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Matt Pocock open sourced his dot claud folder.

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Just the markdown files he keeps in there. Ninety days later, 68,000

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stars.

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More than Next. Js got in its first three years.

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So what's actually in this folder? And why are real engineers throwing out SpecKit and BMAD to copy it? Here's the whole repo,

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folder of folders. Engineering,

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productivity,

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personal,

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misc.

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Inside each folder, more folders.

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Inside those,

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a single file called skill dot m d. That's it. No runtime, no orchestrator, no 12 agent hierarchy.

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Just mark down the agent reads on demand. 68,000

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stars for a folder of text files. You know the loop. You type a vague request.

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Agent guesses.

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Agent ships the wrong thing.

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You fix the prompt.

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Agent guesses harder.

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Pocock has a name for this. Vibe coding,

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and the whole repo is built to kill it. Skill number one,

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slash grill me.

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The agent stops being polite.

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It interviews you about your plan,

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one question at a time,

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walks every branch of the decision tree, makes you commit before any code gets written.

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Quote from the skill file.

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Interview me relentlessly until we reach a shared understanding.

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Pocock's most used skill by his own admission.

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The fix for misalignment is friction

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applied to you. Skill number two solves

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verbosity.

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Before, there's a problem when a lesson inside a section of a course is made real,

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given a spot in the file system.

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After, with a shared language file called context dot m d,

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there's a problem with the materialization

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cascade.

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Same bug, same agent, half the tokens.

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Pocock calls this the single coolest technique in the repo.

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He's not wrong. Skill number three slash

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TDD.

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Most people let the agent write all the tests first,

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then all the code.

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Pocock's skill literally says, do not do this.

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One test, one implementation,

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one green bar,

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repeat.

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He calls the wrong way, horizontal slicing.

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Tests written in bulk verify imagined behavior,

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not actual behavior.

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Vertical slices,

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tracer bullets,

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red green refactor,

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boring,

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old,

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works. Skill number four,

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slash diagnose.

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Six phases.

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Reproduce,

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minimize,

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hypothesize,

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instrument,

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fix,

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regression test.

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But the real trick is phase one, building a feedback loop.

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Pocock lists 10 ways, ranked,

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failing test at the top, driving a human with a bash script at the bottom, last resort.

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Quote,

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build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90

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fixed.

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Compare the field.

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SpecKit,

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93,000

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stars.

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GitHub published, has a constitution file.

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GSD,

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get stuff done, 61,000

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stars,

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opinionated framework just for Claude code.

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BMAD,

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46,000

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stars,

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12 specialized agents doing product, architecture,

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UX, dev, QA, scrum master.

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Pocock's repo,

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just markdown, beats two of them already.

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Here's the thesis.

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Big frameworks own the process.

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They give you 12 agents and a constitution and a methodology.

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And when something breaks, you don't know which layer to fix.

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Skills do the opposite.

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Each one is a single file.

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You can read it. You can fork it. You can delete it. No lock in. No magic. No Kool Aid.

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The catalog is the artifact.

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And here's the part that explains the star count. Pocock didn't just publish files.

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He shipped an installer.

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One command picks your skills, picks your agent, Claude code, codex, whatever,

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wires them in, distribution as a feature.

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Most open source projects forget that part. Verdict.

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If you're using Claude code, cursor,

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or codex,

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you're already running this pattern badly.

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Steel Pocock's version.

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Command on screen.

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Repos in the description.

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Skills are the new package dot JSON.

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Start curating yours

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or someone else will. Sub for the next one.