Matt Pocock: the Claude skills spec is broken — skills won't chain without manual typing
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-31
Matt Pocock called the skills spec 'so broken', sharing a screenshot where Claude refuses to run /to-tickets and /implement-spec automatically, telling him those skills 'only run when you type it' and demanding he enter each command manually—one at a time—because 'only you can start these two skills.' The exchange exposes a real limitation in Claude's skills mechanism: agents can't chain downstream skills on their own, degrading multi-step workflows into manual command pasting.
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