oaustegard/claude-skills · optimizing-skills/SKILL.md

optimizing-skills skillA

optimizing-skills is agent-read markdown (skill) from oaustegard/claude-skills: Disciplined, validation-gated revision of an EXISTING skill so each edit is a measured improvement rather than a guess. Use when editing, revising, or tuning a skill that already exists and there is evidence it underperforms (observed failures, drift, complaints) — invoke by name, or have versioning-skills / creating-skill defer to it before applying edits. Not for authoring a brand-new skill from scratch (use creating-skill) or one-off prose..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/optimizing-skills@v0.3.0
Exact content
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/optimizing-skills@sha256:70790889fc81d425

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.3.0 latest2026-09-05 59f45d6 9,170 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-05-29 5f9acac 6,988 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-05-29 0f2e15d 5,737 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (9170 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

oaustegard/claude-skills · 147 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dxifzi33wqvz3tnv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/optimizing-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/70790889fc81d425cf6886136284ce5159911786a60b77224cbb6c3fa9976dc5