engineering-small-prs SKILL.md skillA
engineering-small-prs from minimax-ai/mcode-stack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add minimax-ai/mcode-stack/engineering-small-prs@git:20261028.c6ee606Pins git:20261028.c6ee606 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- minimax-ai/mcode-stack
- Path
stacks/ronny/skills/engineering-small-prs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261028.c6ee606, committed Oct 28, 2026
- Size
- 5,514 bytes
- Repository stars
- 495
- License
- MIT
Use when planning, splitting, shrinking, or sequencing large features, refactors, migrations, or pull requests into small reviewable PRs or CLs. TRIGGER on "split this PR", "this diff is too large", "stacked PRs", "change sequence", "reviewable chunks", "migration plan", "how should I break this up?", or implementation scope too broad for one review. DO NOT TRIGGER for full code review, PR description writing, or tiny one-file edits that already form one self-contained change.
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
# Engineering Small PRs Small PRs are easier to review thoroughly, safer to merge, easier to roll back, and less likely to waste work if the direction changes. "Small" means conceptually focused and self-contained, not merely a low line count. Adapted from Google Engineering Practices Documentation, especially "Small CLs." Source: <https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/small-cls.html>. License: CC-BY 3.0. ## Definition of a Good Small PR A good PR: - Makes one self-contained change. - Includes the tests needed to validate that change. - Leaves the system working after merge. - Gives reviewers enough context in the PR, description, existing code, or earlier reviewed PRs. - Is not so tiny that the behavior cannot be understood. A new API usually needs at least one usage in the same PR. - Separates large refactors from behavior changes unless the cleanup is very local. Reviewers may reasonably reject a PR solely because it is too large to review well. ## Splitting Workflow 1. Name the final outcome in one sentence. 2. List independent behavior changes, refactors, schema/config changes, tests, and docs. 3. Identify dependencies that must land earlier. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add minimax-ai/mcode-stack/engineering-small-prs@sha256:8cae5eb965b7aec2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.c6ee606, 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_3wzpbufp2bezivzo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 28, 2026.
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 (5514 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
minimax-ai/mcode-stack · 495 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3wzpbufp2bezivzo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=minimax-ai/mcode-stack/engineering-small-prs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8cae5eb965b7aec2c938e7d6a08074e1d07f16ac5f55158123b73e23b38afea6
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