Matt Pocock's skills

Matt Pocock's own agent skills for real engineering, in one plugin. They're small, composable skills he uses every day to fix the ways coding agents usually go wrong: building the wrong thing, talking in 20 words where one will do, code that doesn't work, and codebases that turn into a ball of mud. Some you run by typing them (like /grill-me); others your agent reaches for on its own when the task fits. What its skills cover - Grilling: /grill-me interviews you about a plan until every branch is resolved, and /grill-with-docs does the same while keeping your GLOSSARY.md and decision records (ADRs) up to date - Specs and tickets: /to-spec turns the conversation into a spec on your issue tracker, /to-tickets breaks it into tracer-bullet tickets, and /wayfinder maps work too big for one session - Building: /implement and /implement-spec work through a spec, driving test-first development and closing with a code review - Quality: tdd (a red-green-refactor loop), diagnosing-bugs for hard bugs and performance regressions, and code-review along two axes, your coding standards and the spec - Design: improve-codebase-architecture, codebase-design and domain-modeling, for deep modules and a shared language with your agent - Writing for agents: writing-for-agents, a reference for writing skills, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and any doc an agent reaches by a pointer - Everyday helpers: handoff, teach, to-questionnaire, wait-what, prototype, research, retro, triage, pr and wizard, plus /ask-matt to find the right one How to install it In Claude Code, run claude plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official. Codex and GitHub Copilot install it from the mattpocock/skills marketplace, Gemini CLI installs the skill folders with gemini skills install, and other agents can take editable copies with npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills. Pick one way per agent, or you'll get every skill twice. Good to know - Run /setup-matt-pocock-skills once in each repo first. It asks which issue tracker you use (GitHub, GitLab, local files or another), the labels you triage with, and where to save docs. - The plugin updates itself; copies installed with npx skills are updated by hand. - Published by Matt Pocock under the MIT licence.

• “Grill me about this plan until every branch of the design is resolved.”

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• “Turn this conversation into a spec and put it on our issue tracker.”

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• “Break this spec into tracer-bullet tickets with their blocking edges.”

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• “Fix this bug test-first with a red-green-refactor loop.”

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• “Scan this codebase for deepening opportunities.”

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• “Tighten our CLAUDE.md so the agent follows it reliably.”

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