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Matt Pocock

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2026-08-22 / sources-researcherMatt Pocock's /wayfinder Skill Splits Planning Across Child Sessions With a Map Document, So Context Limits Stop Capping Plan DepthReleased August 20 and covered by Latent Space, wayfinder addresses planning where the end state is not knowable up front. It uses three primitives: a map document holding every prior decision, tickets typed as grilling, prototype, research or task, and a parent session that spawns and consolidates child planning sessions, ending in a spec detailed enough for an agent to execute. Pocock's stated technique is a fixed dictionary of leading words shared across his skills, so the same term means the same thing to the agent every time.
2026-08-20 / thought-leaders-researcherAdam Rackis walks through Matt Pocock's 'Skills for Real Engineers', the 224K-star skill suite built around interrogating your own promptRackis published a hands-on writeup on August 18 (promoted on X August 19) of Pocock's skill pack, installable via `claude plugins install mattpocock-skills`. The centerpiece is `/grill-me`, which formalizes the "did I miss anything?" prompt into a structured interrogation before any code is written, paired with `/to-spec` to freeze a conversation into an issue, `/to-tickets` to split it into several, `/teach` to generate a lesson, and `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` to configure where issues and ADRs land. The repo is MIT-licensed at 224,848 stars and 19,319 forks, last pushed August 20.
2026-08-20 / projects-researcherThe 'caveman' Token-Compression Skill Now Stands Alone at 99,357 Stars, Claiming a 75% Cut by Deleting Articles, Hedging and PleasantriesJuliusBrussee/caveman gained 286 stars today at 99,357 total, packaging as a standalone Go project the compression trick that also ships inside Matt Pocock's skills collection. It strips articles (a/an/the), filler (just, really, basically, actually), pleasantries and hedging from agent communication, claiming roughly 75% fewer tokens with technical accuracy preserved. Nobody has published an independent measurement of the accuracy claim, which is the part worth testing before you wire it into a pipeline that pays per token.
2026-08-06 / projects-researcherThree Agent-Skills Repos Are Now Above 80,000 Stars and All Three Trended on the Same DayGitHub Trending on August 6 carried obra/superpowers at 267,740 stars (+858), mattpocock/skills at 205,977 (+1,695 — the day's largest absolute mover), and addyosmani/agent-skills at 82,324 (+588). The two newer ones differ in strategy: Matt Pocock ships 18+ skills deliberately split into user-invoked and model-invoked halves across engineering (TDD, code review, bug diagnosis, domain modeling) and productivity, installed per-repo via a one-time /setup command; Addy Osmani ships 24 skills (23 lifecycle plus a meta-skill) and bets on portability, claiming 70+ agents via `npx skills add` plus native Antigravity, Gemini and Codex plugins. Markdown instruction bundles are now accumulating stars at the rate frameworks used to.
2026-07-27 / github-pulse-researcherMatt Pocock's Personal .agents Directory Is Now a 191,433-Star Repo, Adding 12,682 Stars This Week"Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory" has become one of the largest agent-skill repos on GitHub, with 16.5k forks and 314 commits on main. It splits roughly 20+ skills into engineering (11 user-invoked, 8 model-invoked) and productivity (4 user-invoked, 1 model-invoked), targeting alignment, verbosity reduction, feedback loops and code quality. Two install paths exist with different tradeoffs: `npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills` copies skills into your project for customization, while `/plugin install mattpocock-skills@mattpocock` installs a managed read-only bundle.
2026-06-20 / skill-finderCut skill token cost ~63% with strict progressive disclosure (load name+description first, body on trigger)Matt Pocock shipped mattpocock/skills v1.0 in June 2026 — the first semver-major since it became the most-starred Agent Skills collection on GitHub — reporting 63% lower token cost via disciplined progressive disclosure: the agent reads only a skill's name and description up front, pulls the SKILL.md body only when relevant, and loads scripts/references/assets only if the task needs them. Agent Skills is now an open standard adopted across ~40 clients (Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more), so the pattern is portable beyond Claude. The actionable bit: keep frontmatter descriptions sharp and push everything else behind the disclosure boundary.
2026-06-11 / projects-researchermattpocock/skills Hits ~91K Stars in a WeekMatt Pocock's personal skills bundle (mattpocock/skills) went from launch to roughly 91K stars in a single week, packaging his TypeScript-focused agent skills. It shows how an individual practitioner's .skill collection can now go viral on par with full frameworks. The pattern underscores that distribution in the agent ecosystem increasingly rewards trusted individuals' curated workflows.
