Agent skills
Subscribe, or make them yours. Not both.
Two installers, two philosophies, and the project is blunt about the consequence: pick one, because installing both leaves you with every skill twice.
Path one
Subscribe
A managed, read-only bundle that updates when the author ships.
claude plugins install mattpocock-skills
- You get
- Updates automatically
- You give up
- Editing them
Path two
Fork
Editable skill files copied into your project, which you then own.
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
- You get
- Files you can hack on
- You give up
- Automatic updates
Installing both leaves you with every skill twice. Quoted from the project, because a setup instruction that names its own failure mode is worth putting above the fold.
Built against named failure modes
- The agent did not do what I wantgrill-me / grill-with-docs
- A grilling session before the work starts, so the misalignment surfaces in questions rather than in a finished diff.
- The agent is far too verbosea shared vocabulary
- The project frames this as the domain-language problem: an agent dropped into a project guessing at the jargon.