Field notes · mattpocock/skills · Feb – Jul 2026

The trail this
skill set has walked.

A route through 314 commits of one solo-maintained agent-skills repo — where each skill was born, renamed, promoted, merged, or left for dead, and the vocabulary of "what makes a skill predictable" that got discovered along the way.

314
commits
6
months
27
live skills
153
commits in July
1
maintainer
in-progress engineering / productivity (promoted) renamed / reframed removed / deprecated
Built from the public commit history of github.com/mattpocock/skills. Categories and groupings are one reading of the log, not an official taxonomy.