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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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| 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.
/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 /grill-me — see Standalone.)/handoff in both directions (see Crossing sessions):
/handoff out, then open a fresh session against that file,/prototype to answer the question with throwaway code,/handoff back what you learned, and reference it from the original idea thread./to-prd (turn the thread into a PRD) → /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 /implement by passing it the PRD and the single issue to work on./implement right here, in the same context window.Keep steps 1–3 in one unbroken context window — don't compact or clear until after /to-issues — so the grilling, PRD, and issues all build on the same thinking. Each /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 /to-issues, don't push on degraded — /handoff and continue in a fresh thread.
A starting situation that generates work, then merges onto the main flow.
Bugs and requests piling up → /triage. It moves issues through triage roles and produces agent-ready issues, which /implement later picks up.
Triage is only for issues you didn't create — bug reports, incoming feature requests, anything that arrives raw. Issues that /to-issues produced are already agent-ready, so don't triage them.
Not feature work — upkeep.
/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 /grill-with-docs./handoff — when a thread is full or you need to branch off (e.g. into a /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. /handoff forks; /compact continues.Off the main flow entirely.
/grill-me — the same relentless interview as /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./teach — learn a concept over multiple sessions, using the current directory as a stateful workspace./writing-great-skills — reference for writing and editing skills well./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.
Reviews code diffs, PRs, issue queues, release readiness, commits, pushes, publishing, and project audits. Use when users ask in any language for code review, issue or PR triage, release gates, publishing follow-through, or project audits. Not for debugging root causes or prose review.
Produces distinctive, production-grade UI for pages, components, visual interfaces, typography, and screenshot-driven polish. Use when users ask in any language for UI, page, component, frontend, typography, screenshot-grounded visual polish, or complaints that a screen looks unclear, ugly, inconsistent, or visually wrong. Not for backend logic or data pipelines.
Use when the user requests diagrams, flowcharts, architecture diagrams, ER diagrams, UML / sequence / class diagrams, network topology, ML/DL model figures (Transformer/CNN/LSTM), mind maps, or any visualization. Also use proactively when explaining systems with 3+ components, complex data flows, or relationships that benefit from visual representation. Best suited when the diagram needs custom styling, rich shape vocabulary, swimlanes, or exportable images (PNG/SVG/PDF/JPG). Generates .drawio XML and exports locally via the native draw.io desktop CLI.
Runs a budget-aware agent-assisted engineering health audit for instruction/config drift, hooks/MCP, verifier surfaces, and AI maintainability. Use when users ask in any language to audit Claude, Codex, Pi, agent instructions, MCP or hooks, verifier coverage, or AI-maintainability drift. Not for debugging application code or reviewing PRs.
Finds root cause before applying fixes for errors, crashes, regressions, failing tests, broken behavior, and screenshot-reported defects. Use when users report in any language errors, crashes, broken behavior, regressions, failing tests, screenshot evidence, or something that used to work and now fails. Not for code review or new features.
Runs a six-phase research workflow that turns unfamiliar domains, source bundles, or collected material into publish-ready output. Use when users ask in any language to research, study, deep-dive, compile sources, synthesize unfamiliar material, or turn a source bundle into a coherent reference. Not for quick lookups or single-file reads.