priorart SKILL.md skillA
priorart from duthaho/skillhub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add duthaho/skillhub/priorart@git:20260714.fd6a387Pins git:20260714.fd6a387 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- duthaho/skillhub
- Path
.claude/skills/priorart/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260714.fd6a387, committed Jul 14, 2026
- Size
- 6,575 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Prior-art check before you build — does this idea already exist? Takes a project/tool/library idea, reframes it in the vocabularies different communities would use, searches where builders publish (code registries, Show HN, arXiv), traces each match one dependency-layer down to the real incumbent, and returns a locator-backed landscape plus exactly one verdict: Build / Fork X / Contribute to Y / Use Z / Investigate first. Checked ideas persist in out/priorart/checked.md, so re-checking one…
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
# priorart — who built this before me? `/priorart <idea>` — check whether the idea already exists `/priorart` — list ideas already checked (from `out/priorart/checked.md`) Answer one question: **has someone already built this — and what does that mean for whether you should?** The deliverable is one honest verdict with the landscape as its evidence, not a survey. Advisory throughout: it recommends; the human decides what, if anything, gets built. ## Step 0 — Check the memory Read `out/priorart/checked.md` if it exists. If this idea (or a close variant) was checked before, open with **"Since last check"**: re-verify the previous brief's findings (status changes, new arrivals since that date) instead of redoing the whole search. The pipeline below is for ideas not yet in the log. ## Step 1 — Restate before searching Restate the idea in one sentence — what it does, who it's for, and the constraint that makes it distinctive — and confirm it with the user. Too vague to restate → ask exactly **one** clarifying question, offering at most 3 example dimensions (it's a question, not a questionnaire). ## Step 2 — Vocabulary before queries …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add duthaho/skillhub/priorart@sha256:3da82d0aa76d0059The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.fd6a387, 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_37i2ju4t357kcfif)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 14, 2026.
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 (6575 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
duthaho/skillhub · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_37i2ju4t357kcfif GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=duthaho/skillhub/priorart GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3da82d0aa76d0059c49635d0c0402cb54cab52ddf3c8e3c8cdb6757aa9934850
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.