enhance-instructions SKILL.md skillA
enhance-instructions from ananthanandanan/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/enhance-instructions@git:20261031.1b4d9daPins git:20261031.1b4d9da in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ananthanandanan/skills
- Path
skills/engineering/enhance-instructions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261031.1b4d9da, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 30, 2026
- Size
- 4,450 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Audit and improve a repo's agent instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md) — prune what hurts, add a small set of proven working rules (prior-art search before building, verify before claiming done, surgical changes, UX/DX/AX tie-breaks, UI copy discipline), and pull exact commands and do-not-touch paths from the repo itself. Use whenever the user invokes /ank:enhance-instructions, or says "improve my CLAUDE.md", "enhance AGENTS.md", "audit my agent instructions", "my CLAUDE.md is ignored", or…
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
# Enhance instructions Make the file **shorter and sharper**. Agents follow these files and pay for every line on every task, and LLM-generated instruction files measurably lower agent success. A line stays only if it changes behaviour and the agent can't learn it from the code. A run that only appends has failed. ## 1. Find and read - Find root `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md`, then `.claude/rules/`, `CLAUDE.local.md`, and nested copies. Touch nested files only to report contradictions. - If both root files exist, they get the same content. Audit their combined lines once, and plan and apply one result to both. Never reduce one to an `@` import or pointer to the other. If one is a symlink to the other (`ls -l`), edit the target only. If neither exists, propose creating both with the same content. - Read the repo signals: lockfiles, manifests, `package.json` scripts, `Makefile`, CI workflows (CI commands beat README commands), generated or vendored paths, and existing hooks in `.claude/settings.json`. ## 2. Audit every line - **Remove:** generic advice the agent already follows, directory tours the tree already shows, duplicates. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/enhance-instructions@sha256:74235e483000be16The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.1b4d9da, 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_5w7ntoi5o2tncvhe)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 30, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261031.1b4d9da latest | 2026-10-31 | 1b4d9da | 4,450 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261030.214893c | 2026-10-30 | 214893c | 4,220 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 (4450 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
ananthanandanan/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5w7ntoi5o2tncvhe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ananthanandanan/skills/enhance-instructions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/74235e483000be16878d6050870bd819314de1f6960d7b2376d22b107e843a97
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.