Setup Matt Pocock Skills

Setup Matt Pocock's Skills

Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the engineering skills assume:

• Issue tracker — where issues live (GitHub by default; local markdown is also supported out of the box)
• Triage labels — the strings used for the five canonical triage roles
• Domain docs — where CONTEXT.md and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them

Inspect existing conventions, resolve missing choices, and write the authorized local configuration. Preserve choices the user has already supplied. Configuring these documents does not authorize creating external issues or labels.

Process

1. Explore

Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume:

• git remote -v and .git/config — is this a GitHub repo? Which one?
• AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at the repo root — does either exist? Is there already an ## Agent skills section in either?
• CONTEXT.md and CONTEXT-MAP.md at the repo root
• docs/adr/ and any src/*/docs/adr/ directories
• docs/agents/ — does this skill's prior output already exist?
• .scratch/ — sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in use
• Is the triage skill installed? (a triage skill folder alongside this one, or triage in your available skills.) This decides whether Section B runs at all.
• Monorepo signals — a pnpm-workspace.yaml, a workspaces field in package.json, or a populated packages/* with its own src/. Present only in a genuinely large multi-package repo; their absence means single-context, which is almost every repo.

2. Present findings and ask

Summarise existing conventions and resolve only the choices not established by the request or repository. Bundle independent unresolved choices rather than asking one question per step.

Recommend an answer for each unresolved choice. Skip Section B when triage is absent and use the single-context default in Section C when there are no monorepo signals.

Section A — Issue tracker.

Default posture: these skills were designed for GitHub. If a git remote points at GitHub, propose that. If a git remote points at GitLab (gitlab.com or a self-hosted host), propose GitLab. Otherwise (or if the user prefers), offer:

• GitHub — issues live in the repo's GitHub Issues (uses the gh CLI)
• GitLab — issues live in the repo's GitLab Issues (uses the glab CLI)
• Local markdown — issues live as files under .scratch/<feature>/ in this repo (good for solo projects or repos without a remote)
• Other (Jira, Linear, etc.) — ask the user to describe the workflow in one paragraph; the skill will record it as freeform prose

Record the choice in docs/agents/issue-tracker.md. The GitHub and GitLab templates carry a "PRs as a request surface" flag, defaulted off — leave it off and don't raise it; a user who wants external PRs in the triage queue can flip the flag in the file later.

Section B — Triage label vocabulary. Skip this section entirely if the triage skill isn't installed (exploration told you) — an uninstalled skill needs no labels.

When installed, preserve the five canonical roles: needs-triage, needs-info, ready-for-agent, ready-for-human, wontfix. Use an existing mapping or one the user supplied. If no mapping is established, recommend label strings equal to those role names and ask whether existing tracker labels require overrides. Record agreed overrides so triage reuses labels rather than duplicating them.

Section C — Domain docs. Default to single-context — one CONTEXT.md + docs/adr/ at the repo root. This fits almost every repo; write it without asking.

Offer multi-context — a root CONTEXT-MAP.md pointing to per-context CONTEXT.md files — only when exploration found monorepo signals. Then confirm which layout they want.

3. Prepare the concrete configuration

Prepare the full intended contents of:

• The ## Agent skills block to add to whichever of CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md is being edited (see step 4 for selection rules)
• The contents of docs/agents/issue-tracker.md, docs/agents/domain.md, and docs/agents/triage-labels.md (the last only when triage is installed)

If a material configuration choice still needs the user's decision, present this concrete draft with the unresolved choice. Otherwise apply the already authorized settings without asking for the same confirmation again.

4. Write

Pick the file to edit:

• If CLAUDE.md exists, edit it.
• Else if AGENTS.md exists, edit it.
• If neither exists, ask the user which one to create — don't pick for them.

Never create AGENTS.md when CLAUDE.md already exists (or vice versa) — always edit the one that's already there.

If an ## Agent skills block already exists in the chosen file, update its contents in-place rather than appending a duplicate. Don't overwrite user edits to the surrounding sections.

The block:

## Agent skills

### Issue tracker

[one-line summary of where issues are tracked]. For issue or PR workflows, see `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.

### Triage labels

[one-line summary of the label vocabulary]. When triaging, see `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.

### Domain docs

[one-line summary of layout — "single-context" or "multi-context"]. For domain terminology or architectural decisions, see `docs/agents/domain.md`.

Include the ### Triage labels sub-block, and write docs/agents/triage-labels.md, only when triage is installed and Section B ran. When it isn't, both are omitted.

Then write the docs files using the seed templates in this skill folder as a starting point:

• issue-tracker-github.md — GitHub issue tracker
• issue-tracker-gitlab.md — GitLab issue tracker
• issue-tracker-local.md — local-markdown issue tracker
• triage-labels.md — label mapping (only if triage is installed)
• domain.md — domain doc consumer rules + layout

For "other" issue trackers, write docs/agents/issue-tracker.md from scratch using the user's description.

5. Done

Tell the user the setup is complete and which engineering skills will now read from these files. Mention they can edit docs/agents/*.md directly later — re-running this skill is only necessary if they want to switch issue trackers or restart from scratch.