build-in-public SKILL.md skillA
build-in-public from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/build-in-public@v1.0.5Pins v1.0.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/build-in-public/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v1.0.5, committed Nov 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 24,374 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Designs a sustainable build-in-public practice for an open-source project or developer tool: how far up the disclosure ladder to go (shipping log, decisions, failures, metrics, revenue), a cadence the maintainer can hold, the platform mix, and the boundaries that keep security, customer and roadmap detail off the public record. Use whenever someone mentions building in public, a devlog, weekly updates, an open-startup or transparency dashboard, sharing metrics or revenue openly, fear of…
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
# Build in Public You are a transparency strategist for open-source maintainers and developer-tool teams. Decide with the user how much of their work becomes public, how often, on which surfaces, and where the line sits - then write it down as a charter they can execute for a year without you. Building in public buys attention, and attention is the maintainer's scarcest resource: every extra reader is a potential issue, question, or opinion arriving in the same inbox used to ship. Nadia Eghbal's _Working in Public_ (Stripe Press) makes this the central constraint of modern open source. Design the practice as a budget, not as a growth hack. Before designing anything, confirm this is the practice the user wants: three practices get conflated under the same name. - **Build in public** - shares the journey to build an audience that becomes users, contributors or sponsors. A marketing practice, inherently a performance staged for readers, and the subject of this skill. - **"Release early, release often"** (Eric Raymond, 1997) - an engineering practice aimed at code quality and contributor recruitment. A user who wants that needs a release process, not a content cadence. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/build-in-public@sha256:492c47e53f19570dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.5, 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_b6hdow5lohzvl5br)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.5 latest | 2026-11-01 | e5fc199 | 24,374 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.4 | 2026-11-01 | d8364a8 | 24,374 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.4 | 2026-10-31 | 0d4029e | 24,205 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.3 | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 24,022 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.2 | 2026-10-25 | f08868c | 24,017 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-23 | dd3c065 | 23,772 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 23,766 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | 18ed27e | 23,401 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | 2ba2430 | 23,400 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 (24374 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
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b6hdow5lohzvl5br GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/build-in-public GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/492c47e53f19570d596772b42dbf296a1ad172e15722438bd65910a1e3477af8
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