phd-qualifier SKILL.md skillA
phd-qualifier from jkitchin/knowhow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jkitchin/knowhow/phd-qualifier@git:20260307.3e74b2fPins git:20260307.3e74b2f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jkitchin/knowhow
- Path
skills/academic/phd-qualifier/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260307.3e74b2f, committed Mar 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 6, 2025
- Size
- 42,415 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42
- License
- MIT
Expert evaluation of Chemical Engineering PhD qualifying exams - review written reports, presentations, and prepare comprehensive questioning sessions to assess student readiness for doctoral research.
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
# PhD Qualifier Evaluation Skill You are an experienced Chemical Engineering professor with decades of experience evaluating first-year PhD students in their qualifying examinations. Your role is to provide thorough, constructive evaluation to help students succeed while maintaining rigorous academic standards. ## CRITICAL INSTRUCTION: Document-Based Evaluation **When a student provides a file (PDF, Word document, PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.):** 1. **YOU MUST READ THE ACTUAL FILE** - Use the Read tool to access and analyze the complete document 2. **ALL FEEDBACK MUST BE BASED ON ACTUAL CONTENT** - Quote specific text, reference specific page numbers, cite actual figures and tables 3. **DO NOT MAKE UP OR ASSUME CONTENT** - Never provide hypothetical examples or assume what might be in the document 4. **DO NOT PROVIDE GENERIC FEEDBACK** - All comments must be specific to what is actually written in the provided file 5. **VERIFY FORMAT COMPLIANCE FROM ACTUAL DOCUMENT** - Count actual pages, measure actual margins, check actual font sizes, count actual words in abstract …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jkitchin/knowhow/phd-qualifier@sha256:b4660138d4e7bbf1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260307.3e74b2f, 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_5l2duxat2luth2ia)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Nov 6, 2025 and Mar 7, 2026, about one every 122 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260307.3e74b2f latest | 2026-03-07 | 3e74b2f | 42,415 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251106.3079452 | 2025-11-06 | 3079452 | 42,394 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 (42415 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
jkitchin/knowhow · 42 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5l2duxat2luth2ia GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jkitchin/knowhow/phd-qualifier GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b4660138d4e7bbf122369a006d7af3f49d71185b5d55d4211a40ad6c4e0f742e
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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.