Matt PocockSends the reading legwork to a background agent, restricted to high-trust primary sources, and captures what it found as a Markdown file in the repository so the next person does not repeat it.
In the author’s words
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.
The description field from SKILL.md, quoted as written.
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SKILL.md · 7 lines
Install on its own
Or add it to your stack above and install everything at once.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill researchTrust audit
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Goes well with
domain-modeling
Builds and sharpens the project's domain model.
Names the things your codebase talks about and keeps those names honest, through a CONTEXT.md and architecture decision records. Worth reaching for when two parts of the system call the same concept different things.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill domain-modeling
to-spec
Turns the conversation you just had into a spec.
No interview and no questionnaire. It synthesises what has already been discussed into a spec and publishes it to the issue tracker, which is the step most people skip between deciding and building.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill to-spec
PlanningFull page & trust audit →writing-plans
Turns a spec into a plan before anything is touched.
For multi-step work, where the failure mode is an agent that starts confidently in the wrong place. It produces a plan you can read and correct while correcting it is still cheap.
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill writing-plans
PlanningFull page & trust audit →
Matt Pocock
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