Mattpocock Skills

Matt Pocock's Skills for Real Engineers

Skills for coding agents from https://github.com/mattpocock/skills (37k stars)

Philosophy

Small, composable skills that give you control. Based on decades of engineering experience.

Available Skills

Engineering

• grill-with-docs — Detailed requirements gathering with shared language creation
• tdd — Test-driven development workflow
• improve-codebase-architecture — Refactor and improve code structure
• diagnose — Debug issues systematically
• to-issues — Convert tasks to actionable issues
• to-prd — Create Product Requirements Documents
• triage — Triage issues using labels
• zoom-out — Get high-level perspective on codebase

Productivity

• grill-me — Quick requirements gathering session
• caveman — Minimal viable debugging
• write-a-skill — Create new skills for agents

Quick Start

# For Claude Code / Codex
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills

Key Concepts

Grill Session

Before any significant work, do a "grilling session" to align:

• What exactly are we building?
• What jargon exists in this domain?
• What are the edge cases?

Shared Language

Create a CONTEXT.md file with domain-specific jargon:

• BEFORE: "There's a problem when a lesson inside a section of a course is made 'real'"
• AFTER: "There's a problem with the materialization cascade"

Small Steps

Always take small, deliberate steps. The rate of feedback is your speed limit.

Location

Installed at: /opt/skills