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- Introduced TDD skills including deep modules, interface design, mocking, refactoring, and testing guidelines. - Added skills for breaking plans into GitHub issues and creating PRDs from conversation context. - Implemented productivity skills for scaffolding exercises, setting up pre-commit hooks, and managing notes in Obsidian. - Created a caveman communication mode for concise technical responses and a grilling technique for thorough plan discussions. - Developed a skill for writing new agent skills with structured templates and guidelines. - Included git guardrails to prevent dangerous git commands and a migration guide for using @total-typescript/shoehorn in tests.
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# Agent Skills For Real Engineers
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My agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering - not vibe coding.
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If you want to keep up with changes to these skills, and any new ones I create, you can join ~60,000 other devs on my newsletter:
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[Sign Up To The Newsletter](https://www.aihero.dev/s/skills-newsletter)
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## Engineering
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Skills I use daily for code work.
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- **diagnose** — Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions: reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/diagnose
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- **domain-model** — Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs inline.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/domain-model
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- **github-triage** — Triage GitHub issues through a label-based state machine.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/github-triage
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- **improve-codebase-architecture** — Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in `CONTEXT.md` and the decisions in `docs/adr/`.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/improve-codebase-architecture
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- **tdd** — Test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop. Builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/tdd
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- **to-issues** — Break any plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/to-issues
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- **to-prd** — Turn the current conversation context into a PRD and submit it as a GitHub issue. No interview — just synthesizes what you've already discussed.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/to-prd
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- **zoom-out** — Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher-level perspective on an unfamiliar section of code.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/zoom-out
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## Productivity
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General workflow tools, not code-specific.
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- **caveman** — Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping filler while keeping full technical accuracy.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/caveman
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- **grill-me** — Get relentlessly interviewed about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/grill-me
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- **write-a-skill** — Create new skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/write-a-skill
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## Misc
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Tools I keep around but rarely use.
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- **git-guardrails-claude-code** — Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, etc.) before they execute.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/git-guardrails-claude-code
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- **migrate-to-shoehorn** — Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/migrate-to-shoehorn
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- **scaffold-exercises** — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/scaffold-exercises
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- **setup-pre-commit** — Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged, Prettier, type checking, and tests.
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npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/setup-pre-commit
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