authoring-skills SKILL.md skillA
authoring-skills from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/authoring-skills@git:20261027.494b440Pins git:20261027.494b440 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
- Path
plugins/agent-extension-authoring/.apm/skills/authoring-skills/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261027.494b440, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,177 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Creates, audits and improves agent skills (SKILL.md folders). Use when the user wants to scaffold a new skill (instructional, executable, or stateful), audit or align an existing skill or skill inventory against authoring standards, add a Docker runtime environment or Azure AI Foundry deployment to a skill, set up an MCP server integration (.mcp.json, stdio, sse, or http), or explore the Agent Skills specification and 64-pattern catalog. Not for whole plugins (use authoring-plugins)…
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
# Authoring Skills (`authoring-skills`) Scaffolds skills from templates, audits them against `references/skill-authoring-contract.json`, and holds the specifications and pattern catalog the other authoring skills point to. ## Contents - [Constraints](#constraints) • [Modes](#modes) • [Quick start](#quick-start) • [Workflow](#workflow) • [Verification](#verification) • [References](#references) ## Constraints 1. **Self-contained**: a skill's scripts, references and assets live inside it; no plugin-root hub, symlinks or copy manifest. Other skills are referred to by name. 2. **Lean router**: `SKILL.md` is 100 lines or fewer; detail goes to `references/` linked directly from it, and long references open with a contents list. 3. **Interactive work is a skill**: multi-turn wizards, interview flows and stateful procedures belong in skills playing out in the main thread ([skills-vs-agents-decision-framework.md](references/skills-vs-agents-decision-framework.md)); subagents are strictly for context isolation, tool sandboxing, or adversarial review. 4. **Gerund names**, directory name equals frontmatter `name`, third-person description that says what and when. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/authoring-skills@sha256:73eef111b4a8ec78The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.494b440, 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 2 versions of this file, between Oct 24, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261027.494b440 latest | 2026-10-27 | 494b440 | 7,177 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.3106a82 | 2026-10-24 | 3106a82 | 7,162 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 (7177 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
richfrem/agent-plugins-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cohlxpthwoxlfscj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/authoring-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73eef111b4a8ec78f3498ffada82f45752681f35983204f0c0c05db424afface
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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