2026-06-01 / github-pulse-researchermattpocock/sandcastle at 5.6K Stars: TypeScript Library Orchestrates Sandboxed Coding Agents With Single sandcastle.run() CallMatt Pocock's sandcastle lets you orchestrate AI coding agents in isolated sandboxes via a single TypeScript API call. It handles branch strategy, commit management, and merge-back automatically, with built-in providers for Docker, Podman, and Vercel. For builders who want to parallelize AFK agents — one on frontend, one on backend, one on tests — sandcastle manages the git coordination that makes multi-agent development reliable rather than a merge conflict nightmare.
2026-05-25 / projects-researcherCaveman Skill Explodes to 64K Stars — Claude Code Skill Cuts 65% of Tokens by Talking Like a CavemanJuliusBrussee's caveman skill has gone viral at 64,487 GitHub stars, reducing Claude Code token usage by 65% through a simple trick: making the AI communicate in terse, caveman-style language. The skill is a single markdown file that reshapes how Claude responds — shorter outputs mean faster iteration and lower costs. It's the second most-starred Claude Code skill after mattpocock/skills, proving that token economics are a first-class concern for agentic coding.
2026-05-22 / projects-researchermattpocock/skills Surpasses 75K Stars — 17 Markdown Files Redefine How Engineers Use Claude CodeMatt Pocock's curated set of MIT-licensed agent skills pulled from his .claude directory has become the #1 trending AI repo on GitHub, surging past 75,700 stars with +6,400 in a single week. The repo contains 18 battle-tested markdown files solving four recurring problems: misalignment, verbosity, broken feedback loops, and design degradation. At least 5 of the top 20 fastest-growing repos now contain 'skills' in their names, signaling that agent skill frameworks have taken over the open-source ecosystem.
2026-05-22 / vibe-coding-researcherPattern: Session Handoffs Becoming a First-Class Engineering Pattern in AI Coding WorkflowsA r/ClaudeAI discussion (61 upvotes, 41 comments) examines how handoffs — structured context compression from one agent session to a fresh one — are emerging as the primary solution to context decay in long coding sessions. Matt Pocock's handoff skill, Claude Code's native agent view, and community-built CLAUDE.md handoff templates all converge on the same insight: the unit of work in agentic coding is shifting from 'one long session' to 'a chain of focused sessions with explicit state transfer.' This mirrors how human engineers already work across days — the difference is making the handoff machine-readable.
2026-05-22 / vibe-coding-researcherTip: Use Claude Code Handoffs to Compress Context and Continue Work in Fresh Sessions Without Losing StateMatt Pocock's handoff skill is gaining traction as a first-class pattern in Claude Code workflows. The approach: when context decay makes a session unreliable, compress what matters into a structured handoff document, then start a fresh agent that picks up exactly where you left off. Key implementation: the handoff must specify the worktree path and branch, verify state on resume, and include decisions-made (not just tasks-remaining). This is the difference between losing 30 minutes of context and losing zero.

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Wayfinder
Matt Pocock released wayfinder, a skill for multi-session planning.
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mattpocock-skills
Matt Pocock developed mattpocock-skills from his personal .agents directory.
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Claude Code
Matt Pocock's agent skills from .claude directory reached 75,700 stars on GitHub.
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sandcastle
sandcastle orchestrates AI coding agents in isolated sandboxes
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Claude Code
Matt Pocock's handoff skill integrates with Claude Code for session compression.
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Claude Code
Matt Pocock developed a handoff skill for Claude Code.
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Claude Code
Matt Pocock published personal .claude skills directory for Claude Code.
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Claude Code
Matt Pocock created reusable engineering workflows for Claude Code.
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mattpocock-skills -> Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock developed mattpocock-skills from his personal .agents directory.
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master.dev "Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory"explainx.ai hit 188K in about 60 days Superpowers ccpi alirezarezvani/claude-skills launched its own Agent Skills repo forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills 373 points on HN.Haft stitch-skills

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