Implement

Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets.

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Install

$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill implement

$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills

» /plugin marketplace add mattpocock/skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Implement the work described by the user in the spec or tickets.

If the user passes a ticket reference, fetch it from the issue tracker and state its title before starting. If the reference is ambiguous, ask.

Call the Skill tool with “tdd” where possible, at pre-agreed seams.

Run typechecking regularly, single test files regularly, and the full test suite once at the end.

Once done, call the Skill tool with “code-review” to review the work.

Commit your work to the current branch.

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/mattpocock/skills, branch main, last pushed 5 November 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

39 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 4 distinct layouts observed: skills/engineering/*/SKILL.md, skills/in-progress/*/SKILL.md, skills/misc/*/SKILL.md, skills/productivity/*/SKILL.md.

Issue colours

Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 253°, chroma 0.140. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

None needed in this skill: the outline was already valid.

Spec compliance

2 editorial notes across 1 of 39 skills. They are printed in the margin of each skill rather than as errors here.

Software Factory — 2 notes

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Matt Pocock, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /mattpocock/skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

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