Category: Development
Prototype
Builds a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
Works with
What it does
- A prototype is throwaway code that answers a question. The question decides the shape.
- Identify which question is being answered, using the user's prompt, the surrounding code, or by asking if the user is around:
- Rules that apply to both
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- Skip the polish. No tests, no error handling beyond what makes the prototype runnable, no abstractions. The point is to learn something fast.
When to use it
Builds a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill prototype
- To install manually, download the
prototypeskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.