language-style-sampling SKILL.md skillA
language-style-sampling from rikvanriel/code-hygiene is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/language-style-sampling@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rikvanriel/code-hygiene
- Path
skills/language-style-sampling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 16, 2026
- Size
- 4,097 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Use when working in an unfamiliar language or matching an unfamiliar codebase style. Derives a style guide by sampling.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Language Style Sampling — Derive Guide From Sample Capability: produce checkable style rules for any project/language by sampling authoritative sources, not LLM prior. ## When Before authoring new skill or CONTRIBUTING style section for language/project whose CONTRIBUTING is sparse, or onboarding new repo. ## Method 1. Discover authoritative sources ordered: - Language official style: Effective Go, PEP8 / Google Python Style, Rust API Guidelines, Mozilla JS Guide, clang-format doc, project's own CONTRIBUTING/HACKING. - Sample 3-5 real files from canon (stdlib, well-maintained cited repo), not random snippets. Paste paths. 2. Extract checkable rules — 5 categories: - Naming: files, functions, predicate bools should_/is_/try_, constants, packages. - Comment density: WHY not WHAT, where doc lives definition vs header, subtle logic MUST WHY. - Error handling: return vs exception, wrapping, logging level, sentinel vs typed. - Function length signal: typical ≤20 logical, hard 40 — what prompts extraction and how to name helper by intent theme. - Trailing hygiene: public links only, banned class private paths, subject style if conventional commits enforced. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/language-style-sampling@sha256:ce9586e0ee44752fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2ap4e2qgngqlhzrr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 16, 2026 and Sep 17, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-17 | f466313 | 4,097 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-17 | 4fc5ed9 | 4,081 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-17 | 6de94e8 | 4,050 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-16 | dfba4be | 4,108 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4097 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
rikvanriel/code-hygiene · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2ap4e2qgngqlhzrr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rikvanriel/code-hygiene/language-style-sampling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ce9586e0ee44752fbdaf5d7330518971c1920338e778baade162037c4bd552f8
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