xh SKILL.md skillA

xh from athal7/dotfiles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add athal7/dotfiles/xh@git:20260915.c6e71bf

Pins git:20260915.c6e71bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
athal7/dotfiles
Path
dot_agents/skills/xh/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260915.c6e71bf, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 12, 2026
Size
1,882 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
none declared

HTTPie-compatible HTTP client for REST API calls.

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

`xh` CLI — HTTPie-compatible, cleaner than curl.

## Syntax

```
xh --ignore-stdin --session=agent METHOD https://endpoint Key:Value [key=value] [key==value]
```

- **Headers:** `Key:Value` (no space after colon)
- **JSON body:** `key=value` (string) or `key:=value` (raw JSON)
- **Query params:** `key==value`
- **Method:** required for agent calls. Use explicit uppercase `GET` for reads so the permission rule can distinguish them from inferred writes.
- **Body-less POST:** `xh --ignore-stdin --session=agent --json POST https://...`

## `--ignore-stdin`

Always use `--ignore-stdin` in agent/non-TTY contexts. Without it, xh tries to read stdin and conflicts with body arguments.

## Sessions

Sessions are pre-configured per host at `chezmoi apply` time. `--session=agent` resolves the correct credentials for each host automatically.

Never pass an `Authorization:` header or a `$*_API_KEY` value — the session already carries the credentials for the host.

If a request returns 401, the session may be stale — re-run `chezmoi apply` to refresh.

## GraphQL

Pass query as a string field and variables as raw JSON:

```bash
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add athal7/dotfiles/xh@sha256:c1390e0bfb1a5f91

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.c6e71bf, 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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3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 17 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260915.c6e71bf latest2026-09-15 c6e71bf 1,882 BA view · diff
git:20260910.03577d12026-09-10 03577d1 1,877 BA view · diff
git:20260812.7c6fef62026-08-12 7c6fef6 1,818 BA 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 (1882 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

athal7/dotfiles · 8 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_76agzwy2o7t2q2mc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athal7/dotfiles/xh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c1390e0bfb1a5f91cb6f4a6ed0f1818f57fdd44f6491b3ce7eececa607ec582f

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.

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