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…to modify it to use the AskUserQuestion functionality. It's so much better than plan mode. 0. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by istjohn · 2026-10-03 · in Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

ah yea, that is the one! thanks for surfacing this for everyone link: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engine...

comment by verdverm · 2026-09-28 · in Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

…for things only humans can do (or should do), presented in the context of devops like activities https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... I have found that having the agents write scripts to use tools like this is…

comment by verdverm · 2026-09-28 · in Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

…testing takes significant effort, and this is again where the cost savings of DeepSeek shine. [1] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/codebase-design/SKILL.md [2] https://github.com/gregwebs/skills-sdlc/blob/ma…

comment by gregwebs · 2026-09-28 · in Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

…to expand the scope of work much larger than Claude would consider based on my original request. 0. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by istjohn · 2026-09-26 · in Plan mode is dead

I realised I linked super cringe docs instead of the actual skill: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by valzam · 2026-09-26 · in Plan mode is dead

…with an engineer who is both excellent at soliciting requirements and fast at implementation. [0] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/docs/producti...

comment by valzam · 2026-09-26 · in Plan mode is dead

…tried myself but intend to; other of author's skills I've used have been a game changer). - https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5T5oQJcJ6U

comment by skeledrew · 2026-09-18 · in I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture

They are generally portable. Eg. /wait-what https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by usef- · 2026-09-14 · in Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

TIMTOWTDI. "[T]hings shared with the team (in the repo)" implies project-specific skills. See e.g. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills for a stellar example of third-party skills for battle-hardened workflows.

comment by chrisweekly · 2026-09-08 · in Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

…for cruft. eg "if this document is for an LLM to consume, is there any noise in the instructions? https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engine... "

comment by Supermancho · 2026-09-02 · in AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers

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story by gurjeet · 2026-09-01 · 14 comments

Well, I think this idea is pretty cool — it feels very similar to Matt's domain-modeling: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engine... "

comment by adltereturn · 2026-08-30 · in Domain-Driven Agents

…much lower defect code. Its not just for bugs. [1] https://github.com/gregwebs/skills-sdlc/ [2] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engine...

comment by gregwebs · 2026-08-24 · in My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

…skills [0] make use of them. They're one of the more useful things I've gotten out them. [0] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

comment by phainopepla2 · 2026-08-20 · in Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

…a validator like oracle or something along the same lines. Also, a skill like grill-me from Matt P. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills .

comment by mtzaldo · 2026-08-19 · in Sol loves to cheat

…reservations about how far transformers can get us - but grill-me does a lot of legwork. [1]: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by zamalek · 2026-08-14 · in Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

…into my flow- that the spec and PR context could be presented in a more educational way. [1] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

comment by gregwebs · 2026-08-14 · in Understanding is the new bottleneck

…pool. I’m pretty sure I can adapt this to learn Concurrency in any language like Go or Rust. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc... The point is not that I’m learning Concurrency in a better way using LLMs, it’s…

comment by sathish316 · 2026-08-10 · in How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

…customize it to learn any topic concisely, learn by doing, add challenges, add visual explanations https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...

comment by sathish316 · 2026-08-10 · in How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... > Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. > […]

comment by leobg · 2026-08-08 · in Message your other Claude Code sessions

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story by rengwu · 2026-07-29 · 0 comments

…to developer any developer task. That works well. Of course you have to install the skills [1] [1] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

comment by newswasboring · 2026-07-15 · in Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

…and answers as project context. Matt Pocock’s “grill-me” skill is a nice example of this idea: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...

comment by Imanari · 2026-07-09 · in How version control will evolve for the agent boom

…helped, and technically the code generated is correct but it's still hard to follow and bloated. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by pipes · 2026-07-07 · in Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

…towards 100kloc, but can't yet testify to their effectiveness. People I trust swear by them: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

comment by james_ross · 2026-06-29 · in Finding It Challenging to Maintain Software Created with Coding Agents?

I've found this skill to work well: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...

comment by danschuller · 2026-06-24 · in Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?

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story by thunderbong · 2026-06-08 · 0 comments

…Which is a common workflow now. I've recently experimented with more lightweight things like https://github.com/mattpocock/skills which are good. Most work is just the same 'ask questions step by step to define a spec' , 'make a plan',…

comment by kingkongjaffa · 2026-06-08 · in I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests

…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5XZ-L5SFQ . He has his own "improve-codebase-architecture" skill: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engine... Some of them are about general coding guidelines and code quality, not…

comment by pramodbiligiri · 2026-06-05 · in Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool

…it scans aren't). None of those are the prompt. Repos: github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills, github.com/mattpocock/skills, github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code.

comment by gauravvij137 · 2026-06-03 · in What's inside the trending "skills" repos for Claude Code

…fun, rather than just being an accept_permissions driven process and the feeling like an observer. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...

comment by ramstar3000 · 2026-06-02 · in I'm Done Using AI

…much faster and aligned with what I want. The grill-me skill from Matt Pocock is great for this ( https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... )

comment by HyperL0gi · 2026-05-26 · in Using AI to write better code more slowly

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story by vdelpuerto · 2026-05-19 · 0 comments

…Code): - PRD: I discuss and brainstorm with Claude Code using something like the Grill Me skill https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc... but that I've modified a bit for my own style, until I have a good PRD (what…

comment by adamthegoalie · 2026-05-11 · in Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

…skills[1] for this work, which has been quite nice. [0]: https://github.com/FatalDecomp/ROLLER [1]: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

comment by deevus · 2026-05-07 · in DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

…excellent /grill-me and /grill-with-docs skills [1] and Plannotator [2] to review the plans. 1. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills 2. https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

comment by pbowyer · 2026-05-04 · in Redis array: short story of a long development process

So RPI/QRSPI like skills (e.g. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills and https://github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer/tree/main/.claude/c... and https://github.com/dfrysinger/qrspi-plus ) for working with claude code work well enough for me…

comment by itissid · 2026-05-02 · in DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo-Ko Also, check his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mattpocockuk

comment by gspetr · 2026-05-02 · in DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

This is why the grill me skill went viral - https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/grill-me/SKIL...

comment by luisgvv · 2026-03-28 · in Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

Someone directly down from you suggested looking up Mike Postock's TDD skill, so I did: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/tdd%2FSKILL.m... Everything below quoted from that skill, and serves as a much better rebuttal than I…

comment by esperent · 2026-03-11 · in Agents that run while I sleep

…he's made available [0][1]. [0] https://www.aihero.dev/skill-test-driven-development-claude-... [1] https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/tdd/SKILL.md

comment by sn9 · 2026-03-05 · in Agentic Engineering Patterns