New Skills! v1.1 brings /wayfinder, /research, /implement, /to-spec, /to-tickets

v1.1 Is Ready

A massive update has been merged into the skills repository. Version 1.1 introduces a new grilling approach, renamed skills for clarity, and a complete development lifecycle flow from ideation to committed code.

/to-spec & /to-tickets Renames

Two skills have been renamed for broader applicability:

• /to-prd → /to-spec — "Spec" is a broader term that covers technical and non-technical specifications, not just product requirement documents.
• /to-issues → /to-tickets — "Tickets" is universal and not biased toward any specific platform like GitHub Issues.

Grilling Skill Improvements

Significant fixes to the grilling skill to make AI-assisted interrogation more effective:

• Fixed multi-question bug — agents now ask one question at a time instead of dumping multiple questions
• Confirmation gate — added a checkpoint before moving from grilling to implementation
• Fixed self-grilling — resolved issues particularly with Fable where agents would grill themselves
• Facts vs decisions — clear distinction between factual information gathered and decisions made during grilling

Complete Development Lifecycle Flow

v1.1 introduces a full software development lifecycle managed by skills:

The /implement skill is a key addition that handles:

• TDD at pre-agreed seams
• Type checking throughout
• Test file creation and validation
• Full sweep of implementation
• Automatic code review
• Final commit

Code Review with Refactoring Smells

Code review operates on two axes evaluated by parallel sub-agents:

• Standards — checks against the project's coding-standards.md
• Spec — verifies the code matches the originating specification

The review also checks for Martin Fowler refactoring smells:

• Mysterious name
• Duplicated code
• Feature envy
• Data clumps
• Primitive obsession
• Repeated switches
• Divergent change
• Speculative generality
• Message chains
• Middleman

Introducing Wayfinder

The star of v1.1. Wayfinder tackles projects that are too big for a single agent session.

This solves the problem of agents losing context on large projects by ensuring no single task exceeds what one session can handle.

Wayfinder Ticket Types

Wayfinder generates four types of tickets:

• Research — AFK agent task, gathers information autonomously
• Grilling — requires a user session for interactive Q&A
• Prototype — cheap throwaway artifact, either UI or logic
• Task — configuration, provisioning, or straightforward implementation

Supporting Skills: /research & /prototype

Two new skills that support the Wayfinder workflow:

• /research — runs as a background agent, gathers from primary sources, outputs markdown
• /prototype — model-invoked by Wayfinder, creates cheap artifacts with a choice of logic or UI focus

TDD Skill Updates

The TDD skill has been updated to serve as reference material only:

• Red-green cycle — write failing test, make it pass (no refactor in the loop)
• Refactoring moved — refactoring is now handled during code review, not during TDD

Migration Guide & What's Next

To migrate to v1.1:

1. Clear existing skills
2. Run npx skills add mattpocock/skills

The skills repo has grown to 160K stars and 7M downloads. An AI Coding Crash Course is planned for August.