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Matt Pocock
f3554acafe chore: sync the plugin version from package.json on release
`npm run version` now runs `changeset version` and then
`scripts/sync-plugin-version.mjs`, which copies the new version into
`.claude-plugin/plugin.json`. The release workflow calls `npm run version`
instead of `npx changeset version`, so the version PR carries both files.

Also closes the drift this replaces: `plugin.json` was manually bumped to
1.2.1 while `package.json` stayed at 1.2.0. `package.json` moves up to
1.2.1 so the plugin version never goes backwards.

`npm run check-plugin-version` reports drift without writing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 18:54:44 +01:00
Matt Pocock
07999e06b5 Merge pull request #766 from mattpocock/fix/748-writing-for-agents-openai-metadata
fix: make writing-for-agents model-invokable in Codex
2026-08-05 18:51:28 +01:00
Matt Pocock
ff33584f33 Merge pull request #767 from mattpocock/docs-neutral-third-person
docs: write the pages in neutral third person
2026-08-05 18:51:14 +01:00
Matt Pocock
86b07d15da docs: write the pages in neutral third person
The docs pages carried 36 attributed opinions — "Matt's own answer",
"his position is", quoted replies from the author. A page is a
technical document about a skill, so the substance of each finding
stays and the attribution goes: "the fix is a direct instruction: …",
"the split comes down to session count".

Quotes from *users* stay, anonymous as they already were — those are
evidence about the skill in the wild rather than the author's view.

Records the rule in .agents/writing-docs.md so new pages don't
reintroduce it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 16:56:48 +01:00
Matt Pocock
4aaccb58d4 fix: make writing-for-agents model-invokable in Codex
The rename from writing-great-skills moved agents/openai.yaml without
updating it. Codex filters a skill out of the model-visible skills list
when policy.allow_implicit_invocation is false, so the description could
not trigger the skill — only an explicit $writing-for-agents mention.
Drop the policy block (implicit invocation defaults to true) and correct
the stale display_name and short_description. Move the skill into the
Model-invoked list in both READMEs, where the frontmatter already put it.

Closes mattpocock/skills#748

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 16:53:54 +01:00
Matt Pocock
0986ebaf5d Bump version from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 2026-08-05 15:32:45 +01:00
Matt Pocock
2ffb184ffb Merge pull request #503 from mattpocock/changeset-release/main
chore: version skills
v1.2.0
2026-08-05 13:37:24 +01:00
github-actions[bot]
2a71dcfc12 chore: version skills 2026-08-05 12:36:29 +00:00
Matt Pocock
168215466b Merge pull request #765 from mattpocock/dictionary-links
docs: link first use of AI Coding Dictionary terms
2026-08-05 13:36:02 +01:00
Matt Pocock
e7c34b7be5 docs: point writing-docs at the local dictionary clone
Mirrors how the personal wiki is referenced: read
~/repos/ai/ai-coding-dictionary/dictionary/ where it exists, and fall
back to GitHub where it doesn't.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:35:20 +01:00
Matt Pocock
9fe438cb13 docs: require AI Coding Dictionary terms and first-use links
writing-docs.md now tells doc authors to prefer the dictionary's word
over an invented synonym, and to link each term's first use on the page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:34:01 +01:00
Matt Pocock
3a3f210aec Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into dictionary-links
# Conflicts:
#	docs/engineering/wizard.md
2026-08-05 13:33:54 +01:00
Matt Pocock
16bab00f34 docs: link first use of AI Coding Dictionary terms
Every docs page now links the first occurrence of each AI Coding
Dictionary term to its entry on aihero.dev. 202 links across 25 pages,
one link per term per page. Prose is unchanged — only links added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:16:01 +01:00
Matt Pocock
b137134ffb Merge pull request #764 from mattpocock/wizard-docs-plainer
docs: drop the human-in-the-loop lecture from the wizard page
2026-08-05 13:11:43 +01:00
Matt Pocock
394f484389 docs: drop the human-in-the-loop lecture from the wizard page
The intro spent a paragraph arguing when not to use the skill. Replace it
with what the skill actually is: the agent writes the script, you run it.
Cut the agent-browser question and the closing guard for the same reason,
and plain up the densest sentences.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:10:09 +01:00
Matt Pocock
36fffd8cc9 Merge pull request #763 from mattpocock/changeset-condense
chore: condense changesets and drop docs-only entries
2026-08-05 13:09:25 +01:00
Matt Pocock
77d207ef03 chore: condense changesets and drop docs-only entries
Removes the five docs-page-only changesets (quickstart drop, grill-me pass,
four-section spine, rewrite-to-standard, writing-for-agents pass) — the
changelog reports on the shipped skills, not on the site pages.

