Skills for Real Engineers
Introduction
An open-source collection of AI Skills for engineers by Matt Pocock, taken directly from his personal .agents directory. It covers code conventions, changesets, retrospectives and other development workflows for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code. Its grill-me Skill uses an interrogation-style loop, asking questions until every branch of a plan or design is confirmed, so the AI does not drift from the requirement. Free to use.
Install
Claude Code (managed plugin, auto-updates):
claude plugins install mattpocock-skillsor from inside a session: /plugin install mattpocock-skills
Codex and other agents (editable files you own):
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skillsThe installer lets you choose which skills to take — make sure setup-matt-pocock-skills is one of them. Pick one install method, not both, or you'll get every skill twice.
Setup
Run /setup-matt-pocock-skills once per repo. It asks which issue tracker you use (GitHub, Linear, or local files), which labels you apply when triaging, and where to save docs.
Usage
/grill-me,/grill-with-docs— get interviewed about a plan until every branch is resolved/to-spec,/to-tickets— turn the conversation into a spec or tracer-bullet tickets/implement— build the spec, driving/tddat agreed seams/triage,/wayfinder,/handoff— issue triage, big-work planning, session handoffModel-invoked skills (
tdd,diagnosing-bugs,code-review,codebase-design,domain-modeling) activate automatically when the task fits
Update with npx skills update.
安装(中文)
Claude Code 用 claude plugins install mattpocock-skills(托管插件、自动更新);其他 Agent 用 npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills(可编辑文件)。二选一,别同时装。每个仓库先运行一次 /setup-matt-pocock-skills 配置 issue tracker、triage 标签与文档位置。常用命令:/grill-me、/to-spec、/implement、/tdd。更新用 npx skills update。
FAQ
- 这个集合包含哪些 Skill?
- 涵盖代码规范、变更集(changeset)、回顾总结等实用开发工作流 Skill,直接来自 Matt Pocock 个人的 .agents 目录。
- grill-me 是做什么的?
- 它采用审问式交互,通过持续提问把计划或设计中的每个分支逐一确认清楚,从而避免 AI 理解偏差,确保开发方向与需求保持一致。
- 作者是谁,需要付费吗?
- 作者是 Matt Pocock,这个 Skill 在 Skillorbit 上标注为免费。
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