Skills
Open-source, composable agent skills for real software engineering across planning, TDD, domain modeling, triage, and code review. Install via skills.sh or a Claude Code plugin, integrate with GitHub or Linear, and standardize feedback loops for reliable, production-quality changes.
Overview
A typical session begins with grill-with-docs to align intent and sharpen terminology, updates CONTEXT.md and ADRs, then proceeds with tdd at pre-agreed seams. Work is split via to-tickets, reviewed with code-review, and merged after implement closes the loop against the originating issue.
What It Does
Ideal for senior and staff engineers, tech leads, maintainers, and platform teams who want agents to behave predictably in established repositories. It also suits founders and agencies pressing for reliable delivery across multiple clients, and individual developers adopting disciplined practices. Use it when you need rigorous specs, safer refactors, high-signal reviews, and reproducible debugging, or when a codebase risks collapsing into a ball of mud.
- Runs a structured grilling interview to eliminate ambiguity before any code changes.
- Builds and maintains a shared domain glossary and ADRs alongside evolving decisions.
- Enforces red-green-refactor discipline with tight loops and pragmatic test heuristics.
- Generates tracer-bullet tickets, dependencies, and wayfinding maps across large projects.
- Audits architecture, proposes deep modules, and guides incremental refactors without churn.
Where It Helps
Editor’s View
Getting started takes minutes. Add the skills to a repository with the skills.sh installer, then run the setup skill once to select your issue tracker (GitHub, Linear, or local files), declare triage labels, and choose where docs should live. Prefer a managed path? Install the Claude Code plugin variant to subscribe to an auto-updating bundle. From there, begin with grill-with-docs, drive changes with tdd at pre-agreed seams, split work using to-tickets, and close with code-review and implement. The same flows apply across agents that support the Agent-Skills standard.
Disciplined, model-agnostic skills that make agents behave like great teammates.
Getting Started
Unlike monolithic agent frameworks, Skills stays small, composable, and auditable. Each capability is a focused discipline you can run, remix, or replace, and every artifact lives alongside your code and tickets. Tight loops, explicit trackers, and architecture-first practices compound over time, improving throughput without sacrificing correctness. If you want agents that ship trustworthy changes instead of verbose drafts, this is a pragmatic, production-ready path.
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Skills
Matt Pocock maintains the Skills project, packaging hard-won engineering practices into small, composable agent skills. His focus is practical, model-agnostic workflows that improve alignment, testing discipline, and architecture in real repositories, with straightforward installation via a shell installer or a Claude Code plugin.
Skills is an open-source collection of small, composable agent skills for real-world software engineering. Instead of a monolithic agent, it provides focused disciplines you can invoke on demand: alignment interviews, shared-language building, TDD loops, architecture deepening, triage, ticketing, and reviews. It installs either as editable files via a shell installer or as a managed Claude Code plugin that stays up to date. The toolkit integrates with GitHub, Linear, or local files to keep specs, tickets, and documents first-class. By tightening feedback loops and capturing domain language in CONTEXT.md and ADRs, it turns coding agents into dependable collaborators that ship working changes, not verbose drafts. User-invoked orchestrators pair with model-invoked loops for prototyping, disciplined bug diagnosis, and merge-conflict resolution, giving teams consistent processes that survive across sessions and contributors.
github.com/mattpocock/skills
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