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Maintain sourced agreement context and scope in PROJECT.md, cite registered contracts/proposals, and record amendments without imposing a commercial workflow.

Explain US architecture professional-practice terms, phases, deliverables, roles, delivery methods, AIA contract families, CSI documentation systems, or NCS at a high level. Use for questions such as “what is a CD set?” or “what does 50% CDs mean?”; do not use for code/jurisdiction, outline-spec, agreement-scope, or work-plan work.

Create an HTML color palette from a mood, description, or image, with swatches, color codes, pairings, and contrast checks. Use for color schemes or brand colors.

Export a project's FF&E product-library CSV as dealer-system SIF. Use to produce a .sif schedule; use sif-to-csv for the reverse direction.

Research population, income, age, housing, and employment around a site. Use for census, demographic, or local-market questions tied to a location.

Extract countable FF&E or luminaire instances from supplied drawings with position-level evidence. Use for plan quantities or symbol counts; not area takeoffs, product specs or cross-source reconciliation.

Research climate, sun, flood, seismic, soil, contamination, and topography for a site. Use for environmental site analysis or hazard questions tied to a location.

Compare EPD products on normalized GWP and other impacts while checking declared units, system boundaries, and LEED eligibility. Use for side-by-side EPD comparison.

Extract GWP, life-cycle stages, certifications, and impact metrics from an EPD PDF. Use when given a declaration to parse; not to find or compare EPDs.

Search for EPDs by product category, CSI division, or material type — finds EPDs from EC3, program operator registries, and manufacturer sites. Use when the user asks to "find EPDs for...", locate declarations for a material, or source low-carbon product documentation.

Draft Project Manual specification requirements for EPD submittals and sourced GWP limits. Use for embodied-carbon requirements in project sections; use the EPD parsing, research or comparison skills for product evidence.

Assemble an ordered FF&E specification book from selected product cut sheets, with every product accounted for and verified package receipts. Use for grouped sheets or a combined FF&E book; use spec-writer for Project Manual sections.

Maintain an append-only project INVOICES.csv ledger from explicit billing facts and recorded lifecycle evidence; never infer charges or payment from activity or time logs.

Guided, hands-on course teaching architects how to use Codex or Claude Code — six short modules, each built around an exercise on a bundled sandbox project (a fictional Brooklyn art museum expansion). Resumable across sessions via PROGRESS.md. Use when the user runs $learn or /as:learn, says they're new to AI-assisted project work, or asks how to learn it.

Check reported lighting quantities and results in supplied simulation PDFs without adding repeated calculation surfaces. Use for scoped luminaire inventories and illuminance results; not simulation or compliance.

Adopt, read, reconcile or revise project FF&E item and schedule records with permanent identities and exact revision pins; preserve native workbook views and recover new artifacts.

Turn supplied meeting notes or transcripts into sourced minutes, keeping discussion, statements, confirmed/proposed decisions and proposed actions distinct.

Research transit, walking, cycling, pedestrian infrastructure, and airport access for a site. Use for mobility, accessibility, or walkability questions tied to a location.

Use Norma to coordinate architecture, buildings, projects, clients, proposals, schedules, specifications, sites, zoning, FF&E and firm work through the relevant Arch Studio owners. Direct skill requests stay with their owner.

Help users connect Arch Studio, understand its access and memory, choose a first workflow, and troubleshoot from reported evidence. General architecture and project execution stays with its owning skill.

Look up NYC ACRIS deeds, mortgages, liens, sales, and ownership history. Use for property transactions or recorded ownership; not permits or violations.

Look up NYC BSA variances, special permits, and appeals that modify as-of-right zoning. Use for zoning relief; use zoning-analysis-nyc for base controls.

Look up NYC DOB permits and new-building, alteration, or demolition job filings. Use for filed or permitted work and renovation history; use nyc-dob-violations for violations.

Look up open and resolved DOB and ECB violations for any NYC building, with class, status, and penalty detail. Use when the user asks whether a building has violations, stop-work orders, or outstanding ECB penalties. NYC only; for housing-code violations use /as:nyc-hpd.

Look up HPD violations, complaints, and building registration for NYC residential buildings. Use when the user asks about housing-code violations, tenant complaints, or HPD registration at an address. NYC only; for DOB and ECB violations use /as:nyc-dob-violations.

