The rename from writing-great-skills moved agents/openai.yaml without
updating it. Codex filters a skill out of the model-visible skills list
when policy.allow_implicit_invocation is false, so the description could
not trigger the skill — only an explicit $writing-for-agents mention.
Drop the policy block (implicit invocation defaults to true) and correct
the stale display_name and short_description. Move the skill into the
Model-invoked list in both READMEs, where the frontmatter already put it.
Closesmattpocock/skills#748
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent can now reach for wizard the moment it hits a step only a
human can perform, instead of writing numbered instructions into the
chat. Typing /wizard is unaffected — model-invocation only adds the
agent's reach.
The description is rewritten as the pointer that decides when it fires:
a short statement of the artifact, four trigger branches, and an
explicit non-trigger for steps the agent can perform itself.
Behaviour is unchanged — same name, same template.sh, same four process
steps, same stage-list confirmation, which now doubles as the proposal
when the agent fires it mid-build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Coherence pass over the rewritten docs set. The recurring defect was a
refactor whose removals landed and whose replacements did not.
- tdd: restore the pointer to /codebase-design that the v1.0 changelog
and ask-matt both claim exists. The inline deep-module notes were
deleted then; nothing replaced them.
- ask-matt: /grilling and /resolving-merge-conflicts were missing from
the router entirely. Split grill-me from grill-with-docs on the
working directory rather than on whether the subject is code.
- READMEs: wayfinder maps decision tickets, not investigation tickets;
the diagnosing-bugs loop starts by building a loop that goes red;
improve-codebase-architecture is a survey, not a rescue; grilling
resolves a design tree and is the primitive behind five skills.
- Drop the /implement reliability claim from the implement and tdd
pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ask-matt still told the agent to 'keep the answer, delete the code',
which prototype-primary-source made false — the prototype is kept on a
prototype/<name> branch and pointed at from the implementation issue.
Both READMEs still called the logic artifact a runnable terminal app;
it is a single shareable HTML file.
grill-with-docs is a shim that runs grilling using domain-modeling, so
the two are one route, not two.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite the extinguisher/sprinkler framing as plain prose across the
docs page, the changeset and the ask-matt router line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves the skill out of in-progress/ and ships it: bucket README,
top-level README, plugin.json, an ask-matt router entry, and a docs
page at docs/productivity/wait-what.md.
Productivity rather than engineering — it fires in any conversation
with an agent, code or not. The CONTEXT.md clause is an opportunistic
hook, not a prerequisite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delete the four skills in deprecated/ — design-an-interface, qa,
request-refactor-plan, ubiquitous-language — each already absorbed by a
promoted skill. The bucket itself stays, now empty: a retired skill is
deleted, and the changeset that removes it names its replacement.
Delete edit-article and obsidian-vault along with the personal/ bucket.
obsidian-vault hardcoded a path to Matt's own vault and was
model-invocable, so any skills.sh user could have had it fire on them.
None of the six was in the plugin, but skills.sh serves every SKILL.md in
the repo, so all six were installable — hence the changeset.
Reframe in-progress/ from scratchpad to beta channel: public on purpose,
feedback wanted, not in the plugin, and installable one skill at a time
through skills.sh. Nothing there is deleted or graduated.
Drop qa from the two live docs that cited it as an issue-tracker skill.
ADR 0002 is left untouched — it records reasoning that was true when
decided.
Resolvesmattpocock/personal-wiki#256
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Re-pitch that last message" pinned the correction to one message.
"Re-pitch that" leaves the agent to judge how much of what it said
failed to land — and is shorter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A three-line, user-invoked skill in in-progress/. Fire it when the
agent's last message doesn't land; it re-pitches that message with
the missing context, in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English,
using the ubiquitous language from CONTEXT.md.
The name is the mechanism. Concision skills fail by growing, so this
one is a single precise leading word and nothing else.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the two-bullet `Crossing sessions` section with all five options
at a phase boundary — continue, /clear, /handoff, subagent, /compact —
and discloses the ordered tree into a new PHASE-BOUNDARIES.md.
