add-foundation-skill SKILL.md skillA
add-foundation-skill from vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows/add-foundation-skill@git:20260529.0f36bdePins git:20260529.0f36bde in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows
- Path
dev-skills/add-foundation-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260529.0f36bde, committed May 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 8,715 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Author a new foundation skill under `skills/vinta-derive-skills/resources/foundation-skills/<name>/` and wire it through every place the orphan-prevention contract requires (schema enum, bootstrap interview, derive-skills bucket, foundation-shape lists, outputs tree, CHANGELOG). Use when the user wants to add a project-agnostic skill that ships verbatim into target projects' `ai-tools/skills/` (or a template-rendered one, or an opt-in ask-first one). Walks the full schema-ripple checklist from…
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
# Add a foundation skill
Foundation skills are the project-agnostic skills `vinta-derive-skills` copies (or renders) into every target project's `ai-tools/skills/`. Adding one is a multi-file ripple — easy to half-finish.
This skill enforces the full ripple. Output: a new dir under `skills/vinta-derive-skills/resources/foundation-skills/<name>/` plus updates to four other files plus a CHANGELOG entry.
## Step 0 — Decide the bucket (NON-NEGOTIABLE)
Use `AskUserQuestion`:
- **Bucket A — Copy verbatim**: project-agnostic body that ships as-is. Examples: `plan-feature`, `create-spec`, `create-qa-use-cases`, `open-pr-from-context`, `add-one-off-script`. Pick when the body has no project-specific commands or paths that need substitution.
- **Bucket B — Template-rendered**: body has placeholders (`{{LINT_CMD}}`, `{{TEST_CMD}}`, …) substituted from inventory + interview answers. Examples: `implement-plan`, `amend-plan`, `systematic-debugging`. Pick when project-specific commands or conventions appear in the body.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows/add-foundation-skill@sha256:e21ab1fd7119f698The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260529.0f36bde, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and May 29, 2026, about one every 11 days.
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| git:20260529.0f36bde latest | 2026-05-29 | 0f36bde | 8,715 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260513.f57f3c6 | 2026-05-13 | f57f3c6 | 8,616 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.969d409 | 2026-05-06 | 969d409 | 8,640 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 (8715 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
vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b2e6biltzsf2jtnu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vintasoftware/vinta-ai-workflows/add-foundation-skill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e21ab1fd7119f69823817d39b3480cf22eecd38ca70c8b89937acb8a25dd108e
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