manifest-to-goal SKILL.md skillA
manifest-to-goal from doodledood/manifest-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-to-goal@git:20261005.da92850Pins git:20261005.da92850 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- doodledood/manifest-dev
- Path
claude-plugins/manifest-dev-tools/skills/manifest-to-goal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261005.da92850, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 4, 2026
- Size
- 3,140 bytes
- Repository stars
- 75
- License
- MIT
Turn a Manifest into a standalone goal defining what done means, in at most 4,000 characters. Use when the user wants to paste the work into a goal field without a Manifest file reference.
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
Turn the supplied Manifest — the specification of what to deliver, what counts as done, and the constraints that hold throughout — into a standalone definition of done. Before drafting, invoke the prompt-engineering skill and apply its principles. Read the whole Manifest and references needed to understand its intent and requirements. Use the Manifest identified in the request or conversation; ask which one if the target is missing or ambiguous. Apply explicit user amendments, distinguishing settled decisions from suggestions still under discussion. Ask a focused question only when an unresolved choice or contradiction would materially change the goal. Write for an agent that will have neither the Manifest nor this conversation. Build upward from the finished outcome, adding the conditions that make it acceptable: deliverables, scope, consequential thresholds, quality bar, and delivery or authorization limits. Preserve source-grounded purpose and rationale that guide interpretation or trade-offs, and examples that define a meaningful boundary. Keep assumptions qualified. A retained detail must not revive a superseded goal. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-to-goal@sha256:a9fcbe13e4e6da99The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.da92850, 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_3bhpzj6cn35uhquq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 4, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.da92850 latest | 2026-10-05 | da92850 | 3,140 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.ee067da | 2026-10-04 | ee067da | 2,838 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 (3140 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
doodledood/manifest-dev · 75 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3bhpzj6cn35uhquq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-to-goal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a9fcbe13e4e6da99c9ba113e000191c51251f21562b502abb48dea64cd174698
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.