tbd SKILL.md skillA
tbd from jlevy/tbd is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jlevy/tbd/tbd@git:20261002.60e2deePins git:20261002.60e2dee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jlevy/tbd
- Path
skills/tbd/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 14
- Latest version
- git:20261002.60e2dee, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 26,921 bytes
- Repository stars
- 93
- License
- MIT
Git-native issue tracking (beads), coding guidelines, knowledge injection, and spec-driven planning for AI agents. Drop-in replacement for bd/Beads with simpler architecture. Use for: tracking issues/beads with dependencies, creating bugs/features/tasks, planning specs, implementing features from specs, code reviews, committing code, creating PRs, reviewing and merging PRs, delegating to sub-agents, setting up tbd and project policy grants, loading coding guidelines…
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
**`tbd` helps humans and agents ship code with greater speed, quality, and discipline.** 1. **Beads**: Git-native issue tracking for tasks, bugs, and features, shared across sessions and machines. 2. **Spec-Driven Workflows**: Plan features, break them into beads, and implement them systematically. 3. **Knowledge Injection**: Engineering guidelines for languages, testing, architecture, and other topics, loaded on demand. 4. **Shortcuts**: Reusable instructions for code review, commits, PRs, cleanup, and handoffs. Use the capabilities the user wants; they can adopt beads alone or choose individual guidelines and workflows. The bundled docs are customizable defaults. Load relevant guidelines as needed and preserve the user’s task-specific instructions. ## Installation Check `tbd --version` first. Install the CLI if missing, or install/upgrade it when the user explicitly requests it. Then run `tbd prime` in the project’s Git repository. For a fresh project, ask the user for the issue-ID prefix and run `tbd setup --auto --prefix=<name>`; never guess the prefix. **Once the project is initialized, run `tbd shortcut setup-tbd` and follow it.** The …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jlevy/tbd/tbd@sha256:f730683fbeb4c05cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.60e2dee, 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_cgr2pvg46dfuvaul)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 14 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20261002.60e2dee latest | 2026-10-02 | 60e2dee | 26,921 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.2bfd7d9 | 2026-09-30 | 2bfd7d9 | 26,401 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.82f56a7 | 2026-09-20 | 82f56a7 | 26,206 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.23e6073 | 2026-09-20 | 23e6073 | 25,434 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.c08dd3c | 2026-09-20 | c08dd3c | 25,356 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.483b45f | 2026-09-20 | 483b45f | 25,207 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.e14eb1b | 2026-09-19 | e14eb1b | 21,296 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.39a57a7 | 2026-09-16 | 39a57a7 | 21,185 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.b3771a7 | 2026-09-16 | b3771a7 | 21,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.2747264 | 2026-09-14 | 2747264 | 20,895 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.01a9b2a | 2026-08-23 | 01a9b2a | 18,857 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.cc13b07 | 2026-08-23 | cc13b07 | 18,893 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.be56558 | 2026-08-23 | be56558 | 18,606 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.a1a2a63 | 2026-08-23 | a1a2a63 | 18,341 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 (26921 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
jlevy/tbd · 93 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cgr2pvg46dfuvaul GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jlevy/tbd/tbd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f730683fbeb4c05c24d4df7c2ef251210b242aa1c1818dcbf3c889a1f154e977
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.