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init-git-repo from transitive-bullshit/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/init-git-repo@git:20261005.47ce99f

Pins git:20261005.47ce99f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: transitive-bullshit/skills
Path: skills/init-git-repo/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261005.47ce99f, committed Oct 5, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 30, 2026
Size: 10,199 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: MIT

Turn a local project into a clean, shareable Git repo that follows the user's conventions. Covers: an audit and cleanup (large files, secrets, private or copyrighted material, local paths); the baseline files (license, .editorconfig, .gitignore base); a deliberate large-file policy (ignore, host on R2, or Git LFS); lockfiles plus the user's TypeScript setup (pnpm, @fisch0920/config, oxlint, oxfmt); a minimal offline GitHub Actions test.yml pinned with actions-up; and readme.md (marketing)…

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

# Initialize a shareable Git repo

The goal is a repo that a stranger or a fresh agent can clone, understand in a minute, and reproduce. It should contain no private data, no derived bulk, and nothing the user doesn't have the right to share. Work in the phases below. Nothing leaves the machine until the user asks for a commit or a push.

## 1. Inventory

- Run `scripts/audit.sh <project-dir>`. It shows sizes by directory, the largest files, what `git add` would stage, any secret patterns, and absolute local paths. It prints file names only, never values.
- Classify everything by category:
  - **source:** code, prompts, configs, docs, curated app/docs assets and data
  - **derived:** builds, bulk renders, caches, temporary media, logs
  - **third-party:** vendored checkouts, model weights, virtualenvs, `node_modules`
  - **private:** secrets, personal data, local paths
  - **not ours:** copyrighted material the user doesn't own
- Check the git state:
  - Loose objects left by an earlier `git add` in a repo with no commits: run `git gc --prune=now`.
  - An existing remote and branch: check them before assuming a fresh start.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/init-git-repo@sha256:3ddd7821a813a41d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.47ce99f, 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_6gsf2ocmcur6qasj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6gsf2ocmcur6qasj)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 5 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261005.47ce99f latest	2026-10-05	47ce99f	10,199 B	A	view · diff
git:20260930.6260995	2026-09-30	6260995	9,537 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 (10199 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

transitive-bullshit/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6gsf2ocmcur6qasj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=transitive-bullshit/skills/init-git-repo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ddd7821a813a41d06e525d4232355f1048756f4e44efa2531fc9b092193448f

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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