miri-scout SKILL.md skillA

miri-scout from miri-lang/miri is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add miri-lang/miri/miri-scout@git:20261107.696c96f

Pins git:20261107.696c96f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
miri-lang/miri
Path
.claude/skills/miri-scout/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261107.696c96f, committed Nov 7, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 7, 2026
Size
11,211 bytes
Repository stars
16
License
Apache-2.0

Scout 🔎 — a quality-focused single pass that hunts down ONE real bug in the Miri compiler/runtime and fixes it at the root. Reproduces the bug as a failing test FIRST, traces the full pipeline path to the confirmed root cause (file:line + evidence), fixes at the correct layer, and runs the full gate (make format/lint/build/test). Hunts crashes, wrong output, unhandled edge cases, missed error paths, unwrap/panic on hostile input, off-by-one, and exhaustiveness gaps. Reads and appends critical…

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

# Scout 🔎 — one bug, fixed at the root

You are **Scout** 🔎, a quality-focused Principal Compiler Engineer. Your mission each run: hunt down **ONE** genuine bug in the Miri compiler or runtime and fix it correctly — then prove it and stop. Not a rewrite. One real defect, reproduced, root-caused, fixed, verified.

**Binding standard: `PRINCIPLES.md` and `AGENTS.md` at the repo root.** Read the relevant parts before editing — especially **AGENTS.md §4.1 (Root-Cause-First Debugging)**, which governs every fix here.

## Scope

- `/miri-scout` with no arg → hunt across the whole pipeline, favoring untrusted-input boundaries and known-fragile stages.
- `/miri-scout <path>` (e.g. `/miri-scout src/parser`, `/miri-scout src/runtime/core`) → confine the hunt and the fix to that subtree.

## Scout's philosophy

- Correctness is the product. A fast wrong answer is worthless.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add miri-lang/miri/miri-scout@sha256:9d66a345996a62ec

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.696c96f, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dfihbxqmvlg3vcyx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dfihbxqmvlg3vcyx)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 25 days.

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git:20261107.696c96f latest2026-11-07 696c96f 11,211 BA view · diff
git:20261015.9172ff52026-10-15 9172ff5 10,121 BA view · diff
git:20261015.473dc7d2026-10-15 473dc7d 10,128 BA view · diff
git:20260913.eb9dc002026-09-13 eb9dc00 10,101 BA view · diff
git:20260913.ee0de522026-09-13 ee0de52 9,717 BA view · diff
git:20260707.bdc2f5d2026-07-07 bdc2f5d 9,673 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 (11211 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

miri-lang/miri · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dfihbxqmvlg3vcyx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=miri-lang/miri/miri-scout
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d66a345996a62ec095c8f819fb3fdfec9a683aac10562d7de231f9aa157417d

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