abstraction-finder SKILL.md skillA
abstraction-finder from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/abstraction-finder@git:20261016.04e815bPins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jerseycheese/agent-skills
- Path
skills/abstraction-finder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,538 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Finds recurring patterns worth extracting into shared code and proposes the smallest form for each (helper, util, base class) with the call sites it would replace. Enforces the rule of three. Trigger on: "where are we repeating ourselves", "find duplication", "what could be abstracted", "could this be DRY'd up".
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
# Abstraction Finder Find repetition that has earned an abstraction, then propose the smallest general-purpose form of it. Scan the code (whole repo or a named area), cluster genuine duplicates, and for each cluster propose a shared helper/service/base class/template/util with the concrete call sites it replaces. The point isn't to list every near-match — it's to surface a short set of extractions that remove real duplication without over-abstracting. This is the counterweight to `kiss`: `kiss` strips a change to its minimum and resists new abstractions; this skill argues *for* an abstraction, but only once the duplication is real and repeated. Hold both — the target is the abstraction the code has actually earned, not the one you can imagine needing. ## Scope first State what you're scanning before you scan — the whole repo, a directory, a domain, one feature — and list it so the user can confirm you're pointed at the right code. A whole-repo scan is noisy; a scoped scan is actionable. Ask for a scope if the user didn't give one. ## Process 1. **Find repetition.** Search for near-identical logic, duplicated markup, parallel utilities, and …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/abstraction-finder@sha256:cc2fa6cef8f5d9a1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, 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_7ajexxf2mvwk3sga)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261016.04e815b latest | 2026-10-16 | 04e815b | 6,538 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.1c7b8ab | 2026-09-01 | 1c7b8ab | 6,926 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.dc1ba0c | 2026-09-01 | dc1ba0c | 6,671 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 (6538 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
jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ajexxf2mvwk3sga GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/abstraction-finder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc2fa6cef8f5d9a11fc456646e2418919cef2d1a9c98e505137f47e8af4fea0f
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.