ai-explore SKILL.md skillA

ai-explore from arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-explore@git:20261106.9932b24

Pins git:20261106.9932b24 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering
Path
skills/ai-explore/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261106.9932b24, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 1, 2026
Size
3,874 bytes
Repository stars
65
License
Apache-2.0

Answers repo questions with file:line evidence and tours unfamiliar modules. Trigger: "where does X live", "how does this work", "walk me through", or "onboard me". Not for external evidence (/ai-research), failures (/ai-debug), or diff correctness (/ai-verify).

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

# Read this repository and answer

## What it produces

An answer anchored to real paths. Every claim points at `file:line`, or it is marked as a
guess.

## Steps

1. Match the depth to the question, not to a flag. "Where is X" gets a path and a sentence.
   "How does this work" gets the flow. "Onboard me" gets a tour, and a tour is longer than
   five sentences by definition.
2. Match the words to who is asking. Somebody who does not code gets what the thing does and
   what it costs them when it breaks, with the file paths kept as evidence rather than as
   the answer; somebody who does gets the path first. Ask which if the question does not
   say, and never answer a business question with a call graph.
3. Find the real entry point before reading anything else. Working outward from the wrong
   file produces a confident answer about the wrong subsystem.
4. Follow one real path end to end and say what happens at each hop. Never summarise a flow
   from file names alone — that is the single most common way this goes wrong, and it reads
   exactly like a correct answer.
5. When the shape is the answer, draw it. Under 70 columns, and every box is a real file
   that exists:

   ```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-explore@sha256:8e6a69ef3125243c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.9932b24, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2lzs7ssrbgclvf32.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2lzs7ssrbgclvf32)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 13 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261106.9932b24 latest2026-11-06 9932b24 3,874 BA view · diff
git:20260926.b0fd9cf2026-09-26 b0fd9cf 4,096 BA view · diff
git:20260922.83b942f2026-09-22 83b942f 4,088 BA view · diff
git:20260910.d0213302026-09-10 d021330 4,060 BA view · diff
git:20260901.deb68d32026-09-01 deb68d3 3,903 BA view · diff
git:20260901.dca22e52026-09-01 dca22e5 2,864 BA view

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 (3874 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

arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering · 65 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2lzs7ssrbgclvf32
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-explore
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8e6a69ef3125243ce97bce441369d82e64578e9cb4bec50c4d7983e9097f862d

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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