use-coding-agents SKILL.md skillB

use-coding-agents from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add av/skills/use-coding-agents@git:20261008.4b255bd

Pins git:20261008.4b255bd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
av/skills
Path
use-coding-agents/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261008.4b255bd, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 4, 2026
Size
13,820 bytes
Repository stars
28
License
MIT

How to use the coding agents installed on this machine (claude, codex, droid, grok, vktr, hermes, opencode, copilot, pi) as plain sub-agents in orchestrated workflows: one headless invocation, one prompt in, one result out. Deliberately ignores each CLI's own orchestration features (droid --mission, codex multi_agent, hermes delegation/moa/kanban, grok --agents, opencode personas). The orchestrator is whatever session is running the skill; the CLIs are interchangeable workers. Use when the…

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

# Use Coding Agents — Installed CLIs as Plain Sub-agents

Validated on `fedora` 2026-09-04 by running each command on a minimal prompt (write one file, or
reply OK). `pop-os` is set up identically via `control/install.sh`. Run `hostname` first.
Re-run `<agent> --help` before relying on any flag not listed here.

## Principle

Every agent here is a **worker**: it receives a prompt, edits files in one directory, commits,
prints a result, exits. Nothing more.

- **Do not use the CLIs' own orchestration features.** No `droid --mission`, no codex
  `multi_agent`, no hermes `delegate_task` / `moa` / `kanban`, no `grok --agents`, no opencode
  personas. Those are unvalidated here, spend tokens invisibly, and hide state from the orchestrator.
- **The orchestrator is the session running this skill** (normally claude via the Agent tool or a
  lifeos skill). It plans units, writes prompts, launches workers, reads short results.
- Workers are interchangeable. Pick by availability and cost, not by feature.

## Workers

| Agent    | Invocation                                                | Auto-approve                                   | Status 2026-09-04 |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add av/skills/use-coding-agents@sha256:05de243163e906dd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.4b255bd, 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 4 versions of this file, between Sep 4, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 11 days. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.

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git:20261008.4b255bd latest2026-10-08 4b255bd 13,820 BB view · diff
git:20261008.3c4a6472026-10-08 3c4a647 13,815 BB view · diff
git:20261007.b3212112026-10-07 b321211 11,465 BA view · diff
git:20260904.1bad9852026-09-04 1bad985 9,249 BA view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viktor-com/vktr/main/install.sh | sh)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13820 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 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

av/skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2fv3icd3yia5k3fg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/use-coding-agents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/05de243163e906dd43c3ad17cfd25ea621c2983e6ddff56becd4d258927e36a4

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