manifest-dev-help SKILL.md skillA
manifest-dev-help from doodledood/manifest-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-dev-help@git:20261107.12e57b7Pins git:20261107.12e57b7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- doodledood/manifest-dev
- Path
claude-plugins/manifest-dev/skills/manifest-dev-help/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261107.12e57b7, committed Nov 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 15, 2026
- Size
- 13,265 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Answer any question a person has about manifest-dev, with the why behind it: what it is for, its workflow and the autonomy ladder, each term a user meets (Manifest, Acceptance Criterion, Global Invariant, verification harness, recipe, ask-first, Lock, Debt, Ticket and the rest), how the parts relate, why each part exists, the practices it encodes, and what a Manifest, a run report, a pull request section or a file the workflow wrote means. Use when the user asks what something in manifest-dev…
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
# manifest-dev-help People come here to ask about anything in manifest-dev that they do not understand, and why it works that way. Answer each question with what the part is and why it exists. Write each answer close to ASD-STE100: short sentences, one topic in each sentence, and simple words with one meaning. ## How to answer 1. When the question names a term or asks about a part, file or behavior, read `references/GLOSSARY.md`. 2. When the user asks for all the terms, give all of `references/GLOSSARY.md`. 3. When there is no question, give *What manifest-dev is for*, *The workflow* and *The autonomy ladder*. 4. When the user points at something, read it first: a Manifest, a log, a pull request or a file. 5. When the question is about the project of the user, also read its Project Surfaces. 6. When this skill does not give the answer or its reason, read the skill that owns that behavior. 7. Find that skill in the folder next to this one: its `SKILL.md` and its `references/` folder. A skill of the `manifest-dev-tools` plugin is in the `skills/` folder of that plugin. That plugin is installed apart from this one. Search for its folder by the skill name. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-dev-help@sha256:054130144eabcbe6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.12e57b7, 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 13 versions of this file, between Oct 15, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261107.12e57b7 latest | 2026-11-07 | 12e57b7 | 13,265 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261107.a10d070 | 2026-11-07 | a10d070 | 13,175 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261107.5a0076f | 2026-11-07 | 5a0076f | 13,160 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261107.672194b | 2026-11-07 | 672194b | 11,670 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261107.f0144e2 | 2026-11-07 | f0144e2 | 11,672 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261102.748f4ec | 2026-11-02 | 748f4ec | 11,432 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.7c39974 | 2026-10-25 | 7c39974 | 11,356 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.438b677 | 2026-10-23 | 438b677 | 11,478 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.add0c6e | 2026-10-18 | add0c6e | 10,676 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.7f7e346 | 2026-10-18 | 7f7e346 | 10,250 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.7f4ca38 | 2026-10-18 | 7f4ca38 | 10,142 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.cfac06c | 2026-10-15 | cfac06c | 9,895 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.0e55d06 | 2026-10-15 | 0e55d06 | 9,808 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 (13265 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
doodledood/manifest-dev · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d52flxagkjb3jezf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/manifest-dev-help GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/054130144eabcbe68db0fdadfba8971fc6e453a2041ac5034788509c3760b877
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