ask-xeno SKILL.md skillA
ask-xeno from xenodeve/xeno-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/ask-xeno@git:20261012.0d105b3Pins git:20261012.0d105b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xenodeve/xeno-skills
- Path
skills/ask-xeno/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261012.0d105b3, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 2,540 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
The top of this library. Ask it which family your task belongs to, then take the family's own route from there. Reach for it when you are unsure which skill applies, when a task spans families, or when you suspect a skill exists for this and cannot name it. Deliberately thin — it names the family entries and nothing else, so it stays cheap enough to carry everywhere. Triggers include "is there a skill for X", "which skill should I use", "how do we do X here", and any moment you are about to…
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
# Ask Xeno **The entries. Pick one and follow its route — the detail lives there, not here.** | You are… | Enter at | |---|---| | **Working in a T4 repo** — building a feature, filing an issue or PR, recording a decision, picking up where a session left off, running unattended, or writing anything the developer reads | **`using-t4`** | | **Handing work to another agent** — executing a scoped subtask, convening a panel for judgment, or hunting a bug across agents | **`using-clink`** | | **Designing a web UI** — prototyping, micro-UI rules, auditing, layout reasoning | **`using-design`**; anti-slop **`using-anti-slop`**; 3D/motion **`using-web3d`** | | **Writing code, in any repo** | **`karpathy-guidelines`** — simplest thing that works, surgical diffs, verifiable success criteria | | **Auditing a codebase for vulnerabilities** — a full security audit or pen-test | **`using-security-audit`** — Cloudflare's skill, installed on demand | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/ask-xeno@sha256:ec4b6ac462873de8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.0d105b3, 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_7csa6rtowdtipw2g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.0d105b3 latest | 2026-10-12 | 0d105b3 | 2,540 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.5f9ecd1 | 2026-10-06 | 5f9ecd1 | 2,381 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.49429d8 | 2026-09-26 | 49429d8 | 2,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.eb6285e | 2026-09-06 | eb6285e | 2,351 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.3836efc | 2026-08-12 | 3836efc | 1,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.3e55097 | 2026-08-12 | 3e55097 | 1,918 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 (2540 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
xenodeve/xeno-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7csa6rtowdtipw2g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xenodeve/xeno-skills/ask-xeno GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ec4b6ac462873de871f3c92a71eeedf1b765fe0fd483c2f0850b3ec88549569c
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.