Artificial Intelligence · 20.08.2026, 21:16 UTC
The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | Latent Space ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 20.08.2026 UTC |
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We’re currently developing a new series about skills, with the aim of giving you a regular supply of new skills to use in your projects. We’re kicking things off with an interview — and a super-useful skill — featuring Matt Pocock, whose “AI Skills for Real Engineers” project has over 220,000 stars on GitHub. He also talks about these skills to 347,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.Pocock recently released a new skill called /wayfinder. Its purpose is to help you and your agent figure out a project where the end state isn’t entirely clear. Or as Pocock put it in our interview, /wayfinder helps you navigate “the fog of war,” where you have a project but “you can’t quite decide everything right at the start.”The following interview has been slightly condensed for readability, so you can read it, absorb Matt’s insights, and then test out /wayfinder for yourself!Latent Space: What were the goals of wayfinder?Pocock: What I noticed is I was doing a lot of work with AFK agents [Away From Keyboard] and trying to schedule in a ton of work so that my agents could run virtually overnight. I would just plan a bunch of stuff, and then I would create a spec and then turn that spec into tickets. And I had a really well-developed set of skills for how to turn work into scheduled stuff that agents could just crack on.But [...] I was finding the planning stage really onerous, because I would have to be constantly thinking about my session management. Like, how many tokens am I into my context window? How deep am I going here?Matt Pocock’s wayfinder skill, as documented in GitHubI …