Ship like the best engineers: Matt Pocock's AI workflow

Your agent can build a whole feature while you make a coffee. So what are you there for? Matt Pocock (x.com/mattpocockuk) has an answer: a folder of agent skills with more stars on GitHub than React. He shipped version 1.3 on October 4. We follow one small feature through his whole flow: a Pause button for a coffee subscription app, and the bag of coffee that was already packed when the customer hit pause. On the way: the grilling that maps every decision before any code exists, the glossary, the spec and the tickets, the build, review at two separate desks, the new /pr and /retro skills, and a real ten-ticket run from Matt's own repo. Chapters 00:00 So what are you there for? 00:17 The silent guess 00:47 Couldn't you write a longer prompt? 01:02 The decision tree in the fog 01:54 One word for one thing 02:41 Questions you can't settle by talking 02:56 /to-spec: the destination 03:29 /to-tickets and the smart zone 04:08 The build, one clean head per ticket 04:41 Review at two desks 05:19 /pr and merge danger 05:40 /retro 06:31 A real run from Matt's repo 07:06 Isn't this waterfall? 07:33 Too defensive for today's models? 08:04 The one-line skill 08:28 Your job Sources Matt Pocock on X: https://x.com/mattpocockuk mattpocock/skills: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills v1.3 release: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/... Matt's v1.3 post (Oct 4): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/210... Matt's v1.3 video:    • New Skills! v1.3 brings /pr, /implement-sp...   "46 questions" (Jul 21): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/207... Hide your coding standards from your implementer (Sep 18): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/210... /retro and deterministic checks (Sep 15): https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/209... The real spec, tickets and PR: https://github.com/mattpocock/course-... and https://github.com/mattpocock/course-... The merge danger example: https://github.com/mattpocock/course-... Install counts: https://skills.sh Joe Sadoski's switch to pstack: https://x.com/joesadoski/status/21050... Our pstack video:    • Stop correcting your AI agent   The coffee app, the bag and its four tickets are my illustration of the flow. The ten-ticket graph and the pull requests are real, from Matt's course-video-manager repo. Written and animated by Kevin Araujo. Narration uses an AI clone of my own voice. Music generated with Suno. #AIAgents #ClaudeCode #DevTools