Matt Pocock's Skills
A third-party plugin from Matt Pocock (aihero.dev), packaging twenty-five skills he uses for real engineering work with coding agents. It covers turning ideas into specs and tickets, TDD, code review, domain modeling, architecture, and his own 'grilling' technique for stress-testing a plan before you build it. We did not write it and have not reviewed it.
Third-party, by Matt Pocock
September 13, 2026
Install the plugin
Plugins install through Claude Code’s plugin marketplace. Two commands, no files to place by hand.
- 1
Add the marketplace
Run this once in Claude Code. It registers the marketplace this plugin installs from (mattpocock), so every plugin in it becomes installable.
/plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills - 2
Install the plugin
Installs this plugin and everything it bundles. Restart Claude Code afterwards so it picks the new skills up.
/plugin install mattpocock-skills@mattpocock
Matt Pocock publishes this plugin from his own mattpocock marketplace. We
list it here because it’s a real, working set of engineering skills people
search for — we did not write it and have not reviewed it.
The set covers the shape of a real engineering task end to end: turning a loose idea into a spec and then into tickets, TDD, code review, domain modeling, and codebase architecture work. It also includes “grilling,” Matt’s own term for interviewing a plan or decision round by round until nothing is left silently assumed, plus a docs-aware variant for when the plan touches existing documentation.
The rest are supporting skills for working with an agent day to day: writing a handoff document for the next session, teaching a skill back, converting notes into a questionnaire, and writing instructions meant to be read by agents rather than humans.
The skills it ships
- ask-matt
- diagnosing-bugs
- grill-with-docs
- triage
- improve-codebase-architecture
- setup-matt-pocock-skills
- tdd
- to-spec
- to-tickets
- wayfinder
- implement
- prototype
- research
- domain-modeling
- codebase-design
- code-review
- resolving-merge-conflicts
- wizard
- grill-me
- grilling
- handoff
- teach
- to-questionnaire
- wait-what
- writing-for-agents