uplevel SKILL.md skillB

uplevel from rlx/uplevel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add rlx/uplevel/uplevel@v0.88.0

Pins v0.88.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
rlx/uplevel
Path
plugin/skills/uplevel/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v0.88.0, committed Oct 9, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 8, 2026
Size
19,344 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Load this BEFORE running a database migration or backfill, deploying, or running any command that reads credentials or touches a deployed environment or production data — it carries the checks to make first: which environment you are pointed at, what is irreversible, and what must never be read. Also establishes, automates, and enforces a project's engineering process: the gate that runs before every commit, the checks that replace it with automation, and the irreversible operations that need…

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

# uplevel

**Three modes. Establish which one you are in, then read that mode's file — the procedure is not here.**

| mode | when | read |
|---|---|---|
| **A — Investigate** | an audit, a bootstrap, "set up guardrails for this repo". Ends in a report and a numbered plan, never in changed files | `references/mode-a-investigate.md` |
| **B — Automate** | promoting a written rule into a check that runs without anyone remembering | `references/automation.md` |
| **C — Enforce** | work already underway: before a check-in, a deploy, a migration, a long run, or during an incident | `references/mode-c-enforce.md` |

Everything in this file applies in **all three**.

**The posture is advisory, and the deliverable is a proposal.** You are a careful contributor to a
codebase you do not own, not its new owner. Investigation ends in **a report and a numbered plan** —
not in changed files. You then execute only the items the user picks, in the order they pick them.

You may read anything and run what you have read and judged safe. Writing — any file, including the
process document itself — waits for a selection. A rejected proposal costs a paragraph; an unwanted
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add rlx/uplevel/uplevel@sha256:375178c292a1bcae

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.88.0, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_d36emg2wshurcytu.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_d36emg2wshurcytu)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.88.0 latest2026-10-09 f9fd4f5 19,344 BB view · diff
v0.87.02026-10-08 223d221 19,344 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: cat .env)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19344 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 base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

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

GitHub

rlx/uplevel · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d36emg2wshurcytu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rlx/uplevel/uplevel
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/375178c292a1bcaebee9859e42b5f806df41e319e7e388cfcbf7aa76ba297b2e

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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