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# Ship the skill set as a native Claude Code plugin; defer a native Codex plugin
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These skills have always been installable via [skills.sh](https://skills.sh/mattpocock/skills) (`npx skills add mattpocock/skills`), which copies editable skill files into a user's project across Claude Code, Codex, and other Agent-Skills-standard harnesses. A recurring request is a **plug-and-play** distribution: subscribe to the set as a read-only, always-current bundle you don't edit, rather than a fork you own. That is exactly what native plugin systems provide.
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We ship a native **Claude Code plugin** and, for now, **defer** a native **Codex plugin**. The split is forced by how each ecosystem's plugin manifest selects skills, against this repo's bucketed layout.
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## The constraint: bucketed skills vs. single-path selection
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Skills live in bucket folders under `skills/` — `engineering/` and `productivity/` are **promoted** (shipped); `misc/`, `personal/`, `in-progress/`, and `deprecated/` are **not**. A plugin must expose only the promoted set, which spans two of those bucket folders.
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- **Claude Code** — `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` accepts `skills` as an **array of explicit skill-directory paths**. We list the promoted skills one by one, exclude everything else with zero ambiguity, and add `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` so the repo is its own single-plugin marketplace. Verified end to end: `claude plugin validate . --strict` passes, and `marketplace add` → `install` resolves all promoted skills.
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- **Codex** — `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` accepts `skills` only as a **single path string** (arrays are rejected with `missing or invalid plugin.json`), and Codex discovers `SKILL.md` files recursively under it. There is no way to name two bucket folders, or to curate a subset, from one path. Two escape hatches were tested and rejected:
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- Pointing at `./skills/` would also ship `deprecated/`, `in-progress/`, `personal/`, and `misc/` — retired, draft, and personal skills we deliberately don't promote.
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- A curated flat directory of **symlinks** into the buckets does not survive install: Codex copies the plugin tree into its cache and **drops symlinks**, so the skills arrive empty.
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The only robust ways to give Codex a single promoted-only path are (a) **restructure** so `skills/` contains only promoted skills (moving the non-promoted buckets out — a large blast radius across `CLAUDE.md`, `scripts/link-skills.sh`, the bucket READMEs, and the local dev workflow that relies on `in-progress/` and `personal/`), or (b) **commit duplicate copies** of promoted skills into a flat directory (a sync burden and a second source of truth). Both are structural decisions, not something to bundle into shipping the Claude plugin. This is very likely the original, half-remembered reason a plugin wasn't shipped earlier: the manifest formats didn't cleanly express a curated subset of a bucketed repo.
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## Decision
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- Ship the **Claude Code plugin** now (`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` + `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`), curated to the promoted set, as the headline v1.2 deliverable.
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- Keep **skills.sh** as the universal installer — it already serves Codex and other harnesses today, so no Codex user is left without an install path.
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- **Defer** the native Codex plugin until we decide between restructuring `skills/` to promoted-only vs. committing a generated flat copy. Revisit when Codex either supports a `skills` array / include-list or preserves symlinks on install.
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## Invariants this creates
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- Every promoted skill has an entry in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`'s `skills` array (this already stood as a `CLAUDE.md` rule; it now also gates the plugin's contents).
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- `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`'s `version` tracks `package.json`'s version — bump both together on release. Claude uses the plugin `version` to decide when installed users see an update.
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Every `SKILL.md` in this repo is a skill. The one axis that splits them is **invocation** — who can reach it:
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- **User-invoked** — reachable **only by the human typing its name**. Set `disable-model-invocation: true` in the frontmatter. The `description` is **human-facing**: a one-line summary read by a person browsing slash-commands. Strip trigger lists ("Use when the user says…").
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- **Model-invoked** — reachable by **model or user**. The default: omit `disable-model-invocation`. The `description` is **model-facing** and keeps rich trigger phrasing ("Use when the user wants…, mentions…, asks for…") so auto-invocation fires. The test for whether a skill should stay model-invoked: _could the model usefully reach for this autonomously?_ (Reuse is the reason to extract a skill, not the test.)
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- **User-invoked** — reachable **only by the human typing its name**. Set `disable-model-invocation: true` in the frontmatter (Claude Code) and `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` in `agents/openai.yaml` (Codex). The `description` is **human-facing**: a one-line summary read by a person browsing slash-commands. Strip trigger lists ("Use when the user says…").
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- **Model-invoked** — reachable by **model or user**. The default: omit `disable-model-invocation` and the `policy` block from `agents/openai.yaml`. The `description` is **model-facing** and keeps rich trigger phrasing ("Use when the user wants…, mentions…, asks for…") so auto-invocation fires. The test for whether a skill should stay model-invoked: _could the model usefully reach for this autonomously?_ (Reuse is the reason to extract a skill, not the test.)
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Because a user-invoked skill has no description, nothing but the human can reach it — no other skill can fire it. So a user-invoked skill may invoke model-invoked skills, but it can never reach another user-invoked skill.
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Each harness excludes a user-invoked skill from the model's reach in its own way, so nothing but the human can fire it — no other skill can. A user-invoked skill may invoke model-invoked skills, but it can never reach another user-invoked skill.
