hallmark-setup SKILL.md skillA

hallmark-setup from tiagocolombo/hallmark is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tiagocolombo/hallmark/hallmark-setup@git:20261027.f4c613c

Pins git:20261027.f4c613c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tiagocolombo/hallmark
Path
plugin/skills/hallmark-setup/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261027.f4c613c, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 18, 2026
Size
10,279 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Configure Hallmark for this person and repo with `hall config` - gates and the shell they run in, how worktrees are made and work is shipped, models, budgets, where claude and gh live, notifications. Use when they say "set up Hallmark", "configure hallmark", "change the gates", "use devbox/nix/mise for the checks", "change the ship command", "set a budget", "hall can't find gh", or ask what a Hallmark setting does.

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

# Setting Hallmark up

Every Hallmark setting can be read and changed with `hall config`. You never
edit `.hallmark.toml` or the user config by hand. `hall config` keeps their
comments and checks each value before it writes. Don't run
`hall setup --interactive`: it asks its questions on a terminal, and you
can't answer them. Ask the person yourself, then set what they choose. `hall
init` and the first `hall setup` ask the same questions on a terminal; from
a session they don't (there is no terminal), and `--defaults` says so
explicitly.

## Look first

```sh
hall config list --json          # every key: value, source, kind, help, allowed values
hall config list gates --json    # one key, or every key under a prefix (budget, notify)
```

`source` says where a value comes from:

- `default`: Hallmark's built-in value;
- `repo`: this repo's `.hallmark.toml`;
- `user`: the person's user config;
- `env`: a `HALL_*` variable;
- `path`: a tool found on PATH.

Detect before you ask. Read `package.json`, `Cargo.toml`, `Makefile`,
`justfile`, `flake.nix`, `devbox.json`, `mise.toml` and `.envrc`, then propose
concrete values.

## Ask, in this order, one topic at a time
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tiagocolombo/hallmark/hallmark-setup@sha256:6e8dca9c388f5485

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.f4c613c, 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 9 versions of this file, between Oct 18, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every day.

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10279 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
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Source

GitHub

tiagocolombo/hallmark · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6x4kuzrv275hqj2x
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tiagocolombo/hallmark/hallmark-setup
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6e8dca9c388f5485f10c6aacf91ec167614bc430572f0e953b86f2c26ee2f09c

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