mattpocock/skills is a repo where Matt Pocock, a TypeScript educator, opened up his own .claude directory for others to use. It holds around 36 Claude Code skills, grouped into categories. The idea is small tools you copy and adapt to yourself, not an enforced framework. It has over 160,000 GitHub stars. It is the third in this series of trending-skill-repo reviews, after superpowers and karpathy skills.
This is the third repo I opened in a run of trending Claude Code skill repos. The first two were superpowers and karpathy skills. This one is mattpocock/skills, over 160,000 stars. Its description is blunt and a little funny: "Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory."
That line is the whole thing. This one was not designed as a product for others from the start. It is the directory Matt actually works out of, opened up for others to copy. Matt Pocock is a well-known TypeScript educator, so the skills here carry the smell of someone who has written code for a long time, not theory.
This post goes in order: what it is and why the stars, then the skills that genuinely stand out, then a look at how the three repos I reviewed are each a different pole and which to reach for, and finally how to install it and how I use it myself.
