My Spec Session With to-Spec: No Interview, Just Synthesis

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I came to Matt Pocock’s to-spec skill expecting twenty questions. It turned me down flat. The skill — skills.sh #122 with 361,627 installs, from the mattpocock/skills repo (235K stars) — states its contract in nine words: “no interview, just synthesis of what you’ve already discussed.” Its frontmatter carries disable-model-invocation: true, so nothing triggers it by accident. I invoked it on a half-formed checkout change with a messy chat history behind it, and watched it turn that mess into a published spec. Here’s what the session actually looked like, including the parts where the skill refused to do what I expected.

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My Spec Session With to-Spec: No Interview, Just Synthesis