grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat SKILL.md skillA

grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat from mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat@git:20260908.867487a

Pins git:20260908.867487a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome
Path
plugins/grim-tome/skills/grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260908.867487a, committed Sep 8, 2026
Size
1,457 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Three Minions in a Trench Coat: manual-only multi-model coding council that runs three top Minion routes in parallel, compares their answers, and synthesizes the best final answer.

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

# Three Minions in a Trench Coat

Three minions in a trench coat is a multi-model coding council
Imagine sneaking into a theater stacked in a trench coat, combined with sitting in front of a whiteboard brainstorming solutions & talking, or a smaller inner circle of friends late at night around the campfire.

Three minions is designed to runs multiple subagents together

Model Choice:
- Prefer diversity across providers over three near-duplicates from one provider

## Trench Coat Wrapper

If current harness has a subagent tool, first create 1 subagent trench coat wrapper with a medium tier model, in watcher and orchestrator mode, this subagent will then spawn the 3 subagents and manage them and report results back. The goal is to avoid bothering the root agent with smaller details and problems and wasting tokens on details that can be resolved.

As things finish, be sure to pass it back to the parent agent with full handoffs of all crucial information, so the parent agent can review & incorporate all progress and decisions made.

## Relationship To Minion

Use `grim:dev:minion` for subagent protocol, always read this to ensure proper usage of three minions.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat@sha256:f6a6d3c03ea2cf15

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.867487a, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_hgorudin2qmnxnay.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hgorudin2qmnxnay)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 8, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260908.867487a latest2026-09-08 867487a 1,457 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 (1457 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

mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hgorudin2qmnxnay
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim-dev-three-minions-in-a-trench-coat
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f6a6d3c03ea2cf152f1c2bd8a4c2d8e84463c62b42fa6447c66fd7a07a3bd395

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.

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