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Matt Pocock — engineering, productivity and writing skills

Matt Pocock — engineering, productivity and writing skills. The source guide documents this set as one installable plugin.

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codex plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills
codex plugin add mattpocock-skills@mattpocock

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• ask-matt
  Ask which skill or flow fits your situation.

  /ask-matt in Claude Code after a direct install

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• chief-of-staff
  Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.

  /chief-of-staff in Claude Code after a direct install

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• claude-handoff
  Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.

  /claude-handoff in Claude Code after a direct install

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• code-review
  Reviews changes against project standards and the original specification in separate passes.

  /code-review in Claude Code after a direct install

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• codebase-design
  Helps choose module boundaries and interfaces that make a codebase easier to test and navigate.

  /codebase-design in Claude Code after a direct install

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• diagnosing-bugs
  Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions.

  /diagnosing-bugs in Claude Code after a direct install

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• domain-modeling
  Defines domain terms and relationships for glossaries, architecture decisions, and code.

  /domain-modeling in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /git-guardrails-claude-code in Claude Code after a direct install

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• grill-me
  A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.

  /grill-me in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /grill-with-docs in Claude Code after a direct install

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• grilling
  Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea.

  /grilling in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /handoff in Claude Code after a direct install

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• implement
  Build a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.

  /implement in Claude Code after a direct install

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• implement-spec
  Build the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code.

  /implement-spec in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /improve-codebase-architecture in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /loop-me in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /migrate-to-shoehorn in Claude Code after a direct install

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• pr
  Drafts a pull request body that explains the change, evidence, and risk.

  /pr in Claude Code after a direct install

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• prototype
  Builds contrasting interface concepts so teams can compare options before committing to a direction.

  /prototype in Claude Code after a direct install

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• research
  Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.

  /research in Claude Code after a direct install

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• retro
  Reviews a completed coding session to capture lessons and improve future work.

  /retro in Claude Code after a direct install

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• scaffold-exercises
  Develop exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting.

  /scaffold-exercises in Claude Code after a direct install

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• setup-matt-pocock-skills
  Set up this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout.

  /setup-matt-pocock-skills in Claude Code after a direct install

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• setup-pre-commit
  Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo.

  /setup-pre-commit in Claude Code after a direct install

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• setup-ts-deep-modules
  Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module, with implementation hidden in subfolders and reachable.

  /setup-ts-deep-modules in Claude Code after a direct install

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• tdd
  Builds features through a test-first cycle that checks behavior before and after implementation.

  /tdd in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /teach in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /to-questionnaire in Claude Code after a direct install

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• to-spec
  Convert the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker: no interview, just synthesis of.

  /to-spec in Claude Code after a direct install

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• to-tickets
  Stress-test a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published.

  /to-tickets in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /triage in Claude Code after a direct install

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• wait-what
  Rephrases confusing messages in clearer language so the conversation can move forward.

  /wait-what in Claude Code after a direct install

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• wayfinder
  Shape a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets.

  /wayfinder in Claude Code after a direct install

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• wizard
  Produce an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform.

  /wizard in Claude Code after a direct install

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• writing-beats
  Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.

  /writing-beats in Claude Code after a direct install

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

  /writing-for-agents in Claude Code after a direct install

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• writing-fragments
  Writing, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.

  /writing-fragments in Claude Code after a direct install

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• writing-shape
  Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.

  /writing-shape in Claude Code after a direct install

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Sharing note: Source collection: Matt Pocock. The source guide documents this set as one installable plugin.