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Matt Pocock Skills

Installs Matt Pocock's engineering and productivity skills into Agent Zero — TDD, code review, bug diagnosis, spec and ticket flows, domain modelling, grilling, teach and handoff among 25 skills, each with a matching slash command. Upstream is fetched at install time and can be re-synced on demand, so new skills arrive without manual work.

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Matt Pocock Skills for Agent Zero

Agent Zero plugin that installs mattpocock/skills — Skills for Real Engineers — into your Agent Zero skill library, and registers a slash command for every skill.

What you get
25 skills Engineering (tdd, code-review, diagnosing-bugs, to-spec, to-tickets, wayfinder, wizard, …) and productivity (grilling, teach, handoff, …)
25 slash commands Same names as upstream: /tdd, /to-spec, /grilling, /handoff, …
Zero-maintenance updates Upstream changes arrive on the next plugin update — no manual sync

Two upstream skills are intentionally excluded: setup-matt-pocock-skills (installs a Claude Code harness that does not exist here) and ask-matt (points at external paid content).

Install

Install from this repository's URL via Plugins → Install from Git. The installer clones this repo, then runs the plugin's install() hook, which:

  1. git clone --depth 1 of upstream at the ref in upstream.yaml
  2. verifies the clone contains usable skills (refuses to swap otherwise)
  3. atomically swaps it into the plugin's vendor/ cache
  4. copies each skill into /a0/usr/skills/, tagged with an ownership marker
  5. regenerates the matching slash commands in /a0/usr/plugins/_commands/commands/
  6. records the resolved upstream commit in upstream.yaml

Requirements: network access to GitHub during install and update, plus git (already present in Agent Zero).

Updates

Click Update on the plugin. The framework pulls this repository and then re-runs install(), which re-fetches upstream and re-syncs everything. If upstream itself has not changed, you get the same skills with a fresh commit record. There is nothing to bump by hand.

Re-syncing without a plugin update

Agent Zero only offers the Update button when this repository has new commits. If upstream changes but this repository does not, no update appears — even though the skills are stale. For that case, open the plugin's screen (Open in the plugin list, or the plugin's main page) and press Re-sync upstream now.

That button calls POST /api/plugins/mattpocock_skills/sync_upstream, which runs the same fetch → verify → swap → sync pipeline as install(), then reports the resolved upstream commit, version, skill count and command count.

To follow a different ref (e.g. a tag) or a fork, edit upstream.yaml:",

repo: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git
ref: main

Failure behaviour

Nothing is deleted until a new clone has been fetched and verified. If the fetch fails and a previous cache exists, that cache is reused and the recorded resolved_commit is left at the last known-good value. If there is no cache either, the install fails loudly rather than leaving you with missing skills.

Your own skills are never touched: a skill directory without a .mattpocock_skills.json marker is treated as user-owned and skipped.

Uninstall

Removes exactly what it created — the 25 skills (by marker), the 25 slash commands (by marker), and the vendor/ cache. Skills of yours that happen to share a name are left alone.

Files

File Purpose
plugin.yaml Manifest
hooks.py install() / pre_update() / uninstall() lifecycle
helpers/upstream.py Fetch, verify, swap, sync, remove
helpers/commands_sync.py Slash-command generation and removal
upstream.yaml Which repo/ref to follow, and the last resolved commit

License

Plugin code: MIT (see LICENSE). The skills fetched at install time are MIT © Matt Pocock; their notice is preserved in LICENSE.