mattpocock-skills

Agent Skills For Real Engineers

My agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering - not vibe coding.

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Engineering

Skills I use daily for code work.

• diagnose — Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions: reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/diagnose
  

• domain-model — Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates CONTEXT.md and ADRs inline.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/domain-model
  

• github-triage — Triage GitHub issues through a label-based state machine.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/github-triage
  

• improve-codebase-architecture — Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/improve-codebase-architecture
  

• tdd — Test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop. Builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/tdd
  

• to-issues — Break any plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/to-issues
  

• to-prd — Turn the current conversation context into a PRD and submit it as a GitHub issue. No interview — just synthesizes what you've already discussed.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/to-prd
  

• zoom-out — Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher-level perspective on an unfamiliar section of code.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/zoom-out
  

Productivity

General workflow tools, not code-specific.

• caveman — Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping filler while keeping full technical accuracy.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/caveman
  

• grill-me — Get relentlessly interviewed about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/grill-me
  

• write-a-skill — Create new skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/write-a-skill
  

Misc

Tools I keep around but rarely use.

• git-guardrails-claude-code — Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, etc.) before they execute.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/git-guardrails-claude-code
  

• migrate-to-shoehorn — Migrate test files from as type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/migrate-to-shoehorn
  

• scaffold-exercises — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/scaffold-exercises
  

• setup-pre-commit — Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged, Prettier, type checking, and tests.

  npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/setup-pre-commit