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Setup Matt Pocock Skills

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

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Official URL:skills.sh

What this skill does

Intro in this page language first. The official description stays in its original wording; we do not rewrite SKILL.md.

What it does

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

When to use it

The official description does not include a separate “Use when”. Per the spec, agents activate this skill when the task matches keywords in that description.

How agents load it

Per Agent Skills progressive disclosure: name and description load at startup (~100 tokens); the full SKILL.md body loads when the skill activates; scripts/, references/, and assets/ load only as needed. This file's sections: Setup Matt Pocock's Skills; Process; 1. Explore; 2. Present findings and ask; 3. Confirm and edit; 4. Write.

File analysis

File analysis: instruction-only skill (SKILL.md). The agent loads the full body when activated.

Setup Matt Pocock's SkillsProcess1. Explore2. Present findings and ask3. Confirm and edit4. WriteAgent skillsIssue trackerTriage labelsDomain docs5. Done

Source category:skills.sh agent-skill

SKILL.md & Agent activation

Official spec ↗
name
setup-matt-pocock-skills
description
Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.
  1. DiscoverThe client exposes names and descriptions to the agent.
  2. ActivateYour request or the task context selects the skill and loads its instructions.
  3. Load resourcesReferenced scripts, documentation and assets are used when needed.

Invocation syntax and available tools depend on your Agent client. Client integration guide ↗

Install this skill

Skills CLI ↗

Choose the target agent and installation scope, keep referenced package files, then verify the skill appears in the client's catalog.

Ask your Agent to install

Copy these instructions to a compatible agent and confirm the target directory matches your client.

Install the agent skill "setup-matt-pocock-skills" into my project. The full SKILL.md and official description are at https://zicq.com/en/skills/skl-733ca02aa4f2b02a-Setup-Matt-Pocock-Skills.html
Save it as .cursor/skills/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md or .claude/skills/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md and keep the frontmatter name and description exactly as-is.

Full package on GitHub ↗

Install from the terminal · Skills CLI

Requires Node.js and npx. First inspect the repository's skill list to confirm the name.

npx skills add 'https://github.com/mattpocock/skills' --list

npx skills add 'https://github.com/mattpocock/skills' --skill 'setup-matt-pocock-skills'

The CLI lets you choose the agent interactively. The default scope is the project; use -g for user scope. Confirm package availability with the discovery command, then use npx skills list to inspect installed skills.

