The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
Matt Pocock released the /wayfinder skill, an orchestrator layer that manages planning sessions, maps, and tickets for AFK coding agents.
Latent Space interviews Matt Pocock, whose AI Skills for Real Engineers project has 220,000+ GitHub stars, about his new /wayfinder skill. The skill manages agent context during ambiguous planning by splitting work into grilling, prototype, research, and task tickets organized under a shared map, enabling overnight AFK agent runs. It uses deliberate terminology like map, ticket, and session to steer agent behavior, and was tested on projects including a personal website rearchitecture.
- /wayfinder orchestrates planning into maps and tickets so agents can run unattended overnight.
- Four ticket types — grilling, prototype, research, and task — structure agent work.
- Precise 'leading words' (map, ticket, session) are used to control agent context and behavior.
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Matt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.
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