evolve-skill SKILL.md skillA
evolve-skill 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/evolve-skill@v1.2Pins v1.2 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/evolve-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v1.2, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 15,098 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Evolve an existing skill by refining its content in-place or creating an advanced variant. Covers assessing the current skill, gathering evolution requirements, choosing scope (refinement vs. variant), applying changes, updating version metadata, and synchronizing the registry and cross-references. Use when a skill's procedure steps are outdated, user feedback reveals gaps, a skill needs a complexity upgrade, an advanced variant is needed alongside the original, or related skills are added and…
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
# Evolve an Existing Skill Improve, extend, or create an advanced variant of a skill that was originally authored with `create-skill`. This procedure covers the maintenance side of the skill lifecycle: assessing gaps, applying targeted improvements, bumping versions, and keeping the registry and cross-references in sync. ## When to Use - A skill's procedure steps are outdated or incomplete after tooling changes - User feedback reveals missing pitfalls, unclear steps, or weak validation - A skill needs to grow from basic to intermediate (or intermediate to advanced) - An advanced variant is needed alongside the original (e.g., `create-r-package` and `create-r-package-advanced`) - Related skills were added or removed and cross-references are stale ## Inputs - **Required**: Path to the existing SKILL.md to evolve - **Required**: Evolution trigger (feedback, tooling change, complexity upgrade, new related skills, discovered pitfalls) - **Optional**: Target complexity level if changing (basic, intermediate, advanced) - **Optional**: Whether to create an advanced variant instead of refining in-place (default: refine in-place) ## Procedure ### Step 1: Assess the Current Skill …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/evolve-skill@sha256:70313f0a357d7f96The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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_6f3ukswc6vgxp6yf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2 latest | 2026-09-15 | 2c29951 | 15,098 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-09-15 | 854ad67 | 14,988 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-09-15 | 9c30cf5 | 15,083 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-09-15 | bfe0694 | 15,112 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-08-10 | 9fbe599 | 15,096 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-06-05 | 33b561c | 15,108 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-06-05 | 75ded7a | 15,104 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-04-24 | 0b91b04 | 15,236 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-04-19 | e334ebd | 15,307 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 (15098 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 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6f3ukswc6vgxp6yf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/evolve-skill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/70313f0a357d7f9602ab2a8acc324640ff7bb21f1bbc34a31188da7513fe4eb3
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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