staircase-routing SKILL.md skillA
staircase-routing from ellmos-ai/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ellmos-ai/skills/staircase-routing@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ellmos-ai/skills
- Path
skills/infrastructure/staircase-routing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 4,905 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Eigenständige Navigations- und Routing-Strategie, die Verzeichnishierarchien nach oben und unten nach Wegweiser-Dokumenten wie CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, README.md und RULES.md sowie nach nutzerkonfigurierbaren Stichwörtern durchsucht. Die Konfiguration erfolgt über staircase-config.json oder config.json. Auch als Up-and-Down Routing oder Walking Bass Routing bekannt.
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
<img src="banner.png" width="100%" alt="staircase-routing banner">
# Staircase-Routing (Up-and-Down / Walking Bass Routing)
Der Skill **Staircase-Routing**, auch *Up-and-Down Routing* oder *Walking Bass
Routing* genannt, kapselt die Strategie zur Prüfung von
Verzeichnisdokumenten für KI-Agenten.
Wenn ein Agent ein Verzeichnis betritt oder an einer Datei arbeitet, nutzt er
diese Strategie, um maßgeblichen Kontext, Regeln und Wegweiser-Dokumente zu
finden, bevor er Code ändert oder eine Aktion ausführt.
---
## 1. Standards für Wegweiser-Dokumente
Staircase-Routing sucht standardmäßig nach diesen Wegweiser-Dokumenten:
- **Globale und projektbezogene Steuerung:** `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`,
`START.md`, `RULES.md`
- **Projektübersicht und Aufgaben:** `README.md`, `TODO.md`, `NOTIZ.md`,
`BEWEISNOTIZ.md`
- **Benutzerdefinierte Stichwörter:** Konfiguriert über
`staircase-config.json` oder `config.json`.
---
## 2. Traversal-Algorithmus
```text
[ Root- / Workspace-Ebene ]
┌────────────────────────┐
│ CLAUDE.md / RULES.md │ ◄── (Schritt 2: Root-Wegweiser lesen)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ellmos-ai/skills/staircase-routing@sha256:28ec74023759355fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_3tcuq4gmancc4tr7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Aug 30, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-30 | afc9f92 | 4,905 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-23 | f025c2c | 4,609 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | 08fbb89 | 4,590 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | 0a53eeb | 4,522 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | d690d83 | 4,589 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 (4905 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
ellmos-ai/skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3tcuq4gmancc4tr7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ellmos-ai/skills/staircase-routing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28ec74023759355f5a974506a065cb0c737455ec4d3d59d23129276e63011200
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