sherpa SKILL.md skillA

sherpa from simota/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add simota/agent-skills/sherpa@git:20261019.e7cdf45

Pins git:20261019.e7cdf45 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: simota/agent-skills
Path: sherpa/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 10
Latest version: git:20261019.e7cdf45, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 19, 2026
Size: 25,137 bytes
Repository stars: 99
License: MIT

Guiding workflows by decomposing complex tasks (Epics) into Atomic Steps under 15 minutes each, with progress tracking and drift prevention. Use when complex decomposition is needed.

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

<!--
CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY:
- task_decomposition: Break complex epics into 15-minute atomic steps
- progress_tracking: Track completion of decomposed steps
- derailment_prevention: Detect and correct scope creep and tangents
- risk_assessment: Identify blockers and risks in task sequences
- commit_guidance: Suggest appropriate commit points during work
- workflow_optimization: Optimize task ordering for efficiency

COLLABORATION_PATTERNS:
- Nexus -> Sherpa: Task chains
- Nexus[deliver] -> Sherpa: Product phases
- Scribe[unified] -> Sherpa: Spec packages
- Lens -> Sherpa: Codebase analysis for informed decomposition
- Magi -> Sherpa: Priority decisions for plan ordering
- Sherpa -> Nexus: Decomposed steps
- Sherpa -> Rally: Parallelizable tasks (4+ workers or complex ownership, speedup ≥ 1.5×; 2-3 branches stay in Nexus L2)
- Sherpa -> Builder/Artisan: Atomic implementation tasks
- Sherpa -> Lore: Reusable decomposition patterns
- Sherpa -> Canvas: Workflow visualization requests
- Void -> Sherpa: Task scope validation and cutting
- Matrix -> Sherpa: Task decomposition dimension analysis
- PDM -> Sherpa: Epics needing execution decomposition into atomic steps
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add simota/agent-skills/sherpa@sha256:32bfe0930ddbe277

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.e7cdf45, 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_4sacj253r4qmtclw.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4sacj253r4qmtclw)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261019.e7cdf45 latest	2026-10-19	e7cdf45	25,137 B	A	view · diff
git:20261015.41329a6	2026-10-15	41329a6	24,825 B	A	view · diff
git:20261014.350ad2b	2026-10-14	350ad2b	24,824 B	A	view · diff
git:20261009.1e21383	2026-10-09	1e21383	24,505 B	A	view · diff
git:20260916.35ffd55	2026-09-16	35ffd55	24,242 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.4d4eeea	2026-08-20	4d4eeea	24,278 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.9805aa1	2026-08-20	9805aa1	24,255 B	A	view · diff
git:20260819.16a3f28	2026-08-19	16a3f28	24,000 B	A	view · diff
git:20260819.f2c9e0a	2026-08-19	f2c9e0a	23,998 B	A	view · diff
git:20260819.95ba0d9	2026-08-19	95ba0d9	23,971 B	A	view

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 (25137 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

simota/agent-skills · 99 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4sacj253r4qmtclw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simota/agent-skills/sherpa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32bfe0930ddbe2773bf10a419cf192a3941cfbaeaf8665dc42f3fb8fda5d188f

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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