# mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

Repository: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/skills
Homepage: https://aihero.dev/skills
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-24T14:20:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 96, longevity 15
- inputs: {"age_days": 211, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 27, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 237949, forks 20248 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:28.478312+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of 25 composable AI agent skills (slash-command prompt files) by Matt Pocock for doing disciplined software engineering with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot. Skills cover the idea-to-ship flow (grill-with-docs, to-spec, to-tickets, implement, code-review) plus productivity, shaping, and upkeep utilities, installable via a Claude Code plugin or the skills.sh installer.

## Use cases
- interview me about a plan and record decisions as docs
- turn a conversation into a written spec
- split a spec into small tickets an agent can build
- review code with an ai coding agent
- hand off a long agent session to a fresh agent with full context
- build throwaway prototypes to flush out design decisions
- reduce token usage from skill descriptions in my coding agent
- set up a repo so my ai agent skills understand it

## When to choose
- you use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Copilot and want a structured, opinionated engineering workflow instead of ad-hoc prompting
- you want small, editable, composable skill files you can hack on rather than an all-or-nothing process framework
- you want spec-driven development artifacts like CONTEXT.md, ADRs, specs, and tickets generated in your repo

## When to avoid
- you prefer process frameworks that own the whole workflow like GSD, BMAD, or Spec-Kit
- you don't use any AI coding agent
- you need a runtime library or tool rather than prompt/skill files

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, workflow-automation, documentation, code-review, prompt-engineering
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: ai-coding-agents, claude-code, agent-skills, spec-driven-development, slash-commands, codex, cursor, copilot, automation, ai-agents

## Member repositories
- mattpocock/skills (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:28.478312+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:10:29.343761+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:28.478312+00:00, sha 170f3877261f)
  - homepage: https://aihero.dev/skills (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.602833+00:00, sha 7bf1cfdfb1f5)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills-grill-with-docs (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.611665+00:00, sha f207ba8c5bef)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills/skills-changelog-ubiquitous-language-grill-with-docs (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.620630+00:00, sha f0f0fa663930)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills/skills-changelog-v12-wait-what-writing-for-agents-claude-code-plugin-and-more (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.613681+00:00, sha 44fb6bf95f94)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills/skills-changelog-v1-1-wayfinder-to-spec-to-tickets-grilling-improvements (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.615699+00:00, sha 9bea845e0c61)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills/skills-changelog-v1-announcement (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.617532+00:00, sha 63bdea84702b)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/skills/skills-changelog-handoff-prototype-review-and-writing (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.619164+00:00, sha 08e8799b6a15)
  - site_page: https://www.aihero.dev/faq (fetched 2026-08-28T17:21:40.622269+00:00, sha 87141f393baa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.