helper-sub-agents SKILL.md skillA
helper-sub-agents from nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/helper-sub-agents@git:20261029.d5c74a0Pins git:20261029.d5c74a0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills
- Path
helper-sub-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261029.d5c74a0, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,241 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
shared rules for the helper sub-agents an orchestrating skill spawns.
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
how an orchestrator such as [/loop](../loop/SKILL.md) or [/orchestrate-multi-pr-work](../orchestrate-multi-pr-work/SKILL.md) uses helpers. the calling skill names when to spawn one, its output dir, its single code writer and how many run at once agents are highly reactive to their context, so delegate deep investigation rather than consuming every detail yourself. do small lookups yourself - give each helper its question, what you already know and an output path under the caller's output dir; it writes the full result there and returns a short gist. read the file only when the gist could change a decision - helpers contribute intelligence while writes stay single-threaded: they leave the checkout, commits and pushes alone unless the calling skill names an exception - a helper that needs another commit runs in its own worktree from `bin/wt-run <ref> -- pwd` and confirms its `HEAD` before starting. remove that worktree once the helper is done - side effects stay in local dev. helpers spawn no helpers of their own - decisions stay with you; a helper's result is evidence for them
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/helper-sub-agents@sha256:f670a64a2a33fd94The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.d5c74a0, 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_f7lybc74vpgzryqz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 28, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20261029.d5c74a0 latest | 2026-10-29 | d5c74a0 | 1,241 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.ef5c6a0 | 2026-10-28 | ef5c6a0 | 1,184 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f7lybc74vpgzryqz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/helper-sub-agents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f670a64a2a33fd94c8c4d52e3846616a9a56cf3bc244dd9e40c8d1dc45c70fec
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.