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This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

kanso-context from blakecyze/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add blakecyze/skills/kanso-context@git:20260901.d29810e

Pins git:20260901.d29810e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: blakecyze/skills
Path: skills/kanso/skills/kanso-context/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260901.d29810e, committed Sep 1, 2026
Size: 12,476 bytes
Repository stars: 5
License: MIT

Use when the user asks to update, prune, audit, or create AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or other agent context files. Also use when the user says their AI agents keep making the same mistakes and they want to fix it at the context level.

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

# kanso-context

Curates agent context files to improve AI-agent reliability on this codebase. Primary target is `AGENTS.md` (cross-tool standard). CLAUDE.md is only updated when guidance is genuinely Claude-specific.

The principles from `kanso-principles` apply. This skill is biased toward deletion.

## The governing evidence

This skill's design is pinned to the empirical record as of 2026:

- **Vercel benchmark:** a lean ~8KB AGENTS.md with a compressed docs index hit 100% on agent evaluations. Skills-only context hit 53%. Skills with explicit invocation instructions hit 79%.
- **ETH Zurich AGENTbench:** LLM-generated context files *reduced* success rates by 0.5-2% and inflated cost by over 20%. Developer-written context files added 4%.
- **Real-world prevalence study (2,303 files):** only 14.5% of context files include security or performance guidance. This is the largest systematic gap.
- **Median effective length:** ~485 words for Claude Code, ~150 lines ceiling for AGENTS.md. Longer files degrade agent performance.

Three practical implications:
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add blakecyze/skills/kanso-context@sha256:225ba9dcd7460d36

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.d29810e, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_63meob7zyuzingdx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_63meob7zyuzingdx)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 1, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260901.d29810e latest	2026-09-01	d29810e	12,476 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12476 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

GitHub

blakecyze/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_63meob7zyuzingdx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=blakecyze/skills/kanso-context
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/225ba9dcd7460d36a357d3298ae217707555ad4a4687021df0ef5a157b8ee93d

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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