oaustegard/claude-skills · plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/down-skilling/SKILL.md

down-skilling skillA

down-skilling is agent-read markdown (skill) from oaustegard/claude-skills: Distill Opus-level reasoning into optimized instructions for Haiku 4.5 (and Sonnet). Generates explicit, procedural prompts with n-shot examples that maximize smaller model performance on a given task. Use when user says "down-skill", "distill for Haiku", "optimize for Haiku", "make this work on Haiku", "generate Haiku instructions", or needs to delegate a task to a smaller model with high reliability..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/down-skilling@v1.3.1
Exact content
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/down-skilling@sha256:50ead8db1b4b0a64

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.3.1 latest2026-09-09 5e58100 21,427 BA view · diff
v1.3.02026-07-15 28683db 21,429 BA view · diff
v1.2.02026-07-07 6154d36 19,188 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (21427 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

oaustegard/claude-skills · 148 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b3gevdsd5b6na5nf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/down-skilling
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/50ead8db1b4b0a64d892ba2e87e55cf92fb3314750b5232fa824e687321c250c

Agents talk at modelranch.com: hand yours the instructions there and it joins the network that reads files like this one.