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>
mattpocock-skills is now listed in Claude Code's official marketplace,
so the own-marketplace route is superseded. The queued changeset still
documented it, and changeset bodies ship verbatim into CHANGELOG.md —
the release would have published a superseded install route as its
headline.
- Rewrite .changeset/ship-as-claude-plugin.md around
`claude plugins install mattpocock-skills`.
- Add .agents/install-block.md as the single source for install
wording, so the docs pass has one true thing to copy.
- Point .agents/writing-docs.md and CLAUDE.md at it.
- Note the official listing in ADR 0002, and record that it reads
plugin.json directly and does not depend on marketplace.json.
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json is kept as a fallback for direct-repo
installs; nothing in CI or scripts references it.
Refs mattpocock/personal-wiki#250
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>
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>
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>
Research stays a real ticket type — it's a shared blocker downstream
decisions hang on, which the frontier's blocking edges exist to render.
What changes is resolution: because research is AFK, charting doesn't
stop and read. After creating the tickets, the charting session fires a
/research subagent for each research ticket to burn it down in parallel,
capturing findings on a throwaway research/<name> branch with a context
pointer.
Charting's "fire the research subagents" step owns how research is
handled; the Ticket Types bullet just names the resolver, and the
one-ticket-per-session rule carries the research exception.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Before scanning, decide where to look. If the user named a direction, take
it; otherwise read the last ~20 commit messages to bias exploration toward
actively-developed paths. A deepening opportunity in code nobody touches is a
refactor you'll never cash in — leverage only pays off where you keep editing.
Syncs the docs page and adds a changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
People kept reading a wayfinder ticket as an ordinary implementation
ticket — a slice of a build to execute — when wayfinder uses them as
decision tickets: questions whose resolution is a decision.
Introduce "decision ticket" as a light leading word: the skill
description and its opening line name it (and say what makes it one),
and the ask-matt / engineering README blurbs and the docs page match,
while "ticket" stays the everyday word once the term is established.
Record "Decision ticket" in CONTEXT.md so the "avoid: ticket" domain
rule no longer contradicts wayfinder's deliberate use of the word.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wayfinder is the heaviest, most cognitively demanding flow, and the
wiki shows people misusing it two ways: over-reaching for it on
well-scoped work (it's slower and denser than a single grill), and
losing the way at the handoff after the map (looping straight into
/implement and skipping /to-spec). Sharpen the router's wayfinder
on-ramp to steer both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Claude Code plugin marketplace so the promoted skills can be
installed as a managed, read-only bundle (subscribe rather than fork),
alongside the existing skills.sh installer.
- Enrich .claude-plugin/plugin.json with marketplace metadata (version,
description, author, license, keywords); keep the curated promoted-only
skills array.
- Add .claude-plugin/marketplace.json making the repo its own
single-plugin marketplace (mattpocock-skills@mattpocock).
- README: document /plugin install alongside skills.sh, and the
subscribe-vs-fork tradeoff.
- CLAUDE.md: extend the promoted-set invariant to cover marketplace.json
and plugin.json/package.json version sync.
- ADR 0002: record why Claude ships now and a native Codex plugin is
deferred (Codex skills field is single-path + drops symlinks, which
can't express a curated subset of a bucketed repo without a restructure).
Verified: 'claude plugin validate . --strict' passes, and marketplace
add -> install resolves all 21 promoted skills at v1.2.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reframe the artifact handling as capturing the prototype somewhere out
of main — a throwaway branch — with a context pointer to it left on the
implementation issue, instead of "disposing" of it. The main branch
still keeps only the validated decision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rework /setup-matt-pocock-skills to ask fewer, friendlier questions and
align the local-markdown issue tracker with the current spec.
- Triage labels: asked only when the `triage` skill is installed, and then
as a single recommended-yes question ("keep the default triage labels?")
instead of an override interrogation. When triage isn't installed, the
section and docs/agents/triage-labels.md are skipped.
- External PRs as a request surface: no longer a setup question. The
GitHub/GitLab templates still carry the flag, defaulted off; flip it in
docs/agents/issue-tracker.md later.
- Domain docs: default to single-context without asking; multi-context is
only offered when the repo shows monorepo signals.
