Ask Matt

Ask Matt is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by stevesolun in ctx.

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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/stevesolun/ctx/tree/main/.agents/skills/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/stevesolun/ctx.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/ask-matt/SKILL.md in stevesolun/ctx
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ask-matt
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ask Matt does

Ask Matt recommends the smallest Matt Pocock skill or short skill sequence for a user's goal. Use it when you need help choosing the next skill, deciding between close options, or checking whether setup is required.

Ask Matt is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ask Matt comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents, anthropic, automation and claude.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Route to a skill

Identify the user's immediate outcome, the context already available, and whether they want advice, investigation, planning, implementation, or review.
Recommend the smallest skill that materially helps. Use a sequence only when each handoff adds value; do not force the full idea-to-ship flow.
Explain the recommendation and any important tradeoff in a few sentences. If two choices are genuinely close, present both and recommend one.
Mention setup only when the chosen workflow depends on missing tracker or domain configuration.

Read references/skill-map.md when the choice is not obvious or the user asks to see the available routes.

Frequently asked about Ask Matt

What else does stevesolun publish alongside Ask Matt?
Ask Matt is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from stevesolun/ctx, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Review, Codebase Design and Diagnosing Bugs. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ask Matt does, and is maintained by stevesolun in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the stevesolun/ctx page.
How does Ask Matt compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ask Matt ranks #1983 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.