customize SKILL.md skillB
customize from ai-screams/howl is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ai-screams/howl/customize@git:20260925.ee56a78Pins git:20260925.ee56a78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-screams/howl
- Path
skills/customize/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260925.ee56a78, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 9, 2026
- Size
- 12,709 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Customize Howl statusline with fine-grained metric toggles on top of a preset.
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
# Howl Customize
Advanced configuration for Howl statusline: choose a base preset, then toggle individual metrics on top of it. Segment order within a line is fixed in the binary; there is no ordering setting.
## Configuration Structure
```json
{
"preset": "developer",
"features": {
"quota": true
},
"thresholds": {
"context_danger": 90
}
}
```
- **preset**: Base configuration (`full`, `minimal`, `developer`, `cost-focused`)
- **features**: Override specific metrics from the preset base (optional)
- **thresholds**: Override color/behavior breakpoints (optional, see `/howl:threshold`)
## Process
### Step 1: Choose Base Preset
**Use AskUserQuestion to present preset choices:**
- **Question**: "Which base preset would you like to start with?"
- **Header**: "Choose Base Preset"
- **Options** (4):
- Label: **"full (default)"**
Description: "All 12 preset toggles - Complete visibility (up to 4 lines)"
- Label: **"minimal"**
Description: "Model + Context + Cost + Duration, plus the version line (2 lines)"
- Label: **"developer"**
Description: "Coding focus: full minus API wait, cost velocity and agent name (up to 4 lines)"
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ai-screams/howl/customize@sha256:7075d7dfb346f879The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.ee56a78, 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_glrnq4lxtjhkjglu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 9, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 57 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.ee56a78 latest | 2026-09-25 | ee56a78 | 12,709 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260916.2ca1ddb | 2026-09-16 | 2ca1ddb | 13,426 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260615.ad47f11 | 2026-06-15 | ad47f11 | 8,878 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260210.100ab08 | 2026-02-10 | 100ab08 | 8,353 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260209.15eb589 | 2026-02-09 | 15eb589 | 7,878 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12709 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
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
ai-screams/howl · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_glrnq4lxtjhkjglu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ai-screams/howl/customize GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7075d7dfb346f8796dd7395a98edfb2d487c1b5584234e643d609cd4e1a1436a
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.