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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Sep 3

/show-me is a phenomenal skill Makes PR descriptions extremely easy to read Basically a toolbox of "nice ways to look at code" Nice work, @dexhorthy

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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Sep 29

My top 3 skill makers: - @poteto - @dexhorthy - @emilkowalski Always learn a ton from reading their skills.

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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Sep 25

This is an extremely good watch. The things that felt novel/interesting to me: 1. Lock down your agents Humans tend to like 'sharp knife' abstractions - that are powerful, but you can cut yourself if your use them wrong. Lauren says agents perform much better in extremely locked-down environments. Abstractions are designed so they can't screw up, and lint rules enforce it. They built a whole internal framework (Dune) to keep the agent on track. That helps optimise agents that don't have a large context window to work productively in your codebase. 2. Create verification infrastructure To trust the results of any agent, you either need to sit and watch it OR have it provide evidence of its improvement. This has always made sense to me, but Lauren really pushes it hard here: - Invest in custom CLI's that let the agent drive the app and measure its performance - Make the app "factory ready" from the get-go - i.e. deployable to an environment where the agent can mess about with it 3. Feature Maps Lauren's software factory (what she calls an 'outer loop') often requires the agent to break down vague bug reports from users and to turn those into potential fixes. To aid that, they built a 'feature map' of all the main features in their application, which describe exactly how the app is supposed to function. This has become essential for helping the agent navigate the codebase, and figure out quickly how things are supposed to work. It's maintained along with the codebase, and kept in sync via automations. This is the kind of documentation I usually warn against. It goes stale quickly and can confuse agents if it's not kept up to date. But Lauren's team are using it as critical navigation infrastructure, and it makes it possible for agents to explore faster and better - even on a large codebase. So it sounds like navigation docs like this are worth it if they enable new behavior. Banger talk - watch the whole thing on 2x.

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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Aug 5

mattpocock/skills v1.2 is out! We're now the 19th most-starred repo of all time. 13.5m downloads on skills​.sh. Thanks for your support! Here's what's new: - Docs: the community's biggest ask. Every skill documented, with explanations of the main flows + troubleshooting - Claude Plugin: install via Claude's official marketplace - Codex Support: full Codex support via agents/openai.yaml files Updated Skills: - /grilling now asks you questions in rounds, not one-by-one - /prototype now uses HTML instead of a TUI for building logic prototypes - easier to share and far richer - /writing-for-agents renamed from /writing-great-skills, use it for ANYTHING your agents read (AGENTS.md, system prompts, docs) New Skills: - /wizard: tired of provisioning infra? Get your agent to build you a TUI to walk you through it - /to-questionnaire: hit a grilling question you can't answer? Turn the session into a doc you can walk through on a call with a colleague - /wait-what: no idea what the model said? Refocus it in your domain language and simplify with ASD-STE100 Full changelog + docs below. Video soon!

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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Aug 4

Experimenting with a rare addition to my global CLAUDE.md: "Always talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Always read CONTEXT.md files, and use their ubiquitous language."

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Matt Pocock

@mattpocockuk · Aug 14

Just saw a comment saying that I've never made a proper overview of EVERY skill in my skills repo I thought "damn it, he's right". So, here it is. My 25 skills (now @theo-approved), explained in 10 minutes:

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