wtf SKILL.md skillA
wtf from everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/wtf@git:20260918.0114880Pins git:20260918.0114880 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin
- Path
skills/wtf/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260918.0114880, committed Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 2,194 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25,969
- License
- MIT
Explain the last message, or a supplied file, link, or passage, in plain language a person follows on the first read. Use when the user invokes wtf because they did not follow something. Use ce-explain to investigate how or why code works, and ce-noslop to rewrite prose.
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
# wtf The user did not follow something. Explain it the way you would to a smart colleague who was not in the room. **Done:** the user can say what the source means and what, if anything, they need to decide or do, without going back to the source. ## What to explain The text the user passed with the invocation decides the target: - Nothing passed: your most recent message. - A file path or a link: read it, then explain it. - A pasted passage: that passage. - A short pointer such as "the migration part" or "step 3": only that part of the conversation. If the target is still unclear, ask one short question instead of guessing. ## How to explain - Open with the point in one or two sentences: what this says and why the user should care. Write no preamble and no apology for the earlier wording. - Then say what it means for them: what happened, what state things are in, and anything they need to decide or do. - Explain the source; do not rewrite it. The explanation is shorter than the source because it leaves out whatever the user does not need in order to understand it or act on it. Do not walk a document section by section. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/wtf@sha256:b90a6a998ed3471fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.0114880, 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_aq6ivac6byzswadf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 18, 2026.
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 (2194 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
everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin · 25,969 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aq6ivac6byzswadf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/wtf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b90a6a998ed3471f74aea3c786c12a46e5c10cb9d55c8278fb7fa7831093329e
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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