reduce SKILL.md skillA
reduce from escoffier-labs/brigade is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add escoffier-labs/brigade/reduce@git:20261017.4984b1cPins git:20261017.4984b1c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- escoffier-labs/brigade
- Path
registry/skills/reduce/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261017.4984b1c, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 2, 2026
- Size
- 8,154 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Use when asked to simplify, clean up, tidy, or refactor code for clarity without changing what it does, or when the user says "simplify this", "clean this up", "make it readable", "reduce the complexity", or "tidy this". Behavior-preserving only; not a bug or security audit (use bug-hunt or security-sweep for those).
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
# reduce A reduction simmers a sauce to drive off the water and concentrate the flavor, and the dish tastes the same, only sharper. You do that to code: boil off the excess, concentrate the intent, and the behavior comes out identical. The cook who reduces too hard scorches the pan and changes the dish; the discipline is knowing when to pull it off the heat. **Core principle:** same inputs, same outputs, same side effects, same errors, same public interface, same evaluation order. If the behavior moved, it was not a reduction, it was a rewrite. **No behavior-preservation evidence, no applied simplification.** Violating the letter of that is violating its spirit. ## The behavior lock Before you change a single line, establish the lock. This is the whole safety story; everything else is taste. 1. **Pin the scope.** Default to the code that recently changed (see Scope). Know exactly which files and functions you are reducing before you start. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add escoffier-labs/brigade/reduce@sha256:35bebd7531f84561The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.4984b1c, 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_5rmnhub2u6fa6l6p)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 108 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261017.4984b1c latest | 2026-10-17 | 4984b1c | 8,154 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.963264c | 2026-07-02 | 963264c | 7,855 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 (8154 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
escoffier-labs/brigade · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5rmnhub2u6fa6l6p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/brigade/reduce GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/35bebd7531f84561ed78466dff151bdd0e346c6939579b1eac754379a5bde733
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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