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Get Started Free →Configure this repo for the engineering skills — set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.
.claude/skills/asymmetric-al-setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-07 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 139% | 0% |
| case-06 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 64% | 0% |
| case-08 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 149% | 0% |
| case-13 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 347% | 0% |
| case-15 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 161% | 0% |
Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the engineering skills assume:
and state triage roles
CONTEXT.md and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading themThis is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.
Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume:
git remote -v and .git/config — is this a GitHub repo? Which one?AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at the repo root — does either exist? Is there already an ## Agent skills section in either?CONTEXT.md and CONTEXT-MAP.md at the repo rootdocs/adr/ and any src/*/docs/adr/ directoriesdocs/agents/ — does this skill's prior output already exist?.scratch/ — sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in useSummarise what's present and what's missing. Then walk the user through the three decisions one at a time — present a section, get the user's answer, then move to the next. Don't dump all three at once.
Assume the user does not know what these terms mean. Each section starts with a short explainer (what it is, why these skills need it, what changes if they pick differently). Then show the choices and the default.
Section A — Issue tracker.
> Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like to-tickets, triage, to-spec, and qa read from and write to it — they need to know whether to call gh issue create, write a markdown file under .scratch/, or follow some other workflow you describe. Pick the place you actually track work for this repo.
Default posture: these skills were designed for GitHub. If a git remote points at GitHub, propose that. If a git remote points at GitLab (gitlab.com or a self-hosted host), propose GitLab. Otherwise (or if the user prefers), offer:
gh CLI)glab CLI).scratch/<feature>/ in this repo (good for solo projects or repos without a remote)If — and only if — the user picked GitHub or GitLab, ask one follow-up:
> Explainer: Open-source repos often receive feature requests as pull requests, not just issues — a PR is an issue with attached code. If you turn this on, /triage pulls _external_ PRs into the same queue and runs them through the same labels and states as issues (collaborators' in-flight PRs are left alone). Leave it off if PRs aren't a request surface for you.
docs/agents/issue-tracker.md. For local-markdown and other trackers, skip this question — there are no PRs.Section B — Triage label vocabulary.
> Explainer: When the triage skill processes an incoming issue, it assigns a category role — bug or enhancement — and moves it through a state machine — needs evaluation, waiting on reporter, ready for an AFK agent to pick up, ready for a human, or won't fix. To do that, it needs labels or equivalent tracker actions that match strings _you've actually configured_. If your repo already uses different label names (e.g. type:bug instead of bug, or status:todo instead of needs-triage), map them here so the skill applies the right ones instead of creating duplicates.
The two canonical category roles:
bug — something is brokenenhancement — new feature or improvementThe five canonical state roles:
needs-triage — maintainer needs to evaluateneeds-info — waiting on reporterready-for-agent — fully specified, AFK-ready (an agent can pick it up with no human context)ready-for-human — needs human implementationwontfix — will not be actionedDefault: each role's string equals its name. Ask the user if they want to override any category or state role. If a state such as wontfix is represented by closing instead of a label, record that action explicitly.
Section C — Domain docs.
> Explainer: Some skills (improve-codebase-architecture, diagnosing-bugs, tdd) read a CONTEXT.md file to learn the project's domain language, and docs/adr/ for past architectural decisions. They need to know whether the repo has one global context or multiple (e.g. a monorepo with separate frontend/backend contexts) so they look in the right place.
Confirm the layout:
CONTEXT.md + docs/adr/ at the repo root. Most repos are this.CONTEXT-MAP.md at the root pointing to per-context CONTEXT.md files (typically a monorepo).Show the user a draft of:
## Agent skills block to add to whichever of CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md is being edited (see step 4 for selection rules)docs/agents/issue-tracker.md, docs/agents/triage-labels.md, docs/agents/domain.mdLet them edit before writing.
