skills/.agents/adr/0001-explicit-setup-pointer-only-for-hard-dependencies.md
Matt Pocock 6e178c6826 Move docs/ into .agents/
Relocate this repo's ADRs and invocation.md from docs/ to .agents/,
and update the CLAUDE.md reference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 09:46:14 +01:00

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Explicit /setup-matt-pocock-skills pointer only for hard dependencies

Engineering skills depend on per-repo config (issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, domain doc layout) seeded by /setup-matt-pocock-skills. Some skills cannot meaningfully function without that config — they have to publish to a specific issue tracker or apply a specific label string. Others only use it to sharpen output (vocabulary, ADR awareness) and degrade gracefully without it.

We split these into hard-dependency and soft-dependency skills:

  • Hard dependency (to-issues, to-prd, triage) — include an explicit one-liner: "… should have been provided to you — run /setup-matt-pocock-skills if not." Without the mapping, output is wrong, not just fuzzy.
  • Soft dependency (diagnose, tdd, improve-codebase-architecture) — reference "the project's domain glossary" and "ADRs in the area you're touching" in vague prose only. If the docs aren't there, the skill still works; output is just less sharp.

The split keeps soft-dependency skills token-light and avoids cargo-culting the setup pointer into places where it isn't load-bearing.