Matt Pocock: skills

Source: github.com/mattpocock/skills

#Why This Collection

Matt Pocock is best known in the TypeScript community for teaching the type system by building up from first principles; that same pedagogical instinct shows in these skills. They are small, composable, and model-agnostic — designed to be picked up individually and combined, not adopted wholesale. The collection is explicitly framed as an alternative to "vibe coding": each skill enforces a specific engineering discipline.

#What's Inside

• Engineering skills like /grill-with-docs (align understanding before building), /tdd, /diagnose (structured debugging loop), and /improve-codebase-architecture
• Productivity skills including /grill-me (deep questioning before starting work) and /caveman (compress agent output to cut token usage)
• /write-a-skill for authoring new skills in the same style

#Value for Practitioners

Useful as a counterweight to larger, lifecycle-shaped collections like Addy Osmani's. When you want a single skill to inject discipline at one point in your workflow — not a full framework — this is the model to study. /caveman in particular is a good demonstration that skills can target the conversation itself, not just the code.