skills
skills is Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. - mattpocock/skills. It is ranked #164 on the Dev Radar, in AI dev tools, first seen 19 days ago and shared in 3 posts (283.2k views).
What people said about skills on X
/retro will now aggressively look for opportunities to turn fuzzy rules into deterministic checks It'll propose custom lint rules, pre-commit hooks, or CI workflows. Found an error? Do a /retro, and make it impossible next time https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/1083
— @mattpocockuk, 4 days ago · 1.9k likes · see the post
This has ended up being better than expected and fills an interesting hole in my skills. Most folks don't have an AFK agent workflow set up yet. You should. It's better than /implement-spec. BUT running /implement-spec is good, especially while tokens are cheap, and very simple to set up. I'll be graduating this into…
— @mattpocockuk, 19 days ago · 1.2k likes · see the post
Had Grok @bot study several GitHub repos of agent skills. Here are the 7 that should actually change your setup: 1.) /agent-skills by @addyosmani Interview you before it invents a spec. https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills 2.) /superpowers by Jesse Vincent A real loop: plan, TDD, review. Not vibes.…
— @suraj_sharma14, 2 days ago · 32 likes · see the post
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skills in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #164 of 1355
- Shared in 3 posts by 2 accounts: @mattpocockuk, @suraj_sharma14
- 283.2k views on those posts
- First seen 19 days ago, last shared 2 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: open source
- Market: AI dev tools
FAQ
What is skills?
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. - mattpocock/skills It was first shared on X 19 days ago and is ranked #164 on the Dev Radar.
Is skills free?
It is open source.
Who shared skills?
2 accounts on X, including @mattpocockuk, @suraj_sharma14, in 3 posts totalling 283.2k views.
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