shikhu SKILL.md skillA
shikhu from arjunpatel7/shikhu is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arjunpatel7/shikhu/shikhu@git:20261106.63de1d1Pins git:20261106.63de1d1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arjunpatel7/shikhu
- Path
src/shikhu/_skill/shikhu/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261106.63de1d1, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 5, 2026
- Size
- 5,507 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
How to use the shikhu CLI itself — its commands, setup, coverage and golden questions, the push hook, and the habits that make its quizzes work. Use it when the user asks how to do something with shikhu ("how do I quiz on my branch?", "what does --since do?", "why is my push blocked?", "how do I set up the hook?", "where's my key stored?"), and whenever a `git push` prints `shikhu gate:`. Do NOT use it for questions about the user's own code; that's /shikhu-inquiry.
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
# shikhu — using the tool Shikhu checks that a developer understands the code they ship, especially code their agent wrote. It writes multiple-choice questions from their code and the questions they asked about it, quizzes them in the terminal, and tracks **knowledge coverage**: which files are backed by *golden* questions. Everything is stored in `coverage.db` in the repo, on their machine. Answer from this page; run `shikhu <command> --help` when you need a flag it doesn't cover. Never take a quiz for the user: `shikhu quiz` is interactive and the knowledge is theirs. ## The two loops **Learn an existing codebase** ```bash shikhu init # database, skills, asks for the OpenRouter key and the push hook shikhu summarize # one cheap model call per file; lets shikhu tell what a question is about shikhu map # Claude Code users: where their past questions were; picks a file to start ``` Then they ask their agent about the code (/shikhu-inquiry answers, then writes quiz questions from the question with `shikhu generate-from-study <file>`), and run `shikhu quiz`. **Ship a change (the push gate)** 1. Code on a branch as usual, with the agent. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arjunpatel7/shikhu/shikhu@sha256:7139f7249e7e9476The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.63de1d1, 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 2 versions of this file, between Nov 5, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20261106.63de1d1 latest | 2026-11-06 | 63de1d1 | 5,507 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261105.9ee8def | 2026-11-05 | 9ee8def | 5,478 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 (5507 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
arjunpatel7/shikhu · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2qnnkoc5s6lys6lh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arjunpatel7/shikhu/shikhu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7139f7249e7e9476f08dbd22eb232ab9fdcb628a6dc3d74b575cc0fdbf2d2179
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.