mattpocock-dev-workflows
Installation
SKILL.md
Matt Pocock Dev Workflows
A meta-skill packaging five engineering disciplines from Matt Pocock's skills repository (130K+ stars, TypeScript expert). These skills are designed to be small, composable, and adaptable — they work with any model on any codebase.
Overview
Matt Pocock built these skills to fix common failure modes with coding agents. The five sub-patterns here address five distinct failure modes:
| # | Failure Mode | Sub-Pattern | Trigger |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The agent didn't do what you wanted (misalignment) | to-spec | Synthesize conversation into a spec on the tracker |
| 2 | The agent builds a ball of mud (code entropy) | codebase-design | Design deep modules with clean interfaces |
| 3 | The agent is way too verbose (no shared language) | domain-modeling | Build a shared domain glossary (CONTEXT.md) |
| 4 | The code doesn't work (no feedback loops) | diagnosing-bugs | Disciplined 6-phase debug loop |
| 5 | You can't tell if the change is good (no review discipline) | code-review | Two-axis review: Standards + Spec |
Each sub-pattern can be used independently. The meta-skill routes you to the right one based on what you're trying to do.