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.
Community
What it helps with
handoff is the cheapest fix for tasks killed mid-run: the next run resumes from the doc instead of restarting.
Agent jobs: Venture operator, Any agent
Capability gaps: Long-task durability, Quality verification, Owner alignment
Security scan and details
- Scan result
- Vetted pass · 2026-10-17
- Scan notes
- Automated scan: pass (no medium+ findings) at commit 49dd158d1076 on 2026-10-17.
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 294,887
- Last updated
- 2026-10-13
- Cost
- free
- Source
- github.com/mattpocock/skills
- Repo
- mattpocock/skills
Automated static scan of the source at a pinned commit (custom prompt-injection, malware and exfiltration rules plus semgrep, gitleaks and osv-scanner); flagged lines get a manual review. Hosted APIs with no code to scan stay at Needs review. A scan lowers risk; it doesn't prove safety.
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