Skills Directory / Skills for Real Engineers
prototype
An agent skill by mattpocock, from mattpocock/skills.
Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore what a UI should look like.
Credit where it's due
This skill is the work of mattpocock and lives at mattpocock/skills/prototype (MIT). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.
- From
- Skills for Real Engineers
- Author
- mattpocock
- License
- MIT
- Source
- mattpocock/skills/prototype
- SKILL.md
- raw file
How to load this skill
Copy this prompt into your AI agent
Please install the "prototype" agent skill from the Skills for Real Engineers collection (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) for me.
1. Run: git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
cp -r skills/skills/engineering/prototype ~/.claude/skills/prototype
(Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) to support the author.
Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/prototype/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/prototype
Or manually: clone mattpocock/skills and copy
skills/engineering/prototype into
~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's
SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the
raw SKILL.md.
Related skills
- huggingface-best — Use when the user asks about finding the best, top, or recommended model for a task, wants to know what AI mod…
- eas-update-insights — Check the health of published EAS Updates: crash rates, install/launch counts, unique users, payload size, and…
- huggingface-lora-space-builder — Build and publish a Gradio demo on Hugging Face Spaces for a user-provided LoRA. Use when someone asks to crea…
- claude-api — Reference for the Claude API / Anthropic SDK — model ids, pricing, params, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, c…
- huggingface-zerogpu — AI demos and GPU compute with Gradio Spaces and Hugging Face Spaces ZeroGPU. Use when writing or reviewing cod…