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Matt PocockandGitHub 7a83a3a682 Merge pull request #412 from mattpocock/rename-decision-mapping-to-wayfinding
Rename decision-mapping skill to wayfinder
2026-07-01 19:51:33 +01:00
Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 de7f02e2b1 refactor(wayfinder): neutralize intro, drop persona framing
Remove the "You are the Wayfinder" second-person persona from the intro,
description, and README so the agent doesn't adopt a persona. Keep the
leading-word frame (chart / fog / frontier / map); wayfinder stays only as
the skill/invocation name.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 19:51:05 +01:00
Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 01f0b7e11a refactor(wayfinder): invoke as /wayfinder, not /wayfinding
The persona is the Wayfinder; the invocation should match. Rename the
folder and skill name to wayfinder and update the invocation examples,
README link, and changeset. "wayfinding" stays only as the activity noun.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 19:48:33 +01:00
Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 4027ea6afd refactor(decision-mapping): rename to wayfinding
Reframe the planning skill around the Wayfinder persona — chart a route
through a foggy problem, resolving tickets one at a time until the way to
the goal is clear. "Decision map" was jargony and inaccurate (only 1 of 4
ticket types is a decision).

Rename the folder and skill name, rewrite the description and framing, and
prune: unify node->ticket, bind "frontier" to the unblocked set, drop the
duplicated "one question at a time" (owned by /grilling), trim intro no-ops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 19:47:01 +01:00
Matt PocockandGitHub b38badf709 Merge pull request #408 from mattpocock/chore/implement-public-skill
chore: add implement skill to public plugin set
2026-07-01 16:30:41 +01:00
Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 b3b1d8d1fd chore: add implement skill to public plugin set
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 16:26:13 +01:00
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Bring the **`ask-matt`** router up to date with the full skill set. It now maps five skills it was missing: **`tdd`** (woven into the main flow as the red-green engine `implement` drives), **`diagnosing-bugs`** (a new "Something's broken" on-ramp — there was previously no route for a bug), **`domain-modeling`** and **`codebase-design`** (a new "Vocabulary underneath" section), and **`grilling`** (the shared interview primitive). `prototype` is fleshed out as a standalone and the description broadens from "user-invoked skills" to "the skills". A maintenance rule is added to `CLAUDE.md` so any future skill add/rename/remove or flow change triggers an `ask-matt` re-check, beside the existing docs-page re-sync rule.
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"mattpocock-skills": minor
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Rename the in-progress **`review`** skill to **`code-review`** and promote it from `in-progress/` to the `engineering/` bucket. It now ships in the plugin, is listed in the top-level and Engineering READMEs (Model-invoked), and has a human-facing docs page at `docs/engineering/code-review.md`. The `/implement` skill and docs now point at `/code-review`.
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"mattpocock-skills": minor
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Add a fourth **Task** ticket type to the **`decision-mapping`** skill. Some blockers are neither a decision, a prototype, nor research — just literal manual work that has to happen before the discussion can move forward (moving data, signing up for a third-party service, provisioning access). The agent automates it where it can, otherwise hands the human a precise checklist, and records any resulting facts later tickets depend on.
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"mattpocock-skills": minor
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Make the **`prototype`** skill model-invoked, so the agent can reach for it autonomously (and other skills can too). Its description is rewritten around the leading word _prototype_ — throwaway code that answers a design question — with one trigger per branch (state/logic sanity-check, or UI exploration).
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"mattpocock-skills": patch
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Give the in-progress **`code-review`** skill an always-on Fowler smell baseline on its Standards axis. A curated ~12 high-signal "Bad Smells in Code" (Mysterious Name, Duplicated Code, Feature Envy, Data Clumps, Primitive Obsession, Repeated Switches, Shotgun Surgery, Divergent Change, Speculative Generality, Message Chains, Middle Man, Refused Bequest) are inlined into `SKILL.md` as a fixed baseline alongside whatever the repo documents — not a new third axis. Two binding rules keep it safe: a documented repo standard overrides the baseline, and every smell is reported as a judgement call, never a hard violation.
