install-tend SKILL.md skillB

install-tend from max-sixty/tend is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add max-sixty/tend/install-tend@git:20261019.13856fe

Pins git:20261019.13856fe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
max-sixty/tend
Path
plugins/install-tend/skills/install-tend/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
33
Latest version
git:20261019.13856fe, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 19, 2026
Size
53,494 bytes
Repository stars
39
License
MIT

Installs tend, rotates credentials, repairs failing tend checks, and manages config, secrets, branch protection, and bot access.

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

# Install Tend

Set up tend on the current repo, or change an installation it already has.

When asking the user questions during these steps, batch known questions into
one interaction where the client supports it, and present concrete options
when there are clear choices (e.g. secret-migration confirmation, registry
token route).

When a question requires the user to do something off-screen (visit a URL,
run a command, paste a value back), spell the next step out in the question
or option description: the exact web link, the exact command. "Generate a
token on the registry's site" is not enough — give the URL. The user should
not have to ask "where do I do that?".

## Kickoff

Read `.config/tend.yaml` first. Its presence says whether this is an install or
a change to one, and where it exists it settles the harness: the `harness` key,
or Claude when the key is absent, which is how a Claude install is normally
written.

Derive `REPO` once at the start — the second call resolves a fork clone to
its root source, so no remotes need touching (every command below passes
`--repo "$REPO"` explicitly):

```bash
gh auth status
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add max-sixty/tend/install-tend@sha256:7ae1fd0d1d5a78a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.13856fe, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3qntt7u4ngdqyh7a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3qntt7u4ngdqyh7a)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 33 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No base64 blob over 200 characters (matched: PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxNiAxNiI+PGcgdHJhbnNmb3JtPSJ0)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (53494 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 link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

max-sixty/tend · 39 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3qntt7u4ngdqyh7a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=max-sixty/tend/install-tend
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ae1fd0d1d5a78a414e79239e3b08acb87dca97317eb1e266aab4658d6297aeb

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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