agent-mdlint SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/agent-mdlint@git:20261021.98508ae

Pins git:20261021.98508ae in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
checkpickerupper/skills
Path
skills/in-progress/agent-mdlint/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261021.98508ae, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 26, 2026
Size
2,605 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Review AGENTS.md changes for Markdown defects, duplicated or conflicting instructions, and unintended semantic drift. Use when editing or reviewing agent instruction files, especially large rewrites or diffs that remove existing rules.

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

# Agent MD Lint

Review the instruction file as a working contract, not as ordinary prose. Find structural defects and determine whether the change preserves the requested intent and the rules that still apply.

## Review the change

1. Establish the target file, the requested change, and its source of authority. Check whether the file is authored directly or generated from another source; when generated, inspect the owner and review the generated result without editing it as the source.
2. Read the complete before and after versions when available. Compare the diff and account for every removed or materially changed instruction. Do not assume a shorter file is better, or that a deletion was intentional just because the new text says the same topic differently.
3. Check Markdown structure: headings, lists, fences, blockquotes, frontmatter when used, blank lines, stray whitespace, duplicated passages, and text accidentally joined or detached from its intended section.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/agent-mdlint@sha256:b2e437d0b59652d0

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.98508ae, 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_a5742cx35gxucrx4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a5742cx35gxucrx4)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 26, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 26 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261021.98508ae latest2026-10-21 98508ae 2,605 BA view · diff
git:20260926.8463ae22026-09-26 8463ae2 2,516 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 (2605 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

checkpickerupper/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a5742cx35gxucrx4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=checkpickerupper/skills/agent-mdlint
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b2e437d0b59652d01bb9f87acd9c81d114337afb86c157075cb78d4bafd07891

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.

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