ask-matt — Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
claude-handoff — Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.
code-review — Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes.
codebase-design — Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules.
diagnosing-bugs — Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
domain-modeling — Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.
git-guardrails-claude-code — Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D.
grill-me — A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
grill-with-docs — A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
grilling — Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
handoff — Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
implement — Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.
implement-spec — Implement the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code.
improve-codebase-architecture — Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
loop-me — Grill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.
migrate-to-shoehorn — Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.
prototype — Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
research — Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
retro — Conduct a retrospective on a coding session.
scaffold-exercises — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting.
setup-matt-pocock-skills — Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout.
setup-pre-commit — Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo.
setup-ts-deep-modules — Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module.
tdd — Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.
teach — Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
to-questionnaire — Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
to-spec — Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker: no interview, just synthesis of what you've already discussed.
to-tickets — Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges.
triage — Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
wait-what — Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.
wayfinder — Plan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker.
wizard — Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform.
writing-beats — Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
writing-for-agents — Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
writing-fragments — Writing, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.
writing-shape — Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.