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 docs/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?
• docs/CONTEXT.md and CONTEXT-MAP.md (at the repo root)
• docs/adr/ and any src/*/docs/adr/ directories
• .agent/docs/ - does this skill's prior output already exist?
• .scratch/ - sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in use

2. Present findings and ask

Summarise what's present and what's missing. Then walk the user through the three decisions one at a time - present a section, get the user's answer, then move to the next. Don't dump all three at once.

Assume the user does not know what these terms mean. Each section starts with a short explainer (what it is, why these skills need it, what changes if they pick differently). Then show the choices and the default.

Section A - Issue tracker.

Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like to-issues, triage, to-prd, and qa 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

Section B - Triage label vocabulary.

Explainer: When the triage skill processes an incoming issue, it moves it through a state machine - needs evaluation, waiting on reporter, ready for an AFK agent to pick up, ready for a human, or won't fix. To do that, it needs to apply labels (or the equivalent in your issue tracker) that match strings you've actually configured. If your repo already uses different label names (e.g. bug:triage instead of needs-triage), map them here so the skill applies the right ones instead of creating duplicates.

The five canonical roles:

• needs-triage - maintainer needs to evaluate
• needs-info - waiting on reporter
• ready-for-agent - fully specified, ready for immediate implementation (pick it up yourself or with an agent)
• ready-for-human - needs a judgment call or design decision before implementation
• wontfix - will not be actioned

Default: each role's string equals its name. Ask the user if they want to override any. If their issue tracker has no existing labels, the defaults are fine.

Section C - Domain docs.

Explainer: Some skills (improve-codebase-architecture, diagnose, tdd) read a docs/CONTEXT.md file to learn the project's domain language, and docs/adr/ for past architectural decisions. They need to know whether the repo has one global context or multiple (e.g. a monorepo with separate frontend/backend contexts) so they look in the right place.

Confirm the layout:

• Single-context - one docs/CONTEXT.md + docs/adr/. Most repos are this.
• Multi-context - CONTEXT-MAP.md at the root pointing to per-context CONTEXT.md files (typically a monorepo).

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 .agent/docs/issue-tracker.md, .agent/docs/triage-labels.md, .agent/docs/domain.md

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 `.agent/docs/issue-tracker.md`.

### Triage labels

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

### Domain docs

[one-line summary of layout - "single-context" or "multi-context"]. See `.agent/docs/domain.md`.

Then write the three 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
• domain.md - domain doc consumer rules + layout

For "other" issue trackers, write .agent/docs/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 .agent/docs/*.md directly later - re-running this skill is only necessary if they want to switch issue trackers or restart from scratch.