swe:capture-knowledge SKILL.md skillA
swe:capture-knowledge from ckorhonen/swe-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:capture-knowledge@git:20260404.50aa7e9Pins git:20260404.50aa7e9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ckorhonen/swe-skills
- Path
skills/capture-knowledge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260404.50aa7e9, committed Apr 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 4, 2026
- Size
- 6,490 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Audits a repository's code and docs to find important conventions, workflows, and architectural decisions that are missing from agent-facing guidance, then drafts review-ready updates. Use when a user says `capture repo knowledge`, `document implicit conventions`, `turn repo patterns into agent rules`, or asks what future agents should remember about a codebase. Do NOT use for a generic repo tour, onboarding walkthrough, or architecture summary that does not need reusable guidance updates.
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
# SWE Capture Knowledge ## What This Skill Does Use this skill to convert implicit repo knowledge into explicit guidance that future agents can follow reliably. The job is not to summarize the repo. The job is to compare: - What the repo actually does - What the existing agent guidance already says - What high-signal guidance is still missing Then draft the missing entries and stop for review before writing anything. ## When To Use Use this skill when the user wants to: - Capture undocumented repo conventions - Turn repeated implementation patterns into reusable agent guidance - Find what current rules or skills are missing - Draft agent-facing guidance updates before saving them ## Do Not Use Do not use this skill for: - A general repo orientation report with no writing goal - A broad architecture review that will not produce guidance updates - A documentation audit for human-facing docs only - Automatic write-back without an explicit review step ## Inputs To Confirm Before doing deep work, confirm or infer: - The repo or paths in scope - Which guidance files count as agent-facing guidance - Whether the user wants draft-only output or draft-plus-write after approval …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:capture-knowledge@sha256:28e573426a7a34ddThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260404.50aa7e9, 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_3myatorkrylvw5b3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Apr 4, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260404.50aa7e9 latest | 2026-04-04 | 50aa7e9 | 6,490 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260404.f3a9e33 | 2026-04-04 | f3a9e33 | 4,376 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 (6490 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
ckorhonen/swe-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3myatorkrylvw5b3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:capture-knowledge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28e573426a7a34dd4b6ac422950afef1cb3883308efe6beb8baa8e6d3fab7cbf
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