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Sep 9, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Matt Pocock's Agent Skill Design Checklist: 4 Steps to Reliable Skills

This article summarizes Matt Pocock's four-step checklist for designing effective AI agent skills: choose between user-invoked and model-invoked triggers, structure skills with steps and references using context pointers, control agent behavior with concise guide words like 'vertical slice', and prune redundancy by eliminating duplication, sediment, and no-ops.