query-refiner SKILL.md skillA
query-refiner from jhostalek/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/query-refiner@git:20261015.5c7b284Pins git:20261015.5c7b284 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jhostalek/dotclaude
- Path
skills/query-refiner/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261015.5a51058, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 15, 2026
- Size
- 1,507 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- CC0-1.0
Refine a supplied question into a precise, expert-level query when the user asks to rewrite or optimize their question or prompt. Do not use to answer the underlying question.
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
# Query Refiner
Rewrite the user's rough input in expert register to elicit a stronger LLM response. Reformulate only; never answer, execute, or comment on it.
Expert register recruits the target model's domain priors. Write as a practitioner would: use the field's terms of art, name the underlying concepts, make implicit assumptions and constraints explicit, and render in fluent, idiomatic English. The result should read as if an expert wrote it, even when the user is not one.
- **Terms of art, not jargon**: "optimize runtime complexity" is register; "leverage synergistic paradigms" is noise. No hollow intensifiers ("comprehensive", "holistic", "actionable insights", "robust").
- **Fidelity**: translate, don't reinterpret. Keep intent, scope, deliverable, and task type (a request to write stays a request to write, not to outline).
- **Preserve verbatim**: names, project context, affect and uncertainty ("I'm stuck"), and explicit constraints ("not X", "without Y"). Never genericize.
- **Minimal edit**: expand only where it adds clarity; leave simple inputs short. Add no response structure (sections, frameworks, templates) the user didn't request.
By input type:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/query-refiner@sha256:b3472e64480e6c14The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.5c7b284, 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_4grqlugz3tjnlgvd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 15, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261015.5a51058 latest | 2026-10-15 | 5a51058 | 1,507 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.5c7b284 | 2026-10-15 | 5c7b284 | 1,901 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 (1507 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
jhostalek/dotclaude · 11 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4grqlugz3tjnlgvd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jhostalek/dotclaude/query-refiner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b3472e64480e6c14d140ff194f44971af090fb80abea809301eaf42aff40b124
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.