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dependency-choice from vulnetix/pix-ai-coding-assistant is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vulnetix/pix-ai-coding-assistant/dependency-choice@git:20260904.974b690Pins git:20260904.974b690 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vulnetix/pix-ai-coding-assistant
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skills/dependency-choice/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260904.974b690, committed Sep 4, 2026
- Size
- 5,743 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- Apache-2.0
Work through which package to add for a capability, and what each option costs — maintenance, licence, bundle weight, transitive risk, and whether the platform already does it. Use when someone needs a library for a job and has not picked one yet, when weighing two candidates, or when a package looks convenient but unmaintained.
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
# Dependency choice ## Use when - Someone needs a capability — "I need JavaScript crypto", "we need a date library" — and has not chosen a package yet. - Two candidates are on the table and the trade-off is not obvious. - A package is convenient but looks unmaintained, or is a fork of something that was. - A dependency is about to be added to satisfy one small function. ## Don't use for - **Deciding whether an already-chosen package is allowed.** That is the `dependency-guard` hook, and it runs on its own when the agent tries to install something. This skill is the conversation before that point. - Resolving a blocked upgrade — `dep-resolve`. - Checking whether a name is impersonating another — `typosquat-check`, which this skill calls when a candidate looks suspicious. The distinction matters. The hook is a guardrail: it fires when nobody weighed anything, and it stays silent when the repository's policy is already satisfied. This skill is where somebody deliberately weighs the options, and it may well conclude that the riskier package is the right call. ## Conventions Follows `skills/_lib/contract.md` for surface selection, output style and memory writes. …
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How to install
mdr add vulnetix/pix-ai-coding-assistant/dependency-choice@sha256:85074506c23fa230The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.974b690, 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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Source
vulnetix/pix-ai-coding-assistant · 9 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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