create-existing-solutions SKILL.md skillA
create-existing-solutions from tomzx/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomzx/agents/create-existing-solutions@git:20261009.2076882Pins git:20261009.2076882 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomzx/agents
- Path
skills/create-existing-solutions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261009.2076882, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 5,207 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Survey existing solutions (libraries, products, internal code, standards, prior art) that address the requirements, evaluate their fit, and recommend whether to adopt, extend, or build.
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
# Create Existing Solutions Survey Surveys existing solutions that already solve part or all of what the feature needs, before committing to a design. The goal is twofold: avoid rebuilding what already exists, and collect proven approaches as a source of information even when we end up building our own. ## Prerequisites - Apply the shared SDLC conventions in `skills/sdlc/references/shared.md`. - If no argument is provided, locate the feature directory under `.sdlc/features/` whose frontmatter `issue` field references `$ISSUE_NUMBER`. - `.sdlc/features/N-<slug>/requirements.md` (must have passed review with findings verdict `approved`), or a requirements document provided in context or as a file path (`$1`) ## When to Skip Skip this phase, and record a one-line note naming the signal, when the change reuses existing internal code and there is no adopt-versus-build decision to make. The survey would conclude "reuse the internal pieces", which the issue already states. ## Steps 1. Read the requirements document and extract what the feature must do (functional requirements) and the quality attributes it must satisfy (non-functional requirements). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomzx/agents/create-existing-solutions@sha256:43315f9e6750eb43The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.2076882, 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261009.2076882 latest | 2026-10-09 | 2076882 | 5,207 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b35fc4b | 2026-10-07 | b35fc4b | 4,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.00bb0c5 | 2026-10-04 | 00bb0c5 | 4,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.a0aec57 | 2026-08-28 | a0aec57 | 4,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.1dfdffc | 2026-08-27 | 1dfdffc | 4,830 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 (5207 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
tomzx/agents · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dv4ws6swp7cqz5gd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomzx/agents/create-existing-solutions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43315f9e6750eb439e8f331d72bbc499b0c532546dd9f7f9d05db4a278e61e4c
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