Matt Pocock's "Skills for Real Engineers" repo hits 280k GitHub stars
adnan_hashmi · x · 2026-10-09
TypeScript educator Matt Pocock open-sourced his personal agent skills repo, "Skills for Real Engineers," pulled straight from his .agents directory—now at 280k+ stars and 23.5k forks under an MIT license.
- Philosophy: real engineering, not vibe coding. Approaches like GSD, BMAD, and Spec-Kit own the whole process, which strips developer control and makes process bugs hard to resolve.
- His skills are intentionally small, easy to adapt, and composable, work with any model, and are based on decades of engineering experience.
- The repo ships with a .claude-plugin, so skills can plug directly into Claude Code-style workflows.
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