mattpocock-skills

mattpocock-skills is a plugin for Claude Code from refo/claude-dev-helpers. Its manifest loads nothing; the 36 skills it bundles cost 1,372 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of development helpers for coding agents, covering tasks such as test-driven development (TDD), planning, debugging, code review, and pull requests. TDD means writing tests before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning product requirements, turning them into issues, diagnosing bugs, designing code, writing tests, implementing changes, reviewing code, and preparing commits or pull requests.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for common software-development tasks, so an agent can follow a repeatable workflow instead of improvising each one.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Planning product requirements, turning them into issues, diagnosing bugs, designing code, writing tests, implementing changes, reviewing code, and preparing commits or pull requests.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add refo/claude-dev-helpers
/plugin install mattpocock-skills
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/refo/claude-dev-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 36 skills cost 1,372 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

mattpocock-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mp/skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 25 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "mattpocock-skills",
  "skills": [
    "./skills/engineering/ask-matt",
    "./skills/engineering/diagnosing-bugs",
    "./skills/engineering/grill-with-docs",
    "./skills/engineering/triage",
    "./skills/engineering/improve-codebase-architecture",
    "./skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills",
    "./skills/engineering/tdd",
    "./skills/engineering/to-issues",
    "./skills/engineering/to-prd",
    "./skills/engineering/implement",
    "./skills/engineering/prototype",
    "./skills/engineering/domain-modeling",
    "./skills/engineering/codebase-design",
    "./skills/engineering/code-review",
    "./skills/productivity/grill-me",
    "./skills/productivity/grilling",
    "./skills/productivity/handoff",
    "./skills/productivity/teach",
    "./skills/productivity/writing-great-skills"
  ]
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 25 lines scan A 7eebe706c351

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mattpocock-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository refo/claude-dev-helpers (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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