ap-lifecycle SKILL.md skillA
ap-lifecycle from agentproto/ts is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentproto/ts/ap-lifecycle@git:20261017.42dfcb1Pins git:20261017.42dfcb1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentproto/ts
- Path
packages/skill-pack-agentproto/src/skills/ap-lifecycle/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261017.42dfcb1, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,031 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- Apache-2.0
Kill, interrupt, restart, archive, pin, and garbage-collect agentproto sessions safely — including cleaning up a spawn tree's children. Triggers — "kill this session", "stop the agent", "archive old sessions", "restart a crashed session", "clean up sessions", "garbage collect", "pin this session so it doesn't get reaped".
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
# Session Lifecycle (Kill, Restart, Archive, GC)
## When to use
You need to end, pause, recover, hide, or bulk-clean agentproto sessions —
distinct from spawning (ap-spawn-agent) or waiting on them (ap-wait-fanin).
Covers the full state machine: live → interrupted/killed → restarted, and
live → archived/gc'd → gone from the default listing.
## MCP: ending or pausing a turn
`agent_kill` terminates a session outright.
```json
{ "tool": "agent_kill", "args": { "sessionId": "sess_abc123" } }
```
`agent_interrupt` cancels the in-flight turn but keeps the session alive and
idle — use this instead of `agent_kill` when you want to redirect the agent
rather than end it.
```json
{ "tool": "agent_interrupt", "args": { "sessionId": "sess_abc123" } }
```
## MCP: recovery
`session_restart` respawns an exited or killed session with conversation
continuity — it does not start fresh, it resumes.
```json
{ "tool": "session_restart", "args": { "sessionId": "sess_abc123" } }
```
## MCP: visibility and retention
```json
{ "tool": "session_archive", "args": { "sessionId": "sess_abc123" } }
```
```json
{ "tool": "session_unarchive", "args": { "sessionId": "sess_abc123" } }
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentproto/ts/ap-lifecycle@sha256:55498d2cc4b0ebc5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.42dfcb1, 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_bf7jm7plezs6s34j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 45 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261017.42dfcb1 latest | 2026-10-17 | 42dfcb1 | 5,031 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.0259d5f | 2026-09-01 | 0259d5f | 3,961 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 (5031 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
agentproto/ts · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bf7jm7plezs6s34j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentproto/ts/ap-lifecycle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/55498d2cc4b0ebc553f9153d1cc996ce082deb701c9e7de67492d8338511a4ef
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.