collect-preserve-specimens SKILL.md skillA
collect-preserve-specimens from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/collect-preserve-specimens@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/collect-preserve-specimens/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 27,209 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Collect and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards including legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Covers permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with locality…
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
# Collect and Preserve Specimens Collect and preserve insect specimens to museum-grade standards for taxonomic study, reference collections, and ecological research. ## When to Use - You need physical specimens for definitive taxonomic identification - You are building a reference collection for a habitat, region, or taxon - You are preserving voucher specimens for published ecological research - You need to send specimens to taxonomic specialists for identification - You are curating or restoring an existing insect collection ## Inputs - **Required**: Legal authorization to collect at the intended site (permits, landowner consent) - **Required**: Collection equipment appropriate to the target taxa - **Required**: Preservation materials (pins, ethanol, or both) - **Required**: Labeling materials (archival paper, fine-point pen or printer) - **Optional**: Spreading boards for Lepidoptera and Odonata - **Optional**: Relaxing chamber for rehydrating dried specimens - **Optional**: Dissecting microscope for sorting and preparation - **Optional**: Database or catalog system for specimen records - **Optional**: Unit trays, drawers, and storage cabinets ## Procedure …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/collect-preserve-specimens@sha256:ee524594e09484fbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 30 days.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 27,209 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-05 | 95e380c | 27,180 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-05 | 33b561c | 27,180 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-04 | f194e55 | 27,152 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | a31852a | 30,312 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 (27209 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
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_64pohxnrps5c4kce GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/collect-preserve-specimens GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ee524594e09484fb93caf6960f46f583f00639947baa2b42f19e009cbe0503f7
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