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Every skill also carries an `agents/openai.yaml` beside its `SKILL.md`. It holds Codex UI metadata — `interface.display_name` and `interface.short_description` for the skill picker — and, for user-invoked skills, the `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` that pairs with `disable-model-invocation`. Keep the two in sync: a skill is user-invoked in both harnesses or neither.
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Bucket `README.md`s and the top-level `README.md` group entries into **User-invoked** and **Model-invoked**.
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"mattpocock-skills": patch
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Make `/ask-matt` clued-up about `/wayfinder` — the heaviest, most cognitively demanding flow.
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The router now sharpens the two routing mistakes people most often make with wayfinder:
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- **Over-reaching for it.** It's slower and denser than a single grill, so it's flagged as the heaviest flow and reserved for the idea that genuinely won't fit one session — a well-scoped feature belongs on `/grill-with-docs`, not here.
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- **Losing the way at the handoff.** When the map clears, wayfinder hands off, it doesn't build: merge onto the main flow at `/to-spec` (which collapses the map's linked decisions into a buildable plan) rather than looping the map straight into `/implement`. Straight-to-`/implement` is only for efforts that turned out genuinely small.
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"mattpocock-skills": patch
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Make `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` friendlier and align the local-markdown tracker with the current spec.
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- **Triage labels** are now asked about 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.
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- **External PRs as a request surface** is no longer a setup question. The GitHub/GitLab templates still carry the flag, defaulted off; a user can flip it in `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` later.
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- **Domain docs** default to single-context without asking; multi-context is only offered when the repo shows monorepo signals.
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- **Local-markdown tickets** are now one file per ticket under `.scratch/<feature>/issues/<NN>-<slug>.md` — never a single combined `tickets.md`. `/to-tickets` and the local issue-tracker template now agree, and the spec file is `spec.md` (not `PRD.md`) to match `/to-spec`.
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Docs pages for `setup-matt-pocock-skills` and `to-tickets` re-synced.
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"mattpocock-skills": patch
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Reword **`grilling`** for general use. Its description and body no longer scope the interview to a software plan: "this plan" → "this", "enact the plan" → "act on it", and "exploring the codebase" → "exploring the environment". The technique is unchanged; it now reads as a stress-test of any plan, decision, or idea.
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"mattpocock-skills": minor
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Reword how the **`prototype`** skill handles its artifacts around a single idea: **the prototype is a primary source**. Rather than being deleted once it's answered its question, the prototype is captured as runnable evidence on a throwaway branch (`prototype/<name>`) out of main, with a context pointer to it left on the implementation issue — so the main branch keeps only the validated decision while the exploration stays findable. The answer (verdict + question) is still captured durably in an issue/ADR/commit.
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"mattpocock-skills": patch
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Name the `/wayfinder` unit a **decision ticket**.
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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. The skill description and its opening line now introduce "decision ticket" (and say what makes it one), and the `ask-matt` / engineering README wayfinder blurbs and the docs page match — while "ticket" stays the everyday word once the term is established. `CONTEXT.md` records **Decision ticket** as a domain term so the "avoid: ticket" guidance no longer contradicts wayfinder's deliberate use of the word.
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{
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"name": "mattpocock",
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"owner": {
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"name": "Matt Pocock",
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"url": "https://www.aihero.dev"
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},
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"description": "Matt Pocock's skills for real engineering, as an installable Claude Code plugin.",
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"plugins": [
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{
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"name": "mattpocock-skills",
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"source": "./",
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"description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering — grilling, spec/ticket flows, TDD, code review, domain modelling and more.",
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"category": "engineering",
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"keywords": [
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"engineering",
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"skills",
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"tdd",
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"code-review",
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"grilling"
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]
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}
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{
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"name": "mattpocock-skills",
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"version": "1.2.0",
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"description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering — grilling, spec/ticket flows, TDD, code review, domain modelling and more. Plug-and-play, not vibe coding.",
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"author": {
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"name": "Matt Pocock",
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"url": "https://www.aihero.dev"
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},
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"homepage": "https://www.aihero.dev/s/skills-newsletter",
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"repository": "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills",
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"license": "MIT",
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"keywords": [
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"engineering",
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"skills",
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"tdd",
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"code-review",
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"grilling",
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"domain-modeling",
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"productivity"
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],
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"skills": [
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"./skills/engineering/ask-matt",
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"./skills/engineering/domain-modeling",
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# mattpocock-skills
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## 1.2.0
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### Minor Changes
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- [#551](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/551) [`697d4ce`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/697d4ce9742da558fd1ba6697c8e9775e2e302dd) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Add Codex metadata alongside each skill's Claude Code frontmatter so the set works in both harnesses without generated copies.
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- Add an `agents/openai.yaml` beside every `SKILL.md` with Codex UI metadata (`interface.display_name`, `interface.short_description`).
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- Mark every user-invoked skill with `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false`, the Codex analog of `disable-model-invocation: true`, so Codex excludes it from implicit invocation while explicit `$skill` invocation still works.
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- Document the dual-harness invocation model in `.agents/invocation.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and the promoted-bucket READMEs.
