montaj SKILL.md skillA

montaj from thesampadilla/montaj is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/montaj@git:20261013.016a16d

Pins git:20261013.016a16d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
thesampadilla/montaj
Path
skills/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
13
Latest version
git:20261013.016a16d, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 29, 2026
Size
21,220 bytes
Repository stars
27
License
MIT

You MUST use this whenever the user asks for video editing work. Use it when video-related tasks are brought up. Editing, analyzing video, or transcribing videos.

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

# Montaj Skill

Montaj is a video editing toolkit with agent-first tools. Built-in steps cover common operations. Workflows provide suggested operations. But you (the agent) decide what to run, in what order, and with what parameters based on user input.

## Core Loop

This root skill is the **dispatcher**. It detects which interface Montaj is reached through, loads the matching interface skill, then loads the domain skills the workflow needs. It owns orchestration — the project state machine and workflow loading — not transport mechanics. The interface skill (`native` or `mcp`) owns how each `_contract` verb is actually performed.

**Detecting which interface to use** (three-way; if you were already told the context, honor it):

1. **MCP client** (e.g. Claude Desktop) → load skill `mcp`.
2. Else, **local server up** — `GET http://localhost:3000/api/projects?status=pending` responds → **HTTP mode**.
3. Else → **CLI mode**.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/montaj@sha256:d161217c3a6f033d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.016a16d, 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 13 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every day.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21220 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

GitHub

thesampadilla/montaj · 27 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2gvdpy4myk7bal45
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thesampadilla/montaj/montaj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d161217c3a6f033d7641b3bd61c741469cb6adc44c096d803cb192574e75991b

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.

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