lance-format SKILL.md skillA
lance-format from tenequm/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tenequm/skills/lance-format@v0.21.1Pins v0.21.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tenequm/skills
- Path
skills/lance-format/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v0.21.1, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 26,915 bytes
- Repository stars
- 39
- License
- MIT
Deep reference for Lance v14 columnar format, its Rust crates, and pylance - file encodings, table format, indexes, schema evolution, time travel. Use when building on the Lance crates or reading .lance datasets, not the LanceDB product.
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
# Lance v14 reference Lance is an open columnar format for multimodal AI - "a columnar data format that is 100x faster than Parquet for random access." It is not one format but a stack of interoperating specs: a **file format**, a **table format**, **index formats**, **catalog specs**, and a **namespace client spec**. The Rust workspace at `lance-format/lance` implements all of them plus Python (`pylance`) and Java bindings. This skill tracks **`v14.0.0-beta.14`** (the `lance-format/lance` git tag), the current development frontier; **`v13.0.0`** is the stable pin, released 2026-10-07. Pin against tags, not `main` - Lance ships beta tags every few days and `next`-format encodings can change. Version landscape below. Three layers of reference, load what the task needs: - **The deep reference** - any concrete schema, parameter, proto, or constraint. Split by topic: | File in `references/` | Covers | Sections | |------|--------|----------| | `format-file.md` | What Lance is, the 27 crates, file format, data types | 1-4 | | `format-table.md` | Dataset layout, manifests, fragments, schema evolution, versioning/tags/branches, row IDs, transactions + OCC, MemWAL | 5-10 | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tenequm/skills/lance-format@sha256:13adb24dae98adf5The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.21.1, 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_3mlyfha36rcso5fx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.21.1 latest | 2026-10-13 | 815a39e | 26,915 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.21.0 | 2026-10-13 | 25dd84f | 26,915 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.20.0 | 2026-09-17 | e6f1911 | 35,903 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.0 | 2026-09-09 | 0a72d33 | 27,095 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.18.1 | 2026-09-09 | 532dedd | 24,740 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.18.0 | 2026-09-01 | 1593317 | 25,038 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.17.1 | 2026-08-21 | b16c242 | 18,505 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.17.0 | 2026-08-21 | 50a7fa2 | 18,396 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 (26915 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
tenequm/skills · 39 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3mlyfha36rcso5fx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tenequm/skills/lance-format GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/13adb24dae98adf5fbbb8426d86f6fffc0946ca7fc86bf9c6075a615880c9934
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.