Check whether a NYC building is landmarked or in a historic district using LPC data. Use when the user asks "is this building landmarked", whether a site sits in a historic district, or whether LPC review applies. NYC only.

Compile NYC landmarks, DOB, ACRIS, HPD, and BSA findings into one property due-diligence report. Use for a full report; use individual NYC skills for one dataset.

Calculate code occupant loads by area with gross/net factors and jurisdiction checks. Use for "how many people can this space hold," IBC Table 1004.5, egress inputs, or occupancy-load reports; not for workplace headcount planning.

Audit a product, selection or FF&E schedule against sourced evidence and flag discrepancies, unknowns and stale specifications. Use to check product data; not to repair records, certify compliance or generate cut sheets.

Create a source-faithful single-product FF&E cut sheet or spec book entry from a supplied PDF or product URL. Preserve selected identity and source limits; use ffe-spec-book for a complete FF&E book and spec-writer for Project Manual requirements.

Clean a local FF&E CSV schedule by normalizing casing, dimensions, units, language, materials, and formatting. Use when asked to clean, fix, or standardize product data.

Normalize supplied FF&E information and record accepted document-job inputs with exact product tags and source hashes. Use for intake or corrections; reusable library saves and schedule adoption go to their record owners.

Enrich FF&E schedule rows with categories, colors, materials, and style tags. Use to tag, categorize, or fill those missing fields; not to research new products.

Download, resize, and remove backgrounds from product images at scale. Use when the user asks to "process product images", batch-download images from the schedule, strip backgrounds, or standardize product photos.

Inspect or save reusable FF&E library products through reviewed, guarded transactions. Use for explicit library imports, corrections or recovery; adopted selections and workbook reconciliation belong to master-schedule.

Find visually or functionally similar products from an image, name, or description. Use when the user asks to "find something like this", match a product from a photo, or source alternates to a given item.

Suggest complementary products that pair well with a given item — side tables for sofas, task lights for desks, etc. Use when the user asks "what goes with" a product, wants coordinating pieces, or asks to complete a furniture grouping.

Find and compare current FF&E candidates from a design brief, with sourced purchasing facts and optional CSV-library save. Use to research or source products; not to match from an image or pair coordinating items.

Extract structured FF&E specs from a list of product URLs into a schedule. Use to pull or bulk-import product-page data; not for PDF catalogs.

Extract sourced FF&E specifications from supplied product PDFs into reviewable structured data. Use for fact sheets, spec sheets and price books; not web-page capture, EPD extraction or automatic schedule adoption.

Capture one supplied product URL as auditable, unadopted FF&E evidence and inspect its retained history. Use to clip a page or review prior captures; not to save a library product or adopt a schedule item.

Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions. Use for project context or remember-this requests; other record types retain their owners.

Draft and register project proposals, protect issued terms, and record explicitly evidenced commercial lifecycle changes. Sending messages is separate authorization.

Register received or authored project documents by confirmed coordinates, preserve their filenames and provenance, and find or verify registered documents. Use for filing a supplied file/package or locating documents by kind, date, source or revision.

Batch-resize or convert a folder of images for web, social media, slides, or ARCH-size print output while preserving originals. Use for image resizing, format presets, or photo batches; not for product-image background removal.

Compare scoped quantity snapshots and explain matches, missing rows and conflicts. Use to reconcile drawing, report or schedule counts; not to extract source documents or update adopted records.

Parse a SIF (Standard Interchange Format) input into a readable preview and optionally append canonical product rows to the project's CSV library. Use when asked to convert or inspect SIF dealer data. For the reverse direction use /as:csv-to-sif.

Neighborhood context and history — adjacent uses, architectural character, landmarks, commercial activity, and planned development from an address. Use when the user asks about a site's history or surroundings, "what's around this site", neighborhood character, or nearby planned development.

Prepare a sourced site-visit record separating direct observations, participant reports, interpretations, limitations and proposed follow-ups.

Create or update an Arch Studio skill for Codex or Claude Code using the host's native skill maker when available, with Arch Studio governance and validation. Use when asked to create, package, adapt or revise a reusable skill.