native SKILL.md skillB

native from thesampadilla/montaj is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/native@git:20260920.87073e5

Pins git:20260920.87073e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
thesampadilla/montaj
Path
skills/native/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260920.87073e5, committed Sep 20, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 19, 2026
Size
11,666 bytes
Repository stars
27
License
MIT

The native interface — how the _contract verbs are performed when Montaj runs locally, either via the HTTP server (montaj serve) or the headless CLI. The dispatcher loads this after it detects HTTP or CLI mode; domain skills never read it directly. Covers step invocation, project read/save, file read/write, logging, GET-before-save discipline, workspace resolution, and image-step credentials.

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

# Montaj Native Interface

This skill is the **native implementation of the `_contract` vocabulary**. Domain skills speak only in the canonical verbs (run step, read the project, save the project, write a file, read a file, log). This document defines HOW each of those verbs is actually performed when Montaj runs on the local machine.

Domain skills do **not** load this skill. The dispatcher (`montaj` root skill) detects the interface and loads this one; the domain skills then phrase their work in `_contract` verbs and the mapping here resolves them.

There are two native sub-modes:

- **HTTP** — `montaj serve` is running a local server. All interactions go over HTTP.
- **CLI** — no server. Steps run as `montaj <step>` subprocesses; the project is a `project.json` file on disk; logs go to stderr.

The dispatcher tells you which mode you are in. If you must decide yourself: `GET http://localhost:<port>/api/projects?status=pending` — if it responds, you are in HTTP mode; if the connection is refused, CLI mode.

---

## Verb mapping

| `_contract` verb | HTTP | CLI |
|------------------|------|-----|
| run step `<name>` with `<args>` | `POST /api/steps/<name>` | `montaj <step> …` |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/native@sha256:1ef89255b3d8d6dc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.87073e5, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 31 days.

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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 instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read credentials from **`~/.montaj/credentials.json)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11666 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 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

thesampadilla/montaj · 27 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4mrmfwg5ourcnw7a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thesampadilla/montaj/native
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ef89255b3d8d6dcd54706c94debcc0e2e232039fc5914ebcef146f82a9621b1

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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