iterating SKILL.md skillA
iterating from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/iterating@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
iterating/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Sep 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 9, 2025
- Size
- 7,123 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Multi-conversation methodology for iterative stateful work with context accumulation. Use when users request work that spans multiple sessions (research, debugging, refactoring, feature development), need to build on past progress, explicitly mention iterative work, work logs, project knowledge, or cross-conversation learning.
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
# Iterating Maintain context across multiple sessions by persisting state in Work Logs. ## Environment Detection Detect environment and load appropriate reference: ```bash if [ "$CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE" = "true" ]; then # Claude Code on the Web (CCotw) - writes to GitHub # Read: references/ccotw-environment.md elif [ -n "$CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE" ]; then # Claude Code CLI - writes to local filesystem # Read: references/codecli-environment.md elif [ -x "$(command -v osascript)" ] && [ -d "/Applications/Claude.app" ]; then # Claude Desktop - may write to disk OR output for download # Read: references/desktop-environment.md else # Claude.ai (web/chat/native app) - outputs for download # Read: references/chat-environment.md fi ``` See environment-specific reference for persistence and retrieval details. ## Checkpoint Pattern The iterating skill enforces a checkpoint-and-save pattern to prevent work loss: 1. **Create/Update WorkLog** → Output for user → **STOP** 2. User saves WorkLog to project knowledge (survives conversation limits) 3. User says "continue" (same or new conversation) 4. **Make incremental progress** on ONE item → Update WorkLog → **STOP** 5. Repeat …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/iterating@sha256:d0c85a6d33e997a5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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_3wrcw7cagahxt74d)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Nov 9, 2025 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every 61 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-09-09 | db4e3e1 | 7,123 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-01-01 | ab21c6f | 7,446 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251123.09e1344 | 2025-11-23 | 09e1344 | 7,419 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251113.cd9cabd | 2025-11-13 | cd9cabd | 5,665 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251109.c6f34cb | 2025-11-09 | c6f34cb | 2,541 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251109.1a0be4c | 2025-11-09 | 1a0be4c | 2,110 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 (7123 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3wrcw7cagahxt74d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/iterating GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d0c85a6d33e997a51016eda1e2bbbf01ead79349e7c2a363def5921abc42110b
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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