hackathon SKILL.md skillA
hackathon from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/hackathon@git:20261106.e899164Pins git:20261106.e899164 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
hackathon/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261106.e899164, committed Nov 6, 2026
- Size
- 26,072 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
User-invoked side-route for a judged, time-boxed hackathon day: turns the event brief into a scored project choice, an over-full scope ladder re-planned from measured pace at fixed clock checkpoints, a production-grade build with a visible factory, and a table demo with judge Q&A drilled from a decision log. Not for an unjudged proof of concept (that's /lfg), not for production features, not model-invoked.
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
# Hackathon Plan, build, and demo one project inside a judged event's fixed build window. A hackathon asks three questions that the normal pipeline does not, and this skill exists to answer them: 1. **Which project wins?** The most useful project and the winning project are different choices. Judges see many tables in a row, rate noisily, and remember the best moment and the last one more than the average. Projects that win are *familiar surprises*: a frame the judge already knows, with one twist they did not expect, understood in seconds (Thompson's MAYA, "most advanced yet acceptable"). 2. **How much fits?** Do not estimate in hours. An agent-assisted build does not move at human rates, and a model estimating its own throughput borrows human ones. Fix the time, vary the scope (Shape Up): plan more rungs than seem possible, **measure** how long rungs actually take on the day, and re-plan at fixed clock checkpoints from that measured pace. Your own measured rung time is the only reference class that counts. 3. **What does "done" mean when judges inspect it?** Many events judge the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/hackathon@sha256:cd232852c036305cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.e899164, 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_5x3zjt6d63qop4df)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 6, 2026.
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 (26072 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5x3zjt6d63qop4df GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/hackathon GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cd232852c036305cb0a244c144ad7989ecf5ef587ab585a2dcbca7671d66fcb3
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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