Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk)

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