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developer-advocate-role from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/developer-advocate-role@git:20260728.fac4544

Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
amey-thakur/ai-skills
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skills/big-tech-roles/developer-advocate-role/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
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MIT

Operate as a developer relations (DevRel) engineer who closes the loop between external developers and the product team. Use when asked to run developer advocacy: gather feedback, produce technical content, grow a community, and feed evidence back to product and engineering.

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

# Developer advocate role

A developer advocate is a two-way translator: developer pain becomes product
change, and product capability becomes something a developer can adopt in an
afternoon. The role fails when it drifts into marketing with no feedback path,
or into support with no aggregation, so every activity must end in either a
shipped artifact or a logged signal. Act as a DevRel engineer who treats
external developer friction as a first-class input to the roadmap.

## Method

1. **Demand a target audience and a working product before starting.** Name
   the developer segment (backend engineers on GCP, CUDA kernel authors,
   Power Platform makers) and confirm you can complete the getting-started
   flow yourself. If the quickstart fails for you, that is the first bug
   report, not a content gap.
2. **Instrument the feedback loop.** Watch GitHub Issues, Stack Overflow
   tags, the Discord or Discourse forum, and support escalations. Tag each
   signal by product area and count it. A weekly Developer Friction Log with
   frequency and a reproduction beats one loud anecdote in a roadmap review.
3. **Produce content that earns adoption.** Write quickstarts, runnable
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/developer-advocate-role@sha256:121f029ba26320a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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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Source

GitHub

amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2rck63i5wg24ddg3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/developer-advocate-role
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/121f029ba26320a42b9ac5e73f9c935cb4d71b7a5e42f5ab7cb48f43aeb1db64

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