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- Add `AGENTS.md` as a symlink to `CLAUDE.md` so Codex reads the same repo instructions.
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- [#488](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/488) [`cdec9f6`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/cdec9f6eb24dbfe606e3ad9b3eb457ba09210b85) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Reword how the **`prototype`** skill handles its artifacts around a single idea: **the prototype is a primary source**. Rather than being deleted once it's answered its question, the prototype is captured as runnable evidence on a throwaway branch (`prototype/<name>`) out of main, with a context pointer to it left on the implementation issue — so the main branch keeps only the validated decision while the exploration stays findable. The answer (verdict + question) is still captured durably in an issue/ADR/commit.
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- [#536](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/536) [`42a5b70`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/42a5b70fcacc7baff1977b13f3919fb2f63af14e) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Ship the skill set as a native **Claude Code plugin**. The repo is now its own single-plugin marketplace, so you can subscribe to the promoted skills as a managed, read-only bundle instead of copying editable files:
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```
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/plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills
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/plugin install mattpocock-skills@mattpocock
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```
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`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` gains full marketplace metadata (version, description, author, license, keywords) and a sibling `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` lists the plugin. `skills.sh` remains the universal installer (and the path for Codex and other harnesses today); a native Codex plugin is deferred — see `.agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md` for why.
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- [#538](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/538) [`2602257`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/260225724133c4a204489599f04642aa089259a0) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Wayfinder now burns research tickets down with subagents instead of leaving them parked for a separately-launched session.
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Research stays a real ticket type — it's a genuine shared blocker that downstream decisions hang on, and that dependency is exactly what the frontier's blocking edges exist to render. What changes is how it's resolved: because research is AFK, charting doesn't stop and read it. After creating the tickets, the charting session fires a `/research` subagent for each research ticket to burn it down in parallel, capturing the findings on a throwaway `research/<name>` branch with a context pointer. Research tickets are the one exception to _one ticket per session_.
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- [#533](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/533) [`45afd80`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/45afd8074a8b7de5fe073845d080fa9dd6c429fa) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Add a YAGNI scoping filter to the **`improve-codebase-architecture`** skill's Explore step. Instead of scanning the whole repo evenly, it now scopes to where change is actually landing: if you name a direction it takes it, otherwise it reads 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 — the leverage only pays off where you keep editing — so the report stops tidying dormant corners of the repo.
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### Patch Changes
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- [#535](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/535) [`e74fee8`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/e74fee89feb6025a6a74f6282feb7d33b1b6e578) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Make `/ask-matt` clued-up about `/wayfinder` — the heaviest, most cognitively demanding flow.
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The router now sharpens the two routing mistakes people most often make with wayfinder:
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- **Over-reaching for it.** It's slower and denser than a single grill, so it's flagged as the heaviest flow and reserved for the idea that genuinely won't fit one session — a well-scoped feature belongs on `/grill-with-docs`, not here.
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- **Losing the way at the handoff.** When the map clears, wayfinder hands off, it doesn't build: merge onto the main flow at `/to-spec` (which collapses the map's linked decisions into a buildable plan) rather than looping the map straight into `/implement`. Straight-to-`/implement` is only for efforts that turned out genuinely small.
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- [#502](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/502) [`44eed54`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/44eed545186ffd0263e8004867750b80cfddd215) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Make `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` friendlier and align the local-markdown tracker with the current spec.
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- **Triage labels** are now asked about 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.
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- **External PRs as a request surface** is no longer a setup question. The GitHub/GitLab templates still carry the flag, defaulted off; a user can flip it in `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` later.
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- **Domain docs** default to single-context without asking; multi-context is only offered when the repo shows monorepo signals.
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- **Local-markdown tickets** are now one file per ticket under `.scratch/<feature>/issues/<NN>-<slug>.md` — never a single combined `tickets.md`. `/to-tickets` and the local issue-tracker template now agree, and the spec file is `spec.md` (not `PRD.md`) to match `/to-spec`.
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Docs pages for `setup-matt-pocock-skills` and `to-tickets` re-synced.
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- [#532](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/532) [`170ad48`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/170ad48655825783d0193e850e31a9aac957bb95) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Reword **`grilling`** for general use. Its description and body no longer scope the interview to a software plan: "this plan" → "this", "enact the plan" → "act on it", and "exploring the codebase" → "exploring the environment". The technique is unchanged; it now reads as a stress-test of any plan, decision, or idea.
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- [#534](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/534) [`7d694b7`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/7d694b7ae981ca221a8f759b15273fe7b5dc393e) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Name the `/wayfinder` unit a **decision ticket**.
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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. The skill description and its opening line now introduce "decision ticket" (and say what makes it one), and the `ask-matt` / engineering README wayfinder blurbs and the docs page match — while "ticket" stays the everyday word once the term is established. `CONTEXT.md` records **Decision ticket** as a domain term so the "avoid: ticket" guidance no longer contradicts wayfinder's deliberate use of the word.
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## 1.1.0
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### Minor Changes
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Every skill in `engineering/` or `productivity/` (the **promoted** buckets) must have a reference in the top-level `README.md` and an entry in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`. Skills in `misc/`, `personal/`, `in-progress/`, and `deprecated/` must not appear in either.
