caro-shell-helper SKILL.md skillB
caro-shell-helper from wildcard/caro is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wildcard/caro/caro-shell-helper@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wildcard/caro
- Path
.claude/skills/caro-shell-helper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 29, 2025
- Size
- 15,382 bytes
- Repository stars
- 40
- License
- AGPL-3.0
DEPRECATED 2026-05-16 — use caro-shell instead. This skill recommends the --backend claude flag and a ~/.config/caro/config.toml path that do not work on the current caro 1.4.0 binary, and its 522-line educational body is 4× the size of caro-shell for no benefit to an agent. Will be removed after 2026-08-01.
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
# Caro Shell Command Helper — **DEPRECATED** > **Status: Deprecated 2026-05-16.** Use [caro-shell](../caro-shell/SKILL.md) instead. > > **Why:** This skill recommends `caro --backend claude` (rejected by the v1.4.0 binary's `--backend` validator; tracking issue caro-zh41), claims the config path is `~/.config/caro/config.toml` (actual macOS path: `~/Library/Application Support/caro/config.toml`), and shows risk-emoji output that caro does not actually emit on the success path (tracking issue caro-b45s). The 522-line body is 4× the size of caro-shell for no agent benefit — see [skill-friction.md](../../audits/2026-05-16-caro-dogfood/skill-friction.md) for the side-by-side comparison. > > **Replacement:** [.claude/skills/caro-shell/SKILL.md](../caro-shell/SKILL.md). The replacement is hardened against caro's known synthesis bugs and defaults to caro's free embedded backend (correct choice for autonomous agent loops under the no-paid-default convention). > > **Removal date:** 2026-08-01. Until then this skill is kept for compatibility but its `description` will not be matched by the skill-discovery layer. > …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wildcard/caro/caro-shell-helper@sha256:0284485f5fa9f898The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_7bdaab2zjkejpbmj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Dec 29, 2025 and May 17, 2026, about one every 69 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-05-17 | 3822f11 | 15,382 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-01-24 | 13b0802 | 13,911 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2025-12-29 | d1221ba | 11,693 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No recursive delete of root, home or parent (matched: rm -rf / )
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15382 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
wildcard/caro · 40 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bdaab2zjkejpbmj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wildcard/caro/caro-shell-helper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0284485f5fa9f898d5a29fe597dd0561d604af723a07f780e6dcdcd8219d8a90
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