{"slug": "the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday", "title": "The 5 agent skills I use everyday", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[/grill-me](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md)for research and planning[/taste-review](https://github.com/bholmesdev/skills/blob/main/skills/taste-review/SKILL.md)to let Codex make more tasteful design decisions by asking Claude (you'll need the`claude`\n\nCLI installed for this)[/vercel-react-best-practices](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/react-best-practices/SKILL.md)for improving the quality of React component these agents generated[/simplify](https://github.com/bholmesdev/skills/blob/main/skills/simplify/SKILL.md)to improve code quality, reduce comment wordiness, and improve system architecture[/test-desktop-app](https://github.com/bholmesdev/hubble.md/blob/main/.agents/skills/test-desktop-app/SKILL.md)to test Electron apps end-to-end. If you work on a different kind of app, write your own version!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday", "canonical_source": "https://gist.github.com/bholmesdev/d935f397248ee6f37d402bc292534141", "published_at": "2026-08-14 18:16:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 17:11:26.896008+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Matt Pocock", "Codex", "Claude", "Vercel", "React", "Electron"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-5-agent-skills-i-use-everyday.jsonld"}}