writing-specs SKILL.md skillA
writing-specs from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/writing-specs@git:20260929.fdbbc1dPins git:20260929.fdbbc1d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jetbrains/thinkrail
- Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/writing-specs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260929.fdbbc1d, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 2,992 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,127
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a workflow step drafts or revises a spec artifact — a goal-and-requirements, an architecture, or a module SPEC — or when a workflow skill names it at such a step. The shared quality bar for specs — not a workflow, nothing to execute.
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
# Writing Specs The workflow family's shared bar for every spec a workflow produces: **short, honest, on-rails**. Process skills name this concept at the steps that draft or revise specs; *what* to draft and *when* stays with the referencing skill. Graph mechanics — frontmatter, link kinds, the `spec_*` tools — are the spec-graph skill's ground; this concept carries the quality bar the family holds on top of them, and is where the family's rules for specs and the spec graph accrue. ## Short - Small enough to read in one sitting. Target signal, not completeness. - Explain intent, not inventory: what the thing is for, what it owns, where its boundary runs — never a file listing or a restatement of the code. ## Honest - Only settled content appears. Never pad with `[TBD]` or placeholder sections — a section that hasn't been settled simply doesn't exist yet. - Anything inferred rather than confirmed is marked unconfirmed, inline, where it stands. - New and inferred specs are `status: draft` until the user has reviewed them — the flip out of `draft` follows the user's review, never the drafting agent's own judgment. A reviewed durable spec …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/writing-specs@sha256:3d5ab7144d0da5b1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.fdbbc1d, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_36hg3afd46vgioga)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 39 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260929.fdbbc1d latest | 2026-09-29 | fdbbc1d | 2,992 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.77ab071 | 2026-08-20 | 77ab071 | 2,098 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f2e4d5a | 2026-07-13 | f2e4d5a | 1,781 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 (2992 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
jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_36hg3afd46vgioga GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/writing-specs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3d5ab7144d0da5b139ae64503cf3b12317f0439289f47a216ab05ac3c742bed0
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.
More from jetbrains/thinkrail
Every file in jetbrains/thinkrail