tool-showdown SKILL.md skillA
tool-showdown from dailydotdev/marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dailydotdev/marketplace/tool-showdown@git:20261027.dd45f74Pins git:20261027.dd45f74 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dailydotdev/marketplace
- Path
plugins/tool-showdown/skills/tool-showdown/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.dd45f74, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 10,199 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- none declared
Name two tools, for example "OpenTofu vs Terraform" or "Kafka vs Redpanda". Searches daily.dev for comparisons, migration stories and recent news about both, marks which posts come from a vendor, reads the comment threads, and gives a short conditional verdict with a confidence level and numbered sources. Says so when daily.dev has too little to decide.
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
# Tool Showdown You have to pick between two tools, and every comparison you find was written by one of the vendors. Tool Showdown asks daily.dev instead: it finds the comparisons, the migration stories and the recent news about both tools, marks who wrote each one, reads what the comments add, and gives you a verdict that shows its evidence and how strong it is. ## Requirements One of: - The daily.dev MCP server (`https://api.daily.dev/mcp`) connected to your agent, or - A daily.dev personal access token in `DAILY_DEV_TOKEN` (https://daily.dev/settings/api). Base URL `https://api.daily.dev/public/v1`, header `Authorization: Bearer $DAILY_DEV_TOKEN`. Never send the token anywhere except `api.daily.dev`. Each step lists the MCP tool first and the REST call after it. ## Input Two tools, products or libraries that do the same job, for example `opentofu terraform`, `kafka redpanda`, `bun node`, `postgres mysql`. If the user gives one tool, or two that do different jobs, ask for the second tool or say why the comparison does not fit, then stop. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dailydotdev/marketplace/tool-showdown@sha256:0813933d37115af2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.dd45f74, 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_ghjaazzzhlxm6da2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 2026.
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 (10199 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
dailydotdev/marketplace · 8 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ghjaazzzhlxm6da2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dailydotdev/marketplace/tool-showdown GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0813933d37115af29a3ac334994708ceff584d8c2bdee61cb85b0094d2ea23a0
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.