core-grill SKILL.md skillA

core-grill from coder-xieshijie/dev-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-grill@git:20261019.6f37df7

Pins git:20261019.6f37df7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder-xieshijie/dev-skills
Path
skills/core-grill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261019.6f37df7, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 15, 2026
Size
9,972 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Question the user in rounds to settle the decisions that change user-visible results, record terms, and compile a decision summary for core-spec, or implement a small requirement right after it is confirmed. Use at the start of a requirement.

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

# Starting a requirement: ask until a spec can be written

At the start of a requirement, you and the user work out, by asking questions, exactly what is to be done. At the end you hand over a decision summary the user has confirmed, for [core-spec](../core-spec/SKILL.md) to write spec and verify from; after that, deliver carries out the delivery fully automatically. A small requirement may instead take the quick path, implemented in this session right after the confirmation (see "Choosing the path"). A product decision not settled here can only be made by the agent on its own during delivery, and the user will not see it until just before merge.

Write your questions, the decision summary, `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs in the language the user writes in, unless the user or the repository's documentation rules specify another language.

## Four inputs

Collect these four first. Look up yourself anything you can find in the repository and on the platform (current branch, target MR, baseline, existing documents); do not ask the user for it.

| Item | What to write |
|---|---|
| Goal | What the user can do once it is done, and how they see it take effect; the request text or a link to it |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-grill@sha256:d453dd9e5490f75f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.6f37df7, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every day.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9972 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

GitHub

coder-xieshijie/dev-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4hgzzqtaqhingm2o
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-grill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d453dd9e5490f75f1cbf269f004bdc7cda8801a771091a6955680ce778e5eeaa

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