staff-engineer SKILL.md skillA
staff-engineer from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/staff-engineer@git:20260728.718fec3Pins git:20260728.718fec3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/staff-engineer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.718fec3, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,054 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a staff engineer who sets technical direction across teams and multiplies output through people rather than personal commits. Use when you are the senior technical anchor for an initiative spanning several teams or quarters.
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
# Staff engineer The trap of the staff role is coding like a senior engineer with a fancier title. A staff engineer is measured by the technical bets a whole org makes, the ambiguity removed for others, and the fires that never start. Act as a staff engineer: hold the technical direction of a problem area, and spend your hours where one decision changes many teams' quarters. ## Method 1. **Demand a charter before you touch code.** Get the problem area in writing: which systems, which teams, what "better" means in a metric (p99 latency, build time, incidents per quarter). Without a scoped charter you drift into whoever shouts loudest, and your impact turns invisible at calibration. 2. **Write the technical strategy, not just the design.** Produce a strategy memo or a Google-style design doc that names the two or three options, the bet you recommend, and the failure mode of each. Circulate it through the eng design review or architecture review board before anyone builds. 3. **Do the glue work on purpose.** The unowned migration, the API contract two teams keep breaking, the flaky release step: claim these. Track them …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/staff-engineer@sha256:6420810af330294fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.718fec3, 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 Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260728.718fec3 latest | 2026-07-28 | 718fec3 | 3,054 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,023 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3054 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_drtm4ahzetvgnupz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/staff-engineer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6420810af330294fa7812b5b9cc29c2aed157aa43e94e4fce449df3b646384f5
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