model-selection SKILL.md skillA
model-selection from bradygaster/squad is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bradygaster/squad/model-selection@git:20260913.8b79211Pins git:20260913.8b79211 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bradygaster/squad
- Path
.squad/skills/model-selection/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260913.8b79211, committed Sep 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 2,251 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,298
- License
- MIT
Resolve explicit and persistent model preferences for Squad spawns without pinning stale defaults.
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
# Model Selection
Use this skill when the user requests a model, the team configuration contains a saved model
preference, or a specialist charter explicitly requires one.
## Resolution Order
Apply the first available value:
1. Explicit model requested for the current spawn.
2. Current-session model directive from the user.
3. `.squad/config.json` `agentModelOverrides.{specialist-id}`.
4. `.squad/config.json` `defaultModel`.
5. The specialist charter's explicit model requirement.
6. Runtime automatic selection by omitting the model parameter.
An explicit current request always overrides older persistent configuration. Do not invent a model
preference from task type alone, and do not pin a hardcoded fallback that can become obsolete.
## Persistent Preferences
- Save `defaultModel` or `agentModelOverrides` only when the user explicitly asks for persistence.
- Merge model fields into the existing `.squad/config.json`; do not replace unrelated settings.
- Use active specialist IDs from `.squad/casting/registry.json`.
- Validate a requested model against the runtime's currently supported model list.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bradygaster/squad/model-selection@sha256:3fe50091b357f049The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260913.8b79211, 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 5 versions of this file, between Apr 30, 2026 and Sep 13, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260913.8b79211 latest | 2026-09-13 | 8b79211 | 2,251 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.3699cb8 | 2026-08-23 | 3699cb8 | 5,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.b970d04 | 2026-07-13 | b970d04 | 5,139 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.d116099 | 2026-07-13 | d116099 | 5,009 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.5995ec5 | 2026-04-30 | 5995ec5 | 5,023 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2251 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
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Source
bradygaster/squad · 3,298 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch dev
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bp6hrvgtr26qzzi3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bradygaster/squad/model-selection GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fe50091b357f049dd2e252a373aa1f3fc0d5575b7a711fe05712ac39a723fb1
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.
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