Matt Pocock — Simple Skills That Work

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026 in ia • Tagged with agents, ia, skills, matt-pocock, claude-code

Fifth installment of the series on software engineering with agents. Today it is the project that is taking off right now: Matt Pocock's skills.

I have covered Superpowers (Jesse Vincent), Agent Skills (Addy Osmani), and Compound Engineering (Every). Each brings an important piece of the puzzle. But Matt Pocock's skills …


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Superpowers — Jesse Vincent Imposes Methodology on Coding Agents

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026 in ia • Tagged with agents, ai, superpowers, jesse-vincent, claude-code, prime-radiant

Fourth installment in the series on agent-driven software engineering. Today I am covering a project that has changed the game: Superpowers, by Jesse Vincent.

With 180,000 stars on GitHub and 16,000 forks, Superpowers is the most popular agent skills framework today. But what makes it special is not …


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Agent Skills by Addy Osmani — Enforcing Senior Engineering Discipline on Agents

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026 in ia • Tagged with agents, ai, agent-skills, addy-osmani, google, claude-code

In the previous two parts of this series we have seen an overview of agent-driven engineering and then Every's compound engineering methodology. Now for another similar approach: Agent Skills, Addy Osmani's project at Google that has nearly 30,000 stars on GitHub and tackles the problem from a completely different …


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Compound Engineering — Every's Vision for Agent-Driven Engineering

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026 in ia • Tagged with agents, ai, compound-engineering, every, claude-code

In the first part of this series I talked about how AI agents have changed the way I build software. But that was just the warm-up. What follows is the vision of a company that has taken this idea to the extreme: Every, the startup from Dan Shipper and Kieran …


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