> ## Documentation Index
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# Matt Pocock's Skills

> Battle-tested Claude Code skills from Matt Pocock's .claude directory — TDD, diagnosis, architecture review, and doc-grounded responses.

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# Matt Pocock's Skills

**Engineering skills from the TypeScript educator's own Claude Code setup — covering TDD, debugging, architecture, and keeping agents grounded in official docs.**

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  <Card title="Stars" icon="star">67.2k+</Card>
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## What it is

Released directly from Matt Pocock's `.claude` directory, this skill collection targets the most persistent failure modes in AI-assisted software development: agents that hallucinate APIs, drift architecturally, produce verbose output, or generate buggy code. Key skills include `/tdd` (forces a test-first feedback loop), `/grill-with-docs` (grounds responses in official documentation before answering), `/diagnose` (systematic root-cause analysis), and `/zoom-out` (flags when proposed changes are missing broader context).

The skills install via `npx skills@latest` and integrate with GitHub and Linear for issue-tracking workflows. Pocock, known for his TypeScript teaching work at Total TypeScript, has shaped the collection around real-world TypeScript and frontend engineering pain points — though most skills apply broadly.

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  **Use this when** you want disciplined, tested, doc-grounded code from Claude — especially on TypeScript or frontend projects where hallucinated APIs and architectural drift are the most common failure modes.
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## Get started

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    Install via `npx skills@latest` — source and skill reference.
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