pollard-weights SKILL.md skillA
pollard-weights from westwaters/pollard-weights is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add westwaters/pollard-weights/pollard-weights@v0.4Pins v0.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- westwaters/pollard-weights
- Path
skills/pollard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 25
- Latest version
- v0.4, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 7, 2026
- Size
- 56,356 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33
- License
- Apache-2.0
Quantize any LLM the RIGHT way with Pollard Weights and ship it on every lane: GGUF (full ladder + trellis flagship), MLX, GPTQ, MX (NVFP4 / MXFP4 / FP8 / MXFP6 + mixes), EXL3, EXLR8 and DRAFT (speculative drafters), one repo per model. Use this whenever asked to quantize / shrink / "make a Pollard build" / "pollard it" / release a model, or to plan its fit on a machine or wafer. It routes dense vs MoE models down different paths — using the wrong one wastes hours.
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
# Pollard Weights — agent skill Pollard makes a frontier model fit a given machine's memory by **deciding where the bits go** instead of painting every weight the same. This skill tells an agent the correct path for *this* model so results are good and no time is wasted. ## ⚠️ STEP 0 — ASK THE USER (do this before building; don't assume) The machine you BUILD on is usually **not** the machine the model will RUN on (users build on a big-disk box for a phone, a Pi, another server, a 5090, a wafer…). `--ram`/`--vram` is the **TARGET device's** budget, NOT this machine's — so you cannot infer it. **Before building, ask the user two things** (unless they already gave them in the prompt): 1. **Target device & budget** — where will the model RUN, and how much RAM/VRAM does it have? (e.g. "iPhone ~6GB", "Jetson 8GB", "a box with 24GB", "a 256GB server", "512GB wafer node"). Pollard targets **ANY** size — MB to TB — there is NO fixed 16–24GB range; that's just a common demo number. 2. **Preference** — *fit-a-budget* (best quality that fits that device, default) or **max-shrink** (smallest possible, quality be damned — `--ram <small>` / `--allow-1bit`)? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add westwaters/pollard-weights/pollard-weights@sha256:38daa87716ffa4bcThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4, 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_buac6gdshiweoscv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 25 versions of this file, between Sep 7, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| v0.4 latest | 2026-10-25 | 6222c54 | 56,356 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4 | 2026-10-25 | 5b9feac | 55,648 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-16 | 45257b3 | 49,629 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | 16933f7 | 48,954 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | 4ab69f9 | 47,444 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | 98cf984 | 45,320 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | 9dbc402 | 45,182 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | e7103bc | 44,315 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | e01afff | 43,660 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | 7f712a1 | 42,787 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-15 | cf60ae4 | 40,720 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-12 | 508c19e | 36,722 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-12 | 8709e9d | 36,526 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-10 | beeea22 | 35,620 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-05 | 67a9c61 | 35,506 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-10-05 | b679005 | 33,919 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-16 | 7be030e | 32,082 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-16 | 5eca70c | 32,081 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-13 | 0978a40 | 28,685 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-13 | 7726e1c | 26,544 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-07 | d6730c1 | 23,527 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-07 | 9b14269 | 23,010 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-07 | 4bf948c | 20,354 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-07 | 72124dc | 20,907 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3 | 2026-09-07 | 78abb61 | 22,886 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 (56356 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
westwaters/pollard-weights · 33 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_buac6gdshiweoscv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=westwaters/pollard-weights/pollard-weights GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38daa87716ffa4bcf460faff00d794d0690be57b0dee863de3a95fe3bca90d0e
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.