Matt Pocock Dumped 17 Markdown Files on GitHub. 75,700 Stars Later, One Cut My Tokens 75%.

He shipped his entire `.claude` directory. One of the files makes Claude respond like a caveman — and quietly cut my Opus 4.7 prose tokens by 71% on a 10-prompt sample. Here is what is actually inside.

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On April 25, 2026, Matt Pocock — the TypeScript educator whose total-typescript course is on the bookshelf of half the senior frontend engineers I know — pushed a repo called skills to GitHub. Tagline: "Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory."

He literally dumped a folder.

Day one: 857 stars. Day four: 31,500. By April 29 it was climbing the GitHub Trending leaderboard at #2 for six straight days. As of May 12, 2026, mattpocock/skills sits at 75,700 stars and pulled +6,400 in the past week alone — currently the #1 weekly-trending AI repo on the platform, ahead of every framework, every model, every agent toolkit.

For a repository that contains essentially seventeen markdown files.

I have been running Pocock’s caveman skill for the past week against Claude Opus 4.7 ($5/$25 per million). On a 10-prompt sample of typical Q&A I'd normally throw…

Matt Pocock Dumped 17 Markdown Files on GitHub. 75,700 Stars Later, One Cut My Tokens 75%.

He shipped his entire .claude directory. One of the files makes Claude respond like a caveman — and quietly cut my Opus 4.7 prose tokens by 71% on a 10-prompt sample. Here is what is actually inside.

He shipped his entire `.claude` directory. One of the files makes Claude respond like a caveman — and quietly cut my Opus 4.7 prose tokens by 71% on a 10-prompt sample. Here is what is actually inside.