony, JavaScript integration, and production hardening for passwordless login.

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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 persisting data across requests in ColdBox/BoxLang using cbstorages. Covers Session, Cookie, Cache, Request, and Application storage adapters; configuration; get/set/exists/ delete/clear operations; encryption; TTLs; and patterns for shopping carts, user preferences, and API token caching.

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Use this skill when implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in ColdBox, creating role and permission management services, building hierarchical role structures, assigning roles and permissions to users, checking permissions in handlers with cbsecurity, or when designing a group-based access control system.

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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 writing fluent expectations in TestBox using expect(), expectAll(), all built-in matchers (toBe, toBeTrue, toBeArray, toHaveKey, toThrow, toMatch, toBeBetween, toBeCloseTo, toInclude, etc.), the not operator (notToBe, notToBeEmpty, etc.), chaining multiple matchers on one expect(), creating custom matchers with addMatchers(), or using expectAll() over collections.

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Use this skill when unit testing ColdBox model objects (services, repositories, entities, or utility classes) in isolation using BaseModelTest, accessing the pre-wired model variable, leveraging the built-in mock helpers (mockLogger, mockLogBox, mockCacheBox, mockWireBox), calling model.init() to initialize the component, mocking injected properties with prepareMock(), or scaffolding model tests with CommandBox.

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Use this skill when working with WireBox dependency injection -- bootstrapping the injector, configuring binders, creating object mappings, using the injection DSL, setting persistence scopes, applying providers to avoid scope-widening, lazy properties, property observers, object delegation, virtual inheritance, child injectors, the object populator, or WireBox event listeners. Applies to both standalone and ColdBox-integrated usage.

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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 building ColdBox Proxy objects to expose ColdBox event handlers to remote callers such as ColdFusion web services, Flex/AIR, event gateways, or CFC data binding -- enabling non-HTTP protocols to participate in the ColdBox event model.

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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 testing ColdBox event handlers with execute(), asserting rc/prc collections, verifying view selection and rendered output, mocking relocations, 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 creating ColdBox handlers (controllers), implementing CRUD actions, adding dependency injection to handlers, working with preHandler/postHandler advices, secured actions, REST handlers, or the EventHandler base class.

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Use this skill when using cborm ORM utilities in ColdBox with Hibernate, extending BaseORMService or ActiveEntity, using criteria queries and DetachedCriteria, building ORM-powered virtual entity services, handling ORM events, or performing HQL queries with the cborm module.

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Use this skill when selecting or configuring TestBox reporters: ANTJunit, Console, Doc, JSON, JUnit, Min, MinText, Simple, Text, XML, Streaming; setting reporter options (hideSkipped, editor links for Simple reporter); or creating a custom reporter by implementing the IReporter interface.

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