Look for an existing repo, package, and skill before writing a new one. Use when starting a feature, adding a dependency, or about to create a folder or utility on Frank's machine.
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
# Search before you add a folder
On this machine the search order is fixed. Do the steps you can, then write.
1. Match the name under `C:/Users/frank/starlight/repos`. Do not recurse from `C:\`, from the home directory, or from This PC. Phone Link will download files if you do.
2. Check `gh` for `frankxai` and, when the brand is Arcanea, the dormant `Arcanea-Labs` org.
3. Read the domain guide that already owns the topic.
4. Pick one child repo. Record path, git toplevel, origin, and branch.
5. Run `python C:/Users/frank/.starlight/workspace-bootstrap/route_work.py guard` from that repo. A refuse means you are still in the wrong place.
## What you may install
- `pnpm` when the lockfile is pnpm. `uv` for Python. Podman when a container is required.
- A single named skill whose license is MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, CC0, CC-BY, or Unlicense.
## What you do not install
- A catalog, a marketplace `full` profile, or a second orchestrator.
- A new top-level folder under `C:/Users/frank`.
- Anything from `C:/Users/frank/universe`. That tree is quarantined.
## Decision
- Depend, when their repo is the runtime and you can pin a commit.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.682b2ce, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h5daejuovtas3zq4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/claude-skills-library/search-first
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8754f8cefdf17b61b786f08b885a3798bdceb023219604ee5db86b00a4949da2
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