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Reshape the `tdd` skill into reference-only. The red → green → refactor loop is anchored by leading words the model already holds, so the step-by-step Workflow was largely restating the loop and duplicating the horizontal-slicing anti-pattern. Dropped the Workflow and per-cycle checklist; folded their one durable idea — vertical slices / tracer bullets — into the Anti-patterns section and a short Rules-of-the-loop list. Introduced **seam** as the leading word for where tests go, collapsing the old Philosophy "public interfaces" prose and the Planning "confirm interface / behaviors" handshake into one rule: test only at pre-agreed seams, confirmed with the user before any test is written.
Also dropped the refactor stage — TDD is now red → green, not red → green → refactor. Refactoring belongs to the review stage, not the implementation loop, so the refactor rule and `refactoring.md` were removed (its home is the `review` skill).
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Add the **tautological test** anti-pattern to the `tdd` skill. Tests whose assertion is recomputed the way the code computes it pass by construction and give zero confidence — distinct from the implementation-coupling anti-pattern already covered. Added as a peer at the same three sites: a Philosophy principle (expected values must come from an independent source of truth), a per-cycle checklist gate, and a BAD/GOOD example pair in `tests.md`.
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Extend the **`triage`** skill to triage external pull requests, treating a PR as an issue with attached code that runs through the same roles and state machine. PRs flow inline alongside issues (gated by a per-repo setup toggle), discovery surfaces only external PRs, the bug-only "reproduce" step is generalized into a single "verify the claim" step, and a redundancy check resolves already-implemented requests to `wontfix` without polluting the out-of-scope knowledge base. `setup-matt-pocock-skills` gains the PRs-as-a-request-surface toggle for GitHub/GitLab.
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"./skills/engineering/tdd", "./skills/engineering/tdd",
"./skills/engineering/to-issues", "./skills/engineering/to-issues",
"./skills/engineering/to-prd", "./skills/engineering/to-prd",
"./skills/engineering/implement",
"./skills/engineering/prototype", "./skills/engineering/prototype",
"./skills/engineering/domain-modeling", "./skills/engineering/domain-modeling",
"./skills/engineering/codebase-design", "./skills/engineering/codebase-design",
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# mattpocock-skills # mattpocock-skills
## 1.1.0
### Minor Changes
- [#406](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/406) [`930a450`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/930a450089f77a49af09001d955db8452a4b867d) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Bring the **`ask-matt`** router up to date with the full skill set. It now maps five skills it was missing: **`tdd`** (woven into the main flow as the red-green engine `implement` drives), **`diagnosing-bugs`** (a new "Something's broken" on-ramp — there was previously no route for a bug), **`domain-modeling`** and **`codebase-design`** (a new "Vocabulary underneath" section), and **`grilling`** (the shared interview primitive). `prototype` is fleshed out as a standalone and the description broadens from "user-invoked skills" to "the skills". A maintenance rule is added to `CLAUDE.md` so any future skill add/rename/remove or flow change triggers an `ask-matt` re-check, beside the existing docs-page re-sync rule.
- [#405](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/405) [`14c13c5`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/14c13c5bf9ec1bee9926c0c1f388534f0b9ab8e8) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Rename the in-progress **`review`** skill to **`code-review`** and promote it from `in-progress/` to the `engineering/` bucket. It now ships in the plugin, is listed in the top-level and Engineering READMEs (Model-invoked), and has a human-facing docs page at `docs/engineering/code-review.md`. The `/implement` skill and docs now point at `/code-review`.
- [#401](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/401) [`64d9f3d`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/64d9f3d49ec04c30d60e57df39225808c2dbfae3) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Add a fourth **Task** ticket type to the **`decision-mapping`** skill. Some blockers are neither a decision, a prototype, nor research — just literal manual work that has to happen before the discussion can move forward (moving data, signing up for a third-party service, provisioning access). The agent automates it where it can, otherwise hands the human a precise checklist, and records any resulting facts later tickets depend on.
