🔥 Hot Repo: 5K Stars Today — Claude Skills for Real Engineers

The mattpocock/skills repository added 5,551 GitHub stars on April 27, 2026 — the largest single-day gain on all of GitHub trending — bringing the total to 27,115 stars. The repo is Matt Pocock's personal directory of Claude Code skills, published directly from his own .claude directory and positioned explicitly as a tool for "real engineers, not vibe coding." Pocock is the author of Total TypeScript and runs the AI Hero newsletterhttps://www.aihero.dev with 60,000 subscribers. The repo had a first viral moment when the grill-me skill spread across X at 9,000 stars — Pocock wrote that it was "the most useful skill I've written, and I use it even outside of coding." Today's spike, from 21,000 to over 27,000 stars, points to a second wave: fresh newsletter activity and renewed social sharing have pushed it back to the top of GitHub trending. How It Works Skills install individually via a single command — no plugin bundle, no configuration file to edit: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/<skill-name Each skill is a standalone SKILL.md file that Claude Code reads as an instruction set. Engineers pick only what they need, and skills compose with each other naturally. The 17 Skills Planning & Design - grill-me — Inverts the usual AI dynamic. Instead of asking Claude questions, it interrogates you relentlessly about a plan until every branch of the decision tree is resolved. The skill that went viral first. - to-prd — Synthesizes an in-progress conversation into a Product Requirements Document and files it as a GitHub issue automatically. - to-issues — Breaks any plan or PRD into independently-pickable GitHub issues using vertical slices. - design-an-interface — Spawns parallel sub-agents to generate multiple radically different interface designs for the same module, then presents them for side-by-side comparison. - request-refactor-plan — Conducts a user interview, produces a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits, then files it as a GitHub issue. Deve