If I had a nickel for every dev who has written a "productivity suite" of skills, and shared it with others as if it was a burst of innovation that everyone can benefit from (when it's really extremely specific to that dev and their workflow) ... well I'd have a lot of nickels.
It turns out productivity skill sets for Claude are a bit like opinions and assholes (everyone has one, and ...)
I mean, just to give you an idea of how common this is, my CEO made a suite like this ... although he had the self-awareness to realize what he made was very specific to him.
Agreed. Skills are hardly transferrable unless you are just focusing on globally applicable things like syntax, structure, etc. The most useful skills are things that are not well known and project/ organization specific. The "tribal knowledge" aspect of coding.
Yep. The useful skills are the org/team rules, and those are the ones that never leave someone’s laptop. Then Cursor’s on a different copy than Claude. That’s the actual problem — drift - not another public set of skills. skillrepo.dev is for keeping that set current in your environment.
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If I had a nickel for every dev who has written a "productivity suite" of skills, and shared it with others as if it was a burst of innovation that everyone can benefit from (when it's really extremely specific to that dev and their workflow) ... well I'd have a lot of nickels.
It turns out productivity skill sets for Claude are a bit like opinions and assholes (everyone has one, and ...)
I mean, just to give you an idea of how common this is, my CEO made a suite like this ... although he had the self-awareness to realize what he made was very specific to him.
You are entirely correct. Matt Pocock is still a nice guy with reasonable opinions and shares a lot with us.
I've personally learned from reading his skills.
Exposure is still valuable. Eventually you recognise a nice... ahem... opinion... just by looking at it.
Agreed. Skills are hardly transferrable unless you are just focusing on globally applicable things like syntax, structure, etc. The most useful skills are things that are not well known and project/ organization specific. The "tribal knowledge" aspect of coding.
Yep. The useful skills are the org/team rules, and those are the ones that never leave someone’s laptop. Then Cursor’s on a different copy than Claude. That’s the actual problem — drift - not another public set of skills. skillrepo.dev is for keeping that set current in your environment.
I have one I started back in October last year and been improving since. Also a python docs cli to manage agent state in markdown locally.
I love reading them to see if theres a way mine could be improved, what topics they hit on, how they approach different problems.
https://github.com/ArtRichards/agent-playbook-suite
https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/
https://github.com/ArtRichards/docs-cli