Corrections that come with it:
- /handoff was oversold as the general bridge between context windows.
It is narrow: a new harness, a new directory, a colleague, or a side
task forked mid-phase. What it buys is portability.
- /compact is the default at the bottom of the tree, not the first reach.
- Continue and subagent were missing branches entirely.
Context hygiene's escape hatch now says /compact rather than /handoff,
and the smart zone figure moves from ~120k to ~150k tokens.
Resolves the T5 grilling ticket on the v1.2 release map.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move `wizard` out of in-progress into `engineering/` and wire it up as a
promoted skill: plugin.json entry, top-level + Engineering READMEs under
User-invoked, a docs page at docs/engineering/wizard.md, and a Standalone
route in ask-matt for the steps only a human can take.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the "you may know this document as a PRD" hedge from to-spec and
the local tracker template, switch code-review to issue/spec, bring the
GitHub and GitLab tracker templates in line with the local one, and fix
research.md's dead skills-to-prd link.
CHANGELOG and existing changesets keep the old term where they document
the rename itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The round-by-round rework left the wrappers and callers still promising
a one-question-at-a-time interview. Sync grill-me, grill-with-docs and
triage (docs + skill step), plus grilling's Codex short_description and
the loop-me draft.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The title now carries its own bold alongside the bold Q-number, so the
question line reads as a heading. Sync the docs page and changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prefix the numbered question line with ❓ so questions and their ➡️
recommendations are both scannable. Sync the docs page and changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recommendation now stands alone on its arrow line. Sync the docs
page and changeset to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the fixed per-question shape (numbered title, body, recommendation
line) to grilling's SKILL.md, sync the docs page, and add a changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Single source of truth now reaches past the document into the environment.
package.json scripts, config files, directory layout and --help output are
authoritative already, so a doc restating them is a cache of a lookup that
earns its load only when the lookup is expensive.
Co-authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move `to-questionnaire` out of in-progress into `productivity/` and wire
it up as a promoted skill: plugin.json entry, top-level + Productivity
READMEs under User-invoked, a docs page at
docs/productivity/to-questionnaire.md, and a Standalone route in
ask-matt framing it as the inverse of /grill-me.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reference now covers any document an agent consumes — skills,
AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, docs reached by a pointer. GLOSSARY.md merged into
SKILL.md as a dedup (Avoid-lists and the standalone Predictability
definition pruned); skill-only mechanics disclosed to SKILL-MECHANICS.md;
the skill is now model-invoked. Clean rename, no alias.
Spec: mattpocock/personal-wiki#187 · ships via mattpocock/personal-wiki#193
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reshape the logic branch from a terminal app into a single
self-contained HTML file a non-developer can drive: a labelled
state panel, free-play buttons, and tabbed guided walkthroughs
(scenarios) with the ordered buttons to press underneath each.
The portable pure-logic module still lifts into the real code;
the HTML shell is the throwaway primary source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rework grilling from one-question-at-a-time to asking the whole
frontier each round, with background sub-agents for fact-finding so
research never blocks the round. Fold the batch-grill-me experiment
into grilling and delete it. Re-sync the docs page, including how to
opt back into one-at-a-time via global CLAUDE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The round-by-round rework left the wrappers and callers still promising
a one-question-at-a-time interview. Sync grill-me, grill-with-docs and
triage (docs + skill step), plus grilling's Codex short_description and
the loop-me draft.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The title now carries its own bold alongside the bold Q-number, so the
question line reads as a heading. Sync the docs page and changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prefix the numbered question line with ❓ so questions and their ➡️
recommendations are both scannable. Sync the docs page and changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recommendation now stands alone on its arrow line. Sync the docs
page and changeset to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the fixed per-question shape (numbered title, body, recommendation
line) to grilling's SKILL.md, sync the docs page, and add a changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Single source of truth now reaches past the document into the environment.
package.json scripts, config files, directory layout and --help output are
authoritative already, so a doc restating them is a cache of a lookup that
earns its load only when the lookup is expensive.