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Every skill in `engineering/` or `productivity/` (the **promoted** buckets) must have a reference in the top-level `README.md` and an entry in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`'s `skills` array (the Claude Code plugin ships exactly the promoted set). Skills in `misc/`, `personal/`, `in-progress/`, and `deprecated/` must not appear in either.
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The repo is also its own single-plugin Claude Code marketplace: `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` lists the one `mattpocock-skills` plugin. When bumping the release version, keep `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`'s `version` in sync with `package.json`'s — Claude uses the plugin `version` to decide when installed users see an update. Run `claude plugin validate . --strict` after touching either manifest. Why a Claude plugin but not (yet) a Codex one lives in [.agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md](./.agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md).
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Each skill entry in the top-level `README.md` must link the skill name to its `SKILL.md`.
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Skills in `engineering/` and `productivity/` also have a human-facing docs page at `docs/<bucket>/<skill-name>.md` (the docs tree mirrors those two bucket folders under `skills/`). The published URL is `https://aihero.dev/skills-<skill-name>` regardless of bucket — the docs path is repo organisation only. When you add, rename, or change the behaviour of a skill in `engineering/` or `productivity/`, create or re-sync its docs page following [.agents/writing-docs.md](./.agents/writing-docs.md). Skills in the non-promoted buckets (`misc/`, `personal/`, `in-progress/`, `deprecated/`) get **no** docs page.
|
||||
|
||||
Every `SKILL.md` is either user-invoked (`disable-model-invocation: true`, reachable only by the human) or model-invoked (model- or user-reachable). See [.agents/invocation.md](./.agents/invocation.md).
|
||||
Every `SKILL.md` is either user-invoked (`disable-model-invocation: true` plus `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` in `agents/openai.yaml`, reachable only by the human) or model-invoked (model- or user-reachable). See [.agents/invocation.md](./.agents/invocation.md).
|
||||
|
||||
[`ask-matt`](./skills/engineering/ask-matt/SKILL.md) is the router that maps every user-reachable skill and how they relate. The same trigger that re-syncs a docs page applies to it: whenever you add, rename, remove, or change how a user-reachable skill fits the flows, re-read `ask-matt`'s `SKILL.md` and update it so the map stays accurate — a new skill it never mentions, or a stale one it still routes to, is a router that lies.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -22,22 +22,64 @@ If you want to keep up with changes to these skills, and any new ones I create,
|
||||
|
||||
[Sign Up To The Newsletter](https://www.aihero.dev/s/skills-newsletter)
|
||||
|
||||
## Quickstart (30-second setup)
|
||||
## Installation (30-second setup)
|
||||
|
||||
1. Run the skills.sh installer:
|
||||
Two ways in, two philosophies. **The [Claude Code plugin](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins)** installs the whole set as a managed, read-only bundle that updates when I ship — you subscribe rather than fork. **[skills.sh](https://skills.sh/mattpocock/skills)** copies editable skill files into your project, so you can hack on them and make them your own. Pick one — installing both leaves you with every skill twice.
|
||||
|
||||
### 1. Get the skills
|
||||
|
||||
<details>
|
||||
<summary><strong>Claude Code</strong></summary>
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
claude plugins install mattpocock-skills
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Or, from inside a session:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
/plugin install mattpocock-skills
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It's in Claude Code's official marketplace, so there's nothing to add first, and updates arrive automatically.
|
||||
|
||||
</details>
|
||||
|
||||
<details>
|
||||
<summary><strong>Codex, and other agents</strong></summary>
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
2. Pick the skills you want, and which coding agents you want to install them on. **Make sure you select `/setup-matt-pocock-skills`**.
|
||||
Pick the skills you want, and which coding agents to install them on. **The installer lets you choose which skills to take — make sure `setup-matt-pocock-skills` is one of them.**
|
||||
|
||||
3. Run `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` in your agent. It will:
|
||||
- Ask you which issue tracker you want to use (GitHub, Linear, or local files)
|
||||
- Ask you what labels you apply to tickets when you triage them (`/triage` uses labels)
|
||||
- Ask you where you want to save any docs we create
|
||||
A native Codex plugin is on the roadmap — see [`.agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md`](./.agents/adr/0002-ship-as-a-claude-code-plugin.md).
|
||||
|
||||
4. Bam - you're ready to go.
|
||||
</details>
|
||||
|
||||
<details>
|
||||
<summary><strong>For tinkerers</strong></summary>
|
||||
|
||||
Use the same installer, on any agent — including Claude Code:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It writes the skills into your repo as ordinary files you own and can edit. Nothing updates behind your back; pull my latest changes when you want them with `npx skills update`.
|
||||
|
||||
</details>
|
||||
|
||||
### 2. Run `/setup-matt-pocock-skills`
|
||||
|
||||
In your agent, run it once per repo. It will:
|
||||
|
||||
- Ask you which issue tracker you want to use (GitHub, Linear, or local files)
|
||||
- Ask you what labels you apply to tickets when you triage them (`/triage` uses labels)
|
||||
- Ask you where you want to save any docs we create
|
||||
|
||||
### 3. Bam - you're ready to go.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why These Skills Exist
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -168,6 +210,7 @@ Skills I use daily for code work.
