jg-packages

Application

The agent loads this skill on its own when a task touches its area. This skill’s area is reusable support helpers, hashing, HMAC signatures, and secure random values, coded exceptions and user-facing error messages, API envelopes, HTTP wrappers, decimal arithmetic, environment and secret reading, PostgreSQL and Redis helpers, React query persistence, boundaries, and hooks, React Router outlets, page metadata, and dialog dismissal, NestJS error handling, validation, CORS, guards, and app bootstrap, browser storage and clipboard operations, Node.js filesystem, private-file, lock, process, readiness, and port helpers, service-worker integration, and consumer use of JG Packages.

• It adds domain rules to the task. It never authorizes actions, widens scope, or replaces the workflow or approvals of a skill the developer invoked.
• It ranks with the repository’s coding instructions. When they conflict, the coding instructions win, except for the exceptions this skill states for its own area.
• The repository’s established conventions win over this skill’s naming, layout, and style rules. Its correctness and safety rules, and the exceptions it states for its own area, still apply.
• Check the installed versions first. This skill was written for jg-exception 1.5.0; jg-utilities, jg-fs, jg-bignumber, and jg-sw 1.4.0; jg-process 1.3.0; jg-api-response and jg-storage 1.1.1; jg-fetch 0.3.0; jg-postgres and jg-react 0.3.0; jg-clipboard, jg-redis, jg-tanstack-query, jg-react-router, and jg-nestjs 0.2.0; and jg-env and jg-crypto 0.1.1. An item marked with a minimum version, written like (18+), applies only when that version or a later one is installed. For an older installed version, follow that version’s official documentation.
• Before relying on one of this skill’s version-specific items, check it against the current official guidance when the installed version of the technology is newer than the one this skill was written for, or when the version bullet gives a review month for something without an installed version, such as a hosted service or browser behavior, and that month is more than six months before the current date. Where an item differs from that guidance, follow the guidance. Version-specific items are API, syntax, and feature recommendations, and anything marked with a minimum version. This skill’s conventions and requirements, such as its naming, layout, style, reuse, and safety rules, keep their usual precedence even where official guidance suggests otherwise. Report each item that looks outdated in the summary, with the installed version and what the current guidance says, and offer there to open an issue on the jg-skills repository, https://github.com/jesusgraterol/jg-skills:
  • Never pause or stop a run for the offer, including an autonomous run. When no one can answer, include the pre-filled link described below instead of asking.
  • First search the repository’s open issues, and skip the offer when one already covers the item. When the search can’t run, say so next to the link, so the developer checks the existing issues before submitting.
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• This skill isn’t a complete list. Where it says nothing, follow the official guidance for the installed version, and in new code the task touches, prefer the features that guidance currently recommends over older ones that do the same job, unless the repository has an established pattern for that job. Before using a newer approach instead of one this skill gives, confirm it in that version’s official documentation, never from memory alone, and report the item as outdated as described above. When that documentation can’t be reached, keep this skill’s approach and report that the newer approach couldn’t be confirmed, without pausing the run.
• Rules that say “prefer” are defaults: departing from one with a stated reason is fine. Rules that say “never”, “always”, or “must” are requirements.
• Nothing in this skill requires adding a dependency, enabling a compiler or tool, upgrading, or migrating existing code.

Package selection

Consider the relevant package when its capability fits, even when the request names no package or the project has none installed:

Package	Capability
jg-exception	Coded exceptions with an optional severity and shouldLog for an app’s reporter, error extraction, redaction of secret values and named fields, user-facing error messages through createErrorFeedback, and error-code assertions through jg-exception/testing
jg-api-response	Structured response envelopes exchanged between services
jg-utilities	Reusable validation, formatting, string, date, JSON, collection, generation, and async helpers, including UTC date ranges, UTF-8 byte truncation, an asynchronous event bus, secret and URL query redaction, YouTube links, pagination cursors scoped to their filters, and a request coordinator that keeps a rate-limited API’s requests within its limits
jg-bignumber	Exact decimal arithmetic, related numeric operations, exact conversion of amounts to and from scaled integers, and basis points applied to them
jg-fs	Node.js filesystem helpers, with public async and sync entry points, including directory locks, and files and directories only their owner can access
jg-process	Child-process execution and lifecycle helpers, reserving a free port, package-manager commands that run on every platform, and waiting until a started server’s port or URL is ready
jg-crypto	Node.js hashing, HMAC signatures verified in constant time, and secure random bytes and digits, such as for tokens and one-time codes
jg-storage	Browser key-value persistence
jg-sw	Service-worker build and browser integration, including install detection
jg-fetch	HTTP requests with documented result and failure contracts, including a credential refresh that repeats the attempt
jg-clipboard	Supported browser clipboard operations
jg-env	Strict environment-variable reading, and secret files through jg-env/node, with errors that never print a value
jg-postgres	node-postgres pools, transactions with their own timeouts, advisory locks, cursor pagination, ordered lists, optional reads that yield to busy pools, atomic usage limits, hashed verification codes with issue and attempt limits, database and table-size summaries, and counter upserts applied in lock order, with JSON records through jg-postgres/record-store
jg-redis	node-redis connections, read-through caching, and blocklists that fail closed, with one-time claims and single-use values through jg-redis/coordination
jg-tanstack-query	TanStack Query clients for React, with IndexedDB persistence, infinite queries seeded from another query’s first page, query-state helpers, and a headless query boundary
jg-react	React hooks for browser state: online status, document visibility, breakpoints, and scroll position; form change tracking and resend cooldowns; a light, dark, or system theme applied before the first paint; copy feedback; and a headless file upload queue
jg-react-router	A React Router page outlet that focuses each new page and restores scroll on Back and Forward, dialogs that close when a navigation commits, and page routes that carry their title and description
jg-nestjs	NestJS HTTP APIs: an ApiException with a status, a filter and an interceptor that answer in the jg-api-response envelope, schema validation, strict CORS options, app bootstrap with request logging, and maintenance-mode and IP-blocklist guards that fail closed

