Matt Pocock: Agent Skills and Engineering Workflows
/wayfinder: Nothing is too big to plan anymore
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 presents Wayfinder, a planning skill for work with too many unresolved decisions for one agent session. It stores questions and their dependencies in an issue tracker. Each new session tackles an answerable question; its result can unblock the next one. Pocock calls this a map, with a “frontier” of available work and “fog” covering decisions that are still blocked.
Key Points Covered
- Plan uncertainty, not only implementation tasks: An initial question-and-answer session establishes the destination, then identifies decisions that need research, prototyping, further discussion, or real-world action 02:02–04:09(opens in a new tab).
- Persist the route in an issue tracker: Child tickets hold detailed resolutions while the parent map records condensed outcomes and the next available frontier 04:09–06:14(opens in a new tab).
- Run one bounded session per decision: Research, prototype, grilling, and task tickets have distinct purposes; dependency relationships defer work until its prerequisites are settled 06:14–09:23(opens in a new tab).
- Convert the resolved map into delivery artifacts: When the destination is buildable, Pocock turns the map into a specification and implementation tickets while retaining links to fuller decision context 09:23–11:08(opens in a new tab).
- Do not use the process for every task: Pocock recommends ordinary single-session planning when the route is already understood and frames substantial uncertainty as the reason to use Wayfinder 11:08–12:08(opens in a new tab).
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lL98Pj90o(opens in a new tab)