- [`850873c`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/850873cd73d5f81826ebf512ad35d2b1e113001f) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Make the **`prototype`** skill model-invoked, so the agent can reach for it autonomously (and other skills can too). Its description is rewritten around the leading word _prototype_ — throwaway code that answers a design question — with one trigger per branch (state/logic sanity-check, or UI exploration).
- [#412](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/412) [`4027ea6`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/4027ea6afdd329aefb6671ab9f2bc12482fb6d76) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Rename the **`decision-mapping`** skill to **`wayfinder`**, invoked as `/wayfinder`.
"Decision map" was jargony and inaccurate — only one of the skill's four ticket types (Grilling) is actually a decision. The reframe charts a route through a foggy problem, resolving investigation tickets one at a time until the way to the goal is clear. This makes one coherent leading-word frame (fog of war / frontier / the map) instead of mixing an invented term on top of it.
Also a pruning pass: unified `node``ticket`, bound "the frontier" to the unblocked tickets, dropped the duplicated "one question at a time" (owned by `/grilling`), and trimmed intro no-ops.
### Patch Changes
- [#394](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/394) [`7a4c756`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/7a4c7561d4d8d866a9ae6e0073648ac94785ac8a) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Give the in-progress **`code-review`** skill an always-on Fowler smell baseline on its Standards axis. A curated ~12 high-signal "Bad Smells in Code" (Mysterious Name, Duplicated Code, Feature Envy, Data Clumps, Primitive Obsession, Repeated Switches, Shotgun Surgery, Divergent Change, Speculative Generality, Message Chains, Middle Man, Refused Bequest) are inlined into `SKILL.md` as a fixed baseline alongside whatever the repo documents — not a new third axis. Two binding rules keep it safe: a documented repo standard overrides the baseline, and every smell is reported as a judgement call, never a hard violation.
- [#393](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/393) [`e81f976`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/e81f97660af0bebfdbf2e23db6a71f7dfcb9a659) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Reshape the `tdd` skill into reference-only. The red → green → refactor loop is anchored by leading words the model already holds, so the step-by-step Workflow was largely restating the loop and duplicating the horizontal-slicing anti-pattern. Dropped the Workflow and per-cycle checklist; folded their one durable idea — vertical slices / tracer bullets — into the Anti-patterns section and a short Rules-of-the-loop list. Introduced **seam** as the leading word for where tests go, collapsing the old Philosophy "public interfaces" prose and the Planning "confirm interface / behaviors" handshake into one rule: test only at pre-agreed seams, confirmed with the user before any test is written.
Also dropped the refactor stage — TDD is now red → green, not red → green → refactor. Refactoring belongs to the review stage, not the implementation loop, so the refactor rule and `refactoring.md` were removed (its home is the `review` skill).
- [`43ea088`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/43ea0884b07a3e67a5a07f025ce92aefa983177b) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Add the **tautological test** anti-pattern to the `tdd` skill. Tests whose assertion is recomputed the way the code computes it pass by construction and give zero confidence — distinct from the implementation-coupling anti-pattern already covered. Added as a peer at the same three sites: a Philosophy principle (expected values must come from an independent source of truth), a per-cycle checklist gate, and a BAD/GOOD example pair in `tests.md`.
- [`e00eadb`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/e00eadb4bb32c3d5a631ead1a5ed5d6a7c5f74e2) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Extend the **`triage`** skill to triage external pull requests, treating a PR as an issue with attached code that runs through the same roles and state machine. PRs flow inline alongside issues (gated by a per-repo setup toggle), discovery surfaces only external PRs, the bug-only "reproduce" step is generalized into a single "verify the claim" step, and a redundancy check resolves already-implemented requests to `wontfix` without polluting the out-of-scope knowledge base. `setup-matt-pocock-skills` gains the PRs-as-a-request-surface toggle for GitHub/GitLab.
