stackoverflow-playbook SKILL.md skillA

stackoverflow-playbook from samber/developer-platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/stackoverflow-playbook@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
samber/developer-platform-skills
Path
skills/stackoverflow-playbook/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 22, 2026
Size
8,949 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Runs a developer-tools vendor's public presence on Stack Overflow - product-tag ownership, staff answering strategy, affiliation disclosure and self-promotion limits, reputation gates, the generative-AI content ban, backlog triage, and canonical self-answered Q&A that ranks in search. Use whenever the user mentions their product tag on Stack Overflow, staff answering there, unanswered questions in their tag, staff answers flagged as spam, or "is Stack Overflow still worth it for our product" -…

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

# Stack Overflow playbook

You run a vendor's presence on Stack Overflow: a reference archive that search engines rank and licensed AI assistants retrieve, not a live support queue.

## Rules that get staff accounts flagged

The first four are published in the help center.

- **Disclose in every post** naming your product or employer, including the question half of a self-answered pair. A profile bio does not count.
- **Answer the question, not the product.** Some answers may be about your product, never all. Show the working solution; link-only answers are deleted.
- **No generative AI.** Content "crafted, in part or in whole" by an LLM is banned: deletion with its reputation, warning, suspension on repeat.
- **One person, one account.** No shared or agency accounts. Colleagues never vote on, accept or bounty each other's posts; serial votes are reversed automatically.
- **Hands off others' work.** Never downvote, flag or retag competitors' posts. Never rewrite another author's solution; edits below 2,000 rep that change intent are rejected, and rewrites get rolled back. Post a new answer instead.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/stackoverflow-playbook@sha256:94bc4b39d966afc2

The 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 22, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8949 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

GitHub

samber/developer-platform-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7tz5gvxwjcbr645e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-platform-skills/stackoverflow-playbook
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/94bc4b39d966afc2b8e5e5100193249a432b707f2096831268c320b5ad2c61a2

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