What Matt Pocock Skills is
Matt Pocock Skills is Matt Pocock’s personal set of skills for coding agents. The project is built around “real engineering, not vibe coding”: small, portable, composable instructions that help agents ask questions, share project language, and avoid drifting from requirements.
The skills are installed through `skills.sh` and can work with different models and agents. The theme is control: clarify the task first, write useful documents, then make a narrow implementation.
What is inside and how it is used
Installing skills
This example shows the project shape and the usual way it is used.
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
# then select skills and run /setup-matt-pocock-skills in the agentSkills such as `/grill-me` and `/grill-with-docs` force the agent to clarify the task before work begins. That addresses a common failure: the user assumes the agent understood, but the result proves otherwise.
Strengths and limits
The strength is practicality and small size. The limit is that skills do not replace tests, review, or product ownership. They guide the agent; they do not make a bad task automatically good.