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michalmar/mattpocock-skills

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A curated collection of Matt Pocock's skills for grilling, handoffs, specifications, tickets, implementation, triage, retrospectives, domain modeling, and repository setup.

ask-matt

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

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".

codebase-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.

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.

grill-me

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.

grill-with-docs

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.

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.

handoff

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

implement

Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.

implement-spec

Implement the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code.

retro

Conduct a retrospective on a coding session.

setup-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.

tdd

Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.

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.

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).

triage

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

writing-for-agents

Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.