Specialized Workflows

Beyond the universal pillars, most stacks benefit from a few specialized skills wired into the workflow at the right moment. transcend maintains a curated catalog and recommends entries based on the detected stack.

Examples

• impeccable — frontend design critique & UX auditing for component-based UIs.
• visual-regression — screenshot capture + perceptual diff to catch unintended UI changes.
• a11y-audit — accessibility heuristics for web UIs.
• api-contract-audit — contract review for services exposing HTTP/gRPC APIs.
• migration-safety — database migration review for destructive operations and drift.

The full list, including per-entry wiring details, lives in the Workflow Catalog reference.

How entries are wired

Chosen entries are attached to the harness in up to four ways:

1. A line in CLAUDE.md’s “Specialized workflows” section.
2. An optional checklist step in the relevant pillar rule (e.g. “run impeccable on UI changes” in quality-gates).
3. A thin pointer skill at .claude/skills/<id>/SKILL.md documenting invocation.
4. For external plugins — an entry in the project’s settings.json so the team gets them on trust.

Add entries after init at any time with /transcend-catalog — see Skills & Commands.