arch-explain SKILL.md skillA
arch-explain from baristaze/swe_guidelines is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-explain@git:20260929.3422014Pins git:20260929.3422014 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- baristaze/swe_guidelines
- Path
skills/arch-explain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20260929.3422014, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 15, 2026
- Size
- 2,369 bytes
- Repository stars
- 94
- License
- MIT
Explain how the guideline applies to a question, a file, or a change, citing the sections and lenses that govern it. Use when onboarding or before a cross-layer 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
# arch-explain
Answer a question about the architecture with the guideline as the
source of truth, not with general opinion. The guideline is at
`../../architecture.md` and the lens catalog at `../../lenses/`, paths
from this skill's folder as `realpath` resolves it. If either is
missing, stop and say the installation is incomplete.
## Input
The arguments are one of:
- a question ("where does rate limiting live?", "can a manager call a
service?");
- a path to a file or folder in the current repository ("explain what
rules apply to `om/orders/impl/manager.py`");
- a description of a change ("I want to add a nightly cleanup").
Empty arguments mean: give the guided tour, every section in the order
of the guideline's Contents, two sentences each, then the eight lens
groups in one line each.
## Procedure
1. Read the guideline's Contents (the table of contents under its
first heading) and the lens group table in `lenses/README.md`.
2. Find the sections and subsections that govern the question. Read
them in full; quote the `Principle` callouts verbatim when they
answer the question directly.
3. Find the lenses that a reviewer would apply. Name them by id. When
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-explain@sha256:818b98a464f02e95The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.3422014, 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_3ykw73of6er4amzz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 15, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260929.3422014 latest | 2026-09-29 | 3422014 | 2,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.65e1093 | 2026-09-29 | 65e1093 | 2,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.e4ae97c | 2026-09-22 | e4ae97c | 2,175 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.bf97909 | 2026-09-20 | bf97909 | 2,260 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.1dc31a5 | 2026-09-16 | 1dc31a5 | 2,260 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0f7c469 | 2026-09-15 | 0f7c469 | 2,164 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.6033a4d | 2026-09-15 | 6033a4d | 1,899 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 (2369 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
baristaze/swe_guidelines · 94 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3ykw73of6er4amzz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-explain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/818b98a464f02e95b7c88589785735abd137135debcc9602b6a3d5aab01ac284
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.