Readable layout
--- name: setup-matt-pocock-skills description: "Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills." disable-model-invocation: true --- # Setup Matt Pocock's Skills Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the engineering skills assume: - **Issue tracker**: where issues live (GitHub by default; local markdown is also supported out of the box) - **Triage labels**: the strings used for the five canonical triage roles - **Domain docs**: where `GLOSSARY.md` and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write. ## Process ### 1. Explore Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume: - `git remote -v` and `.git/config`: is this a GitHub repo? Which one? - `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` at the repo root: does either exist? Is there already an `## Agent skills` section in either? - `GLOSSARY.md` and `GLOSSARY-MAP.md` at the repo root, and the legacy `CONTEXT.md` / `CONTEXT-MAP.md`. If a legacy file exists, offer to `git mv` it to its `GLOSSARY` name and rewrite those names in `docs/agents/domain.md`. - `docs/adr/` and any `src/*/docs/adr/` directories - `docs/agents/`: does this skill's prior output already exist? - `.scratch/`: a sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in use - Is the `triage` skill installed? (a `triage` skill folder alongside this one, or `triage` in your available skills.) This decides whether Section B runs at all. - Monorepo signals: a `pnpm-workspace.yaml`, a `workspaces` field in `package.json`, or a populated `packages/*` with its own `src/`. These are present only in a genuinely large multi-package repo; their absence means single-context, which is almost every repo. ### 2. Present findings and ask Summarise what's present and what's missing. Then take the sections in order. One section, one answer, then the next. Lead each section with the recommended answer so the user can accept it in a word. Give a one-line explainer only when the choice genuinely branches; skip the section entirely when exploration already settled it (Section B when `triage` isn't installed, Section C when there's no monorepo). **Section A: Issue tracker.** > Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like `to-tickets`, `triage`, and `to-spec` read from and write to it. They need to know whether to call `gh issue create`, write a markdown file under `.scratch/`, or follow some other workflow you describe. Pick the place you actually track work for this repo. Default posture: these skills were designed for GitHub. If a `git remote` points at GitHub, propose that. If a `git remote` points at GitLab (`gitlab.com` or a self-hosted host), propose GitLab. Otherwise (or if the user prefers), offer: - **GitHub**: issues live in the repo's GitHub Issues (uses the `gh` CLI) - **GitLab**: issues live in the repo's GitLab Issues (uses the [`glab`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli) CLI) - **Local markdown**: issues live as files under `.scratch//` in this repo (good for solo projects or repos without a remote) - **Other** (Jira, Linear, etc.): ask the user to describe the workflow in one paragraph; the skill will record it as freeform prose Record the choice in `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`. The GitHub and GitLab templates carry a "PRs as a request surface" flag, defaulted **off**. Leave it off and don't raise it: a user who wants external PRs in the triage queue can flip the flag in the file later. A GitHub or GitLab tracker needs a reachable repo. When the user picks one and no `git remote` points at that host, get the repo URL from them and wire it up (`git init` if needed, `git remote add origin `) before going further. Done when `gh repo view` / `glab repo view` prints the project from inside this directory; if it can't, stop and tell the user what's missing. **Section B: Triage label vocabulary.** Skip this section entirely if the `triage` skill isn't installed (exploration told you), since an uninstalled skill needs no labels. If it is installed, ask exactly one question: > Do you want to keep the default triage labels? (recommended: **yes**) The defaults are the five canonical roles, each label string equal to its name: `needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`. On **yes**, write them as-is. Only if the user says no, usually because their tracker already uses other names (e.g. `bug:triage` for `needs-triage`), collect the overrides so `triage` applies existing labels instead of creating duplicates. **Section C: Domain docs.** Default to **single-context** (one `GLOSSARY.md` + `docs/adr/` at the repo root). This fits almost every repo; write it without asking. Offer **multi-context** (a root `GLOSSARY-MAP.md` pointing to per-context `GLOSSARY.md` files) only when exploration found monorepo signals. Then confirm which layout they want. ### 3. Confirm and edit Show the user a draft of: - The `## Agent skills` block to add to whichever of `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` is being edited (see step 4 for selection rules) - The contents of `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`, `docs/agents/domain.md`, and `docs/agents/triage-labels.md` (the last only when `triage` is installed) Let them edit before writing. ### 4. Write **Pick the file to edit:** - If `CLAUDE.md` exists, edit it. - Else if `AGENTS.md` exists, edit it. - If neither exists, ask the user which one to create; don't pick for them. Never create `AGENTS.md` when `CLAUDE.md` already exists (or vice versa); always edit the one that's already there. If an `## Agent skills` block already exists in the chosen file, update its contents in-place rather than appending a duplicate. Don't overwrite user edits to the surrounding sections. The block: ```markdown ## Agent skills ### Issue tracker [one-line summary of where issues are tracked]. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`. ### Triage labels [one-line summary of the label vocabulary]. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`. ### Domain docs [one-line summary of layout: "single-context" or "multi-context"]. See `docs/agents/domain.md`. ``` Include the `### Triage labels` sub-block, and write `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`, only when `triage` is installed and Section B ran. When it isn't, both are omitted. When Section B ran on GitHub or GitLab, create each configured label the tracker lacks (`gh label create` / `glab label create`). Then write the docs files using the seed templates in this skill folder as a starting point: - [issue-tracker-github.md](./issue-tracker-github.md): GitHub issue tracker - [issue-tracker-gitlab.md](./issue-tracker-gitlab.md): GitLab issue tracker - [issue-tracker-local.md](./issue-tracker-local.md): local-markdown issue tracker - [triage-labels.md](./triage-labels.md): label mapping (only if `triage` is installed) - [domain.md](./domain.md): domain doc consumer rules + layout For "other" issue trackers, write `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` from scratch using the user's description. ### 5. Done Tell the user the setup is complete and which engineering skills will now read from these files. Mention they can edit `docs/agents/*.md` directly later; re-running this skill is only necessary if they want to switch issue trackers or restart from scratch.

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