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alter from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vanducng/skills/alter@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vanducng/skills
- Path
skills/alter/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 7,924 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Inspect and safely change Alter, the native macOS AI assistant from alterhq.com, without going through its GUI. Audit its global hotkeys, find and resolve collisions with launchers and capture tools, move an action off a chord, and document its app-data locations without reading private content. Use when the user mentions Alter, asks why an Alter shortcut stopped firing, wants to free a keyboard chord an Alter action is holding, or needs a macOS global hotkey conflict audit. Alter's meeting…
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
# Alter Alter is a native macOS AI assistant: actions, dictation, meeting recording and transcription, with local model support. Official docs are at `https://docs.alterhq.com`. This skill uses the preferences file for narrowly scoped hotkey work and the GUI for everything else. ## Privacy boundary, read this first Alter records meetings and stores transcripts and conversation history locally. Some of that content sits in the **same preferences plist as the hotkeys**, not only in its databases. Never dump the whole plist. A bare `defaults read com.wearedevx.alter` or a broad `plutil -p` can splash an entire meeting transcript into the transcript of your own session, including names and whatever the meeting was about. - Read **named keys only**, never the whole domain. - Never open `Alter.sqlite`, `Search.sqlite`, or anything under the transcripts directory. - Never quote, summarize, or store what you see if it leaks anyway. Say that it leaked and move on. - If the user wants transcript content, tell them to export it from the app. This is the one hard rule in this skill. Everything below respects it. ## Where things live | What | Path | | --- | --- | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vanducng/skills/alter@sha256:7e519335e6a62065The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 18, 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 (7924 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
vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h2u7wxsgqmlxqyit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/alter GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7e519335e6a620650427508b82248219d835a249d142c66f0553c2d280959027
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.