quarto-authoring SKILL.md skillA
quarto-authoring from posit-dev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add posit-dev/skills/quarto-authoring@v1.4Pins v1.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- posit-dev/skills
- Path
quarto/quarto-authoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.4, committed May 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 20, 2026
- Size
- 7,446 bytes
- Repository stars
- 556
- License
- MIT
Use when the user is explicitly working with Quarto, .qmd files, _quarto.yml, Quarto projects, or Quarto features such as callouts, cross-references, citations, Mermaid diagrams, extensions, websites, books, presentations, and reports. Also use for explicit migration from or comparison with R Markdown, bookdown, blogdown, xaringan, distill, or Jupyter notebooks to Quarto. Do not use for general R Markdown or related-format questions unless Quarto or migration to Quarto is explicitly mentioned.
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
# Quarto Authoring > This skill is based on Quarto CLI v1.9.36 (2026-03-24). ## When to Use What Task: Write a new Quarto document Use: Follow "QMD Essentials" below, then see specific reference files Task: Add cross-references Use: [references/cross-references.md](references/cross-references.md) Task: Configure code cells Use: [references/code-cells.md](references/code-cells.md) Task: Add figures with captions Use: [references/figures.md](references/figures.md) Task: Create tables Use: [references/tables.md](references/tables.md) Task: Add citations and bibliography Use: [references/citations.md](references/citations.md) Task: Add callout blocks Use: [references/callouts.md](references/callouts.md) Task: Add diagrams (Mermaid, Graphviz) Use: [references/diagrams.md](references/diagrams.md) Task: Control page layout Use: [references/layout.md](references/layout.md) Task: Use shortcodes Use: [references/shortcodes.md](references/shortcodes.md) Task: Add conditional content Use: [references/conditional-content.md](references/conditional-content.md) Task: Use divs and spans Use: [references/divs-and-spans.md](references/divs-and-spans.md) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add posit-dev/skills/quarto-authoring@sha256:57beae1419556214The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4, 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_2chrsmlx7jqtzjjt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 20, 2026 and May 1, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.4 latest | 2026-05-01 | eeaa63d | 7,446 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-04-20 | 98af5ce | 7,207 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-03-31 | 73781cb | 7,222 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-02-20 | 97b0d38 | 7,045 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-02-20 | 51263bf | 9,275 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 (7446 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
posit-dev/skills · 556 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2chrsmlx7jqtzjjt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=posit-dev/skills/quarto-authoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/57beae14195562148b1cb9409cd95228df52265d0d7ace639004014f8b95df16
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.