implement-spec SKILL.md skillA
implement-spec from dzhng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dzhng/skills/implement-spec@git:20261021.8e74252Pins git:20261021.8e74252 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dzhng/skills
- Path
skills/engineering/implement-spec/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261021.8e74252, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 15,840 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,377
- License
- MIT
Implement an existing spec through committed passes. Use for long or multi-pass specs that need maintenance checkpoints to periodically clean code, handoffs, priorities, and plan bloat before drift accumulates.
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
# Implement Spec Build the active spec to completion, one reviewable pass at a time. The spec is the implementation plan; user constraints and accepted experimental evidence remain binding when the architecture changes. A pass (usually one slice) is a **commit checkpoint, not a stopping point.** The job is the whole spec — every slice, every global TODO — not the first green commit. Finishing a pass means starting the next one, not handing back to the user. Only stop when the spec is fully implemented (or a genuine blocker needs a decision only the user can make). **Work in parallel wherever the graph allows.** Do not walk the ladder one slice at a time when slices are independent. Read the spec's dependency graph as a wavefront and **delegate independent passes to subagents that run concurrently** (see Rules) — you orchestrate and integrate; only serialize what genuinely depends on prior work. ## Workflow 1. Read the repo README, the spec README, and the next slice before editing. Load any skills named by the spec. Identify the current pickup point, global TODOs, required gates, and what must stay green. If a multi-slice spec lacks …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dzhng/skills/implement-spec@sha256:4ad045ea27456c7cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.8e74252, 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_3c4owvfsazl2xp4m)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.8e74252 latest | 2026-10-21 | 8e74252 | 15,840 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.be830ec | 2026-09-26 | be830ec | 15,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.997df74 | 2026-09-26 | 997df74 | 17,100 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260801.52c8fcd | 2026-08-01 | 52c8fcd | 14,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.b1762dc | 2026-07-21 | b1762dc | 13,606 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.ae5c516 | 2026-07-21 | ae5c516 | 12,892 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.a649311 | 2026-07-19 | a649311 | 11,497 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.ff8d634 | 2026-07-17 | ff8d634 | 10,680 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 (15840 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
dzhng/skills · 1,377 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3c4owvfsazl2xp4m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dzhng/skills/implement-spec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4ad045ea27456c7c434d734cc93ad234fe0f2822261262bb6de2bd4d0d6dbb65
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.