--- title: Introducing AI Skills for Real Engineers – Master.dev Blog description: A walkthrough of Matt Pocock's 'AI Skills for Real Engineers,' a suite of Claude Code plugin skills designed to make AI coding tools more effective. Skills... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers-master-dev-blog-mwavqzfma twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing AI Skills for Real Engineers – Master.dev Blog | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of Matt Pocock's 'AI Skills for Real Engineers,' a suite of Claude Code plugin skills designed to make AI coding tools more effective. Skills... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers-master-dev-blog-mwavqzfma og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mWavQZfMA.png og:image:alt: Introducing AI Skills for Real Engineers – Master.dev Blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing AI Skills for Real Engineers – Master.dev Blog **[Frontend Masters](https://daily.dev/sources/frontendmasters)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of Matt Pocock's 'AI Skills for Real Engineers,' a suite of Claude Code plugin skills designed to make AI coding tools more effective. Skills covered include /grill-me for eliciting detailed requirements through follow-up questions, /to-spec and /to-tickets for saving work into issues or breaking large features into dependency-aware tickets, /teach for generating custom lessons, and /ask-matt for explaining the other skills. Installation instructions and a troubleshooting tip for a marketplace cache issue are included. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I install Matt Pocock's AI skills plugin for Claude Code? Run 'claude plugins install mattpocock-skills' in Claude Code. If it fails with 'mattpocock-skills not found in any marketplace,' clear the Claude Code marketplace cache by running 'claude plugins marketplace update' and then retry the install command. _Developers wiring up Claude Code plugins can find setup tips like this through daily.dev._ ### What does the /grill-me skill do in Matt Pocock's AI skills suite for Claude Code? The /grill-me skill helps turn a vague feature description into clear, detailed requirements by asking a series of increasingly specific follow-up questions until it has enough context to implement the feature well, reducing the risk of the AI assuming missing details incorrectly. _Anyone refining AI prompting workflows can track tools like this via daily.dev._ ### How does the /to-tickets skill break a large feature into smaller tasks for AI coding agents? The /to-tickets skill takes the context from a /grill-me conversation and splits a large feature into multiple smaller issues, automatically blocking tickets based on dependencies where needed, and lets the user tweak the proposed breakdown before creating the final board of tasks. _Teams organizing AI-assisted development tasks can follow workflow tools like this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#prompt-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-engineering), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers-master-dev-blog-mwavqzfma) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing AI Skills for Real Engineers – Master.dev Blog","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers-master-dev-blog-mwavqzfma","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers-master-dev-blog-mwavqzfma"},"datePublished":"2026-08-18T14:03:46.289Z","dateModified":"2026-08-20T21:23:15.878Z","description":"A walkthrough of Matt Pocock's 'AI Skills for Real Engineers,' a suite of Claude Code plugin skills designed to make AI coding tools more effective. 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