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Implement skill Matt to tickets research
Question
What should the migrated local implement skill learn from Matt Pocock's skills/engineering/to-tickets ticket, blocker, frontier, and slicing model?
Findings
Matt's to-tickets creates tracer-bullet vertical tickets with blocking edges and a frontier of tickets whose blockers are all done.
Each ticket should deliver a complete path through every required layer, be demoable or verifiable on its own, and fit in a single fresh context window.
The migrated implement skill should expect tickets to be coherent implementation slices, not arbitrary file-edit lists.
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/to-tickets/SKILL.md.
Matt's skill includes a wide-refactor exception to strict vertical slicing.
For one mechanical change whose blast radius breaks too many call sites, it recommends expand-contract: add the new form, migrate batches, then delete the old form, with an integration branch only when batches cannot stay green alone.
The migrated implement skill needs special handling for task tickets that declare an integration-branch exception, because the old local rule of always branching from main may not fit that exceptional path.
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/to-tickets/SKILL.md.
Matt's publishing model depends on an issue tracker, native blocking links where available, and a ready-for-agent label.
The local slice skill has already adapted this to Wayfinder Markdown task artifacts with status, parent, blocked-by, and Frontier semantics.
The migrated implement skill should consume the local Wayfinder representation rather than Matt's tracker labels.
Sources: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/to-tickets/SKILL.md, /home/alexion/Documents/ai-artifacts/projects/skills/031-slice-skill-map.md.
Compared with the packaged local slice skill, Matt's to-tickets sizes tickets to a fresh context window and publishes to a tracker, while slice sizes slices as coherent single commits and writes Wayfinder ticket/task/afk or ticket/task/human artifacts.
slice also has explicit review-before-write output shape, destination artifact rules, parent-vs-blocker distinction, and map Frontier repair.
implement should treat slice as the authoritative local producer contract and Matt's skill as upstream rationale for tracer bullets and wide-refactor handling.
Sources: /home/alexion/wrk/skills/skills/slice/SKILL.md, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/to-tickets/SKILL.md.
Conclusion
Matt's to-tickets reinforces tracer-bullet, blocker, frontier, and wide-refactor concepts.
The migrated implement skill should preserve those concepts but reject tracker labels and issue-specific publication mechanics in favor of Wayfinder task metadata.