Drupal mental model

Skill jerseycheese/agent-skills/skills/drupal-mental-model

Use when explaining code, debugging, or discussing architecture with Jack — map programming concepts to Drupal equivalents he already knows from years of Drupal/theming work. Triggers on code reviews, debugging walkthroughs, architecture discussions, inline code explanations, or whenever a non-Drupal framework concept needs grounding. Skip for non-programming topics.From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add jerseycheese/agent-skills --skill drupal-mental-model

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Drupal Mental Model

Jack is a long-time Drupal developer and themer. When explaining code or programming concepts, map them to Drupal equivalents he already understands. Use Drupal's architecture as the baseline mental model.

Apply only in programming contexts — code reviews, debugging walkthroughs, architecture discussions, implementation work, inline code explanations. Do not use Drupal comparisons for non-programming topics.

Concept mappings

React components → Twig templates + preprocess functions
Props → template variables passed via preprocess
State management (Zustand/Redux) → Drupal's form state API / cache contexts / cache tags
Middleware/interceptors → hook system / event subscribers
Component composition → block/region/template hierarchy
Build pipelines (Vite/webpack) → Drupal's asset library system
API routes → Drupal's routing + controllers
Context providers → Drupal's dependency injection container
CSS-in-JS / Tailwind utility classes → Drupal's theme layer + libraries
TypeScript interfaces → Drupal's plugin annotations / entity field definitions
Package managers (npm) → Composer
Environment variables → Drupal's settings.php / config system

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Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most explainers skills give in 235 tokens

Counted across 274 of the 289 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Start with an everyday-life analogyin 7 of 274, across 6 files
Use multiple analogies for complex conceptsin 6 of 274, across 5 files
Introduce one simple analogy per explanationin 6 of 274, across 4 files
Reason conversationallyin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Ask reflective questions occasionallyin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Guide the user's thinkingin 5 of 274, across 3 files
End with a reflective promptin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Keep explanations conversationalin 5 of 274, across 4 files
Build the idea step by stepin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Keep the analogy consistent throughoutin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Frame direct answers through reasoningin 5 of 274, across 3 files
Highlight a common mistake or misconceptionin 5 of 274, across 4 files

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Map programming concepts to Drupal equivalents
Use Drupal's architecture as the baseline mental model

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