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Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo.
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Control herdr from inside it. Manage workspaces and tabs, split panes, spawn agents, read output, and wait for state changes — all via CLI commands that talk to the running herdr instance over a local unix socket. Use when running inside herdr (HERDR_ENV=1).
Analyze pi session token usage and produce a breakdown report. Sums the usage blocks recorded in pi session logs. Use when the user wants a token report, usage breakdown, "how much have I used", cached-vs-fresh token split, per-model or per-project cost/tokens, or asks to analyze pi usage.
Use when using the agent tool or delegating to subagents. Use it for tasks that benefit from isolated context: codebase exploration, planning, focused implementation, or code review.
Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another skill needs the deep-module vocabulary.
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
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| name | ask-matt |
| description | Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo. |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
You don't remember every skill, so ask.
A flow is a path through the skills. Most paths run along one main flow, and two on-ramps merge onto it. Everything else is standalone.
The route most work travels. You have an idea and want it built.
/skill:grill-with-docs — sharpen the idea by interview. Start here when you have a codebase: it's stateful, retaining what it learns in CONTEXT.md and ADRs. (No codebase? Use /skill:grill-me — see Standalone.)/skill:handoff in both directions (see Crossing sessions):
/skill:handoff out, then open a fresh session against that file,/skill:prototype to answer the question with throwaway code,/skill:handoff back what you learned, and reference it from the original idea thread./skill:to-prd (turn the thread into a PRD) → /skill:to-issues (split the PRD into independently-grabbable issues). Because the issues are independent, clear context between each one: start a fresh session per issue and kick off /skill:implement by passing it the PRD and the single issue to work on./skill:implement right here, in the same context window.Keep steps 1–3 in one unbroken context window — don't compact or clear until after /skill:to-issues — so the grilling, PRD, and issues all build on the same thinking. Each /skill:implement then starts fresh, working from the issue.
The limit on this is the smart zone: the window (~120k tokens on state-of-the-art models) within which the model still reasons sharply. If a session approaches it before /skill:to-issues, don't push on degraded — /skill:handoff and continue in a fresh thread.
A starting situation that generates work, then merges onto the main flow.
Bugs and requests piling up → /skill:triage. It moves issues through triage roles and produces agent-ready issues, which /skill:implement later picks up.
Triage is only for issues you didn't create — bug reports, incoming feature requests, anything that arrives raw. Issues that /skill:to-issues produced are already agent-ready, so don't triage them.
Not feature work — upkeep.
/skill:improve-codebase-architecture — run whenever you have a spare moment to keep the codebase good for agents to operate in. It surfaces deepening opportunities; picking one generates an idea you can take into the main flow at /skill:grill-with-docs./skill:handoff — when a thread is full or you need to branch off (e.g. into a /skill:prototype session), this compacts the conversation into a markdown file. You don't continue in place — you open a new session and reference that file to carry the context across. It's the bridge between context windows, in either direction. Use it when you want a fresh session but need the current conversation preserved./compact (built-in) — stay in the same conversation, letting the earlier turns be summarized. Use it at intentional breaks between phases, when you don't mind losing the verbatim history. Don't compact mid-phase — the agent can lose its way. /skill:handoff forks; /compact continues.Off the main flow entirely.
/skill:grill-me — the same relentless interview as /skill:grill-with-docs, but for when you have no codebase. Stateless: it saves nothing locally, builds no CONTEXT.md. Reach for it to sharpen any plan or design that doesn't live in a repo./skill:teach — learn a concept over multiple sessions, using the current directory as a stateful workspace./skill:writing-great-skills — reference for writing and editing skills well./skill:setup-matt-pocock-skills — run before your first engineering flow to configure the issue tracker, triage labels, and doc layout the other skills assume. Custom issue trackers also work.