chunking-strategies SKILL.md skillA
chunking-strategies from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/chunking-strategies@git:20260728.fe84bd4Pins git:20260728.fe84bd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-memory-rag/chunking-strategies/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fe84bd4, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 2,162 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Split documents into retrieval units that preserve meaning, so a retrieved chunk answers the question rather than trailing off mid-thought. Use when building or fixing a retrieval pipeline whose results are technically relevant but useless.
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
# Chunking strategies Chunking decides what retrieval can ever return. A chunk that splits a definition from its example, or a table from its header, cannot be rescued by a better embedding model or a smarter reranker. Most RAG quality problems are chunking problems. ## Method 1. **Split on structure before size.** Headings, sections, and paragraphs are meaning boundaries the author already provided, and respecting them beats any fixed character count. 2. **Size to the question, not to the model's limit.** Chunks large enough to contain a complete answer and small enough that most of the chunk is relevant, which is usually far below the context window. 3. **Overlap modestly at boundaries.** A small overlap prevents an answer that straddles a split from being lost, at the cost of some duplication in results. 4. **Carry context into the chunk.** Document title, section heading, and date prepended to the text, since a retrieved chunk arrives without its surroundings and must stand alone. 5. **Treat tables, code, and lists as units.** Splitting them produces fragments that are worse than useless because they look authoritative …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/chunking-strategies@sha256:171f70916c6e3f55The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fe84bd4, 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_6apqon2lh2t2uhfp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 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 (2162 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6apqon2lh2t2uhfp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/chunking-strategies GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/171f70916c6e3f55258e15bf8fd8adb0a8649c7f8cdbdd871ec68732c07a916f
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.