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Matt Pocock: Agent Skills and Engineering Workflows

New Skills! v1.2 brings /wait-what, /writing-for-agents, and fixes /grill-me

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Matt Pocock walks through version 1.2 of his engineering-skills repository: revised installation and documentation, dependency-aware Grill Me rounds, concise agent-facing writing, deterministic setup scripts, and questionnaire-based collaboration outside the agent interface.

Key Points Covered

  • Improve routing and installation metadata: The release adds a documentation site, a suggested workflow, marketplace packaging, and sidecar metadata intended to preserve invocation settings across supported harnesses [00:00:00]-[00:02:55].
  • Repair unclear agent output locally: Wait What is designed to restate one difficult response in simpler technical English while grounding vocabulary in the project's context file [00:02:55]-[00:03:58].
  • Batch only independent questions: Grill Me now models questions as a dependency graph and asks the currently answerable frontier in rounds, retaining recommended answers and follow-up rounds [00:03:58]-[00:06:44].
  • Write instructions for their consumers: Writing for Agents broadens skill-writing guidance to files such as AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, with an emphasis on concise always-loaded context and extracting specialized procedures into skills [00:06:44]-[00:07:33].
  • Keep sensitive setup deterministic and human-controlled: Wizard generates an interactive shell script for setup steps, while To Questionnaire moves unresolved decisions into a document that collaborators can answer before importing them back into the agent session [00:07:33]-[00:10:41].

This is a release walkthrough, not an independent evaluation. Marketplace portability, clarity improvements, generated-script security, and document synchronization remain reported behavior or open operational concerns.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaDdrDdczO4(opens in a new tab)