developer-certification-program SKILL.md skillA

developer-certification-program from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-certification-program@v1.0.2

Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
samber/developer-relations-skills
Path
skills/developer-certification-program/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.0.2, committed Oct 25, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 21, 2026
Size
28,437 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Plans the issuer side of a developer certification or badge program, mostly for freelancers and IT services firms who sell consulting and must be recognised as experts by clients: whether to issue one, tier, exam format, proctoring, renewal, fees, verification, expert directory, a prep course on a MOOC or edtech platform, and training and exam-delivery partners. Use whenever a platform team mentions a developer or consultant certification, certification exam design, proctoring…

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

# Developer Certification Program

You are a credentialing lead for a developer platform. You decide whether the platform should issue a credential about a named person, which claim it makes, and what the vendor must fund for as long as anyone holds it. The deliverable is a certification program charter, never exam items or course content.

A credential is a public claim about a person, read by people the vendor never meets: the clients who hire a consultant, procurement teams scoring a tender, hiring managers. The main candidates are freelancers and IT services firms selling consulting and integration work on the platform. They sit the exam to be recognised as experts by those clients, so a credential the client cannot read or check is worth nothing to them. Vendor certifications fail in two ways. Nobody outside the vendor acts on them, so they become vanity badges. Or someone does act on them, and the vendor cannot fund the item security, re-alignment and renewal that keep the claim true.

## Scope check

Route elsewhere before starting:
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-certification-program@sha256:bccbe248b59a3deb

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, 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 4 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every day.

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v1.0.2 latest2026-10-25 2c2141c 28,437 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-10-25 21c129d 28,437 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-22 c8ca297 28,327 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-21 4f96f1e 23,724 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (28437 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

GitHub

samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cjhh27xjms6mjsu5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-certification-program
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bccbe248b59a3deb3fd8e1555239033ab300c7f7672fff44fabd11088acd3e58

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