Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk)

Tired of walls of markdown? Try an /animatic. I'm working on two skills: - /setup-animatic, that chooses the tooling and sets it up on your machine (or a remote machine) - /animatic, that creates a video ready for upload I've been using them for a while. Here's a preview:

A lot of folks ask me "how do you work with agents in multiple repos at once?" I have a very simple solution - the Home Repo I have a single repo (the home) where all of my skills, steering files, wiki etc live. I run my agent in the home repo, and then inside AGENTS.md I have pointers to the other repos: ``` For skills, clone mattpocock/skills to ~/repos/skills. For Sandcastle, clone mattpocock/sandcastle to ~/repos/sandcastle ``` This is extremely simple and incredibly effective. The home repo lets you: 1. Put all your steering files and tooling in one place 2. Have a single spot to run all your agents in 3. Make sweeping changes over multiple repos Talked about this in the course yesterday and folks are loving it (see below). I'm sure you will too. Enjoy!

mattpocock/skills prompt of the day: /codebase-design Take a look in the repo for shallow modules, applying the deletion test and look for candidates for deletion. Helps kill unnecessary abstractions.

mattpocock/skills v1.2 is out! We're now the 19th most-starred repo of all time. 13.5m downloads on skills​.sh. Thanks for your support! Here's what's new: - Docs: the community's biggest ask. Every skill documented, with explanations of the main flows + troubleshooting - Claude Plugin: install via Claude's official marketplace - Codex Support: full Codex support via agents/openai.yaml files Updated Skills: - /grilling now asks you questions in rounds, not one-by-one - /prototype now uses HTML instead of a TUI for building logic prototypes - easier to share and far richer - /writing-for-agents renamed from /writing-great-skills, use it for ANYTHING your agents read (AGENTS.md, system prompts, docs) New Skills: - /wizard: tired of provisioning infra? Get your agent to build you a TUI to walk you through it - /to-questionnaire: hit a grilling question you can't answer? Turn the session into a doc you can walk through on a call with a colleague - /wait-what: no idea what the model said? Refocus it in your domain language and simplify with ASD-STE100 Full changelog + docs below. Video soon!

My skills repo has 160K stars, 7.5m downloads... ...and no tutorial. So, here it is. Watch me walk through the essential skills: - /grill-with-docs - /to-spec - /to-tickets - /implement - /code-review It's the whole flow, end-to-end. Enjoy:

mattpocock/skills v1.1 is out! - /wayfinder helps you plan more ambitious work than ever - /to-spec and /to-tickets replace /to-prd and /to-issues - /implement + /code-review complete the whole lifecycle - /research and /prototype help support wayfinder, or can be used independently - Crucial fixes to /grill-me Run npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills to update!

I've been using my /writing-great-skills skill for a lot more than writing skills: - AGENTS.md - Docs for agents - Specs and tickets - AFK workflow prompts Turns out that structure + leading words + pruning is useful for any text agents read

Announcing mattpocock/skills v1 - Achieved a 63% reduction in token cost for skill descriptions - Split skills into model-invocable and user-invocable skills, adding /codebase-design, /domain-modeling, and /grilling - (UPDATED) /writing-great-skills - rewritten from the ground up, encoding my skill-writing best practices - (UPDATED) /diagnose -> /diagnosing-bugs - now model-invocable, awesome for fixing hard bugs - (NEW) /ask-matt: a router skill that teaches you how all the engineering skills work together

Here are my 7 phases of AI-powered development. I've been thinking that the pre-PRD phase needs more structure. You need to figure out the shape of the design tree first, before then walking down it with higher-fidelity prototypes. In other words, /grill-with-docs needs to change again IMO

/teach is live Learn anything, from rubik's cube to vocal harmonies to software fundamentals. npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill teach Best skill I've ever built, video coming soon