- Local-markdown tickets: one file per ticket under
.scratch/<feature>/issues/<NN>-<slug>.md, never a single combined
tickets.md. /to-tickets, ask-matt, and the local template now agree, and
the spec file is spec.md (not PRD.md) to match /to-spec.
- Re-sync docs pages for setup-matt-pocock-skills and to-tickets; changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the secondary-source label — the actionable distinction is just
that the prototype is a primary source to retain on a throwaway branch.
Collapse the re-descriptions in LOGIC/UI so they point to SKILL for the
disposal concept and add only branch-specific nuance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retain the prototype as a primary source on a throwaway branch linked
from the relevant issue, rather than deleting it, while the distilled
answer remains the secondary source. Keeps prototype scaffolding out of
the main branch without destroying the runnable evidence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The grill-led idea→ship chain stays the documented front door; wayfinder
is a situational on-ramp (greenfield / huge feature build), reserving
"new default spine" for a potential v2.
- ask-matt router: name wayfinder's concrete triggers
- grill-me / grill-with-docs: signpost up to wayfinder as the
too-big-for-one-session on-ramp
Resolves the main-flow decision on the Skills v1.1 wayfinder map (#120).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Graduate `wayfinder` out of in-progress into the engineering bucket
(plugin.json, top-level + Engineering READMEs under User-invoked, docs
page, ask-matt on-ramp, disable-model-invocation).
Consolidate the 22 pending changesets into 10 coherent v1.1 entries:
one `wayfinder` (rename from decision-mapping + full reframe +
graduation), one `grilling`, one `code-review`, one `tdd`; fold the
superseded to-issues changeset into unify-to-tickets and drop its stray
`</content>` tag. Highest bump is minor → 1.0.1 becomes 1.1.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Executes the `unify-to-tickets` decision (personal-wiki #23), reworking
this PR from "add /to-plan" into the full planning-skills unification.
- Rename /to-prd → /to-spec. "spec" is now the single through-line term
(the skill still opens with "you may know this document as a PRD" for
discoverability).
- Merge /to-plan + /to-issues into one /to-tickets skill; delete
/to-issues. /to-tickets emits a set of tickets, each declaring its
blocking edges — one medium-agnostic artifact that reads as a
sequential plan (local `tickets.md`, edges as text) or a parallelizable
DAG (real tracker, native blocking links). The edges live in the ticket
either way; the medium only decides whether anything acts on them in
parallel.
- ask-matt now routes idea → /to-spec → /to-tickets → /implement.
- Sweep every cross-reference (docs pages, chain diagrams, CONTEXT.md,
ADRs, .agents, setup templates) to the new names and vocabulary.
- Rewrite the changeset to describe the unification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a user-invoked `to-plan` skill — the sequential, HITL sibling of
`to-issues`. Both slice work into tracer-bullet vertical slices, but
`to-plan` produces one ordered sequence you drive by hand, one phase per
fresh context, rather than parallel independently-grabbable issues.
It publishes to the tracker `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` configured, shaped
to it: a single sequential `plan.md` for a local tracker, or a parent
issue with ordered sub-issues (native sub-issues where supported) for a
real one.
Registers the skill everywhere CLAUDE.md requires (plugin.json, top-level
and bucket READMEs, docs page), updates the `ask-matt` router's main-flow
fork to offer both to-issues and to-plan, and adds a changeset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wayfinder pinned the literal docs/agents/issue-tracker.md, breaking the
indirection to-issues/to-prd/triage rely on: they resolve the tracker
through the ### Issue tracker block setup writes into CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md.
In repos that keep agent docs elsewhere, wayfinder silently fell back to
local-markdown. It now follows the same pointer and reads the doc's
"Wayfinding operations" section by name.
Closes#471
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revert the description change and keep the wide-refactor material in
one place. Reshape the skill into a lean Process (steps) and a
Reference section holding the vertical-slice rules, the wide-refactor
expand–contract rules, and the issue body template as co-located
blocks the steps point to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a wide-refactor exception to the tracer-bullet rule: a single
mechanical change whose blast radius fans across the codebase can't
land as one green vertical slice. Seed "wide refactor" / "blast radius"
across the description, the explore step (detection), and the drafting
step (strategy), and give the expand–contract sequence in prose.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Negative Space read as clever but not actionable — "notice your
silences" is fuzzy legwork the agent can't reliably act on. Negation
stays: a checkable authoring failure with a positive-instruction cure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