Merges the clusters that describe one change each: ask-matt routing,
the grilling round-by-round rework, prototype, wayfinder, wizard and
writing-for-agents. 27 changesets become 15.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:07:04 +01:00
Matt Pocock
c553e932f0 Merge pull request #762 from mattpocock/wizard-model-invoked
skill: make wizard model-invoked
2026-08-05 13:03:27 +01:00
Matt Pocock
61accb0e66 skill: make wizard model-invoked
The agent can now reach for wizard the moment it hits a step only a
human can perform, instead of writing numbered instructions into the
chat. Typing /wizard is unaffected — model-invocation only adds the
agent's reach.

The description is rewritten as the pointer that decides when it fires:
a short statement of the artifact, four trigger branches, and an
explicit non-trigger for steps the agent can perform itself.

Behaviour is unchanged — same name, same template.sh, same four process
steps, same stage-list confirmation, which now doubles as the proposal
when the agent fires it mid-build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 13:02:28 +01:00
Matt Pocock
44d845d6c9 Merge pull request #761 from mattpocock/docs-rewrite-to-standard
docs: rewrite every skills page to the four-section standard
2026-08-05 12:51:18 +01:00
Matt Pocock
cd926f4518 docs: rewrite the ask-matt page, and add the changeset
ask-matt is written last, against the final state of the other 21 pages.
It stays a node rather than redrawing the graph the skill itself holds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:49:27 +01:00
Matt Pocock
8a475c438d fix: correct stale claims in the router and the READMEs
Coherence pass over the rewritten docs set. The recurring defect was a
refactor whose removals landed and whose replacements did not.

- tdd: restore the pointer to /codebase-design that the v1.0 changelog
  and ask-matt both claim exists. The inline deep-module notes were
  deleted then; nothing replaced them.
- ask-matt: /grilling and /resolving-merge-conflicts were missing from
  the router entirely. Split grill-me from grill-with-docs on the
  working directory rather than on whether the subject is code.
- READMEs: wayfinder maps decision tickets, not investigation tickets;
  the diagnosing-bugs loop starts by building a loop that goes red;
  improve-codebase-architecture is a survey, not a rescue; grilling
  resolves a design tree and is the primitive behind five skills.
- Drop the /implement reliability claim from the implement and tdd
  pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:48:02 +01:00
Matt Pocock
c33ce1c187 docs: rewrite the remaining 18 pages to the four-section standard
One agent per page, each rewriting from its SKILL.md up and running its
own evidence hunt across the wiki, the issue tracker and the unreleased
changesets. Question counts track the evidence: wayfinder earns ten,
resolving-merge-conflicts earns three.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:41:23 +01:00
Matt Pocock
14780a1f8d docs: act on pilot feedback — branch tables, wayfinder, deader prose
Encode a new rule in writing-docs.md: a multi-way branch goes in a table
or a list, never a paragraph the reader has to read in full.

