progressive-disclosure SKILL.md skillA
progressive-disclosure from jpeetz/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/progressive-disclosure@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpeetz/agent-skills
- Path
skills/development/finding-unknowns/skills/progressive-disclosure/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 2,763 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- none declared
Use when splitting oversized skills into on-demand files.
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
# Progressive disclosure A long instruction file is paid for on every single turn, including the turns that need none of it. The fix is not deletion — the material is real — but placement: keep what every run needs in the entry file, and move what only some runs need behind a pointer that fires when it's relevant. This skill restructures one artifact. To find out which artifacts need it, audit first. ## Steps 1. Read the whole artifact and identify its **branches** — the genuinely different ways a run can go through it. A verification section reached only when the user asks to verify is a branch; a rule that applies every time is not. 2. Sort every section into two piles: needed on every branch, and needed on one. The split is the entire decision, and it is usually less even than it looks — most files are a short universal core wrapped in branch-specific detail. 3. Keep the universal core in the entry file, ordered so the file still reads coherently on its own. An entry file that no longer makes sense without its children has been cut in the wrong place. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/progressive-disclosure@sha256:68b2155da70a9484The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_esaeadhowm6d26mg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-14 | 5722530 | 2,763 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-31 | 945bdcc | 2,762 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 (2763 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
jpeetz/agent-skills · 14 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_esaeadhowm6d26mg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpeetz/agent-skills/progressive-disclosure GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/68b2155da70a9484a398909fb0ec1e41b1a2289148862ec6906218d9fcbcfbf8
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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