onboard SKILL.md skillB
onboard from swingerman/engineer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swingerman/engineer/onboard@git:20261020.d56de69Pins git:20261020.d56de69 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swingerman/engineer
- Path
engineer/skills/onboard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261020.d56de69, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
- Size
- 23,323 bytes
- Repository stars
- 162
- License
- MIT
Use to bring a project into the DAE methodology, or to check an onboarded project for gaps. Triggers — "/engineer.onboard", "onboard this project", "set up DAE here", "adopt the methodology", or when a DAE skill fails because no manifest exists.
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
# onboard Checkpoint 0 — the DAE adoption ceremony. Establishes the charter, manifest, storage layout, and tracker. Project-scope, run once. Every other DAE skill depends on what it produces. **The goal.** Onboarding a project to DAE succeeds when there is a clear path to **full ATDD coverage of every feature — existing and new.** A new feature is born covered by going through the pipeline. An *existing* feature is covered retroactively. **Onboarding is discovery and goal-setting — not the ATDD adoption itself.** It discovers what's there (documented *and* undocumented), triages it by importance, assigns each feature a status, and produces a **consolidation backlog**. Bringing any one feature to full ATDD coverage is a *follow-up task per feature* — bounded, automatable, and a good candidate for remote-agent dispatch. Onboarding sets the path; it does not walk it. A feature is **fully ATDD-covered** when its folder has `feature.md`, `acs.md`, `spec.md` (+ `.build/spec.json` IR), and **generated acceptance tests that pass against the code**. ## When to use - **No `.engineer/manifest.yml`** → full onboard (Steps 1–11) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swingerman/engineer/onboard@sha256:4e512ba8bf493c3aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.d56de69, 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_c3tqnouk2dbl7v3y)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261020.d56de69 latest | 2026-10-20 | d56de69 | 23,323 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260923.5520e1e | 2026-09-23 | 5520e1e | 22,081 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260710.5dd248a | 2026-07-10 | 5dd248a | 21,643 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260627.576fd6a | 2026-06-27 | 576fd6a | 19,995 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260623.736ab71 | 2026-06-23 | 736ab71 | 17,366 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260621.aec5f95 | 2026-06-21 | aec5f95 | 17,152 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260619.d0fa8c9 | 2026-06-19 | d0fa8c9 | 16,797 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23323 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
swingerman/engineer · 162 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c3tqnouk2dbl7v3y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swingerman/engineer/onboard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4e512ba8bf493c3a59023a2c48c02c2e57a9648e3d6a683740ee858d4b9f06a5
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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