|
||||
- **[domain-modeling](./skills/engineering/domain-modeling/SKILL.md)** — Actively build and sharpen a project's domain model — challenge terms against the glossary, stress-test with edge-case scenarios, and update `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs inline.
|
||||
- **[codebase-design](./skills/engineering/codebase-design/SKILL.md)** — Shared discipline and vocabulary for designing deep modules: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface, placed at a clean seam, testable through that interface.
|
||||
- **[code-review](./skills/engineering/code-review/SKILL.md)** — Two-axis review of the diff since a fixed point: **Standards** (does it follow the repo's coding standards, plus a Fowler smell baseline?) and **Spec** (does it faithfully implement the originating issue/PRD?), run as parallel sub-agents so neither pollutes the other.
|
||||
- **[resolving-merge-conflicts](./skills/engineering/resolving-merge-conflicts/SKILL.md)** — Work through an in-progress git merge or rebase conflict hunk by hunk, resolving by intent traced to each side's primary source, then finish the operation — never `--abort`.
|
||||
|
||||
### Productivity
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ npx skills update improve-codebase-architecture
|
||||
|
||||
It does **not** hand you a flat list of refactors. Every candidate has to pass the **deletion test** — would removing this module *concentrate* complexity behind a smaller interface, or just move it around? Only the "concentrates" cases earn a card. That filter is what stops the report from becoming generic cleanup advice.
|
||||
|
||||
Unless you point it at a specific area, it also scopes itself to where development is actually landing — reading the recent commits to bias toward the code you're still changing. Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so it puts extra weight on the parts of the repo that have recently changed.
|
||||
|
||||
## When to reach for it
|
||||
|
||||
You invoke this by typing `/improve-codebase-architecture` — the agent won't reach for it on its own.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ The **map** is a single `wayfinder:map` issue whose tickets are its child issues
|
||||
|
||||
Beyond the live tickets lies the **fog of war** — decisions you can tell are coming but can't yet pin down. The test for whether something is a ticket or still fog is whether you can *state the question precisely now*, not whether you can answer it. Resolving a ticket clears the fog ahead of it, **graduating** whatever's now specifiable into fresh tickets. The **frontier** is the open, unblocked, unclaimed tickets — the edge of the known — and it's what the tracker's native blocking renders visually, so you see what's takeable without opening the map. Fog only gathers *toward* the **destination**; work past it is ruled **out of scope**, closed, never graduating.
|
||||
|
||||
Every ticket is **HITL** (human in the loop — grilling, prototype) or **AFK** (agent alone — research); a HITL ticket only resolves through a live exchange, so the agent never answers its own questions.
|
||||
Every ticket is **HITL** (human in the loop — grilling, prototype) or **AFK** (agent alone — research); a HITL ticket only resolves through a live exchange, so the agent never answers its own questions. Research stays a real ticket — a shared blocker downstream decisions hang on — but because it's AFK, a session doesn't stop and read: it fires a `/research` **subagent** to burn the ticket down in parallel, keeping the frontier fast, and captures the findings on a throwaway `research/<name>` branch.
|
||||
|
||||
## It's working if
|
||||
|
||||
- Naming the **destination** is the first act — before any ticket exists — because it fixes the scope every ticket is measured against.
|
||||
- One map is one `wayfinder:map` issue; tickets are its child issues, referred to by **name**, never a bare `#42`.
|
||||
- A session resolves **at most one ticket**, records the answer as a resolution comment, closes the ticket, and appends a one-line pointer to *Decisions so far*.
|
||||
- A session resolves **at most one ticket** (research tickets excepted), records the answer as a resolution comment, closes the ticket, and appends a one-line pointer to *Decisions so far*.
|
||||
- If the opening grill surfaces **no fog**, it stops and tells you the journey is small enough to skip the map.
|
||||
|
||||
## Where it fits
|
||||
|
||||
+1
-1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"name": "mattpocock-skills",
|
||||
"version": "1.1.0",
|
||||
"version": "1.2.0",
|
||||
"private": true,
|
||||
"description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering",
|
||||
"repository": {
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
|
||||
# Links all skills in the repository into the local skill directories used by
|
||||
# each agent harness:
|
||||
# - ~/.claude/skills — Claude Code
|
||||
# - ~/.agents/skills — pi and other Agent-Skills-standard harnesses
|
||||
# - ~/.agents/skills — Codex and other Agent Skills-compatible harnesses
|
||||
# Each entry is a symlink into this repo, so a `git pull` is all that's needed
|
||||
# to keep installed skills up to date.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Design an Interface"
|
||||
short_description: "Explore alternative module interfaces"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "QA"
|
||||
short_description: "Conversational QA that files issues"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Request Refactor Plan"
|
||||
short_description: "Plan a safe incremental refactor"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Ubiquitous Language"
|
||||
short_description: "Build a shared domain glossary"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Skills I use daily for code work.
