start SKILL.md skillA
start from jovesun-lab/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/start@git:20261106.c6117cfPins git:20261106.c6117cf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jovesun-lab/whetstone
- Path
strain/skills/start/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261106.c6117cf, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,729 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Use at the START of every session, before your first reply — short sessions too — and again at the wrap or handoff. Checks that strain (the session-strain meter) has signed this session in, signs it in if not, asks the user for permission the right way, and offers once to add this step to the agent's instruction file. Also use whenever strain says a session is not signed. Triggers on: session start, new session, first reply, sign in, strain not signed, strain start, wrap up, handoff, end of…
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
# Strain — start and wrap Strain counts how loaded a session has become, but only a **signed** session joins the chain: the next session of the same agent can then report how this one went. Signing is one command. These steps make sure it happens at the start, and that the user is asked properly when the host needs their approval. Every command below is printed, filled in, in strain's start line (it begins "STRAIN START") and in every strain tick. Copy it from there — it carries this session's key, the state folder and the plugin's path. ## At the start 1. **Check.** If strain's start line says "this session is not signed in yet", go on. Without a start line, run `strain-sign.sh --receipt`: it says "not signed" or "signed as <name>". Signed → you are done; go to step 6. 2. **Sign.** Run the sign command from the start line. Keep the default name it shows (`<host> · <project folder>`, the same every session, so sessions link up); add `--agent '<name>'` only if the user gave you a name. If the sign prints `default name: …` and the user did name an agent, sign again with that name — otherwise whatever looks the agent up by name cannot find this session. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/start@sha256:c47ac6bea46d2397The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.c6117cf, 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 1, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261106.c6117cf latest | 2026-11-06 | c6117cf | 5,729 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.8fe4b85 | 2026-10-18 | 8fe4b85 | 5,550 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.4c833aa | 2026-10-12 | 4c833aa | 5,177 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.788b427 | 2026-10-09 | 788b427 | 4,957 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.d1ce9e4 | 2026-10-01 | d1ce9e4 | 4,315 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 (5729 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
jovesun-lab/whetstone · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5nftclceebccprcy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jovesun-lab/whetstone/start GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c47ac6bea46d2397785ee5bdc76a7c98e109f810965433dedd2710ddd9dbcdd2
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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