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Agent skills by mattpocock
43 skills indexed from github.com/mattpocock. Reference any of them in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install.
- ask-matt · Skill · 207,363 stars
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
- claude-handoff · Skill · 207,363 stars
Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.
- code-review · Skill · 207,363 stars
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding s
- codebase-design · Skill · 207,363 stars
Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where
- diagnosing-bugs · Skill · 207,363 stars
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow
- domain-modeling · Skill · 207,363 stars
Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a CONTEXT.md, or recording or editing an ADR.
- engineering · Collection · 207,363 stars
- git-guardrails-claude-code · Skill · 207,363 stars
Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to prevent d
- grill-me · Skill · 207,363 stars
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
- grill-with-docs · Skill · 207,363 stars
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
- grilling · Skill · 207,363 stars
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
- handoff · Skill · 207,363 stars
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
- implement · Skill · 207,363 stars
Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.
- improve-codebase-architecture · Skill · 207,363 stars
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
- in-progress · Collection · 207,363 stars
- loop-me · Skill · 207,363 stars
Grill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.
- migrate-to-shoehorn · Skill · 207,363 stars
Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs parti
- misc · Collection · 207,363 stars
- productivity · Collection · 207,363 stars
- prototype · Skill · 207,363 stars
Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore wha
- research · Skill · 207,363 stars
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic research
- resolving-merge-conflicts · Skill · 207,363 stars
Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.
- scaffold-exercises · Skill · 207,363 stars
Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, creat
- setup-matt-pocock-skills · Skill · 207,363 stars
Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the
- setup-pre-commit · Skill · 207,363 stars
Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set u
- setup-ts-deep-modules · Skill · 207,363 stars
Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module, with implementation hidden in subfolders and reachable only through its en
- skills · Collection · 207,363 stars
- skills · Collection · 207,363 stars
- tdd · Skill · 207,363 stars
Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.
- teach · Skill · 207,363 stars
Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
- to-questionnaire · Skill · 207,363 stars
Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
- to-spec · Skill · 207,363 stars
Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker: no interview, just synthesis of what you've already discussed.
- to-tickets · Skill · 207,363 stars
Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published to the configured tracker
- triage · Skill · 207,363 stars
Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
- wait-what · Skill · 207,363 stars
Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.
- wayfinder · Skill · 207,363 stars
Plan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time
- wizard · Skill · 207,363 stars
Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or
- writing-beats · Skill · 207,363 stars
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
- writing-for-agents · Skill · 207,363 stars
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
- writing-fragments · Skill · 207,363 stars
Writing, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.
- writing-shape · Skill · 207,363 stars
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
- implement-spec · Skill
Implement a specification in code.
- retro · Skill
Conduct a retrospective on a coding session.