|
||||
|
||||
## User-invoked
|
||||
|
||||
Reachable only when you type them (`disable-model-invocation: true`).
|
||||
Reachable only when you type them (Claude Code: `disable-model-invocation: true`; Codex: `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` in `agents/openai.yaml`).
|
||||
|
||||
- **[ask-matt](./ask-matt/SKILL.md)** — Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo.
|
||||
- **[grill-with-docs](./grill-with-docs/SKILL.md)** — Grilling session that also builds your project's domain model, sharpening terminology and updating `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs inline.
|
||||
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Reachable only when you type them (`disable-model-invocation: true`).
|
||||
- **[setup-matt-pocock-skills](./setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md)** — Configure this repo for the engineering skills (issue tracker, triage labels, domain doc layout). Run once per repo.
|
||||
- **[to-spec](./to-spec/SKILL.md)** — Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the issue tracker.
|
||||
- **[to-tickets](./to-tickets/SKILL.md)** — Break any plan, spec, or conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges — text in a local file, or native blocking links on a real tracker.
|
||||
- **[implement](./implement/SKILL.md)** — Build the work described by a spec or set of tickets, driving `/tdd` at pre-agreed seams and closing out with `/code-review` before committing.
|
||||
- **[wayfinder](./wayfinder/SKILL.md)** — Plan a huge chunk of work — more than one agent session can hold — as a shared map of decision tickets on the issue tracker, resolved one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.
|
||||
|
||||
## Model-invoked
|
||||
@@ -27,3 +28,4 @@ Model- or user-reachable (rich trigger phrasing so the model can reach for them)
|
||||
- **[domain-modeling](./domain-modeling/SKILL.md)** — Actively build and sharpen a project's domain model — challenge terms, stress-test with scenarios, update `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs inline.
|
||||
- **[codebase-design](./codebase-design/SKILL.md)** — Shared discipline and vocabulary for designing deep modules: small interfaces, clean seams, testable through the interface.
|
||||
- **[code-review](./code-review/SKILL.md)** — Two-axis review of the diff since a fixed point: **Standards** (does it follow the repo's coding standards, plus a Fowler smell baseline?) and **Spec** (does it faithfully implement the originating issue/PRD?), run as parallel sub-agents.
|
||||
- **[resolving-merge-conflicts](./resolving-merge-conflicts/SKILL.md)** — Work through an in-progress git merge or rebase conflict hunk by hunk, resolving by intent traced to each side's primary source, then finish the operation — never `--abort`.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Ask Matt"
|
||||
short_description: "Find the right skill or workflow"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Code Review"
|
||||
short_description: "Review a diff on standards and spec"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Codebase Design"
|
||||
short_description: "Vocabulary for deep-module design"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Diagnosing Bugs"
|
||||
short_description: "Diagnose hard bugs and regressions"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Domain Modeling"
|
||||
short_description: "Build and sharpen a domain model"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Grill with Docs"
|
||||
short_description: "Grill a design and write its docs"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Implement"
|
||||
short_description: "Build work from a spec or tickets"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ This command is _informed_ by the project's domain model and built on a shared d
|
||||
|
||||
### 1. Explore
|
||||
|
||||
**Scope before you scan — YAGNI.** Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so put extra weight on the parts of the codebase that have recently changed. Decide *where* to look before you look:
|
||||
|
||||
- If the user named a direction — a module, a subsystem, a pain point — take it, and skip the inference below.
|
||||
- Otherwise, walk back a good stretch of the commit history (`git log --oneline`) to find the codebase's hot spots — the files and areas that keep coming up — and let those paths pull your attention first. If the changes are scattered with no clear hot spot, widen the net.
|
||||
|
||||
Read the project's domain glossary (`CONTEXT.md`) and any ADRs in the area you're touching first.
|
||||
|
||||
Then use the Agent tool with `subagent_type=Explore` to walk the codebase. Don't follow rigid heuristics — explore organically and note where you experience friction:
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Improve Codebase Architecture"
|
||||
short_description: "Find and grill architecture improvements"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Prototype"
|
||||
short_description: "Prototype to answer a design question"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Research"
|
||||
short_description: "Research from high-trust sources"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Resolving Merge Conflicts"
|
||||
short_description: "Resolve merge and rebase conflicts"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Setup Matt Pocock Skills"
|
||||
short_description: "Configure a repo for the skills"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "TDD"
|
||||
short_description: "Test-driven red-green-refactor"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "To Spec"
|
||||
short_description: "Turn a conversation into a spec"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -103,5 +103,3 @@ The end-to-end behaviour this ticket makes work, from the user's perspective —
|
||||
</issue-template>
|
||||
|
||||
In either form, avoid specific file paths or code snippets — they go stale fast. Exception: if a prototype produced a snippet that encodes a decision more precisely than prose can (state machine, reducer, schema, type shape), inline it and note briefly that it came from a prototype. Trim to the decision-rich parts — not a working demo, just the important bits.
