working-in-scratch-areas SKILL.md skillA
working-in-scratch-areas from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/working-in-scratch-areas@git:20261028.c2c0bcfPins git:20261028.c2c0bcf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
- Path
plugins/dev-tools/skills/working-in-scratch-areas/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261028.c2c0bcf, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 13, 2025
- Size
- 2,419 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use when creating one-off scripts, debug tools, analysis reports, or temporary documentation - ensures work is saved to persistent .scratch areas with proper documentation, organization, and executable patterns.
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
# Working in Scratch Areas One-off scripts, debug tools, analysis notes, and reports worth keeping go in the repo's `.scratch/` area, not in the repo tree or a temp dir. `.scratch` is a symlink from the repo root to a per-repo directory under a central scratch-areas root, so the files outlive the checkout and never get committed. (The session scratchpad the harness provides is still the place for throwaway intermediates nobody will look at again.) ## Setup `test -L .scratch` tells you whether the repo has one. If not: 1. Find the areas root: a "Scratch Areas" line in `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` (the setup script reads it), else ask the user. Suggest `~/workspace/scratch-areas`, or a `scratch-areas/` dir next to the repo. 2. From the repo root, run this skill's `scripts/setup-scratch-area.sh [--areas-root PATH] [--save-to-claude-md]`. It creates the repo's area, the `.scratch` symlink, and a README from the template. Skip `--save-to-claude-md` when `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` is generated from dotfiles; add the line to its source instead. 3. Make sure `.scratch` is gitignored, globally (`git config --global core.excludesfile`) or in the project `.gitignore`. ## Rules …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/working-in-scratch-areas@sha256:00b505405487847bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.c2c0bcf, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Nov 13, 2025 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 174 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261028.c2c0bcf latest | 2026-10-28 | c2c0bcf | 2,419 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251113.04ad06d | 2025-11-13 | 04ad06d | 18,458 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251113.39ba5a5 | 2025-11-13 | 39ba5a5 | 16,013 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 (2419 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
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2fsqx5fzai4hk25o GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/working-in-scratch-areas GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/00b505405487847b4cfee64177a05de6d95a6529b886a283741915110cbf5c8f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.