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Matt Pocock's Skills

Proven engineering habits for Claude: grill your plan, write specs and tickets, then test.

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What is it?

Matt Pocock is a well-known TypeScript teacher, and these are the skills he uses every day. The most popular is /grill-me: Claude interviews you about a plan, one question at a time, until every decision is made. It works for non-code plans too.

From there, /to-spec turns the conversation into a written spec, /to-tickets breaks it into small tasks, and /implement builds them with test-driven development (write a failing test, then the code that passes it) and a code review at the end. Smaller tools include /handoff, which packs up a session so a fresh one can continue, and /wait-what, for when Claude's last message made no sense.

The skills are small and easy to change, by design. They're in Anthropic's official plugin directory and are among the most starred skill collections on GitHub.

Install in Claude Code

In Claude Code run /plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official. It updates itself. Then run /setup-matt-pocock-skills once in each project to choose your issue tracker and where docs get saved.

Try this prompt

Paste into Claude Code
/grill-me I want to add online bookings to my salon's website. Ask me questions until the plan has no gaps.

Who it's for

Anyone building real projects with Claude Code who wants it to understand the job before it starts.

Best for

  • Getting a plan straight before building
  • Turning ideas into specs and tasks
  • Test-driven builds
  • Handing work between sessions

Why it made the list

/grill-me fixes the most common failure with coding agents, building the wrong thing, and it takes one command.

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