Skills For Real Engineers My agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering not vibe coding. Developing real applications is hard. Approaches like GSD, BMAD, and Spec Kit try to help by owning the process. But while doing so, they take away your control and make bugs in the process hard to resolve. These skills are designed to be small, easy to adapt, and composable. They work with any model. They're based on decades of engineering experience. Hack around with them. Make them your own. Enjoy. If you want to keep up with changes to these skills, and any new ones I create, you can join 60,000 other devs on my newsletter: Sign Up To The Newsletter Installation (30 second setup) A plugin updates itself. skills.sh copies editable files into your project, and you update them by hand. Pick one per agent, because installing both gives you every skill twice. 1. Get the skills Claude Code [安装/使用命令见下方] Updates itself by default. Codex [安装/使用命令见下方] Updates itself at startup. GitHub Copilot (CLI and VS Code) [安装/使用命令见下方] Then, once, add to /.copilot/settings.json : [安装/使用命令见下方] In VS Code, run Chat: Install Plugin From Source and enter https://github.com/mattpocock/skills . It updates daily. Gemini CLI (manual updates) [安装/使用命令见下方] Re run both commands to update. Any other agent, or editable files (manual updates) [安装/使用命令见下方] When the installer asks which skills to take, include setup matt pocock skills . To update, run npx skills@latest update , and re run add to pick up new skills. 2. Run /setup matt pocock skills In your agent, run it once per repo. It will: Ask you which issue tracker you want to use (GitHub, GitLab, local files, or anything else you describe) Ask you what labels you apply to tickets when you triage them ( /triage uses labels) Ask you where you want to save any docs we create 3. Bam you're ready to go. Why These Skills Exist I built these skills as a way to fix common failure modes I see with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents. 1: The Age