ask-matt

ask-matt is a skill for Claude Code from 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,299 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ask-matt, MIT.

A skill and workflow router that helps you choose the right task-specific guide from a repository. It maps common software work from an initial idea through delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a suitable workflow for planning and building software, refining an idea, prototyping, or handing work between sessions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember which available skill fits a request. It also shows when to switch to a prototype or another workflow to answer an unresolved question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find a suitable workflow for planning and building software, refining an idea, prototyping, or handing work between sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26bb/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp/ask-matt
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp --skill ask-matt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,299 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.01299
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00649
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00130

Measured 7d ago against content hash bb7525453aad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-matt 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ask-matt — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/ask-matt/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Matt

When to Use

Use when this workflow matches the user request: Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the user-invoked skills in this repo.

Source: mattpocock/skills (MIT).

You don't remember every skill, so ask.

A flow is a path through the skills. Most paths run along one main flow, and two on-ramps merge onto it. Everything else is standalone.

The main flow: idea → ship

The route most work travels. You have an idea and want it built.

  1. /grill-with-docs — sharpen the idea by interview. Start here when you have a codebase: it's stateful, retaining what it learns in CONTEXT.md and ADRs. (No codebase? Use /grill-me — see Standalone.)
  2. Branch — can you settle every question in conversation? If a question needs a runnable answer (state, business logic, a UI you have to see), detour through a prototype, bridged by /handoff in both directions (see Crossing sessions):
    • /handoff out, then open a fresh session against that file,
    • /prototype to answer the question with throwaway code,
    • /handoff back what you learned, and reference it from the original idea thread.
  3. Branch — is this a multi-session build?
    • Yes/to-prd (turn the thread into a PRD) → /to-issues (split the PRD into independently-grabbable issues). Because the issues are independent, clear context between each one: start a fresh session per issue and kick off /implement by passing it the PRD and the single issue to work on.
    • No/implement right here, in the same context window.

Context hygiene

Keep steps 1–3 in one unbroken context window — don't compact or clear until after /to-issues — so the grilling, PRD, and issues all build on the same thinking. Each /implement then starts fresh, working from the issue.

The limit on this is the smart zone: the window (~120k tokens on state-of-the-art models) within which the model still reasons sharply. If a session approaches it before /to-issues, don't push on degraded — /handoff and continue in a fresh thread.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 93 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A bb7525453aad

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ask-matt is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,299 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ask-matt, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.