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A skill package that teaches your agent 42 capabilities — every one documented and browsable below, no GitHub required · by mattpocock.

Each skill below is one capability this package teaches your agent. Install the whole package, or open a skill to install just that one.

ask-matt🔥🔥✓ Verified🔒 repo maintenanceFreeQuick setup

Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo.

1 file — installable on its own

Code Review Skills🔥🔥FreeAdvanced setup

Code Review Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

2 files — installable on its own

codebase-design🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another skill needs the deep-module vocabulary.

3 files — installable on its own

Communication Skills🔥🔥FreeQuick setup

Communication Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

1 file — installable on its own

design-an-interface🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel sub-agents. Use when user wants to design an API, explore interface options, compare module shapes, or mentions "design it twice".

1 file — installable on its own

DevOps Skills🔥🔥FreeAdvanced setup

DevOps Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

3 files — installable on its own

diagnosing-bugs🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.

3 files — installable on its own

domain-modeling🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when the user wants to pin down domain terminology or a ubiquitous language, record an architectural decision, or when another skill needs to maintain the domain model.

3 files — installable on its own

edit-article🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Edit and improve articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose. Use when user wants to edit, revise, or improve an article draft.

1 file — installable on its own

git-guardrails-claude-code🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

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 destructive git operations, add git safety hooks, or block git push/reset in Claude Code.

3 files — installable on its own

grill-me🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".

1 file — installable on its own

grill-with-docs🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.

1 file — installable on its own

grilling🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

1 file — installable on its own

handoff🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.

1 file — installable on its own

implement🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Implement a piece of work based on a PRD or set of issues.

1 file — installable on its own

improve-codebase-architecture🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

2 files — installable on its own

improve-codebase-architecture🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.

2 files — installable on its own

loop-me🔥🔥✓ Verified🔒 repo maintenanceFreeQuick setup

Grill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.

1 file — installable on its own

migrate-to-shoehorn🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.

1 file — installable on its own

obsidian-vault🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Search, create, and manage notes in the Obsidian vault with wikilinks and index notes. Use when user wants to find, create, or organize notes in Obsidian.

1 file — installable on its own

Project Management Skills🔥🔥FreeQuick setup

Project Management Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

1 file — installable on its own

prototype🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Build a throwaway prototype to flesh out a design before committing to it. Routes between two branches — a runnable terminal app for state/business-logic questions, or several radically different UI variations toggleable from one route. Use when the user wants to prototype, sanity-check a data model or state machine, mock up a UI, explore design options, or says "prototype this", "let me play with it", "try a few designs".

3 files — installable on its own

qa🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Interactive QA session where user reports bugs or issues conversationally, and the agent files GitHub issues. Explores the codebase in the background for context and domain language. Use when user wants to report bugs, do QA, file issues conversationally, or mentions "QA session".

1 file — installable on its own

request-refactor-plan🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then file it as a GitHub issue. Use when user wants to plan a refactor, create a refactoring RFC, or break a refactor into safe incremental steps.

1 file — installable on its own

resolving-merge-conflicts🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.

1 file — installable on its own

scaffold-exercises🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course section.

1 file — installable on its own

Security Skills🔥🔥FreeAdvanced setup

Security Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

3 files — installable on its own

setup-matt-pocock-skills🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Sets up an `## Agent skills` block in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md and `docs/agents/` so the engineering skills know this repo's issue tracker (GitHub or local markdown), triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run before first use of `to-issues`, `to-prd`, `triage`, `diagnose`, `tdd`, `improve-codebase-architecture`, or `zoom-out` — or if those skills appear to be missing context about the issue tracker, triage labels, or domain docs.

6 files — installable on its own

setup-pre-commit🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

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 up Husky, configure lint-staged, or add commit-time formatting/typechecking/testing.

1 file — installable on its own

tdd🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop. Use when user wants to build features or fix bugs using TDD, mentions "red-green-refactor", wants integration tests, or asks for test-first development.

3 files — installable on its own

teach🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

5 files — installable on its own

teach🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

5 files — installable on its own

Testing Skills🔥🔥FreeQuick setup

Testing Skills - Discover reusable skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and more. Each skill is a package of instructions and code that teaches your agent to perform specialized tasks and automate complex workflows.

3 files — installable on its own

to-issues🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable issues on the project issue tracker using tracer-bullet vertical slices. Use when user wants to convert a plan into issues, create implementation tickets, or break down work into issues.

1 file — installable on its own

to-prd🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Turn the current conversation context into a PRD and publish it to the project issue tracker. Use when user wants to create a PRD from the current context.

1 file — installable on its own

triage🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Triage issues through a state machine driven by triage roles. Use when user wants to create an issue, triage issues, review incoming bugs or feature requests, prepare issues for an AFK agent, or manage issue workflow.

3 files — installable on its own

ubiquitous-language🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation, flagging ambiguities and proposing canonical terms. Saves to UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE.md. Use when user wants to define domain terms, build a glossary, harden terminology, create a ubiquitous language, or mentions "domain model" or "DDD".

1 file — installable on its own

wizard🔥🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through a manual procedure — third-party setup, a one-off migration, an A→B state transition — opening URLs, capturing values, confirming each step, and writing .env files and GitHub Actions secrets.

2 files — installable on its own

writing-beats🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Shape an article as a journey of beats, choose-your-own-adventure style. The user picks a starting beat from the raw material, you write only that beat, then offer options for where to pivot next, beat by beat, until the article reaches a natural end. Use when the user has raw material and wants to assemble it as a narrative rather than an argument.

1 file — installable on its own

writing-fragments🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Grilling session that mines the user for fragments — heterogeneous nuggets of writing (claims, vignettes, sharp sentences, half-thoughts) — and appends them to a single document as raw material for a future article. Use when the user wants to develop ideas before imposing structure, or mentions "fragments", "ideate", or "raw material" for writing.

1 file — installable on its own

writing-great-skills🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Reference for writing and editing skills well — the vocabulary and principles that make a skill predictable.

2 files — installable on its own

writing-shape🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Take a markdown file of raw material and shape it into an article through a conversational session — drafting candidate openings, growing the piece paragraph by paragraph, arguing about format (lists, tables, callouts, quotes) at each step. Use when the user has a pile of notes, fragments, or a rough draft and wants help turning it into something publishable.

1 file — installable on its own