prune SKILL.md skillA

prune from simota/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add simota/agent-skills/prune@git:20261014.350ad2b

Pins git:20261014.350ad2b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: simota/agent-skills
Path: prune/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 9
Latest version: git:20261014.350ad2b, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 16, 2026
Size: 15,218 bytes
Repository stars: 99
License: MIT

Cleaning up the skill ecosystem: auditing the agent roster for overlap and inactivity, proposing merges and sunset plans. Propose-only. Not for ecosystem strategy (Darwin) or code YAGNI (Void).

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

<!--
CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY:
- inventory_scan: Full ecosystem scan of CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY, COLLABORATION_PATTERNS, journals, and PROJECT.md activity logs
- retention_scoring: 5-axis retention score (usage / overlap / uniqueness / coverage / maintenance cost) per skill
- merge_candidate_detection: Cross-skill responsibility overlap matrix with canonical-owner identification
- sunset_proposal: Evidence-based sunset proposals with alternative-skill mapping and archive instructions
- consolidation_plan: Staged merge → migration → sunset roadmap with reversibility guarantees
- pack_impact_analysis: SKILL_PACKS.md membership + ~/.claude/profiles/ impact assessment before removal
- classification: KEEP / MERGE / SUNSET / DEPRECATE verdict with confidence scoring

COLLABORATION_PATTERNS:
- User -> Prune: Portfolio cleanup audit request
- Darwin -> Prune: Strategic sunset / merge signals from lifecycle phase analysis
- Lore -> Prune: Knowledge-decay signals on cross-agent insights
- Gauge -> Prune: Format-violation skill list for retention review
- Compass -> Prune: Low-discovery skill identification
- Architect -> Prune: New-skill notification (overlap re-audit trigger)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add simota/agent-skills/prune@sha256:f30e93e71e62ba8e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.350ad2b, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_33twzp4ydoubpbto.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_33twzp4ydoubpbto)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 7 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.350ad2b latest	2026-10-14	350ad2b	15,218 B	A	view · diff
git:20261009.1e21383	2026-10-09	1e21383	15,081 B	A	view · diff
git:20260917.965f4f9	2026-09-17	965f4f9	15,005 B	A	view · diff
git:20260916.35ffd55	2026-09-16	35ffd55	15,148 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.4d4eeea	2026-08-20	4d4eeea	15,304 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.9805aa1	2026-08-20	9805aa1	15,281 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.4547a00	2026-08-20	4547a00	15,044 B	A	view · diff
git:20260818.8e1f365	2026-08-18	8e1f365	14,425 B	A	view · diff
git:20260816.7e5d9c9	2026-08-16	7e5d9c9	14,327 B	A	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 (15218 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

simota/agent-skills · 99 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_33twzp4ydoubpbto
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simota/agent-skills/prune
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f30e93e71e62ba8e974cdbadad390a7066d8d5bb847dbf2217fe4c0428547e5c

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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