core-spec SKILL.md skillA

core-spec from coder-xieshijie/dev-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-spec@git:20261015.250087f

Pins git:20261015.250087f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder-xieshijie/dev-skills
Path
skills/core-spec/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261015.250087f, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 8, 2026
Size
29,115 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Converges a conversation and its materials into spec.md, the core decisions; when delivery will be automated, also writes verify.md, the acceptance requirements. Use after discussion and clarification are finished, including when the user confirms core-grill's decision summary.

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

# Converge a discussion into a spec, and write the acceptance requirements

Deliver two self-contained Markdown files. Write spec.md in the language of the decision summary (or of the user's request when there is none), unless the user or the repository's documentation rules specify another language; write verify.md in the same language as spec.md, also when the spec was given to you:

- **spec.md** "<topic>: Core Decisions and Constraints": what has been chosen and what must be satisfied. A reader who skims it grasps the most important changes; a reader who reads it closely can judge, item by item, whether a design or an implementation matches what was agreed.
- **verify.md** "<topic>: Acceptance Requirements": what it takes for an implementation to count as meeting the spec: where to operate, what results to observe, and what evidence to keep before declaring it done.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-spec@sha256:70921cd5faa224f6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.250087f, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261010.84ee6cf2026-10-10 84ee6cf 27,349 BA view · diff
git:20261008.c5c3dee2026-10-08 c5c3dee 27,310 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 (29115 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

coder-xieshijie/dev-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hdft4ux4tmnn4cml
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/core-spec
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/70921cd5faa224f6b982b337fff2181f64b4ab941c62b9b65730e6b7ad5516af

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