Using Matt Pocock Skills

I have been using Matt Pocock’s Skill files for around 4-5 months.

I believe this skill files are the #pinnacle of AI driven software development.

I have been developing a pretty complex life OS app for myself. And I rarely touch code. The stuff I developed in a month, would have taken me more than 6-7 months of coding by hand.

The codebase has around 1200 frontend tests and 900 tests. And these are good quality tests written with perfectly done TDD.

There are 4 main skills that are need to be run in order:

1. /grill-with-docs - requirement gathering

• Asks you questions repeatedly until you and the agent have shared understanding. • It then updates CONTEXT.md and other docs which improves working with future agent. • With this you avoid the “I had told you to implement like this” problem later.

This skill is way better than usual plan mode.

FYI: I do discuss technical implementation, libraries, etc with agent and simplify my architecture. Sometimes, I perform a grilling session but hold implementation if design is too complex.

2. /to-spec - detailed specifications

3. /to-tickets - convert to tickets

4. /implement {ticketNo}

• calls /tdd over the ticket and /code-review which does an spec review and code review. • The spec review is a game changer IMO.

The only 2 parts where I was focus on are /grill-wi:th-docs and /implement.

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5. /afk - my personal skill to run /implement in a loop while I am away-from-keyboard

I found myself calling /implement a lot with each ticket, so I created a /afk skill to which I can pass multiple tickets. It calls subagents with /implement {ticketNo} sequentially and also handles retries if subagent fails to commit.

Which means, the only step I focus on now carefully is grilling and everything else is done by the agent.

• I write my posts by hand.