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 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "mattpocock-skills--align-agent-on-change-before-coding",
 "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills",
 "repo_slug": "mattpocock-skills",
 "title": "Align an agent on a change before any code is written",
 "page_title": "How to align an agent on a change before any code is written with Skills",
 "summary": "Run a grilling session so the agent asks detailed questions before it edits your repo.",
 "who": "A developer about to ask a coding agent for a feature who has seen past builds miss what they meant.",
 "problem": "Misalignment is the most common failure mode: the agent builds something that does not match what you wanted.",
 "outcome": "A clarified plan, plus shared terms and decisions recorded in the project's domain docs before implementation starts.",
 "steps": [
  "Install the plugin in Claude Code with `claude plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official`.",
  "In your repo, run `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` once and answer the questions about issue tracker, triage labels, and where docs go.",
  "Run `/grill-with-docs` and describe the change you want.",
  "Answer the agent's questions until the plan is clear, and let it update the glossary and ADRs as you go."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the mattpocock/skills repo's grill-with-docs workflow, interview me about the change described here: <feature description>. Expected output: a short list of resolved decisions and updated GLOSSARY.md entries or ADRs. Verify that every new term in the output appears in the glossary file.",
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  "claude-code",
  "codex"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The grilling session only helps if you engage with the questions, and the Skills expect the setup step to run once per repo before the engineering Skills are used.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "shell",
 "requirements": [
  "A coding agent that supports the plugin or skills install route, such as Claude Code or Codex",
  "A project repository the agent can read and edit",
  "Optional: an issue tracker such as GitHub or GitLab, or a local folder for tickets"
 ],
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 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": true,
 "score": 1.0,
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