Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session or when you need to discover which skill applies to the current task. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.
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# Using Agent Skills
## Overview
Agent Skills is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.
## Skill Discovery
When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:
```
Task arrives
│
├── Don't know what you want yet? ──────→ interview-me
├── Have a rough concept, need variants? → idea-refine
├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development
├── Have a spec, need tasks? ──────→ planning-and-task-breakdown
├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation
│ ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering
│ ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design
│ ├── Need better context? ─────→ context-engineering
│ ├── Need doc-verified code? ───→ source-driven-development
│ └── Stakes high / unfamiliar code? ──→ doubt-driven-development
├── Writing/running tests? ────────→ test-driven-development
│ └── Browser-based? ───────────→ browser-testing-with-devtools
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.941aa31, 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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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gastonchevarria/god-mode/using-agent-skills
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