prompting SKILL.md skillA
prompting from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/prompting@git:20261027.72c2866Pins git:20261027.72c2866 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/prompting/skills/prompting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261027.72c2866, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 8,581 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Write a document a model executes: a product prompt, a system prompt, a skill, a tool or agent description, a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, a reference file behind a pointer. Use when authoring or revising any of those, when deciding what belongs in a prompt versus behind a pointer, when a prompt produces different behavior from run to run, or when a prompt makes the model take the wrong approach.
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
# Prompting Rules for any document a model executes. Each rule targets variance: the same document should drive the same process on every run. To rewrite an existing document, see [references/conversion.md](references/conversion.md). ## Placement Put material in the body when every run needs it. Put it behind a pointer when only some runs reach it. Leave it unpointed when a human should choose whether to reach it, because a pointer from the body hands that choice to the model. Move reference that only some branches need out of a step sequence, even when it is short. Leaving it in place makes the model attend to the surrounding steps inconsistently across runs, which costs more than the tokens do. Bodies hold two kinds of material: the ordered actions the model performs, and the definitions and rules it consults while performing them. Keep a flat list of peer rules flat. A document can be too long even when every line is live and unique. Past that length the model attends unevenly across it. Move reference behind pointers, then split by case or by sequence so each path carries only what it needs. ## Pointers …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/prompting@sha256:067ae9b2edc4bdd9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.72c2866, 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_a2tlliad5j3nmprf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 9, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.72c2866 latest | 2026-10-27 | 72c2866 | 8,581 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.bc6d8b6 | 2026-09-29 | bc6d8b6 | 8,585 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.2f9eb77 | 2026-09-12 | 2f9eb77 | 8,227 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.104d1eb | 2026-09-09 | 104d1eb | 7,864 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 (8581 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
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a2tlliad5j3nmprf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/prompting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/067ae9b2edc4bdd9bae0ccea0d63279b6a91b3c969a20bb0ffa398b2d5f6bd0f
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.