mattpocock / skills
Shell  ·  No.2 on GitHub Trending, 20 Aug 2026  ·  1,894 stars today

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|  not a framework. not a product.          |
|  a directory someone actually uses.       |
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Skills for real engineers

Straight from my .agents directory.

The whole pitch is provenance. These are not skills written to be published; they are the ones already sitting in a working engineer's agent directory, copied out as-is. That sentence is doing more work than any feature list would.

$git clone mattpocock/skills
github.com/mattpocock/skills
~/.agentsShape only, not contents
the directory the description points at .agents/ skills/ |-- <skill>/ | '-- SKILL.md |-- <skill>/ | '-- SKILL.md '-- ... no file names are invented here. the repository publishes a description, not a manifest.
What the title claims "Skills for Real Engineers"

An unusual boundary to draw in public. It sorts the audience before the README does, and it sets an expectation that these were load-bearing before they were shared.

What the second line claims "Straight from my .agents directory."

A sourcing claim, and the only kind that cannot be faked cheaply. Anyone can write a skill; publishing the one you already depend on is a different bet.

Concept mock, not affiliated with the project. The directory shape above is drawn from the .agents convention the description names; no skill names, file counts, or contents are represented, because the repository's trending description publishes none. Both quoted lines are verbatim from that description, 20 August 2026.