Mattpocock Skills

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

Use when writing a PR body.

Conduct a retrospective on a coding session.

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

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 perform itself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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 side by side. Use when the user wants to review a branch, a PR, work-in-progress changes, or asks to "review since X".

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.

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.

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

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

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

Implement the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code.

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.

Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.

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

Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.

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

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

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.

A **software factory** is a system of agents that turns tickets, PRs and schedules into merged code, deployed on remote infrastructure the user chooses. This skill is the language for designing one. Use these terms, and only these, when discussing or whiteboarding a factory; when the user reaches for a word under _Avoid_, name the canonical term.

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

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

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.

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

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

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.