Longwave

Ask Matt skill

Ask Matt is part of Matt Pocock's engineering skills. Its job is to ask which skill or flow fits where you are. A router over the rest of the set. It runs only when you call it by name; the agent never loads it on its own.

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When it runs

Only when you ask for it. The skill turns off automatic loading, so the agent never starts it on its own. This is the description it carries:

Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.

What the instructions cover

The sections of its SKILL.md, in order.

The main flow: idea → ship
On-ramps
Codebase health
Vocabulary underneath
Phase boundaries
Standalone
Precondition

What ships with it

Besides SKILL.md, the folder carries these. The agent opens them only when a step in the instructions calls for one.

agents/ 1 file · 137 B
PHASE-BOUNDARIES.md 4 KB

Install the Ask Matt skill

In Claude Code, run this in a session. It comes from the publisher's own instructions.

Claude Code

/plugin install mattpocock-skills

License: MIT.

In Longwave, add Engineering Skills from the marketplace. It installs all 37 of its skills, and your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads can use them.

Questions people ask

How do I install the Ask Matt skill?

In Claude Code, run /plugin install mattpocock-skills. In Longwave, add Engineering Skills from the marketplace, and its skills reach your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads.

Does the agent use the Ask Matt skill automatically?

No. It sets disable-model-invocation in its frontmatter, so the agent never loads it on its own. Ask for it by name when you want it.

Use your skills in every harness.

Longwave installs a skill collection once, and your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads can all use it.

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