## 1.0.1 ## 1.0.1
### Patch Changes ### Patch Changes
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"name": "mattpocock-skills", "name": "mattpocock-skills",
"version": "1.0.1", "version": "1.1.0",
"private": true, "private": true,
"description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering", "description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering",
"repository": { "repository": {
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Skills that are still being developed. They're not ready to ship — expect rough edges, breaking changes, and abandoned experiments. They're excluded from the plugin and the top-level README until they graduate to a stable bucket. Skills that are still being developed. They're not ready to ship — expect rough edges, breaking changes, and abandoned experiments. They're excluded from the plugin and the top-level README until they graduate to a stable bucket.
- **[decision-mapping](./decision-mapping/SKILL.md)** — Turn a loose idea into a sequenced map of investigation tickets, then drive them to resolution one at a time. User-invoked. - **[wayfinder](./wayfinder/SKILL.md)** — Chart a route through a foggy problem — turn a loose idea into a map of investigation tickets and resolve them one at a time until the way to the goal is clear. User-invoked.
- **[loop-me](./loop-me/SKILL.md)** — Grill yourself into implementable workflow specs over multiple sessions, using the current directory as a stateful workspace. User-invoked. - **[loop-me](./loop-me/SKILL.md)** — Grill yourself into implementable workflow specs over multiple sessions, using the current directory as a stateful workspace. User-invoked.
- **[wizard](./wizard/SKILL.md)** — Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through a manual procedure (setup, a one-off migration, a state transition) — opening URLs, capturing values, writing `.env` and GitHub Actions secrets. User-invoked. - **[wizard](./wizard/SKILL.md)** — Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through a manual procedure (setup, a one-off migration, a state transition) — opening URLs, capturing values, writing `.env` and GitHub Actions secrets. User-invoked.
- **[writing-beats](./writing-beats/SKILL.md)** — Shape an article as a journey of beats, choose-your-own-adventure style. Pick a starting beat, write only that beat, then pivot to the next, until the article reaches a natural end. - **[writing-beats](./writing-beats/SKILL.md)** — Shape an article as a journey of beats, choose-your-own-adventure style. Pick a starting beat, write only that beat, then pivot to the next, until the article reaches a natural end.
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name: decision-mapping name: wayfinder
description: Turn a loose idea into a sequenced map of investigation tickets, then drive them to resolution one at a time. description: Chart a route through a foggy problem — turn a loose idea into a map of investigation tickets and resolve them one at a time until the way to the goal is clear.
disable-model-invocation: true disable-model-invocation: true
--- ---
This skill is invoked when a loose idea requires more than one agent session to turn into a plan. It creates a stateful decision map in a markdown file, and drives the user through a sequence of tickets to resolve the open questions - which may require either prototyping, research or grilling. The map is domain-agnostic: it plans engineering work, course content, or anything else that fits the same shape. A loose idea has arrived — too big for one agent session, and wrapped in fog: the route from here to a plan isn't visible yet. This skill charts it: stand up a map, then work its tickets one at a time until the way to the goal is clear. The map is domain-agnostic engineering work, course content, whatever fits the shape.
## The Decision Map ## The Map
The decision map is a single compact Markdown file, one per planning effort, git-tracked alongside the project. It is the canonical artifact — the **whole map is loaded as context into every session**, so it must stay compact. The map is a single compact Markdown file, one per wayfinding effort, git-tracked alongside the project. It is the canonical artifact — the **whole map is loaded as context into every session**, so it must stay compact.
Assets created during tickets should be linked to from the map, not duplicated within it. Assets created during tickets should be linked to from the map, not duplicated within it.
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## Fog of war ## Fog of war
The map is _deliberately_ incomplete beyond the frontier. Your job is to investigate the frontier, and to resolve tickets in order to push the frontier forward. Push back the fog of war, one node at a time until the path to the finish line is clear and no tickets remain. The map is _deliberately_ incomplete beyond the frontier — don't chart what you can't yet see. The frontier is the unblocked tickets at the edge of the known; resolve them to push it forward. Push back the fog of war one ticket at a time, until the way to the goal is clear and no tickets remain.