Pick the file to edit:
CLAUDE.md exists, edit it.AGENTS.md exists, edit it.Never create AGENTS.md when CLAUDE.md already exists (or vice versa) — always edit the one that's already there.
If an ## Agent skills block already exists in the chosen file, update its contents in-place rather than appending a duplicate. Don't overwrite user edits to the surrounding sections.
The block:
markdown## Agent skills ### Issue tracker [one-line summary of where issues are tracked, plus whether external PRs are a triage surface]. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`. ### Triage labels [one-line summary of the label vocabulary]. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`. ### Domain docs [one-line summary of layout — "single-context" or "multi-context"]. See `docs/agents/domain.md`.
Then write the three docs files using the seed templates in this skill folder as a starting point:
For "other" issue trackers, write docs/agents/issue-tracker.md from scratch using the user's description.
Tell the user the setup is complete and which engineering skills will now read from these files. Mention they can edit docs/agents/*.md directly later — re-running this skill is only necessary if they want to switch issue trackers or restart from scratch.
| Case | Status | Duration (ms) | Turns | Tokens | Tool calls | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | ||
case-07 | fail→pass | 7,488 | 4,787 | -36% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,154 | 2,763 | +139% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-01 | fail→fail | 4,377 | 4,932 | +13% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 267 | 2,145 | +703% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-02 | fail→fail | 9,160 | 5,576 | -39% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,522 | 2,177 | +43% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-03 | fail→fail | 7,297 | 20,186 | +177% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 559 | 4,985 | +792% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-04 | fail→fail | 13,392 | 3,167 | -76% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,115 | 2,046 | -3% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-05 | fail→fail | 9,496 | 6,507 | -31% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,541 | 2,342 | +52% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-06 | fail→pass | 8,193 | 3,123 | -62% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,486 | 2,436 | +64% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-08 | fail→pass | 6,676 | 3,940 | -41% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,037 | 2,577 | +149% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-09 | fail→fail | 5,176 | 7,409 | +43% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 796 | 2,371 | +198% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-10 | fail→fail | 9,007 | 6,594 | -27% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,594 | 2,269 | +42% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-11 | pass→pass | 5,587 | 5,131 | -8% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 951 | 2,786 | +193% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-12 | pass→pass | 7,641 | 3,367 | -56% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,317 | 2,525 | +92% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-13 | fail→pass | 3,455 | 1,685 | -51% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 481 | 2,148 | +347% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-14 | pass→fail | 13,487 | 5,702 | -58% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,297 | 2,200 | -4% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-15 | fail→pass | 5,711 | 1,642 | -71% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 802 | 2,093 | +161% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-16 | fail→pass | 13,693 | 2,077 | -85% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,175 | 2,212 | +2% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-17 | fail→fail | 8,262 | 3,173 | -62% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,336 | 2,449 | +83% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-18 | pass→pass | 11,454 | 2,120 | -81% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,785 | 2,204 | +23% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-19 | pass→pass | 3,147 | 2,568 | -18% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 518 | 2,291 | +342% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-20 | pass→pass | 4,542 | 1,639 | -64% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 753 | 2,098 | +179% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-21 | fail→pass | 11,028 | 4,926 | -55% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,825 | 2,825 | +55% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-22 | fail→fail | 6,940 | 2,694 | -61% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,158 | 2,290 | +98% | 0 | 0 | — |
DecimalAI ran this skill against gemini-3.6-flash twice over the same eval suite — once with the skill loaded and once without — and compared the two runs case by case. 22 cases were attempted, and 15 counted toward the lift figure. The other 7 produced results that are not comparable between the two arms, so they are excluded from the headline rather than averaged into it. The headline lift of +27 percentage points is the difference between those two pass rates over the 15 comparable cases. 3 cases got worse with the skill loaded, and they are included in that figure.
Without the skill loaded, the model failed this case. With it loaded, the same prompt on the same model passed. This is one improved case from the latest verified run; every case, including any that regressed, is in the table above.
Other measured skills in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.