harden-task-file SKILL.md skillA
harden-task-file from doodledood/manifest-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/harden-task-file@git:20260727.0d4eb6ePins git:20260727.0d4eb6e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- doodledood/manifest-dev
- Path
.claude/skills/harden-task-file/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260727.0d4eb6e, committed Jul 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 24, 2026
- Size
- 6,663 bytes
- Repository stars
- 75
- License
- MIT
Harden a manifest-dev task guidance file for one-shot quality — either /define''s quality-gate/Default set or figure-out''s probe set. Iterates: orthogonality gap analysis, user-approved additions, prompt review, fix, converge. Use when a task file needs comprehensive coverage or "harden task file".
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
**User request**: $ARGUMENTS Systematically harden a /define task guidance file until manifests built from it produce deliverables that don't need iteration. If no arguments, ask which task file to harden. ## Context Task files come in two parallel, decoupled sets, each keyed by task type and hardened for one-shot quality. Harden whichever set the target file belongs to: - **`/define`'s task files** (`claude-plugins/manifest-dev/skills/define/tasks/`) carry encoder data: - **Quality Gates** — Verifiable output properties. Can split into baselines (always enforced) and selectable (meaningful rigor choices) - **Defaults** — process practices always worth doing, carried into the manifest without probing; `/define` decides the encoding, and routes one whose violation would be unsafe or irreversible to a binding invariant rather than advice - **figure-out's task files** (`claude-plugins/manifest-dev/skills/figure-out/tasks/`) carry probing fuel: - **Blind-spot probes** — Non-natural angles the model skips by default (failure modes, pre-mortem fuel), phrased as the question that opens a branch - **Forced trade-offs** — Competing tensions the model must drive to a decision …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/harden-task-file@sha256:cdb93a6257580c21The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.0d4eb6e, 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 5 versions of this file, between Mar 24, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 31 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260727.0d4eb6e latest | 2026-07-27 | 0d4eb6e | 6,663 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.5879381 | 2026-07-05 | 5879381 | 6,235 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260604.16228cb | 2026-06-04 | 16228cb | 6,208 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.2c145b1 | 2026-05-22 | 2c145b1 | 5,342 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260324.f10a4a5 | 2026-03-24 | f10a4a5 | 5,384 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 (6663 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
doodledood/manifest-dev · 75 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7n7kj6y7xdn6gvne GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/harden-task-file GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cdb93a6257580c2149f5c9cf21e133f31139d00745868da25326f2991653d164
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.