## Invocation ## Invocation
Two branches. Either way, **every session ends with a [Handoff](#handoff)** — never resolve more than one ticket per session. Two branches. Either way, **every session ends with a [Handoff](#handoff)** — never resolve more than one ticket per session.
### Create the map ### Chart the map
User invokes with a loose idea. User invokes with a loose idea.
1. Run a `/grilling` and `/domain-modeling` session to surface the open decisions. Ask one question at a time. 1. Run a `/grilling` and `/domain-modeling` session to surface the open decisions.
2. Write a new decision map — mostly fog, frontier identified, trivially-decidable entries resolved inline. 2. Write a new map — mostly fog, frontier identified, trivially-decidable entries resolved inline.
3. Handoff. Map-building is one session's work; do not also resolve tickets. 3. Handoff. Charting the map is one session's work; do not also resolve tickets.
### Work through the map ### Work through the map
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2. Choose the ticket. If the user named one, use it. Otherwise pick the first `open` ticket in document order that is [unblocked](#structure). [Claim it](#structure): set `Status: in-progress` and save before any work. 2. Choose the ticket. If the user named one, use it. Otherwise pick the first `open` ticket in document order that is [unblocked](#structure). [Claim it](#structure): set `Status: in-progress` and save before any work.
3. Resolve it, invoking skills as needed — including any the `## Notes` block names. If in doubt, use `/grilling` and `/domain-modeling`. 3. Resolve it, invoking skills as needed — including any the `## Notes` block names. If in doubt, use `/grilling` and `/domain-modeling`.
4. Record the answer in the ticket's body and set `Status: resolved`. 4. Record the answer in the ticket's body and set `Status: resolved`.
5. Add newly-discovered tickets with correct `Blocked by` edges. If the decisions made invalidate other parts of the map, update or delete those nodes. 5. Add newly-discovered tickets with correct `Blocked by` edges. If the decisions made invalidate other parts of the map, update or delete those tickets.
6. Handoff. 6. Handoff.
The user may run unblocked tickets in parallel, so expect other agents to be editing the map in their own sessions. The user may run unblocked tickets in parallel, so expect other agents to be editing the map in their own sessions.
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> >
> **One session** — resolves the next unblocked ticket: > **One session** — resolves the next unblocked ticket:
> ``` > ```
> Invoke /decision-mapping with the map at <path>. > Invoke /wayfinder with the map at <path>.
> ``` > ```
> >
> **Parallel** — paste one line per window, up to all 3: > **Parallel** — paste one line per window, up to all 3:
> ``` > ```
> Invoke /decision-mapping with the map at <path>, ticket auth-strategy. > Invoke /wayfinder with the map at <path>, ticket auth-strategy.
> Invoke /decision-mapping with the map at <path>, ticket cache-layer. > Invoke /wayfinder with the map at <path>, ticket cache-layer.
> Invoke /decision-mapping with the map at <path>, ticket rate-limits. > Invoke /wayfinder with the map at <path>, ticket rate-limits.
> ``` > ```
**No open tickets remain.** The fog is pushed back far enough that the path to the finish line is clear — the map is done. (The initial grilling may also surface no fog at all, in which case there was never a map to build.) Recommend implementing directly, or using `/to-prd` to schedule a multi-session implementation. **No open tickets remain.** The fog is pushed back far enough that the way to the goal is clear — the map is done. (The initial grilling may also surface no fog at all, in which case there was never a map to chart.) Recommend implementing directly, or using `/to-prd` to schedule a multi-session implementation.
## Notes ## Notes
An optional block declaring the **domain**, any skills every session should `consult`, and freeform standing preferences the planning surfaces. An optional block declaring the **domain**, any skills every session should `consult`, and freeform standing preferences for this effort.