|
||||
|
||||
Work the frontier one ticket at a time with `/implement`, clearing context between tickets.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "To Tickets"
|
||||
short_description: "Split a plan into tracer-bullet tickets"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Triage"
|
||||
short_description: "Move issues through triage roles"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The answer isn't part of the body — it's recorded on resolution (see [Work thr
|
||||
|
||||
Every ticket is either **HITL** — human in the loop, worked *with* a human who speaks for themselves — or **AFK**, driven by the agent alone. A HITL ticket only resolves through that live exchange; the agent never stands in for the human's side of it (a grilling agent that answers its own questions has broken this).
|
||||
|
||||
- **Research** (AFK): Reading documentation, third-party APIs, or local resources like knowledge bases. Creates a markdown summary as a linked asset. Use when knowledge outside the current working directory is required.
|
||||
- **Research** (AFK): Reading documentation, third-party APIs, or local resources like knowledge bases to surface a fact a decision waits on. Resolved by a `/research` **subagent**. Use when knowledge outside the current working directory is required.
|
||||
- **Prototype** (HITL): Raise the fidelity of the discussion by making a cheap, rough, concrete artifact to react to — an outline, a rough take, a stub, or UI/logic code via the /prototype skill. Links the prototype as an asset. Use when "how should it look" or "how should it behave" is the key question.
|
||||
- **Grilling** (HITL): Conversation via the /grilling and /domain-modeling skills, one question at a time. The default case.
|
||||
- **Task** (HITL or AFK): Manual work that must happen before a *decision* can be made — nothing to decide, prototype, or research, but the discussion is blocked until it's done. Signing up for a service so its API can be judged, provisioning access, moving data so its shape can be seen. This is the one type that *does* rather than decides — and it earns its place by unblocking a decision, not by delivering the destination. The agent drives it alone where it can (AFK); otherwise it hands the human a precise checklist (HITL). Resolved when the work is done; the answer records what was done and any resulting facts (credentials location, new URLs, row counts) later tickets depend on.
|
||||
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Ruling something out of scope is a scoping act, not a step on the route. When a
|
||||
|
||||
## Invocation
|
||||
|
||||
Two modes. Either way, **never resolve more than one ticket per session.**
|
||||
Two modes. Either way, **never resolve more than one ticket per session** — with the exception of research tickets.
|
||||
|
||||
### Chart the map
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ User invokes with a loose idea.
|
||||
2. **Map the frontier.** Grill again, **breadth-first** this time: fan out across the whole space rather than deep on any one thread, surfacing the open decisions and the first steps takeable now. **If this surfaces no fog** — the way to the destination is already clear, the whole journey small enough for one session — you don't need a map. Stop and ask the user how they'd like to proceed.
|
||||
3. **Create the map** (label `wayfinder:map`): Destination and Notes filled in, Decisions-so-far empty, the fog sketched into **Not yet specified**.
|
||||
4. **Create the tickets you can specify now** as child issues of the map — then wire blocking edges in a **second pass** (issues need ids before they can reference each other). Wiring sorts them into the frontier and the blocked; everything you can't yet specify stays in the fog — the **Not yet specified** section.
|
||||
5. Stop — charting the map is one session's work; do not also resolve tickets.
|
||||
5. **Fire the research subagents.** For each `research` ticket you just created, spin up a `/research` subagent to resolve it in parallel, capturing its findings on a throwaway `research/<name>` branch with a context pointer from the ticket.
|
||||
6. Stop — charting is one session's work; it hand-resolves nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
### Work through the map
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Wayfinder"
|
||||
short_description: "Map a large effort as decision tickets"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ Skills that are still being developed. They're not ready to ship — expect roug
|
||||
- **[writing-shape](./writing-shape/SKILL.md)** — Take a markdown file of raw material and shape it into an article paragraph by paragraph, arguing format choices at each step.
|
||||
- **[claude-handoff](./claude-handoff/SKILL.md)** — Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately, seeded with a handoff summary via `claude --bg`. User-invoked.
|
||||
- **[setup-ts-deep-modules](./setup-ts-deep-modules/SKILL.md)** — Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module — implementation hidden in subfolders, reachable only through its entry-point files, tests exercising it through those. User-invoked.
|
||||
- **[to-questionnaire](./to-questionnaire/SKILL.md)** — Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a Markdown questionnaire for someone else to fill in async, or over a meeting. It grills you about the send (who it's for, what you need back), not the subject. User-invoked.
|
||||
- **[batch-grill-me](./batch-grill-me/SKILL.md)** — Relentless interview that walks the design tree in rounds instead of one question at a time — each round asks the whole frontier of decisions whose prerequisites are already settled, then recomputes from your answers. User-invoked.
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---
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name: batch-grill-me
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description: A relentless interview that asks every frontier question at once, round by round.
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disable-model-invocation: true
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---
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Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.
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Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask *now* without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.
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Each round the user answers reshapes the tree — settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a *later* round, not this one.
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Finding *facts* is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it — don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report — ask the rest of the frontier now. The *decisions* are the user's — put each to them and wait.
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The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.
