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mattpocock/skills

Matt Pocock's Skills for Real Engineers is an MIT-licensed collection of small, model-agnostic agent skills for real software work: alignment prompts, shared CONTEXT.md language, TDD loops, debugging, PRD creation, issue triage, and architecture review patterns for Claude Code and compatible skill hosts.

Score7.3
Popularity72.0
Risknone
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness7.0
Novelty6.0
Momentum9.0
Maturity6.8
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.8
Setup ease8.8

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for developers who want coding agents to follow mature engineering habits instead of vibe-coding: copy one skill such as /grill-me or /tdd into a real project and compare the resulting plan or test loop.

Who should use it

software developersTypeScript teamsAI coding-agent userstech leads

Who should skip it

Skip if the source link, docs, or setup requirements do not match your workflow.

Risk explanation

No inherent user-impacting risk is flagged from the captured evidence.

Evidence links

Closest alternatives / related signals

agent-skillscoding-agentstddsoftware-engineeringprompting