Matt Pocock's "Home Repo" trick: one repo to run AI agents across many codebases
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-11-11
Matt Pocock shared a simple but effective setup for working with AI agents across multiple repositories: a "Home Repo".
How it works:
- Keep one repo holding all skills, steering files, and wiki for your agents
- In AGENTS.md, add pointers telling the agent to clone other repos to fixed paths (e.g. clone mattpocock/skills to /repos/skills)
- Run all agents from this single home repo
Benefits: centralized steering files and tooling, one entry point for all agents, and the ability to make sweeping changes across repos. A commenter reported maintaining 38 repos this way, using docs/agents and a retro skill to spawn implementable tickets across repositories.
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