setup-project SKILL.md skillA
setup-project 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/setup-project@git:20261102.3646a4aPins git:20261102.3646a4a 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/setup-project/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 15
- Latest version
- git:20261102.3646a4a, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 26,718 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Set a project up with the surfaces manifest-dev works from — a North Star, a glossary, ADR conventions, a recommended verification harness the user may opt out of, and the context-file wiring that makes every session use them — seeding them from the project''s own history where there is any, and keep a set-up project sound by auditing it against the setup the references describe and offering each gap, marking what changed since the surfaces version it records. Use when a repository has no…
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
Install the project surfaces a repository needs so that every future session — and every teammate, with or without manifest-dev — works from the same direction, the same vocabulary, and the same decision record. Three things get installed, and only the first is essential: - **The wiring** — an ADR conventions file the project owns, a glossary, a North Star (the project's standing statement of what it is for: its purpose and whom it serves, its goal, the principles it holds, how it measures progress, and the bets it rests on), and a project-context-file section that makes sessions read and maintain all three and records the surfaces version the project carries. This runs on every project, including one with no history at all. - **A verification harness, recommended and installed by default** — the project's one command for checking that what future runs will change still does its job, with a recipe per thing it checks, seeded from what the project already has, per `references/VERIFICATION_HARNESS.md`. A project that verifies its own way may opt out; the context file then records that way instead. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/setup-project@sha256:71bea5d6d82bf1cbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.3646a4a, 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_dvkhzm7kq4fsjrkf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Oct 14, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every day.
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| git:20261102.3646a4a latest | 2026-11-02 | 3646a4a | 26,718 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.d63c048 | 2026-10-25 | d63c048 | 26,487 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.464695a | 2026-10-24 | 464695a | 28,091 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.438b677 | 2026-10-23 | 438b677 | 26,809 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.af0c096 | 2026-10-21 | af0c096 | 24,936 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.fb1b931 | 2026-10-21 | fb1b931 | 24,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.eb17749 | 2026-10-21 | eb17749 | 23,813 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.849b1bb | 2026-10-21 | 849b1bb | 23,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.6b5b68d | 2026-10-19 | 6b5b68d | 23,503 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.25fc9af | 2026-10-18 | 25fc9af | 23,254 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.cfac06c | 2026-10-15 | cfac06c | 22,579 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.0e55d06 | 2026-10-15 | 0e55d06 | 22,273 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.ea8a062 | 2026-10-14 | ea8a062 | 19,963 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.091aa97 | 2026-10-14 | 091aa97 | 19,059 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.824bcf6 | 2026-10-14 | 824bcf6 | 18,787 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 (26718 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_dvkhzm7kq4fsjrkf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/setup-project GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/71bea5d6d82bf1cbea0a32d64337a7cdf87b7311a0d8014f266a7f23b5187cb9
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.