Skills Library

A reader's edition of Claude Code skills.

Catalog

35 skills, each rendered side-by-side with a sentence-interleaved Chinese translation.

writing-shape

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

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writing-fragments

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Writing, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.

2 files50% translated

writing-for-agents

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

3 files67% translated

writing-beats

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

wizard

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can perform itself.

3 files33% translated

wayfinder

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Plan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.

2 files50% translated

wait-what

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.

2 files50% translated

triage

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

4 files75% translated

to-tickets

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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).

2 files50% translated

to-spec

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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.

2 files50% translated

to-questionnaire

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

teach

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

6 files83% translated

tdd

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

4 files75% translated

setup-ts-deep-modules

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module, with implementation hidden in subfolders and reachable only through its entry-point files. User-invoked.

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setup-pre-commit

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or add commit-time formatting/typechecking/testing.

2 files50% translated

setup-matt-pocock-skills

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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.

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scaffold-exercises

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course section.

2 files50% translated

resolving-merge-conflicts

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Use when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.

2 files50% translated

research

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

2 files50% translated

prototype

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore what a UI should look like.

4 files75% translated

migrate-to-shoehorn

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.

2 files50% translated

loop-me

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

improve-codebase-architecture

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

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implement

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

handoff

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

grilling

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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.

2 files50% translated

grill-with-docs

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

grill-me

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.

2 files50% translated

git-guardrails-claude-code

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to prevent destructive git operations, add git safety hooks, or block git push/reset in Claude Code.

3 files33% translated

domain-modeling

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a CONTEXT.md, or recording or editing an ADR.

4 files75% translated

diagnosing-bugs

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.

3 files33% translated

codebase-design

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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.

4 files75% translated

code-review

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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".

2 files50% translated

claude-handoff

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

2 files50% translated

ask-matt

mattpocock/skills @ 0ab1b63

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

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