CLAUDE.md is always-loaded, so every word costs on every turn. The
edit had grown it by ~65 words, nearly all of which paid load without
changing behaviour:
- The official-marketplace sentence was exposition — a fact the
pointer target already carries.
- "Never reword an install command" steered by prohibition, which
makes the banned behaviour more available, not less.
- The fallback rationale was a third copy of what install-block.md
owns.
- The paragraph split doubled the surface with no branch behind it.
What remains is the one line that does work — the context pointer,
front-loaded on its trigger — leaving CLAUDE.md 10 words longer than
before rather than 65.
Refs mattpocock/personal-wiki#250
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>
- install-block.md: state the invariant as a requirement rather than
as already-true (docs/ is brought into line downstream); mark all
three canonical snippets, not just the Claude Code one; pin the
`skills@latest` spelling; restore the `setup-matt-pocock-skills`
instruction the whole-set form carries; cite the docs source for
the auto-update claim.
- writing-docs.md: say plainly that the template's Quickstart is the
older wording, so the file no longer contradicts itself.
- CLAUDE.md: split the paragraph, stop restating the fallback rationale.
- ADR 0002: record what was actually verified, on which version, and
the two things that were not — the pinned sha in the official
listing, and the in-session slash command.
Refs mattpocock/personal-wiki#250
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>
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>
Collapse the skills.sh Quickstart and the "Install as a Claude Code
plugin" section into one Installation section, ordered Claude Code →
Codex/other agents → tinkerers, each in a collapsed details block.
Claude Code now leads with the one-liner `claude plugins install
mattpocock-skills` — the plugin ships in Claude Code's official
marketplace, so the old two-step `marketplace add` → `install` dance is
gone.
`/setup-matt-pocock-skills` is promoted to a shared step 2, since every
install path needs it.
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>
