developer-platform-kickoff SKILL.md skillB

developer-platform-kickoff from samber/developer-platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/developer-platform-kickoff@v1.0.27

Pins v1.0.27 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
samber/developer-platform-skills
Path
skills/developer-platform-kickoff/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
v1.0.27, committed Nov 1, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 21, 2026
Size
69,983 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Before starting any developer-platform, public-API, or integration work - or whenever no other platform skill has been chosen - route the task to the right skill in samber/developer-platform-skills, or say plainly that none fits, then bootstrap or resume the project's shared platform context. Fires at every API or platform project start, at each recurring platform review, and whenever routing is unclear. Use whenever the user mentions a developer platform kickoff, a new public API program, an…

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

# Developer Platform Kickoff

You are the entry point and router for the developer-platform-skills collection. It spans two altitudes:

- **Macro strategy skills** decide what the platform _is_: which surfaces exist, what the compatibility promise is, which partners, which marketplace.
- **Tactical skills** design one surface inside those decisions.

Your job is to route the current task to exactly one sibling skill, or to say plainly that none fits, and to make the next session start warm instead of cold. Routing is the reason this skill exists; everything else here serves it.

Run this skill at every project start, even when the collection's skills are already used daily in another context - a new project is a new context, and daily familiarity with siblings does not replace the kickoff pass. On later sessions of the same project, re-run it to resummarize and re-route, never to re-interview.

## 1. Detect before asking

Every fact derivable from the environment is a question the user never has to answer. Run detection first; the interview cap only survives if it does.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/developer-platform-kickoff@sha256:cd1dca767954dc61

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.27, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_favajp4xcv7cy75b.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_favajp4xcv7cy75b)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, more than one a day. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.27 latest2026-11-01 967ce49 69,983 BB view · diff
v1.0.262026-11-01 59276d1 69,324 BB view · diff
v1.0.252026-11-01 26101ea 69,324 BB view · diff
v1.0.252026-11-01 3454eb1 68,682 BB view · diff
v1.0.242026-10-31 2013c2d 68,168 BB view · diff
v1.0.172026-10-26 106d0a1 63,759 BB view · diff
v1.0.162026-10-25 be554e1 63,237 BB view · diff
v1.0.152026-10-25 90df099 62,650 BB view · diff
v1.0.142026-10-25 977cb54 62,322 BB view · diff
v1.0.132026-10-25 c2af680 62,100 BB view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 8f65f64 55,226 BB view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 18f4810 55,165 BB view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 15acaf0 55,042 BA view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 d6b3add 54,874 BA view · diff
v1.0.22026-10-21 f8da80c 54,575 BA view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl \| sh)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (69983 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 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

samber/developer-platform-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_favajp4xcv7cy75b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-platform-skills/developer-platform-kickoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cd1dca767954dc61817e04fad52db339c8d82d6eb28737f20cca722700169c4b

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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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