My Spec Session With to-Spec: No Interview, Just Synthesis
I ran Matt Pocock’s to-spec skill on a half-baked feature and it refused to interview me: pure synthesis, one test seam pinned, then a ready-for-agent spec.
Matt Pocock’s Code Review skill checks Standards and Spec in parallel sub-agents against a 12-smell Fowler baseline, so one axis can’t mask the other.
Matt Pocock’s Codebase Design standardizes deep-module vocabulary — depth, seams, adapters, the deletion test — so agents build interfaces with real leverage.
Matt Pocock’s implement skill is a seven-line delegation spec: it routes coding through pre-agreed seams, tdd, and code-review — and refuses to auto-trigger.
A 631K-install skill that sets up your repo for Matt Pocock’s engineering skills: issue tracker, triage labels, and domain docs in one pass. #9 on skills.sh.
I ran Matt Pocock’s to-spec skill on a half-baked feature and it refused to interview me: pure synthesis, one test seam pinned, then a ready-for-agent spec.
Straight answers on diagnosing-bugs: why the red-capable loop precedes hypotheses, how flaky bugs become debuggable, and when regression tests should wait.