dsh-mattpocock-skills

dsh-mattpocock-skills-bundle

Matt Pocock's agent skills, packaged for DeepSeek Harness.

This bundle ships the 27 skills that upstream mattpocock/skills promotes in its own plugin manifest (skills/engineering and skills/productivity), keeps every skill body and companion resource file intact, and registers them in the Harness skill registry under one provider named mattpocock-skills. Skill descriptions in the / menu and in the model's skill catalog are Chinese; every skill body stays in its upstream English.

What it registers

• One skill provider: mattpocock-skills, source label mattpocock-skills, bundled precedence (rank 600).
• 27 skills, each under its upstream name, each with its own folder as the resource base directory.
• Every skill is both model-invocable (the skill tool and the session skill catalog) and user-invocable (/skill-name in the Web composer).

Because the provider sits at bundled precedence, a project skill (.dsh/skills/<name>) or user skill (~/.dsh/skills/<name>) with the same name takes priority. That is the supported way to override one skill without forking the package.

Skills

Upstream marks user-invoked skills with disable-model-invocation: true. This port keeps every skill model-invocable, so the marker only records upstream's policy.

Engineering

Productivity

Full descriptions live in each skills/<bucket>/<name>/SKILL.md frontmatter and in skills/index.json; the Chinese text shown in the / menu and the skill catalog is stored in i18n/zh.json and carried in the manifest as descriptionZh.

Install

The repository is public, so the bundle installs straight from its URL. No npm account and no release asset are involved.

In the Web UI, open Settings, then Plugins, then Add plugin, and paste the repository URL:

https://github.com/sceatcher3/dsh-mattpocock-skills

From a terminal, the same URL goes straight to the plugin command:

dsh plugin --profile web add https://github.com/sceatcher3/dsh-mattpocock-skills

The plugin manager reads dsh.bundle.patch from the repository, installs the package into the profile, and lists the row as dsh-mattpocock-skills; enable it if the install leaves it off.

The skill catalog is rebuilt on the next agent step, so a bundle that activates cleanly shows its skills in the session's available-skills list and in the / menu without a restart.

If the install answers restart-required with module-comparison, the running process could not compare loaded plugin modules with their files. The bundle is still written to the profile; restart DSH once and the new module loads. That is the expected path when installing this package into an already running profile.

Two details keep the provider visible after a restart:

• list() is async on purpose. The registry wraps each provider.list() call with an abort-aware helper that calls .then() on the result whenever the caller passes an AbortSignal (the skill tool always does). A synchronous array is silently dropped with skill provider "mattpocock-skills" skipped.
• Registration already invalidates the catalog cache, so apply() only calls ctx.skills.registerProvider().

Offline verification against the real @deepseek-ai/dsh-skill registry passes: 27 skills listed, tdd loads its full 3440-character body, with and without an AbortSignal.

To remove it:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-mattpocock-skills-bundle

Invoking a skill

• Model: skill({ name: "tdd" }).
• User: type /tdd (or any skill name) in the composer.
• Both routes return the same instructions, wrapped with a resource base directory. Relative references inside a skill (tests.md, scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh) resolve against that directory.

Layout

dsh-mattpocock-skills-bundle/
  index.js                 provider registration
  cordis.patch.yml         bundle patch (one insert row)
  package.json             dsh.bundle.patch, exports, icon
  icon.svg                 package artwork
  locale/en.json, zh.json  display title and description
  i18n/zh.json             Chinese skill descriptions for the / menu
  skills/index.json        generated skill manifest (27 entries)
  skills/engineering/...   upstream skill folders, verbatim
  skills/productivity/...  upstream skill folders, verbatim
  tools/                   manifest generator and upstream re-sync script

Invocation policy

Upstream ships 16 of the 27 skills as user-invoked only, meaning the model cannot pick them. This port deliberately widens the policy: the model may choose any of them, and the user can still call every one by name. Each entry in skills/index.json records the original flag as upstreamModelInvocable.

To restore upstream behaviour, set invocation.modelInvocable to false for those entries in skills/index.json and restart the harness. Note that tools/build-manifest.mjs always writes the permissive policy, so re-running it resets a manual edit.

Upstream content: kept and dropped

Kept:

• Every SKILL.md exactly as published, including the pr skill's nested metadata.credits and CREDITS.md.
• All companion resources referenced by skill bodies: formats, templates, scripts, and pattern documents.

Dropped:

• The in-progress (7 skills) and misc (4 skills) buckets. Upstream does not promote them in its own plugin manifest; its README calls in-progress beta material.
• Each skill's agents/openai.yaml. That file carries Codex and Claude Code display and invocation metadata; the Harness registry receives the same information from this package's manifest.
• Upstream docs/, marketplace manifests, and install instructions for other agents.

Where a skill mentions Claude Code conventions (CLAUDE.md, .claude/, sub-agents), the text is preserved as published. Several skills already read or write AGENTS.md, and setup-matt-pocock-skills explicitly accepts either file.

Updating from upstream

git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills /tmp/mattpocock-skills
UPSTREAM_COMMIT=$(git -C /tmp/mattpocock-skills rev-parse HEAD) \
  node tools/sync-from-checkout.mjs /tmp/mattpocock-skills

The script reads the promoted skill list from the upstream .claude-plugin/plugin.json, copies those skill folders (minus agents/), and regenerates skills/index.json. It reads i18n/zh.json before writing the manifest, so a newly promoted skill needs a Chinese description there; otherwise the script fails and names the missing skill. To regenerate only the manifest from the folders already present, run node tools/build-manifest.mjs or npm run manifest.

Review the diff, confirm that skills/index.json lists the expected skills, then reinstall or restart the bundle.

License and attribution

MIT. The skill instructions are Copyright (c) 2026 Matt Pocock, redistributed from mattpocock/skills under the MIT License. The packaging code and icon are original contributions under the same license. See LICENSE and NOTICE.md.