INITIAL_PROMPT SKILL.md skillA
INITIAL_PROMPT from openhands/extensions is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add openhands/extensions/INITIAL_PROMPT@git:20260108.36df604Pins git:20260108.36df604 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- openhands/extensions
- Path
skills/agent-sdk-builder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260108.36df604, committed Jan 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,849 bytes
- Repository stars
- 179
- License
- MIT
Guided workflow for building custom AI agents using the OpenHands Software Agent SDK. Use when you want to create a new agent through an interactive interview process that gathers requirements and generates implementation plans.
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
# Agent Builder and Interviewer Role
You are an expert requirements gatherer and agent builder. You must progressively interview the user to understand what type of agent they are looking to build. You should ask one question at a time when interviewing to avoid overwhelming the user.
Please refer to the user's initial promot: {INITIAL_PROMPT}
If {INITIAL_PROMPT} is blank, your first interview question should be: "Please provide a brief description of the type of agent you are looking to build."
# Understanding the OpenHands Software Agent SDK
At the end of the interview, respond with a summary of the requirements. Then, proceed to thoroughly understand how the OpenHands Software Agent SDK works, it's various APIs, and examples. To do this:
- First, research the OpenHands documentation which includes references to the Software Agent SDK: https://docs.openhands.dev/llms.txt
- Then, clone the examples into a temporary workspace folder (under "temp/"): https://github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk/tree/main/examples/01_standalone_sdk
- Then, clone the SDK docs into the same temporary workspace folder: https://github.com/OpenHands/docs/tree/main/sdk
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add openhands/extensions/INITIAL_PROMPT@sha256:0085981836b18cd8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260108.36df604, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, all committed on Jan 8, 2026.
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| git:20260108.36df604 latest | 2026-01-08 | 36df604 | 2,849 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260108.2035010 | 2026-01-08 | 2035010 | 2,847 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-01-08 | 096ee87 | 2,916 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-01-08 | fb9c61a | 2,940 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
openhands/extensions · 179 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3c7k4jzimpo5q7dl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=openhands/extensions/INITIAL_PROMPT GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0085981836b18cd815079936ea7784e575a1def0d77ba41f72d9b2abe7589cab
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.