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AI EngineeringShell

Ask Matt

by tt-a1i

Ask Matt is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tt-a1i in matt-skills-with-to-goal.

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Install Ask Matt
Copy Ask Matt into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/tree/main/skills/engineering/ask-matt ~/.claude/skills/ask-matt

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
skills/engineering/ask-matt/SKILL.md in tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/ask-matt
Collection
One of 40 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ask Matt does

Ask Matt routes you to the right skill or flow for your situation. Use it when you need help choosing between planning, implementation, debugging, or review paths.

Ask Matt is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ask Matt comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, codex and coding-agents.

Documentation

README

Ask Matt

You don't remember every skill, so ask.

A flow is a path through the skills. Most paths run along one main flow, and two on-ramps merge onto it. Everything else is standalone, or a vocabulary layer that runs underneath.

The main flow: idea → ship

The route most work travels. You have an idea and want it built.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Ask Matt provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

  • /grill-with-docs
  • /grill-me
  • /grilling
  • /handoff
  • /prototype
  • /implement
  • /to-spec
  • /execute-spec-in-fork
  • /spec-executor
  • /to-tickets
  • /to-goal
  • /tdd

Frequently asked about Ask Matt

  • What else does tt-a1i publish alongside Ask Matt?

    Ask Matt is one of 40 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Handoff, Ask Matt and Claude Handoff. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ask Matt does, and is maintained by tt-a1i in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal page.

  • How does Ask Matt compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Ask Matt ranks #2320 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ask Matt against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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