slicing-code-context SKILL.md skillA
slicing-code-context from trailofbits/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add trailofbits/skills/slicing-code-context@git:20260729.841bffePins git:20260729.841bffe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills
- Path
plugins/trailmark/skills/slicing-code-context/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260729.841bffe, committed Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 8,558 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8,043
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Selects bounded, graph-informed source slices with Trailmark and delegates focused code analysis or patch-proposal work to a smaller subagent. Use when offloading function-, class-, caller-, callee-, call-path-, entrypoint-, or line-focused code tasks to constrained or locally hosted models without exposing the full repository.
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
# Slicing Code Context Use the capable coordinator to choose relevant code. Give an external/local worker only the task and a deterministic Trailmark slice packet, then verify its response. The bundled Claude agent is a bounded-source fallback, not a strict empty-context process: Claude Code also injects repository instructions, git status, environment data, and a composed delegation prompt. ## When to Use - Offload explanation, classification, review, or mechanical edit proposals for a function or class - Trace callers, callees, shortest call paths, or entrypoint-to-target paths within a small context window - Focus a local or lower-cost model on explicit source lines and their graph neighborhood - Keep repository access and final judgment with the coordinator ## When NOT to Use - The worker must explore the repository or discover its own scope - Runtime behavior, generated code, macros, or dynamic dispatch dominate what Trailmark can see - The anchor alone cannot fit and no meaningful line range is known - The task requires direct worker edits; workers may only propose changes - A small file can be read safely without graph selection or delegation …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add trailofbits/skills/slicing-code-context@sha256:72ea4b2adc22f0c9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.841bffe, 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_e7ases3taa2ef74q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 29, 2026.
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 (8558 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
trailofbits/skills · 8,043 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e7ases3taa2ef74q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=trailofbits/skills/slicing-code-context GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/72ea4b2adc22f0c9d64b1f7846517fb285d8601e30a693126a4d3e133d0e97fe
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.
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