25 agent skills to improve your workflow in GitHub Copilot | Matt Pocock | GitHub Copilot Day

Want to get more consistent results from your AI coding agents? In this GitHub Copilot Day session, Matt Pocock walks through his popular open-source collection of Agent Skills. Learn how skills like "Grill with Docs", Dexter Horthy’s "Show Me", and "Code Review" help align agents before implementation, generate visual pull requests, and catch architecture issues early.

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Matt Pocock’s “AI Skills for Real Engineers” https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
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Check out Copilot app resources https://gh.io/ghcpdaycopilotappresources

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0:00 Intro: the skills repo
0:48 Grill with Docs: aligning with the agent
1:32 Real work in the course video manager
2:16 Grilling issue 1612 live
3:23 Reaching shared understanding faster
4:33 The resulting pull request
5:40 The "Show Me" skill for visual PRs
7:11 Making PRs worth a human's time
8:01 The Code Review skill in action
9:33 Standards and spec check findings
10:21 Code review as part of implementation
11:27 Improve Codebase Architecture skill
12:59 Plain-English output with "potato"
14:04 From report to spec and tickets
15:55 Implement Spec with parallel worktrees
17:28 New skill: Retro
19:22 Wrap-up

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