mattpocock / skills
Shell · GitHub Trending 4 Sep 2026 · 1,601 stars today
The claim is provenance

No curation step sits between his machine and yours.

$ git clone skills
github.com/mattpocock/skills

Most skill libraries are assembled for an audience. This one says it was lifted out of a working directory, so what you install is what one named engineer actually runs.

The provenance chain, as the description states it

two steps, one deliberate omission
01
.agents directoryA working folder on one person's machine. The files earned their place by being used, not by being written for a repo.
named source
—
no step hereThe word straight rules out a rewrite, a review pass, or a general-audience edit. That absence is the product claim and the risk in the same breath.
the load-bearing word
02
this repositoryWhat ships. Whether it fits your stack depends on how close your work is to his.
named destination
what backs the skills one person's daily use no skill list, no count published

Real Engineers is a boundary

The capitals are in the source. Naming an audience that narrowly is a filter, and a filter is easier to defend than a promise of universal fit.

A byline is a warranty

Anonymous skill packs have to argue from content. This one argues from authorship, which works exactly as far as the reader trusts the author.

What is not on this page

No skill names, no count, no supported client, no install target. The trending description is two sentences and lists none of it.

Concept mock, not affiliated with the project. The complete GitHub Trending description on 4 September 2026 is "Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory." The chain restates those two steps and marks the missing middle because the word straight rules one out. No skill names, counts, or contents appear here, since that sentence publishes none.