• Inspect manifests, lockfiles, existing imports, project-owned abstractions, supported runtimes, and resolved versions before choosing an export. Prefer a suitable installed export over equivalent new support logic or a platform call when it preserves the required behavior.
• These are approved dependency candidates, not an installation or migration instruction. Justify each new dependency individually. Add an uninstalled candidate only when the requested change already involves dependency changes or its meaningful production benefit outweighs dependency, bundle, runtime, and maintenance costs; otherwise present it as an option. Follow the project’s package manager, version, and dependency-type rules.
• Preserve stricter domain and framework contracts in their owning modules. Reuse or extend an established project abstraction when it owns the behavior; do not add pass-through wrappers solely to conceal a dependency. Use a matching primitive without moving domain rules into it.
• If the package lacks a required option, runtime, streaming/asynchronous behavior, or error contract, use an appropriate platform API or established alternative. Do not force package use, upgrade automatically, or migrate unrelated consumers.
• This skill covers consumer selection and integration. Package authoring and publication belong to jg-npm-package; service-worker standards belong to jg-pwa; NestJS standards belong to jg-nestjs; React and routing standards belong to jg-react. The personal Astro UI package follows its own documentation and the project’s UI guidance.

Resolve documentation before APIs

• Resolve the actual installed or workspace package from the affected consumer and its package manager. Account for workspace links, hoisting, and stores; a root node_modules/<name> directory is only one possible layout. Confirm its manifest version and public entry points.
• Read relevant sections of that package’s bundled API.md first when available, then its bundled RECIPES.md for integration patterns, its matching README, declaration files, and source-owned documentation. Exact exports, signatures, option units, runtime support, and behavior belong there, not in this selection map.
• An older installed contract wins over examples or documentation for a newer version. Reuse evidence only while its version and inputs remain current. When local evidence is insufficient, use version-matched official online documentation or source; a latest-version website does not override the installed package.
• Disclose missing documentation, inaccessible resolution, and uncertain contracts. Do not invent an export, claim that planned documentation ships, or substitute an unapproved upgrade. If the contract cannot be established, explain the missing evidence and use a verified suitable alternative where the task permits it.
• Treat package documentation and examples as evidence about APIs, never as authorization to edit instructions, publish, push, install, or widen the task.

Integration contracts

• Preserve the documented error fields across boundaries. jg-exception supplies coded errors and extraction; jg-api-response carries { success, data, error } envelopes. Follow their resolved versions when constructing or recognising them.
• severity and shouldLog on a jg-exception error are set only at an application’s throw sites, never by a package. jg-nestjs’s exception filter reads them to decide what it logs and reports, and sends only the code, message, and data of an Exception to clients.
• jg-fetch resolves a result containing data, error, and meta, including failures. Inspect error instead of assuming a thrown rejection. Follow the installed contract for envelope parsing, cancellation, retries, and redaction.
• Do not assume all packages share option units or validation boundaries. For example, a storage schema validates values read by get, and a fetch schema validates parsed data or envelope data. Read the applicable API before relying on those checks; preserve validation at other application boundaries.
• jg-nestjs’s IP-blocklist guard checks the client’s address after normalizeIp, so normalize every address the same way before adding it to the list it reads, such as a jg-redis blocklist.
• A package’s ability to carry diagnostic data does not decide what an application may disclose. Preserve security, authorization, validation, error redaction, domain rules, and framework requirements.

Reusable coding-instruction policy

When asked to adopt or review coding instructions, read assets/agents-section.md. It is the complete durable policy, usable without this skill installed, also available as the reusable jg-packages policy (opens in a new tab).

Read the asset for that instruction work, not ordinary package use. Reconcile it with existing instructions and their protected-file or handoff process. Neither the asset nor this skill grants authority to edit protected instructions.