Co-authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move `to-questionnaire` out of in-progress into `productivity/` and wire
it up as a promoted skill: plugin.json entry, top-level + Productivity
READMEs under User-invoked, a docs page at
docs/productivity/to-questionnaire.md, and a Standalone route in
ask-matt framing it as the inverse of /grill-me.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reference now covers any document an agent consumes — skills,
AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, docs reached by a pointer. GLOSSARY.md merged into
SKILL.md as a dedup (Avoid-lists and the standalone Predictability
definition pruned); skill-only mechanics disclosed to SKILL-MECHANICS.md;
the skill is now model-invoked. Clean rename, no alias.
Spec: mattpocock/personal-wiki#187 · ships via mattpocock/personal-wiki#193
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reshape the logic branch from a terminal app into a single
self-contained HTML file a non-developer can drive: a labelled
state panel, free-play buttons, and tabbed guided walkthroughs
(scenarios) with the ordered buttons to press underneath each.
The portable pure-logic module still lifts into the real code;
the HTML shell is the throwaway primary source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rework grilling from one-question-at-a-time to asking the whole
frontier each round, with background sub-agents for fact-finding so
research never blocks the round. Fold the batch-grill-me experiment
into grilling and delete it. Re-sync the docs page, including how to
opt back into one-at-a-time via global CLAUDE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fire fact-finding to a sub-agent and treat a running exploration as an
unsettled prerequisite, so only the downstream questions wait — the rest
of the frontier is asked now, instead of the whole next round blocking
behind one lookup. Phrase throughout in terms of the user.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A user-invoked interview that walks the design tree in rounds: each round
asks the whole frontier of decisions whose prerequisites are already
settled, then recomputes the frontier from the answers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the sentence explaining why interrogating the subject fails — the
model already obeys it, so it was paying load to say nothing.
Replace the bulleted document structure with an XML-tagged
<questionnaire-template>, mirroring to-spec's <spec-template>: headings
with prose fill-in guidance and a nested <question-example>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A user-invoked skill that turns a decision you can't fully answer into a
Markdown discovery questionnaire to hand to one person async, or fill out
over a meeting.
Its defining move: it grills you about the *send* (who it's going to, what
you need back), never the subject — sidestepping the "I don't know, I don't
know" spiral you'd hit if it interrogated you on the very knowledge you're
offloading. The written questions then target the gap between what the
recipient knows and what you need.
Landed in in-progress/ to shake out over a few real sends before promoting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds an `agents/openai.yaml` beside each `SKILL.md` so the skills work in
Codex as well as Claude Code, without generated copies:
- `interface.display_name` + `interface.short_description` for the Codex
skill picker, hand-written for all 39 skills.
- `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` on the 22 user-invoked skills —
the Codex analog of `disable-model-invocation: true`, so Codex excludes
them from implicit invocation while explicit `$skill` still works.
- Document the dual-harness invocation model in `.agents/invocation.md`,
`CLAUDE.md`, and the promoted-bucket READMEs.
- Add `AGENTS.md` as a symlink to `CLAUDE.md` so Codex reads the same
instructions; note Codex as a `link-skills.sh` install target.
Slimmed-down rework of the approach prototyped in #522: keeps the essential
cross-harness metadata, drops the Ruby validator, the runtime-detector test,
per-skill `default_prompt`s, and the unrelated promotion changes.
Co-authored-by: gabimoncha <gabimoncha@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Close a standing CLAUDE.md-invariant gap where two promoted skills were
not fully wired into the plugin manifest and READMEs.
- resolving-merge-conflicts (model-invoked): add to .claude-plugin/plugin.json,
top-level README.md, and skills/engineering/README.md.
- implement (user-invoked): add the missing line to skills/engineering/README.md
(already present in plugin.json and the top README).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Align the remaining callers and docs pages with grilling's body, which now
says "decision tree".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the software-plan scoping from grilling's description and body so the
interview reads as a stress-test of any plan, decision, or idea:
"this plan" → "this", "enact the plan" → "act on it", "codebase" →
"environment". The technique is unchanged, and grill-me is left as-is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
