mattpocock · Agent Skills

handoff

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

Total installs: 1.1M
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

grilling

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.

Total installs: 1M
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

triage

Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

Total installs: 1M
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

prototype

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.

Total installs: 1M
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

domain-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.

Total installs: 916K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

teach

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

Total installs: 896.2K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

MIT6 Files

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.

Total installs: 891.2K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

diagnosing-bugs

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

Total installs: 872.8K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

code-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\".

Total installs: 830K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

ask-matt

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

Total installs: 799.1K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

wayfinder

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.

Total installs: 754.4K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

to-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.

Total installs: 749.7K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

research

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.

Total installs: 747.2K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

to-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).

Total installs: 746.3K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

wizard

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.

Total installs: 584.4K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

to-questionnaire

Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.

Total installs: 528.5K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

git-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.

Total installs: 522.5K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31

setup-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.

Total installs: 511.9K
GitHub stars: 308.4K
Updated: Oct 31