Idea to Shipped
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A free course in agentic coding

From idea to shipped, one Skill at a time.

A small course on Matt Pocock's Skills, written as a journal while building this very site: what I typed, and what happened.

Start with Lesson 0See the main flow

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About the course

A journal, not a manual.

Each Lesson teaches one Skill by showing how I used it to build this site, from the first grilling to the shipped pull request.

You see the commands I actually typed and what came back, mistakes included. Read them in order, or jump to the Skill you need.

A man sketches a plan on a whiteboard while two colleagues watch from a table.

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The course

Lessons

12 Lessons, read in order. Each one ends with what really happened.

  1. A wooden desk with a brass lamp beside an open balcony door overlooking the sea at dawn.Lesson 0Start here
  2. A woman in glasses takes notes while questioning a man across an office desk.Lesson 1Grilling
  3. A thick dictionary with thumb-index tabs lies open on a pale wooden table against a dark wall.Lesson 2Domain modeling
  4. A person drafts on a large sheet with a scale ruler and a rolled blueprint on a wooden table.Lesson 3Spec + issues
  5. A man in a dark room carefully plugs a cable into a server rack.Lesson 4Wizard
  6. A hand with a pen points at hand-drawn mobile app wireframes spread across a table.Lesson 5Prototype
  7. A scientist in a white lab coat works at a lab bench full of instruments and cables.Lesson 6TDD
  8. A woman leans over a desk to review work on a laptop with a seated colleague.Lesson 7Code review
  9. An aerial view of a loaded container ship guided out of port by two red tugboats.Lesson 8PR + ship
  10. A mechanic in a workshop studies and works on a motorcycle engine.Lesson 9Diagnosing bugs
  11. A black-and-white close-up of a jet engine's fan blades spiralling into the centre.Lesson 10Models, effort & ultracode
  12. An aerial view of a large highway interchange at sunset with ramps looping over one another.Lesson 11The main flow
Which Skill, when

The main flow

Most work takes the same path through the Skills, from idea to shipped.

  1. 1

    Grill the idea

    /grill-with-docs

    Claude questions you until the plan is clear, and writes down the words you agree on.

  2. 2

    Write the spec

    /to-spec

    One document says what to build, for whom, and what's out of scope.

  3. 3

    Cut it into tickets

    /to-tickets

    The spec becomes small tickets, each one a single session of work.

  4. 4

    Build and review

    /implement or /implement-spec

    Drive one ticket at a time, or let it run through all of them.

  5. 5

    Open the pull request

    /pr

    The agent writes the description when the work goes up for review.

  6. 6

    Look back

    /retro

    Go over the session and improve your setup, so the next build starts better.

A question that talking can't settle? Build a throwaway /prototype first. A small job that fits in one session? Go from grilling straight to /implement.

See the main flow
The glowing trail of a rocket launch arcs across a blue dusk sky over the coast.
Your turn

Got an idea? Ship it.

Start at the beginning and follow along, one Skill at a time.

Start with Lesson 0

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