skills

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What it does

An editorial selection.

Matt Pocock's small, composable agent skills for everyday engineering work (planning, TDD, refactoring, reviews).

Why it is listed

Low-ceremony alternative to heavyweight process frameworks. The skills are easy to read, fork and adapt, and work with any model.

GitHub describes it as: Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 304,846
Forks: 25,654
Open issues: 187
Merged PRs: 128
Commits, last 30 days: 56
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Shell
Licence: MIT
Created: 3 Feb 2026
Last push: 27 Oct 2026
Latest release: v1.3.1 · 4 Oct 2026
Category: Agent Skills & Plugins
Topics: none listed
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

Explore and get started

Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by mattpocock.

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Development context

These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.

Total commits on default branch: 548
Open pull requests: 15
Closed issues, lifetime: 802
Median time to close an issue: 34.4 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 0.7 days

Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.

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