AI Skills

using-superpowers

Starting any conversation

verification-before-completion

Enforce verification commands before claiming work completion, fixes

writing-plans

Comprehensive implementation plans for multi-step tasks

writing-skills

Test-driven documentation for creating reusable agent techniques, patterns

ask-matt

Ask which skill or flow fits your situation

caveman

Ultra-compressed communication mode cuts token usage ~75%

chief-of-staff

Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents

claude-handoff

Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent

code-review

Review the changes since a fixed point

codebase-design

Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules

decision-mapping

Turn a loose idea into a sequenced map of investigation tickets

design-an-interface

Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module

diagnose

Structured debugging workflow for reproducing, minimizing

diagnosing-bugs

Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions

domain-modeling

Build and sharpen a project's domain model

edit-article

Edit and improve articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity

git-guardrails-claude-code

Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands

grill-me

Relentless interviewing skill

grill-with-docs

Relentless design interrogation

grilling

Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea

handoff

Summarize conversations into handoff documents

implement-spec

Implement the result of /to-spec and /to-tickets in code

improve-codebase-architecture

Analyze codebases for architectural friction

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

obsidian-vault

Search, create, and manage notes in the Obsidian vault

pr

Writing a PR body

prototype

Throwaway code that answers a single design or logic question through an

qa

Interactive QA session where user reports bugs or issues conversationally

request-refactor-plan

Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits

research

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources

resolving-merge-conflicts

Resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict

retro

Conduct a retrospective on a coding session

review

Review the changes since a fixed point

scaffold-exercises

Create exercise directory structures

setup-matt-pocock-skills

Configuration scaffold for engineering skills to locate issue tracker

setup-pre-commit

Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged

setup-ts-deep-modules

Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo

tdd

Test-driven development with vertical slices, behavior-focused tests

teach

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace

to-issues

Break a plan into independently-grabbable vertical-slice issues

to-prd

Synthesizes conversation context into a structured PRD and publishes it

to-questionnaire

Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else

to-spec

Turn the current conversation into a spec and publish it

to-tickets

Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet

triage

State machine-driven issue triage

ubiquitous-language

Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation

wait-what

Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it

wayfinder

Plan a huge chunk of work

wizard

Generate an interactive bash wizard