skill-authoring SKILL.md skillA
skill-authoring from paulnsorensen/easy-cheese is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese/skill-authoring@git:20261003.0009f3fPins git:20261003.0009f3f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- paulnsorensen/easy-cheese
- Path
.agents/skills/skill-authoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261003.0009f3f, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 6,740 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Codify the discipline-section guidance, the CSO description rule, and the size-budget checklist that easy-cheese skills follow when authoring or revising a skill. Use when writing a new skill or SKILL.md, adding a discipline section, or reviewing an existing skill against easy-cheese's authoring conventions.
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
# Skill Authoring — easy-cheese conventions This document codifies the skill-authoring rules for easy-cheese, drawn from obra/superpowers (CSO principle, pressure-test gate) and Matt Pocock's skills repo (size budget, authoring checklist). It is the canonical reference for anyone adding or revising a skill. --- ## Description rule (CSO) The description is the **only thing the harness shows the model when choosing a skill**. Optimize it for triggering, not explanation. **The rule:** sentence 1 = capability; sentence 2 = "Use when [triggering conditions]". No workflow summary, no pipeline-position prose, no feature list. Rationale: a description that summarizes the skill's workflow creates a shortcut the model takes *instead of reading the SKILL.md body*. The skill then silently degrades to its own one-line description. **Constraints:** - Maximum 1024 characters (Codex rejects longer descriptions). - Third-person, present tense. - Triggering conditions name concrete phrases the user might say. **Test:** strip the description and ask: could a model choose *this* skill over all others based on these words alone? If not, the triggers are missing. --- ## Size budget …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese/skill-authoring@sha256:c9edcd2f5f3005d2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.0009f3f, 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_fskpglczmg2mqi7i)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 68 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261003.0009f3f latest | 2026-10-03 | 0009f3f | 6,740 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.674d592 | 2026-07-28 | 674d592 | 7,850 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 (6740 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
paulnsorensen/easy-cheese · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch dist
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fskpglczmg2mqi7i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=paulnsorensen/easy-cheese/skill-authoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c9edcd2f5f3005d2f4f2b772517ae467212cc492895fe0331ea262547b5f1567
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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