developing-openrig SKILL.md skillA

developing-openrig from mvschwarz/openrig is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/developing-openrig@git:20261006.fcef78a

Pins git:20261006.fcef78a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mvschwarz/openrig
Path
.claude/skills/developing-openrig/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261006.fcef78a, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 1, 2026
Size
5,967 bytes
Repository stars
7,989
License
Apache-2.0

Use when changing OpenRig's own source in a clone of the openrig repository: finding which package or file owns a behaviour, choosing which tests to run, testing a change without disturbing the OpenRig daemon your own session runs on, judging whether a diff touches a high-risk area, or preparing a pull request. Not for operating rigs (openrig-skills) or designing rig topologies.

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

# Developing OpenRig

This skill is a map to the other maps. Each one is incomplete and may be stale: where a map and the code disagree, the
code is right, and fixing the map is a welcome contribution.

## First: which OpenRig are you in?

If you are an agent running inside OpenRig, two different OpenRigs are in play:

- **The installed one runs your session.** `rig --version` and `rig daemon status` describe it.
- **The checkout is what you're changing.** `git rev-parse HEAD` describes it.

Restarting the installed daemon does not run your checkout, and stopping it stops the agents running on it, including
you. Test your change with the repo's own harnesses, which start a private daemon and tmux server (see "Test it" below),
not by restarting the daemon you live in.

## Find your way

| You want to know | Read | How much to trust it |
|---|---|---|
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/developing-openrig@sha256:fba6335a4e091adb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.fcef78a, 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, between Oct 1, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261006.fcef78a latest2026-10-06 fcef78a 5,967 BA view · diff
git:20261006.e64c3aa2026-10-06 e64c3aa 4,837 BA view · diff
git:20261006.0ee020f2026-10-06 0ee020f 4,614 BA view · diff
git:20261001.792ef422026-10-01 792ef42 4,379 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5967 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

GitHub

mvschwarz/openrig · 7,989 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3lva2egjwinr2ahx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mvschwarz/openrig/developing-openrig
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fba6335a4e091adb195d90774247bf1ee0e882464bb2ebc3a5d7e77b2d354e00

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.

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