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 six canonical triage roles
• Domain docs — where CONTEXT.md and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them

This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.

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 what's present and what's missing. Then take the sections in order — one section, one answer, then the next.

Lead each section with the recommended answer so the user can accept it in a word. Give a one-line explainer only when the choice genuinely branches; skip the section entirely when exploration already settled it (Section B when triage isn't installed, Section C when there's no monorepo).

Section A — Issue tracker.

Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like to-tickets, triage, and to-spec read from and write to it — they need to know whether to call gh issue create, write a markdown file under .scratch/, or follow some other workflow you describe. Pick the place you actually track work for this repo.

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. The vocabulary question below only matters when the triage skill is installed (exploration told you). Skip it otherwise and go straight to provisioning — the pipeline labels still have to exist even when triage doesn't.

If triage is installed, ask exactly one question:

Do you want to keep the default triage labels? (recommended: yes)

The defaults are the six canonical roles, each label string equal to its name: needs-triage, needs-info, ready-for-agent, ready-for-human, backlog, wontfix. On yes, write them as-is. Only if the user says no — usually because their tracker already uses other names (e.g. bug:triage for needs-triage) — collect the overrides so triage applies existing labels instead of creating duplicates.

Provision every label the skills apply. The engineering skills only ever apply labels (--add-label); none of them creates one, so a label that doesn't exist yet fails the first --add-label call. Beyond the triage roles, the skills reach for:

• Pipeline — spec (a parent spec from to-spec/to-tickets), in-progress and in-review (the implement claim→PR lifecycle), and needs-review (an automated review that failed and must be re-run).
• Wayfinder stages — wayfinder:map, wayfinder:grilling, wayfinder:research, wayfinder:prototype, wayfinder:task.

Step 4 creates these on a GitHub or GitLab tracker. Provision the group for each installed skill; an unused label costs nothing, so when in doubt create the lot. A local-markdown tracker has no label store — skip provisioning there.

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. Confirm and edit

Show the user a draft 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)

Let them edit before writing.

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]. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.

### Triage labels

[one-line summary of the label vocabulary]. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.

### Domain docs

[one-line summary of layout — "single-context" or "multi-context"]. 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.

Provision the tracker labels (GitHub / GitLab only). Create every label Section B named that isn't already present. The commands are idempotent, so re-running is safe:

# GitHub — --force upserts an existing label instead of erroring
for l in needs-triage needs-info ready-for-agent ready-for-human backlog wontfix \
         spec in-progress in-review needs-review; do
  gh label create "$l" --force >/dev/null
done
for w in map grilling research prototype task; do
  gh label create "wayfinder:$w" --force >/dev/null
done

Use the triage strings the user settled on in Section B (any renames included); the pipeline and wayfinder:* strings are fixed — the skills match on them by name. On GitLab, swap in glab label create --name "<label>" and ignore an "already exists" error. Colours and descriptions are optional; the skills key off the name only.

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.