Skills For Real Engineers

Skills

38 in the Claude listing

• Ask mattAsk which skill or flow fits your situation.
• Claude handoffHand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.
• Code reviewReview the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code match what
• Codebase designShared vocabulary for designing deep modules.
• Diagnosing bugsDiagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions.
• Domain modelingBuild and sharpen a project's domain model.
• Git guardrails claude codeSet up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute.
• Grill meA relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
• Grill with docsA relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go.
• grillingGrill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea.
• handoffCompact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
• implementImplement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.
• Implement specImplement a specification in code.
• Improve codebase architectureScan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
• Loop meGrill me about specs for the workflows I want to build, within this workspace.
• Migrate to shoehornMigrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.
• prUse when writing a PR body.
• prototypeBuild a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
• researchInvestigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
• Resolving merge conflictsUse when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.
• retroConduct a retrospective on a coding session.
• Scaffold exercisesCreate exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting.
• Setup matt pocock skillsConfigure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout.
• Setup pre commitSet up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo.
• Setup ts deep modulesWire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module, with implementation hidden in subfolders and reachable only through its entry-point files.
• tddTest-driven development.
• teachTeach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.
• To questionnaireTurn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
• To specTurn the current conversation into a spec and publish it to the project issue tracker: no interview, just synthesis of what you've already discussed.
• To ticketsBreak a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published to the configured tracker (edges as text in one file per ticket locall
• triageMove issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.
• Wait whatStop.
• wayfinderPlan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.
• wizardGenerate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform.
• Writing beatsWriting, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
• Writing for agentsWriting documents for agents.
• Writing fragmentsWriting, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.
• Writing shapeWriting, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.