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Setup Matt Pocock Skills skill

setup-matt-pocock-skillsMatt Pocock Skillsskills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

300kMIT

always on

44 tokname + description

once used

1,673 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

613 KB

installs

1.0Mskills.sh

Install the Setup Matt Pocock Skills skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill setup-matt-pocock-skills

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills ~/.claude/skills/setup-matt-pocock-skills

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. It is marked disable-model-invocation, so the agent won't pick it on its own: you run it as /setup-matt-pocock-skills.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description44 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,673 tok
Only if opened6 bundled files (13 KB)varies

Until it is used, setup-matt-pocock-skills costs about 31× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 38 skills from mattpocock/skills would load 1,290 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Setup Matt Pocock's Skills
  • Process
  • 1. Explore
  • 2. Present findings and ask
  • 3. Confirm and edit
  • 4. Write
  • 5. Done

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