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mattpocock-skills

Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering — grilling, spec/ticket flows, TDD, code review, domain modelling and more. Plug-and-play, not vibe coding.

1 on GitHubby Matt Pocockv1.2.2MITupdated 9 days ago

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Plugin mattpocock-skills in mattnicosia/bldg-skills. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 8 days ago.

What it installs

Skills (35)

  • ask-matt

    Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.

  • code-review

    Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes — Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code match what the originating issue/spec asked for?). Runs both reviews in parallel sub-agents and reports them

  • codebase-design

    Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another skill needs the deep-module vocabulary.

  • diagnosing-bugs

    Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.

  • domain-modeling

    Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when the user wants to pin down domain terminology or a ubiquitous language, record an architectural decision, or when another skill needs to maintain the domain model.

  • grill-with-docs

    A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.

  • implement-spec

    Implement an entire spec's worth of tickets concurrently as a single PR, by treating the tickets as a task graph and running the frontier — every ticket whose blockers are done — in parallel implementer subagents, each in its own git worktree. Use when the user wants to implement a whole spec or tic

  • implement

    Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.

  • improve-codebase-architecture

    Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

  • prototype

    Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore what a UI should look like.

  • research

    Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

  • resolving-merge-conflicts

    Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.

  • setup-matt-pocock-skills

    Configure this repo for the engineering skills — set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

  • tdd

    Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.

  • to-spec

    Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker — no interview, just synthesis of what you've already discussed.

  • to-tickets

    Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published to the configured tracker — edges as text in one file per ticket locally, or native blocking links on a real tracker.

  • triage

    Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles — categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

  • wayfinder

    Plan a huge chunk of work — more than one agent session can hold — as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.

  • wizard

    Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can pe

  • claude-handoff

    Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.

  • loop-me

    Grill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.

  • setup-ts-deep-modules

    Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module — implementation hidden in subfolders, reachable only through its entry-point files. User-invoked.

  • writing-beats

    Writing, exploit — assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.

  • writing-fragments

    Writing, explore — mine raw fragments, no structure yet.

  • writing-shape

    Writing, exploit — shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.

  • git-guardrails-claude-code

    Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to prevent destructive git operations, add git safety hooks, or block git push/reset in Claude Code.

  • migrate-to-shoehorn

    Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.

  • scaffold-exercises

    Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course section.

  • setup-pre-commit

    Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or add commit-time formatting/typechecking/testing.

  • grilling

    Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

  • handoff

    Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.

  • teach

    Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

  • to-questionnaire

    Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.

  • wait-what

    Stop. That last message did not land — re-pitch it.

  • writing-for-agents

    Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.

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