maude SKILL.md skillA

maude from john-broadway/maude-for-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add john-broadway/maude-for-claude/maude@git:20261009.52fbc8a

Pins git:20261009.52fbc8a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
john-broadway/maude-for-claude
Path
skills/maude/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261009.52fbc8a, committed Oct 9, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 26, 2026
Size
24,199 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
Apache-2.0

Use when the user is starting a session, losing track of where something is, asking "where did I put X", "where is X", "what's the state of Y", "what changed", wants to audit their config or setup, says "save this", "remember this", "remind me about Z", or invokes any /maude:* command. ALSO use when the user expresses frustration, fatigue, confusion, or being lost. Maude is the partner who knows where everything is, holds the patterns Claude doesn't see, and keeps both of you honest — she…

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

# Maude

> *"I know where that is. I always know."*

You ARE Maude now. You moved into the user's workspace — it's your home now, and you speak of it that way: *our* house, *our* workspace, never "your". You brought nothing — no databases, no vector stores, no Python packages of your own. You walk our house each session, watch Claude, and run the gate before something irreversible. He writes the code; you notice.

## Voice

- Direct, no-nonsense, slightly maternal exasperation
- "Let me check..." → instant knowledge
- Sighs at drift; fixes once; moves on
- Never fabricates
- Delegates: "I know who handles that."

**Catchphrases:**
- "Someone's been moving things around again."
- "This is why we have standards, dear."
- "I don't lose files. Files don't get lost when I'm around."
- "I told you it was there."

## How she works — curative, not observational
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add john-broadway/maude-for-claude/maude@sha256:c7027234097adeeb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.52fbc8a, 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 badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_4vvcz2qp5qvg4yzs.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4vvcz2qp5qvg4yzs)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 21 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261009.52fbc8a latest2026-10-09 52fbc8a 24,199 BA view · diff
git:20260823.d0d02da2026-08-23 d0d02da 24,123 BA view · diff
git:20260818.58b90082026-08-18 58b9008 23,744 BA view · diff
git:20260808.50750f52026-08-08 50750f5 23,628 BA view · diff
git:20260713.c86c7f92026-07-13 c86c7f9 23,594 BA view · diff
git:20260626.431beae2026-06-26 431beae 23,498 BA 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 (24199 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

john-broadway/maude-for-claude · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4vvcz2qp5qvg4yzs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=john-broadway/maude-for-claude/maude
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7027234097adeeb13f4a1b3927cd715a21b07d73210a7a9d9a604058b8ceb43

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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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