shell-scripting SKILL.md skillA

shell-scripting from iuliandita/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iuliandita/skills/shell-scripting@git:20261105.aa96fb6

Pins git:20261105.aa96fb6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iuliandita/skills
Path
skills/shell-scripting/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261105.aa96fb6, committed Nov 5, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 20, 2026
Size
6,282 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Bash, Zsh, POSIX sh, Fish scripts, one-liners, dotfiles, completions. Use for quoting or globbing bugs, shellcheck warnings, porting between shells.

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

# Shell Scripting and Configuration

Write commands, scripts, dotfiles, and completions for their actual shell. Detect the target before
writing code, then load the smallest relevant reference instead of borrowing syntax from a similar
shell.

**Version-specific behavior**: read the matching shell reference before relying on release-specific behavior.

## When to use

- Writing shell commands, scripts, or one-liners
- Configuring dotfiles (`.zshrc`, `.bashrc`, `.profile`, `config.fish`)
- Writing completions, shell functions, or aliases
- Porting scripts between shells or debugging quoting, globbing, array, or expansion behavior
- Choosing a target shell for a new script or interactive command

## When NOT to use

- Remote FreeBSD/OPNsense/pfSense commands; use **opnsense-pfsense**
- Ansible shell/command modules; use **ansible**
- CI/CD pipeline design or runner constraints; use **ci-cd**
- General Linux administration that is not a shell-syntax task; do the domain task directly

## AI Self-Check

- [ ] Shebang matches the detected target shell, not an assumed Bash default
- [ ] Error handling matches the declared shell; expected nonzero statuses are handled deliberately
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iuliandita/skills/shell-scripting@sha256:aa214a8139cfcff6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.aa96fb6, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_bepdfgsqjtpi3jvn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bepdfgsqjtpi3jvn)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 12 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261105.aa96fb6 latest2026-11-05 aa96fb6 6,282 BA view · diff
git:20261105.65c9c022026-11-05 65c9c02 6,373 BA view · diff
git:20261003.496420b2026-10-03 496420b 6,240 BA view · diff
git:20261002.a7f9a1c2026-10-02 a7f9a1c 6,374 BA view · diff
git:20260920.ac018532026-09-20 ac01853 6,298 BA view

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 (6282 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

iuliandita/skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch develop

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bepdfgsqjtpi3jvn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/shell-scripting
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aa214a8139cfcff6ac66317b681185ac877540697a8fbac7d3b3cccfffe56e18

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