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Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 6f9e9956fd wayfinder: claim by assigning the ticket, not a label
A session now claims a ticket by assigning it to the dev driving the
map, rather than setting a `wayfinder:claimed` label. The assignee is
the claim; an open, unassigned ticket is unclaimed. Reads more naturally
in the tracker's own UI and frees the label vocabulary to
`wayfinder:<type>` alone.

Updates the GitHub and GitLab tracker-operations docs to the assignee
mechanism (`--add-assignee @me` / `--assignee @me`). The local-markdown
tracker keeps its `Status: claimed` line — a file store has no assignee.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Engineering

Skills I use daily for code work.

User-invoked

Reachable only when you type them (disable-model-invocation: true).

  • ask-matt — Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo.
  • grill-with-docs — Grilling session that also builds your project's domain model, sharpening terminology and updating CONTEXT.md and ADRs inline.
  • triage — Move issues through a state machine of triage roles.
  • improve-codebase-architecture — Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
  • setup-matt-pocock-skills — Configure this repo for the engineering skills (issue tracker, triage labels, domain doc layout). Run once per repo.
  • to-issues — Break any plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable issues using vertical slices.
  • to-prd — Turn the current conversation into a PRD and publish it to the issue tracker.

Model-invoked

Model- or user-reachable (rich trigger phrasing so the model can reach for them).

  • prototype — Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question: a runnable terminal app for state/logic, or several toggleable UI variations.

  • diagnosing-bugs — Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions: reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test.

  • research — Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a cited Markdown file in the repo, run as a background agent.

  • tdd — Test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop. Builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time.

  • domain-modeling — Actively build and sharpen a project's domain model — challenge terms, stress-test with scenarios, update CONTEXT.md and ADRs inline.

  • codebase-design — Shared discipline and vocabulary for designing deep modules: small interfaces, clean seams, testable through the interface.

  • code-review — 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.