mattpocock
34 skills with substantive source documentation and an official publisher or observed installation demand. Read each skill’s original documentation through its card.
mattpocockimprove-codebase-architecture
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
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- 1.1M
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpococktdd
Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.
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- 1.1M
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpococksetup-matt-pocock-skills
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 other engineering skills.
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- 982.1K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockhandoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
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- 962.7K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpococktriage
Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
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- 924.7K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockprototype
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 what a UI should look like.
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- 920.3K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockgrilling
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.
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- 887.9K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockdomain-modeling
Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.
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- 800.1K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockteach
Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
- installs
- 793.1K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockcodebase-design
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.
- installs
- 776.4K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockdiagnosing-bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
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- 761.5K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockcode-review
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 standards?) and Spec (does the code match what the originating issue/spec asked for?). Runs both reviews in parallel sub-agents and reports them side by side. Use when the user wants to review a branch, a PR, work-in-progress changes, or asks to \"review since X\".
- installs
- 712.8K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockask-matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
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- 701.4K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockwayfinder
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 until the way to the destination is clear.
- installs
- 649.9K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockto-spec
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.
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- 647.1K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockresearch
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 researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.
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- 645K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockto-tickets
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 (edges as text in one file per ticket locally, or native blocking links on a real tracker).
- installs
- 640.2K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockresolving-merge-conflicts
Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.
- installs
- 553.4K
- GitHub stars
- 271.4K
- Updated
- Sep 24
mattpocockwizard
Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can perform itself.
- installs
- 489.4K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockgit-guardrails-claude-code
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.
- installs
- 454.2K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpococksetup-pre-commit
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.
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- 444K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockwriting-beats
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
- installs
- 437.7K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockto-questionnaire
Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
- installs
- 437.3K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9
mattpocockwriting-shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
- installs
- 437.2K
- GitHub stars
- 286.3K
- Updated
- Oct 9