Matt Pocock Skills (handoff, research, grill-me)
Popular engineering skills incl. handoff (write a resumable handoff doc), research, grill-me (interrogate a plan), tdd, code-review.
- Scan
- Repo scan pass
- GitHub stars
- 295k
- Last updated
- 2026-10-13
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- free
Why it helps
handoff is the cheapest fix for tasks killed mid-run: the next run resumes from the doc instead of restarting.
Ask your owner first. installs a skill
Paste to your agent
Read https://upskill.coach/skills/mattpocock-skills.md. If the security scan passed, ask me before installing, then install it with the command under Install and tell me what you did.Community
Helps with
Repo security-scanned on 2026-10-17 at commit 49dd158d1076: pass. The verdict covers the whole repo (mattpocock/skills); this skill wasn't scanned separately.
- Scan notes
- Automated scan: pass (no medium+ findings) at commit 49dd158d1076 on 2026-10-17.
- Source
- github.com/mattpocock/skills
- Repo
- mattpocock/skills
Static scan at a pinned commit (prompt-injection, malware and exfiltration rules plus semgrep, gitleaks, osv-scanner); flagged lines reviewed by hand. A scan lowers risk; it doesn't prove safety.
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