create-readme SKILL.md skillA

create-readme from afonsoft/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add afonsoft/skills/create-readme@v1.2.1

Pins v1.2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
afonsoft/skills
Path
skills/create-readme/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
11
Latest version
v1.2.1, committed Sep 20, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 5, 2026
Size
13,611 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
MIT

Use when generating or updating a project README.md or CHANGELOG.md.

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

# Create README and CHANGELOG

## Overview

Transforms a raw repository into a well-documented project by generating professional `README.md` and `CHANGELOG.md` files based on empirical evidence from the codebase, git history, and configuration files. Every claim in the generated documentation must be traceable to a file, commit, or config in the repository.

## When to Use

- When a project lacks a README or CHANGELOG.
- When existing documentation is outdated, incomplete, or inconsistent.
- Before shipping a new version to ensure the changelog is up to date.
- When restructuring a project and the existing documentation no longer reflects the architecture.
- When onboarding new contributors and the README doesn't answer "what is this, how do I run it, how do I test it?"

- User asks or mentions this skill in English (e.g., "use /create-readme", "run create-readme").
- O usuário pede ou menciona esta skill em português (ex.: "use /create-readme", "execute create-readme").

## When NOT to Use

- **API reference docs** — use OpenAPI/Swagger, TypeDoc, Sphinx, or docfx instead.
- **License files** — copy the appropriate license text directly (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.).
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add afonsoft/skills/create-readme@sha256:7a4b375cbf9f15db

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.1, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_a4ywk2sjk4i5rgsz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a4ywk2sjk4i5rgsz)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.2.1 latest2026-09-20 1d3ecda 13,611 BA view · diff
v1.2.12026-09-12 cf88aa9 13,556 BA view · diff
v1.2.02026-09-12 f327983 13,556 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-12 c18635f 13,556 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-11 ba4965c 13,517 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-11 1f72d60 13,871 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-10 8136228 13,871 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-09 6107e4d 13,664 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-05 9fa4cd6 11,530 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-05 a9f7a95 11,490 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-05 ff32dbe 4,222 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13611 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

afonsoft/skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a4ywk2sjk4i5rgsz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=afonsoft/skills/create-readme
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7a4b375cbf9f15dba74834e6bc621b54aae055eda0fc61e754c69e1cd220b45b

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.

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