ask-matt

ask-matt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN. It costs 28 tokens per session (3,254 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill router that helps choose the right workflow or skill for the current task. It maps work from an initial idea through building and shipping, with separate paths for research, prototypes, and multi-session projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a process for developing an idea, prototyping a solution, planning multi-session work, or handing a task between workflows.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember which skill to use or how different workflows connect. It also explains when to create a specification, split work into tickets, or hand work between sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 38 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to select a process for developing an idea, prototyping a solution, planning multi-session work, or handing a task between workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/ask-matt
About the project

mattpocock-skills-zh-CN is a Simplified Chinese localization of a collection of reusable instructions for coding agents. Chinese-speaking developers use the translated skills to support engineering workflows while keeping their original commands, paths, identifiers, and behavior. The catalogue contains the localized skills, instructions, and plugin components.

vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN · 5,317 stars · on GitHub · skills.sh

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 vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN --skill ask-matt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,254 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 9 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00028 $0.03254
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.01302
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00651
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00325

Measured 18d ago against content hash e9daccf49037, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 18d 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.

skills/engineering/ask-matt/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

问 Matt

你不需要记住每个 skill,所以直接问。

Flow 是穿过 skills 的一条路径。大多数路径沿着一条 main flow 前进,两个 on-ramps 会并入它。其他内容要么是 standalone,要么是在下层运行的 vocabulary layer。

主流程:idea -> ship

这是大多数工作的路线:你有一个想法,并希望把它构建出来。

  1. /grill-with-docs - 通过访谈打磨想法。在 working directory 中工作时从这里开始:它是 stateful 的,会把学到的内容保存在 GLOSSARY.md 和 ADRs 中。(没有 working directory?用 /grill-me,见「独立 skills」。两者都运行同一个 /grilling primitive;grill-with-docs 是会留下文档痕迹的版本,只要有 repo 可记录,它就是两者中更好的那个。)

  2. 分支 - 能否在对话中解决所有问题? 如果某个问题需要可运行的答案(state、business logic,或必须亲眼看到的 UI),就通过 prototype 绕行,并用 /handoff 在两个方向桥接(prototype 住在自己的目录里,这正是 /handoff 的用途,见「Phase 边界」):

    • /handoff 导出,然后基于该文件打开 fresh session;
    • /prototype 用 throwaway code 回答问题;
    • /handoff 把学到的内容带回来,并在原始 idea thread 中引用它。
  3. 分支 - 这是 multi-session build 吗?

    • 是 -> /to-spec(把 thread 变成 spec),再用 /to-tickets 拆成 tracer-bullet tickets,每个 ticket 声明 blocking edges。然后从以下两种方式中选一种来推进这些 tickets:
      • 逐 ticket 运行 /implement,并在 tickets 之间用 /clear 清空 context。Local tracker 在 .scratch/<feature>/issues/ 下每 ticket 一个文件,手动按 blockers-first 处理;真实 tracker 用 native blocking links,因此 blockers 已完成的 ticket 都可领取。每个 ticket 都是自包含的,因此最后一个 ticket 的 context 可以丢弃。
      • 用 /implement-spec 一次运行实现整份 spec。它把 tickets 读作 task graph,在 ready frontier 上并行运行 implementer subagents,并把全部成果落到一条 integration branch 上。当你更想编排这次 build、而不是亲自逐个驱动 ticket 时,就选它。
    • 否 -> 在当前 context window 里直接运行 /implement。

    无论哪种方式,代码都通过驱动 /tdd 来构建(一次一个 red-green slice),并用 /code-review 收尾,也就是对 diff 做 Standards + Spec 双轴 review。/implement 会在每个 ticket 上运行这两者;/implement-spec 的每个 implementer 各自驱动 /tdd,它再对 integration branch 运行一次 /code-review。只想在没有完整 spec 的情况下 test-first 构建一个具体 behavior 时,单独用 /tdd;想按固定点 review branch 或 PR 时,单独用 /code-review。

    当工作以 pull request 的形式提上去时,/pr 负责塑形 PR 正文:展示这次变更的最小 visual、证明它可用的 before/after 证据,再加上一次单向门还是双向门的判断。它是 model-invoked 的,所以 agent 每次写 PR 都会伸手用它。

  4. /retro 闭合循环。一次 build 之后,尤其是一次走了弯路的 build,它会回看整个 session,建议改动 agent 的 environment,而不是代码:navigation pointers、automated checks、/code-review 强制执行的 coding standards、steering files、tooling。机械性错误变成 deterministic checks;judgement calls 变成 coding standards。下一次 build 由此从更好的 environment 出发。

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 18d ago Changed · +5 lines e9daccf49037
  2. 28d ago Changed 5a528f4f5e8f
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 007dd67edb52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-matt is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN (5,317 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 3,254 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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