gaia-patterns SKILL.md skillA
gaia-patterns from metraton/gaia is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add metraton/gaia/gaia-patterns@git:20261006.f5d0899Pins git:20261006.f5d0899 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- metraton/gaia
- Path
skills/gaia-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261006.f5d0899, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 8,387 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when building or modifying Gaia components -- agents, skills, hooks, CLI tools, or routing config.
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
# Gaia Code Patterns
Construction patterns for building Gaia components. Every component type follows a discoverable pattern -- read 2-3 existing examples before creating a new one. For the full component inventory, see `reference.md`.
## Prompt -> Result Flow
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1. User sends prompt
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2. Orchestrator routes to agent (DB-backed surface_routing table --
the routing is the ORCHESTRATOR's reasoning; it is never injected
into the subagent)
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3. Pre-Tool Hook (pre_tool_use.py)
+-- Validate the Task/Agent dispatch (agent exists, T3 scan of the
prompt via TaskValidator) -- no frontmatter read, no skill load
+-- Birth the agent_contract_handoffs row (identity, kernel data,
dispatch_project resolved from cwd)
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(for a dispatched SUBAGENT only: the HOST -- Claude Code, not this
hook or any other Gaia hook -- separately reads the target agent's
`.md` frontmatter and preloads its `skills:` list before the first
turn. `hooks/hooks.json` carries no `Skill` matcher, so a
`Skill(...)` call never reaches PreToolUse either -- see
`artifact_skill_reminder.py`. The primary agent has no equivalent:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add metraton/gaia/gaia-patterns@sha256:796538bf7125cb2eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.f5d0899, 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 8 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 8 days.
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| git:20261006.f5d0899 latest | 2026-10-06 | f5d0899 | 8,387 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.ad0abaa | 2026-09-24 | ad0abaa | 8,354 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.e888e07 | 2026-09-15 | e888e07 | 8,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.33c0c11 | 2026-08-15 | 33c0c11 | 8,086 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.ed523b2 | 2026-08-13 | ed523b2 | 8,039 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.8913511 | 2026-08-11 | 8913511 | 8,041 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.877ca66 | 2026-08-09 | 877ca66 | 6,436 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.0249570 | 2026-08-09 | 0249570 | 6,487 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 (8387 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
metraton/gaia · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ekf2kz6iod6pndii GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=metraton/gaia/gaia-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/796538bf7125cb2ea6c4ce2b65732bbfc9b38f05758e71db670dc2489afe59fd
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.