eighty-six SKILL.md skillA

eighty-six from escoffier-labs/skillet is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/eighty-six@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
escoffier-labs/skillet
Path
skillet/skills/eighty-six/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
Size
5,402 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Use when agents keep repeating the same mistake in a repository, the operator keeps correcting the same thing, or the user asks to "make this mistake impossible", "stop agents doing X", "harden the repo against agent errors", or audit which CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md rules anything actually enforces.

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

# eighty-six

In a kitchen, to 86 an item is to take it off the menu so nobody can order it again. This skill does that for agent mistakes: instead of writing "do not do X" and hoping, change the repo so X cannot happen, or fails loudly with the fix in the error message.

**Core principle:** a rule nothing enforces is a wish. Fix each mistake class at the highest level that works.

Design for the contributor you actually have: an agent that has read only the files it opened, imitates the closest example, and stops at the first version that builds. The repo should make the locally plausible change also the globally correct one.

## Procedure

1. **Mine the classes.** Read recent commits, reverts, fixup chains, review threads, agent instruction files, and comments that explain workarounds. Useful starts: `git log --oneline -i -E --grep='revert|fixup|again|oops|forgot'`, and the correction history in the instruction file. Group mistakes into classes. **A class counts once it has happened twice.** One-offs are noise. Cite two pieces of evidence per class (commit, thread, or file line).
2. **Pick the level for each class.** Take the first that works:

   | Level | Move | Example |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/eighty-six@sha256:46165623060555be

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ecvdogtw75qgea2y.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ecvdogtw75qgea2y)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 20, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.1.0 latest2026-10-20 522965c 5,402 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (5402 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

escoffier-labs/skillet · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ecvdogtw75qgea2y
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/skillet/eighty-six
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/46165623060555be1ce3344be6576b7e4ec5a878ad1ac786c626b7d227efb12d

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.

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