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The 5 agent skills I use everyday

Developer Matt Pocock shares five agent skills he uses daily to enhance AI coding assistants like Codex, covering research, design review, React best practices, code simplification, and end-to-end testing of desktop apps.

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/grill-mefor research and planning/taste-reviewto let Codex make more tasteful design decisions by asking Claude (you'll need theclaude

CLI installed for this)/vercel-react-best-practicesfor improving the quality of React component these agents generated/simplifyto improve code quality, reduce comment wordiness, and improve system architecture/test-desktop-appto test Electron apps end-to-end. If you work on a different kind of app, write your own version!

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