add-convention SKILL.md skillA

add-convention from evolvehq/docflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add evolvehq/docflow/add-convention@git:20261004.72b77fa

Pins git:20261004.72b77fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
evolvehq/docflow
Path
plugins/docflow/skills/add-convention/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261004.72b77fa, committed Oct 4, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 3, 2026
Size
10,846 bytes
Repository stars
16
License
MIT

Assess and add a CONVENTION (a reusable rule, practice, or naming/process standard) to a documentation-led repo — decides FIRST whether it is worth codifying at all, then routes it to the right home (AGENTS.md hard rule, CONVENTIONS.md guidance, GLOSSARY term, or to /new-adr if it is really a one-off decision). Pushes back on premature or duplicate conventions. Use when the user says "add a convention", "make this a rule", "document this practice", "we should always X", or invokes…

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

# add-convention

Add a convention — but only after assessing whether it should exist and
where it belongs. This skill is a gatekeeper and a router, not a
stenographer.

## Step 0 — Preconditions and context

1. Confirm the repo is bootstrapped.
2. Read `CONVENTIONS.md` and `AGENTS.md` in full so you can detect
   overlap with existing rules and judge fit.

## Step 0.5 — Assessment (run first)

Run the shared assessment protocol; the triage (Step 1) and routing
(Step 2) questions are asked under it:

- **Reuse supplied answers first.** Treat applicable choices already supplied
  in the request or this session, including depth, as answered. Summarise
  them without asking again; defaults never replace explicit choices. If
  every material choice is supplied, proceed. Ask only about a material
  missing or conflicting choice. A repository preference alone is not a
  current answer or execution grant.
- **Depth selector for unresolved choices.** If depth is not supplied and
  choices remain, ask how deep this assessment should go:
  **express** — every choice takes its recommended default; only
  questions with no derivable default (the free-text essentials) are
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add evolvehq/docflow/add-convention@sha256:badc78678c4bfa91

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.72b77fa, 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 8 versions of this file, between Jun 3, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 18 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261004.72b77fa latest2026-10-04 72b77fa 10,846 BA view · diff
git:20261004.20146952026-10-04 2014695 10,109 BA view · diff
git:20261004.88129bf2026-10-04 88129bf 8,920 BA view · diff
git:20260915.4da36992026-09-15 4da3699 6,823 BA view · diff
git:20260911.2f6247b2026-09-11 2f6247b 6,373 BA view · diff
git:20260703.3f1611e2026-07-03 3f1611e 5,393 BA view · diff
git:20260630.92cd5cc2026-06-30 92cd5cc 4,712 BA view · diff
git:20260603.753dd9f2026-06-03 753dd9f 4,615 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10846 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

GitHub

evolvehq/docflow · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h3khyz74w7opmgkd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=evolvehq/docflow/add-convention
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/badc78678c4bfa91adad5c8ca82814c691bbd6388ee9096d216bbdd82e91eb24

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