do-i-need-this skillA
do-i-need-this is agent-read markdown (skill) from flurdy/agent-skills: Explicit, read-only necessity assessment of one idea, proposed change, or clearly identified task. Weighs doing nothing and smaller alternatives; advises do not do it, simplify, defer, or proceed without acting..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Do I need this? Should this work exist at all, or is it overkill? Assess the need separately from its proposed solution. Not doing the work is a legitimate recommendation, not a failure to help. This is an optional, explicitly invoked check, never a required gate before planning, tracking, or implementation. ## Invocation and scope ```text /do-i-need-this <idea or proposed change> # Claude Code /skill:do-i-need-this <idea or proposed change> # Pi ``` In Codex, request the skill by name with the same context. With no argument, use only a single current task clearly identified by the user in visible conversation. Do not pick from a backlog, infer a task from the branch, or assess an entire project. An ambiguous target gets **INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE** and one specific clarifying question as the Next step. Invocation authorizes advice only: no source/config/tracker writes, task claims, bead creation or closure, test execution, installs, implementation, or automatic handoff execution. Even an appended request to act must wait for a separate workflow. Do not launch peers or panels, invoke another skill, or resume earlier …
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How to install
mdr add flurdy/agent-skills/do-i-need-this@v0.1.0mdr add flurdy/agent-skills/do-i-need-this@sha256:3bb63d19d7b17953Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5yp56nn7ivpehrze)
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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 (9566 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
flurdy/agent-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5yp56nn7ivpehrze GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flurdy/agent-skills/do-i-need-this GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3bb63d19d7b179537e74bf676d2d26904166089120cac57b8ff8c65a68f1dba7
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