skill-architecture SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/skill-architecture@git:20260924.0328ca3

Pins git:20260924.0328ca3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
terrylica/cc-skills
Path
plugins/plugin-dev/skills/skill-architecture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260924.0328ca3, committed Sep 24, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 1, 2026
Size
21,149 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
MIT

Create new skills, modify existing skills, and understand skill architecture. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, learn YAML.

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

# Skill Architecture

Comprehensive guide for creating effective Claude Code skills following Anthropic's official standards with emphasis on security and progressive disclosure architecture.

> **Self-Evolving Skill**: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

> **Scope**: Claude Code Agent Skills (`~/.claude/skills/`), not Claude.ai API skills

## Self-Evolution Protocol

This skill — and every skill it creates — must actively evolve through use. This section is placed first because it governs all other sections.

**During execution**, watch for these signals: friction in instructions, missing edge cases, better patterns discovered, repeated manual steps, drift between documentation and reality.

**Before writing any change**, pass all three admission gates:

| Gate           | Question                                                           | Fail → |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------ |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/skill-architecture@sha256:df67c434df82da3e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.0328ca3, 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 5 versions of this file, between Apr 1, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 44 days.

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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 (21149 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

terrylica/cc-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_adopaykd43asu7hj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=terrylica/cc-skills/skill-architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df67c434df82da3e6865b08a08ca8ccbebe3083d03ff036fc4ba9a0f2732bf2b

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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