skills
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Skills are organized into bucket folders under skills/: Every skill in engineering/ or productivity/ (the promoted buckets) must have a reference in the top-level README.md and an entry in .claude-plugin/plugin.json's skills array (the Claude Code plugin ships exactly the promoted set). Skills in misc/, personal/, in-progress/, and deprecated/ must not appear in either. The repo is also its own single-plugin Claude Code marketplace: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists the one mattpocock-skills plugin. When bumping the release version, keep .claude-plugin/plugin.json's version in sync with…
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Every SKILL.md is either user-invoked (disable-model-invocation: true plus policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false in agents/openai.yaml, …
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 25,680 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Skills are organized into bucket folders under skills/:
engineering/— daily code workproductivity/— daily non-code workflow toolsmisc/— kept around but rarely used, not promotedpersonal/— tied to my own setup, not promotedin-progress/— drafts not yet ready to shipdeprecated/— no longer used
Every skill in engineering/ or productivity/ (the promoted buckets) must have a reference in the top-level README.md and an entry in .claude-plugin/plugin.json's skills array (the Claude Code plugin ships exactly the promoted set). Skills in misc/, personal/, in-progress/, and deprecated/ must not appear in either.
The repo is also its own single-plugin Claude Code marketplace: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists the one mattpocock-skills plugin. When bumping the release version, keep .claude-plugin/plugin.json's version in sync with package.json's — Claude uses the plugin version to decide when installed users see an update. Run claude plugin validate . --strict after touching either manifest. Why a Claude plugin but not (yet) a Codex one lives in .agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md.
Each skill entry in the top-level README.md must link the skill name to its SKILL.md.
Each bucket folder has a README.md that lists every skill in the bucket with a one-line description, with the skill name linked to its SKILL.md. The promoted buckets' README.mds and the top-level README.md group entries into User-invoked and Model-invoked; non-promoted bucket README.mds (misc/, personal/) use a flat list.
Skills in engineering/ and productivity/ also have a human-facing docs page at docs/<bucket>/<skill-name>.md (the docs tree mirrors those two bucket folders under skills/). The published URL is https://aihero.dev/skills-<skill-name> regardless of bucket — the docs path is repo organisation only. When you add, rename, or change the behaviour of a skill in engineering/ or productivity/, create or re-sync its docs page following .agents/writing-docs.md. Skills in the non-promoted buckets (misc/, personal/, in-progress/, deprecated/) get no docs page.
Every SKILL.md is either user-invoked (disable-model-invocation: true plus policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false in agents/openai.yaml, reachable only by the human) or model-invoked (model- or user-reachable). See .agents/invocation.md.
ask-matt is the router that maps every user-reachable skill and how they relate. The same trigger that re-syncs a docs page applies to it: whenever you add, rename, remove, or change how a user-reachable skill fits the flows, re-read ask-matt's SKILL.md and update it so the map stays accurate — a new skill it never mentions, or a stale one it still routes to, is a router that lies.
To (re)link every skill into the local harness skill directories (~/.claude/skills, ~/.agents/skills), run scripts/link-skills.sh. Each entry is a symlink into this repo, so a git pull keeps installed skills current; re-run the script after adding, removing, or renaming a skill.
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository41 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- design-an-interfaceSkill
- qaSkill
- request-refactor-planSkill
- ubiquitous-languageSkill
- ask-mattSkill
- codebase-designSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- diagnosing-bugsSkill
- domain-modelingSkill
- grill-with-docsSkill
- implementSkill
- improve-codebase-architectureSkill
- prototypeSkill
- researchSkill
- resolving-merge-conflictsSkill
- setup-matt-pocock-skillsSkill
- tddSkill
- to-specSkill
- to-ticketsSkill
- triageSkill
- wayfinderSkill
- claude-handoffSkill
- loop-meSkill
- setup-ts-deep-modulesSkill
- to-questionnaireSkill
- wizardSkill
- writing-beatsSkill
- writing-fragmentsSkill
- writing-shapeSkill
- git-guardrails-claude-codeSkill
- migrate-to-shoehornSkill
- scaffold-exercisesSkill
- setup-pre-commitSkill
- edit-articleSkill
- obsidian-vaultSkill
- grillingSkill
- grill-meSkill
- handoffSkill
- teachSkill
- writing-great-skillsSkill
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