Mattpocock Skills

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Skills For Real Engineers

My agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering - not vibe coding.

Developing real applications is hard. Approaches like GSD, BMAD, and Spec-Kit try to help by owning the process. But while doing so, they take away your control and make bugs in the process hard to resolve.

These skills are designed to be small, easy to adapt, and composable. They work with any model. They're based on decades of engineering experience. Hack around with them. Make them your own. Enjoy.

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Installation (30-second setup)

A plugin updates itself. skills.sh copies editable files into your project, and you update them by hand. Pick one per agent, because installing both gives you every skill twice.

1. Get the skills

<details> <summary><strong>Claude Code</strong></summary>

claude plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official

Updates itself by default.

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<details> <summary><strong>Codex</strong></summary>

codex plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills
codex plugin add mattpocock-skills@mattpocock

Updates itself at startup.

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<details> <summary><strong>GitHub Copilot</strong> (CLI and VS Code)</summary>

copilot plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills
copilot plugin install mattpocock-skills@mattpocock

Then, once, add to ~/.copilot/settings.json:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "mattpocock": { "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "mattpocock/skills" }, "autoUpdate": true }
  }
}