- to-spec: trigger becomes a table; stop implying the tracker must be
  remote, since local markdown is supported out of the box.
- prototype: wayfinder is the largest consumer (prototype is one of its
  four decision-ticket types); the ask-matt handoff round trip is
  demoted to one line.
- handoff: trigger becomes a table; dead prose throughout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:34:54 +01:00
Matt Pocock
8ffcd52e4e fix: stop the router and READMEs describing the old prototype behaviour
ask-matt still told the agent to 'keep the answer, delete the code',
which prototype-primary-source made false — the prototype is kept on a
prototype/<name> branch and pointed at from the implementation issue.
Both READMEs still called the logic artifact a runnable terminal app;
it is a single shareable HTML file.
2026-08-05 12:26:30 +01:00
Matt Pocock
799c27334a docs: rewrite the handoff page around what it is actually for
The old page read as session resumption, which is why people skip the
skill. Leads with portability rather than compression, names branching
as the use that gets missed, and is honest that /compact wins most
phase boundaries. Nine observed questions, compact-vs-clear-vs-handoff
first.
2026-08-05 12:25:09 +01:00
Matt Pocock
610001d6fe docs: rewrite the prototype page around what people get wrong
The old page still said the prototype gets deleted and the logic branch
builds a terminal app; both changed. Leads with throwaway-as-a-writing-
constraint, carries the primary-source branch rule, and answers the two
behaviour changes plus the recommend-by-name failure (#384).
2026-08-05 12:24:42 +01:00
Matt Pocock
fd10de97d6 docs: rewrite the to-spec page around what people get wrong
Leads with the defining constraint — it synthesises, it does not
interview — and carries nine observed questions: the to-prd rename, the
ready-for-agent rough edge (#606), why not skip the spec, what to feed
it after a wayfinder map, and the refactor-shaped-work limitation.
2026-08-05 12:24:26 +01:00
Matt Pocock
be82b3150e docs: size Common questions to the evidence, not to a hard observed-only rule
An observed question still beats an invented one and the hunt is still
mandatory, but a thin skill may carry a question a reader would plainly
ask. The count stays honest to the evidence rather than padding every
page out to match a richer one.
2026-08-05 12:20:39 +01:00
Matt Pocock
111e05eda6 Merge pull request #760 from mattpocock/docs-wait-what-dead-prose
docs: drop the fire-extinguisher metaphor from wait-what
2026-08-05 12:13:32 +01:00
Matt Pocock
3fc7d6ec57 docs: stop listing grill-with-docs and domain-modeling as alternatives
grill-with-docs is a shim that runs grilling using domain-modeling, so
the two are one route, not two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:11:30 +01:00
Matt Pocock
52f202e712 docs: simplify the wait-what page
Short sentences, no em-dash chains, same six sections and same facts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:07:27 +01:00
Matt Pocock
d1782d8524 Merge pull request #759 from mattpocock/docs-page-structure
docs: make Common questions and It's working if part of the page standard
2026-08-05 12:03:16 +01:00
Matt Pocock
a0c6bbd635 docs: drop the fire-extinguisher metaphor from wait-what
Rewrite the extinguisher/sprinkler framing as plain prose across the
docs page, the changeset and the ask-matt router line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:02:32 +01:00
Matt Pocock
b442590419 docs: make Common questions and It's working if part of the page standard
An audit of all 25 docs pages found the two sections that carry the most
weight are the two the standard treated as optional. Only grill-me has a
Common questions section. Twelve pages have no It's working if, and
several that do use it for compliance checks on the skill's internals
rather than for signals the reader can see.

writing-docs.md now names the four-section spine, gates Common questions
on evidence -- the personal wiki where it exists on the machine, this
repo's issues, and CHANGELOG.md -- and raises the It's working if bar to
"checkable without opening SKILL.md". CLAUDE.md names the four sections
in the pointer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:01:41 +01:00
Matt Pocock
d2d6c93b7c Merge pull request #758 from mattpocock/docs-wfa-rewrite
docs: rewrite the writing-for-agents page around what people get wrong
2026-08-05 11:59:08 +01:00
Matt Pocock
0208cbc093 docs: drop the forced code-review neighbour from where-it-fits
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:55:49 +01:00
Matt Pocock
b0bae9921e docs: widen the scope line to any doc an agent reads
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:54:15 +01:00
Matt Pocock
3babdf52d1 docs: rewrite the writing-for-agents page around what people get wrong
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:49:31 +01:00
Matt Pocock
f86d3e0e0d Merge pull request #757 from mattpocock/docs-remove-source-links
docs: remove the source link from every skills page
2026-08-05 11:47:49 +01:00
Matt Pocock
71eb50346f docs: remove the source link from every skills page
Every docs page opened with a [Source](github.com/...) link, and
.agents/writing-docs.md told agents to add one to each new page.
Remove the line from all 25 pages, rewrite the one inline use in
ask-matt.md, and drop the rule from the page template, the fixed
frame list, and the "Done when" list so the links do not come back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:37:40 +01:00
Matt Pocock
6b46e5c474 Merge pull request #755 from mattpocock/docs-grill-me-pass-v2
docs: rewrite the grill-me page around what people get wrong
2026-08-05 11:33:17 +01:00
Matt Pocock
f4dd5e4976 docs: reframe grill-me as a portable standalone, not a chain step
The page described grill-me as operating on an existing plan and sitting
at the front of the build chain. Both are wrong. It takes a loose idea,
not a plan, and it is a productivity skill rather than an engineering
one: stateless, so it needs no repo and does not assume the subject is
software at all.

