The Agent Skills I Use for Development

There are already many posts about what agent skills are and how to create your own, so in this post I want to dive into the various skills I use to assist in development. The Skills Grill Me Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me". I start every larger task with this excellent skill created by Matt Pocock. I either start this with an already prepared PRD / detailed task description or use it for discovery purposes. The agent will then ask many questions to align language and functional requirements, so fewer hallucinations happen in follow up requests. You should be well equipped to answer the agent's question or the grill me session can go on for a long time. I had it ask me way over 50 questions when not answering detailed enough. As a little extra I added an extra request to the skill to prompt me if I want to create the PRD when the alignment phase is over, this leads us to the next skill. To PRD Turn the current conversation context into a PRD. Use when user wants to create a PRD from the current context. This will simply take the current conversation and creates a PRD out of it, we do this to summarize the conversation so we can easily start a new context window with all information present To Issue Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using tracer-bullet vertical slices. Use when user wants to convert a plan into issues, create implementation tickets, or break down work into issues. Another excellent skill by Matt Pocock. I modified the skill slightly to use the GitHub MCP to create issues based on a PRD or planning session. But I often found that letting an agent implement those tasks it resulted in a large amount of code and that is why I added the to tasks skill To Task Break down a single GitHub issue into a sequential list of small i