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deft-directive-gh-slice from deftai/directive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-slice@git:20260925.cbb1099

Pins git:20260925.cbb1099 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: deftai/directive
Path: content/skills/deft-directive-gh-slice/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20260925.cbb1099, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 1, 2026
Size: 12,474 bytes
Repository stars: 31
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Break a SPECIFICATION.md, PRD, or plan into independently-grabbable GitHub Issues using tracer-bullet vertical slices. Use after spec generation, when the user wants to create implementation tickets, or when breaking work into parallel-assignable issues. Requires the GitHub CLI (gh).

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

<!-- AUTO-GENERATED by task packs:render -- DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY -->
<!-- Purpose: rendered skill -->
<!-- Source of truth: packs/skills/skills-pack-0.1.json -->
<!-- Regenerate with: task packs:render -->
<!-- Edit the source, not this file. Slice instead of loading every SKILL.md: task packs:slice skills by-trigger --trigger <kw> (or list) -->

# Deft GH Slice

Convert a specification or plan into independently-grabbable GitHub Issues using tracer-bullet vertical slices.

Legend (from RFC2119): !=MUST, ~=SHOULD, ≉=SHOULD NOT, ⊗=MUST NOT, ?=MAY.

> Inspired by [to-issues](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/to-issues) from [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills). Adapted to deft's spec-driven workflow and GitHub CLI conventions.

## When to Use

- After `deft-setup` completes and `SPECIFICATION.md` is approved
- User says "create issues", "slice this into tickets", or "break this into GitHub issues"
- When a spec needs to be handed off to multiple agents or collaborators working in parallel

## Security context (#480)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-slice@sha256:884cb09f119fd1ff

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.cbb1099, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_4bthjujoflqxeage.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4bthjujoflqxeage)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 1, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 22 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260925.cbb1099 latest	2026-09-25	cbb1099	12,474 B	B	view · diff
git:20260830.886ca59	2026-08-30	886ca59	12,455 B	B	view · diff
git:20260816.4155bb7	2026-08-16	4155bb7	12,446 B	B	view · diff
git:20260703.6e262f9	2026-07-03	6e262f9	12,430 B	B	view · diff
git:20260701.0a1aa9c	2026-07-01	0a1aa9c	11,600 B	B	view

Audit of the latest version

B 16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12474 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 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

deftai/directive · 31 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4bthjujoflqxeage
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-slice
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/884cb09f119fd1ffb14507335a9227cd0b47360b577101d53c2b45a11c43ef54

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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