Matt Pocock's engineering skills
Straight from Matt Pocock's own .agents directory. Not a prompt pack: each skill is a process your coding agent has to follow.
Matt Pocock's skills repository is a free, MIT-licensed collection of 25 agent skills for software engineering, covering planning, test-driven development, debugging, code review and architecture. You install them with npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills, which copies editable skill files into your project and works on any coding agent, or as a Claude Code plugin with /plugin install mattpocock-skills. The installer lets you choose which skills to take, and you then run /setup-matt-pocock-skills once per repository to configure your issue tracker and labels.
What you get
- 25 skills covering planning, TDD, debugging, code review and architecture
- /grill-me, which interviews you in rounds until a loose idea is committable
- /diagnosing-bugs, which blocks the agent from theorising until a test goes red
- /code-review, which scores standards and spec on separate axes so neither hides the other
- /improve-codebase-architecture, a survey that writes a report and never edits your code
- MIT licensed, and installable on any agent, not just Claude Code
Who this is not for
This is not a no-code tool, and it is not a beginner's introduction to AI. It assumes you already work in a coding agent and want it to behave like a disciplined engineer.
Credit
Created by Matt Pocock· MIT licensed, free on GitHub
ProfitizeOS did not build this and does not host it. You get a link straight to the original.
Free. Two fields, then straight to the resource and setup guide.
Common questions
Is Matt Pocock's skills repo free?
Yes. It is MIT licensed and free on GitHub, so you can read every skill, edit any of them, and use it commercially.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills to copy editable skill files into your project, which works on any coding agent. In Claude Code you can instead run /plugin install mattpocock-skills for a managed, auto-updating copy. Pick one route: installing both gives you every skill twice.
Does it only work with Claude Code?
No. The skills.sh installer works on any agent, including Claude Code, and lets you choose which agents to install onto. Only the plugin route is Claude Code specific.
How many skills are there?
The plugin ships 25 skills, split across engineering and productivity. The repository also holds a handful of in-progress and miscellaneous ones that are not part of the released set.
What should I run first?
Run /setup-matt-pocock-skills once per repository, which configures your issue tracker, your triage labels and where docs get saved. After that, /grill-me is the usual entry point for a new idea.
More on this topic: AI Automation