marathon SKILL.md skillA
marathon from bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/marathon@git:20261008.d56b7eePins git:20261008.d56b7ee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit
- Path
skills/marathon/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261008.d56b7ee, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 14, 2026
- Size
- 56,564 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- Apache-2.0
Run a list of work units to completion with an Agent Team: derive a dependency DAG and hot-file map, spawn one ephemeral teammate per unit (or combined group), drive each PR through pr-review-merge, smart-merge in waves, recover from crashes, and run a retrospective. Source-agnostic — the caller supplies a work-source adapter. A library skill invoked BY the /tm and /issues commands, not run directly by a user (it needs a caller-supplied adapter). TRIGGER when a command needs autonomous…
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
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# Marathon Engine
Source-agnostic team orchestration. The caller supplies a **work-source adapter**; this
skill owns DAG analysis, hot-file combining, team lifecycle, waves, crash recovery, and
the retrospective. It uses the `pr-review-merge` skill for every PR.
## Work-Source Adapter Contract
The calling command MUST fill these four operations before invoking this skill:
| Operation | What it returns / does |
|-----------|------------------------|
| **enumerate** | A list of work units, each `{id, title, requirements, dependencies[], complexity}` |
| **mark in-progress** | Marks one unit started in the source of truth |
| **close on merge** | How a merged PR closes the unit (e.g. a label, a status set, or PR `Closes #N`) |
| **branch / worktree** | The branch name and `worktree/<...>` path convention for a unit |
The caller also passes Marathon Configuration values (base branch, required approvals,
bot-reviewer rules, CI patterns) read from the project's CLAUDE.md.
## Phase 0: Capability Detection
```bash
# Agent Teams
echo $CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS
```
Set `$TEAMS_AVAILABLE` (`true` if result is `"1"`).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/marathon@sha256:d2594ccd389adc0bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.d56b7ee, 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_ewo7ddzcl4mmpzbt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Sep 14, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261008.d56b7ee latest | 2026-10-08 | d56b7ee | 56,564 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.93fbd8e | 2026-10-07 | 93fbd8e | 56,556 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.747a8f8 | 2026-10-07 | 747a8f8 | 56,095 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.b418bdd | 2026-09-14 | b418bdd | 51,221 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.0a38eea | 2026-09-14 | 0a38eea | 51,176 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.efd23c7 | 2026-09-14 | efd23c7 | 49,362 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.074c29b | 2026-09-14 | 074c29b | 47,606 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.56f0008 | 2026-09-14 | 56f0008 | 47,242 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 (56564 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
bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit · 32 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ewo7ddzcl4mmpzbt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/marathon GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2594ccd389adc0bd71d18d1af1f883bfdfc9d0ed2bed6d8cd25f9de25c355ad
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.