The Real Engineer Skill Stack — Matt Pocock's 204,000-Star Skills Repo Tested End-to-End, With Install/Skip Verdicts on All 35 Skills

The companion kit to the video. On Aug 5, 2026 — the day v1.2 shipped — we ran Matt Pocock's skills repo (github.com/mattpocock/skills, 204,665 stars, MIT) end-to-end on a real TypeScript invoicing library: one command installed 35 skills, /grill-with-docs interviewed us in numbered rounds and caught a real design conflict by reading the code (a late-fee-as-line-item would have violated an invariant the tests enforce — caught before any code existed), /to-spec confirmed the single testing seam, /to-tickets sliced the work into tracer-bullet tickets with blocking edges, and /implement ran the TDD red-green loop plus a two-axis parallel code review before committing. INSIDE: (1) the four failure modes the repo exists to kill and their fixes, (2) the full idea-to-ship workflow with the context rules that make it work (one unbroken window through tickets, the ~150k smart zone, /compact last), (3) the recorded run with every receipt, (4) my verdict board — the 6 skills worth installing today, 8 situational ones, the discipline layer, and what to skip, (5) the exact quickstart commands to run your next real feature through the full loop tonight. Independent kit from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Matt Pocock or AI Hero.

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