Routing now keys on portability rather than on whether a codebase
exists, and Where it fits names it a standalone that runs anywhere on
anything. Handing off to to-spec is presented as an option for when the
idea turns out to be software, not as the purpose of the skill.
2026-08-05 11:31:18 +01:00
Matt Pocock
a3065f1b7b docs: rewrite the grill-me page around what people get wrong
The old page explained the mechanism and stopped. It answered none of
the questions people actually ask: which grilling skill to reach for,
how many questions is normal, what to do with a question talking can't
settle, whether to clear context before to-spec.

Keep the mechanism short and spend the page on judgement instead:
three-way sibling routing keyed on what you have in front of you; a
section naming passivity as the main failure mode; grillable vs
ungrillable as the move for questions that need a prototype; an
"It's working if" list; and a "Common questions" section answering the
six highest-volume ones. Say plainly to leave plan mode off.

Sourced from user questions across X, Discord and YouTube.
2026-08-05 11:24:09 +01:00
Matt Pocock
3314257466 docs: drop the Quickstart block from all 25 pages
aihero.dev renders an install widget above every skill page. Each page
then repeated the same commands in its body, and the two copies had
drifted: the widget uses the current `npx skills@latest ...` wording
while the hand-written blocks mostly carried the older bare `npx skills
...`. Pages showed the right command and a stale one together.

Delete the block from all 25 pages and record the rule in
.agents/writing-docs.md: install wording belongs to the site, not the
page. The template no longer carries a Quickstart, and
.agents/install-block.md notes that docs pages are not one of its
consumers.
2026-08-05 11:22:19 +01:00
Matt Pocock
c64fa7ecf6 Merge pull request #751 from mattpocock/worktree-t9-talk-normal
feat: add wait-what, the verbosity fire extinguisher
2026-08-05 11:16:10 +01:00
Matt Pocock
248fd6935b Merge pull request #752 from mattpocock/worktree-t7-remove-cruft
chore: remove six unused skills and the personal bucket
2026-08-05 11:15:08 +01:00
Matt Pocock
50777fcc09 feat: graduate wait-what into the productivity bucket
Moves the skill out of in-progress/ and ships it: bucket README,
top-level README, plugin.json, an ask-matt router entry, and a docs
page at docs/productivity/wait-what.md.

Productivity rather than engineering — it fires in any conversation
with an agent, code or not. The CONTEXT.md clause is an opportunistic
hook, not a prerequisite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:11:54 +01:00
Matt Pocock
c66bdeeee0 chore: remove six unused skills and the personal bucket
Delete the four skills in deprecated/ — design-an-interface, qa,
request-refactor-plan, ubiquitous-language — each already absorbed by a
promoted skill. The bucket itself stays, now empty: a retired skill is
deleted, and the changeset that removes it names its replacement.

Delete edit-article and obsidian-vault along with the personal/ bucket.
obsidian-vault hardcoded a path to Matt's own vault and was
model-invocable, so any skills.sh user could have had it fire on them.

None of the six was in the plugin, but skills.sh serves every SKILL.md in
the repo, so all six were installable — hence the changeset.

Reframe in-progress/ from scratchpad to beta channel: public on purpose,
feedback wanted, not in the plugin, and installable one skill at a time
through skills.sh. Nothing there is deleted or graduated.

Drop qa from the two live docs that cited it as an issue-tracker skill.
ADR 0002 is left untouched — it records reasoning that was true when
decided.

Resolves mattpocock/personal-wiki#256

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:07:56 +01:00
Matt Pocock
006ca0546b refactor: loosen wait-what's re-pitch scope to a bare demonstrative
"Re-pitch that last message" pinned the correction to one message.
"Re-pitch that" leaves the agent to judge how much of what it said
failed to land — and is shorter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:07:06 +01:00