checklist-mini SKILL.md skillA
checklist-mini from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/checklist-mini@git:20260518.0d37b7dPins git:20260518.0d37b7d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tmusser/ai-engineering-skills
- Path
skills/checklist-mini/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260518.0d37b7d, committed May 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 1,243 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Validate a mini-spec before planning.
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
# Checklist Mini ## Purpose Validate a mini-spec before planning. ## When to use Use after `mini-spec` and before `thin-plan`, especially when the next step would turn unclear requirements into implementation tasks. ## Inputs - `SPEC.md` - `CONTEXT.md` if available - Known commands - Known constraints - Open questions ## Workflow 1. Check that unresolved ambiguity is marked with `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...]`. 2. Check that acceptance criteria are observable. 3. Check that success criteria are measurable. 4. Check that non-goals are explicit. 5. Check that a verification demo exists. 6. Check that a scope boundary can be defined. 7. Check that speculative features are absent. 8. Update `CHECKLIST.md` with pass, fail, or needs-clarification notes. ## Outputs - `CHECKLIST.md` - Spec readiness judgment - Blocking clarification notes - Safe next step ## Stop conditions - The mini-spec is ready for thin planning. - A blocking ambiguity must be clarified before planning. ## Anti-patterns - Planning from vague acceptance criteria. - Treating missing non-goals as harmless. - Letting speculative features enter the first implementation plan.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/checklist-mini@sha256:6061fb911a70c539The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260518.0d37b7d, 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_ha2hbb6fadukaezo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and May 18, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260518.0d37b7d latest | 2026-05-18 | 0d37b7d | 1,243 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.a642d15 | 2026-05-14 | a642d15 | 1,358 B | A | view |
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 (1243 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
tmusser/ai-engineering-skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ha2hbb6fadukaezo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/checklist-mini GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6061fb911a70c53906469399e607158f1c8898103176919de8968f2eb8d5d541
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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.