agent-rules SKILL.md skillA
agent-rules from mr-kelly/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mr-kelly/skills/agent-rules@git:20260907.3d5d7e1Pins git:20260907.3d5d7e1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mr-kelly/skills
- Path
skills/agent-rules/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260907.3d5d7e1, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 25, 2026
- Size
- 6,178 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Align all AI coding agents to a single source of truth. AGENTS.md for rules, .agents/skills/ for skills, symlinks for everything else. Use when setting up a repo for multiple agents, or when links are missing, broken, or out of date.
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
# Agent Rules - Single Source of Truth Every AI coding agent reads its own rules file and its own skills directory. This skill keeps one real copy of each and points the rest at it with symlinks. ## Quick Start ```bash /agent-rules # create or repair links in the current project /agent-rules --check # verify; exits 1 when something is broken /agent-rules --status # report only, never fails /agent-rules --minimal # skip links agents no longer need /agent-rules --root <path> # operate on a project other than $PWD ``` The target project is the git toplevel of your working directory (or `$PWD` outside a repo), **not** wherever this skill happens to be installed. ## Single Source of Truth Two sources, edited by hand: 1. **Rules** — `AGENTS.md` at the project root 2. **Skills** — `.agents/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md` Everything else is a symlink into those two. ``` AGENTS.md ← edit rules here .agents/skills/ ← edit skills here ↓ symlinks ↓ CLAUDE.md → AGENTS.md .gemini/GEMINI.md → ../AGENTS.md …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mr-kelly/skills/agent-rules@sha256:6f3c8ea5d1ce3653The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.3d5d7e1, 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 4 versions of this file, between Feb 25, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 65 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260907.3d5d7e1 latest | 2026-09-07 | 3d5d7e1 | 6,178 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.5ce8d82 | 2026-08-08 | 5ce8d82 | 3,894 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.c42cb8a | 2026-07-01 | c42cb8a | 3,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260225.18ef056 | 2026-02-25 | 18ef056 | 3,819 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 (6178 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
mr-kelly/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_engwtl2ls2gr5yp2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mr-kelly/skills/agent-rules GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f3c8ea5d1ce36538a2b20c27a5316df86e2978cf07c62d4edf83a71276490e4
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.