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interface:
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display_name: "Batch Grill Me"
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short_description: "Sharpen a plan a round of questions at a time"
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policy:
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allow_implicit_invocation: false
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interface:
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display_name: "Claude Handoff"
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short_description: "Hand off to a background agent"
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policy:
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allow_implicit_invocation: false
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interface:
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display_name: "Loop Me"
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short_description: "Spec the workflows you want to build"
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policy:
|
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allow_implicit_invocation: false
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interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Setup TS Deep Modules"
|
||||
short_description: "Enforce deep TypeScript modules"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
name: to-questionnaire
|
||||
description: Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
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||||
disable-model-invocation: true
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Turn something the user can't answer alone into a **questionnaire** — a Markdown document they hand to one person to fill in async, or fill out together over a meeting. The recipient holds knowledge the user lacks; the questionnaire pulls it out of them.
|
||||
|
||||
**Grill the send, not the subject.** Interview the user only about the _send_, which they can always answer: who it goes to, and what they need back. The questions in the document then target the **gap** between what the recipient knows and what the user needs.
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Who is it going to?** Ask, in one exchange, the recipient's role, expertise, and relationship to the user. This fixes the questionnaire's tone and how much context it must carry. Done when you know who the recipient is and what they know that the user doesn't.
|
||||
|
||||
2. **What do you need back?** Ask, in one exchange, the specific decisions or facts the user can't resolve alone and needs from this person. Done when you have a concrete list of what the user must walk away able to do or decide.
|
||||
|
||||
3. **Write the questionnaire.** Draft questions aimed at the gap from steps 1–2, following the Document structure below. Write it to `to-questionnaire-<slug>.md` in the current directory (slug from the topic) and report the path. Done when the file exists and every item the user named in step 2 is covered by a question.
|
||||
|
||||
## Document structure
|
||||
|
||||
Frame the document as a **discovery questionnaire**: the user lacks context, the recipient holds it. Order questions most-important-first — async means you may only get one pass — and group them under `##` headings by theme once there are more than a handful. Write it using the template below.
|
||||
|
||||
<questionnaire-template>
|
||||
|
||||
# <Questionnaire title>
|
||||
|
||||
**Purpose:** why this questionnaire exists and the decision riding on it.
|
||||
|
||||
**From:** <the user> — **To:** <the recipient> — **How your answers will be used:** <where they go>
|
||||
|
||||
## Context
|
||||
|
||||
One paragraph orienting a recipient who wasn't in the user's head. Enough to answer well, not a page.
|
||||
|
||||
## How to answer
|
||||
|
||||
Deadline and rough effort. Partial answers and "I don't know" are useful — flag anything you're unsure of rather than skipping it.
|
||||
|
||||
## <Theme heading>
|
||||
|
||||
One `##` section per theme. Under each, its questions, most-important-first. Every question is one idea — never compound — with an answer stub directly beneath, and a one-line _why this matters_ only where the question could be misread or invite a throwaway answer.
|
||||
|
||||
<question-example>
|
||||
### What load is the system expected to handle at launch?
|
||||
|
||||
_Why this matters: it decides whether we provision for burst traffic now or defer it._
|
||||
|
||||
>
|
||||
</question-example>
|
||||
|
||||
## Anything else?
|
||||
|
||||
A closing catch-all: anything we didn't ask that we should know?
|
||||
|
||||
</questionnaire-template>
|
||||
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|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "To Questionnaire"
|
||||
short_description: "Front-load questions into a doc for someone to answer"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
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|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Wizard"
|
||||
short_description: "Generate an interactive setup wizard"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Writing Beats"
|
||||
short_description: "Assemble raw material into beats"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Writing Fragments"
|
||||
short_description: "Mine raw writing fragments"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Writing Shape"
|
||||
short_description: "Shape raw material into an article"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Git Guardrails for Claude Code"
|
||||
short_description: "Block dangerous git commands"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Migrate to Shoehorn"
|
||||
short_description: "Replace test assertions with shoehorn"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Scaffold Exercises"
|
||||
short_description: "Scaffold lint-ready course exercises"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Setup Pre-Commit"
|
||||
short_description: "Add pre-commit quality checks"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Edit Article"
|
||||
short_description: "Restructure and tighten a draft"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Obsidian Vault"
|
||||
short_description: "Manage linked notes in Obsidian"
|
||||
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ General workflow tools, not code-specific.
|
||||
|
||||
## User-invoked
|
||||
|
||||
Reachable only when you type them (`disable-model-invocation: true`).
|
||||
Reachable only when you type them (Claude Code: `disable-model-invocation: true`; Codex: `policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false` in `agents/openai.yaml`).
|
||||
|
||||
- **[grill-me](./grill-me/SKILL.md)** — Get relentlessly interviewed about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved.
|
||||
- **[handoff](./handoff/SKILL.md)** — Compact the current conversation into a handoff document so another agent can continue the work.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Grill Me"
|
||||
short_description: "Sharpen a plan through interview"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Grilling"
|
||||
short_description: "Stress-test thinking one question at a time"
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Handoff"
|
||||
short_description: "Compact a conversation into a handoff"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Teach"
|
||||
short_description: "Learn a concept in a guided workspace"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
interface:
|
||||
display_name: "Writing Great Skills"
|
||||
short_description: "Principles for predictable skills"
|
||||
policy:
|
||||
allow_implicit_invocation: false
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user