flowing SKILL.md skillA
flowing from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/flowing@v1.5.0Pins v1.5.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/environment-and-config/skills/flowing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.5.0, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 7, 2026
- Size
- 7,017 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Runs a multi-step procedure as a Python DAG, so ordering, branching and retries are enforced by the runner rather than described in prose a model can generate past. Use for "run these steps in order and retry the flaky one until the check passes", "build a pipeline that fetches, validates, then skips the upload when nothing changed", "make sure these steps cannot be skipped", "resume from where it broke instead of redoing the expensive early stages…
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
## NOT SUPERSEDED BY DYNAMIC WORKFLOWS — read first Claude Code's dynamic workflows orchestrate **subagents** (separate contexts, fan-out to 16-concurrent / 1000-agent). This skill is a **different primitive**: single-context control flow over YOUR OWN tool calls, with durable side-effects and checkpoint resume. The workflows runtime explicitly cannot touch the filesystem or shell directly — its agents do the work and the script only coordinates them. Flowing is the inverse: the script does the work. Use flowing for an in-context pipeline (3+ steps, branches, retries, validation, detached side-effects). Use a workflow when you need many subagents. They compose; they do not compete. Do not abandon flowing for a workflow — you would lose the durable side-effects and the cross-session checkpoint that hub-spoke depends on. # Flowing — Control Flow in Code, Not Prose …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/flowing@sha256:eae52a2a05e0265fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.5.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_da6mhzj6csx7lh5a)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 49 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.5.0 latest | 2026-08-25 | 955c1d2 | 7,017 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0 | 2026-07-07 | 6154d36 | 6,398 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 (7017 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_da6mhzj6csx7lh5a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/flowing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eae52a2a05e0265f68fcca22e7bf63fa62c627ed5bc13a27db574e3a0e68f071
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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