Matt Pocock: Agent Skills and Engineering Workflows
mattpocock/skills: A complete AI Coding workflow, end-to-end
Seven videos on grilling, prototyping, planning, review, and software quality
A reviewed seven-video route through Matt Pocock’s agent-skills and engineering-workflow uploads from May 25 to August 19, 2026. Six tutorials cover Grill Me interviews, anti-slop review, repository-aware implementation, throwaway prototypes, Wayfinder decision maps, agent-facing writing, deterministic setup, and collaborator questionnaires. In a conversation hosted by Pocock, Uncle Bob Martin argues for deterministic quality gates, specialized agents, and modular architecture. The demonstrations and productivity claims are practitioner evidence, not controlled comparisons.
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Matt Pocock demonstrates the main path through his skills repository in an existing codebase: install and configure shared procedures, clarify the idea against the repository, persist a specification and tickets only when needed, implement a bounded slice, and review it from fresh context.
Key Points Covered
- Choose installation scope deliberately: Pocock uses a global setup for the solo demonstration but recommends project-scoped skills when a team needs to share and evolve the same workflow 00:00–04:03(opens in a new tab).
- Connect skills to repository conventions: The setup records issue storage, triage labels, and domain-documentation locations instead of assuming one universal project layout 04:03–06:58(opens in a new tab).
- Start with repository-aware clarification: The interview explores the existing code and asks follow-up questions until the developer and agent share a plan 06:58–09:36(opens in a new tab).
- Use durable artifacts only when the task crosses contexts: Bounded work can proceed directly; larger work can become a destination specification and context-sized tickets that survive fresh sessions 09:36–14:48(opens in a new tab).
- Separate implementation from fresh review: The demonstrated implementation runs repository checks and delegates specification and standards review to fresh sub-agents before committing 14:48–16:52(opens in a new tab).
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mYodf0dJM(opens in a new tab)