demi SKILL.md skillA

demi from escoffier-labs/skillet is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/demi@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
escoffier-labs/skillet
Path
skillet/skills/demi/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Jul 28, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 16, 2026
Size
8,311 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Use before implementing, scaffolding, prototyping, or adding a feature when the work should start with the smallest useful code path, avoid speculative architecture, or prevent overbuilding before reduce would be needed.

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

# demi

A demi-glace starts concentrated. Nothing extra goes in just because the kitchen has it nearby. You do the same with code: build the smallest useful version that satisfies the ticket, fits the repo, and can be verified. Complexity has to earn its way into the pan.

**Core principle:** start simple enough that [reduce](../reduce/SKILL.md) should not be needed immediately afterward. Small means understandable and verifiable, not cramped. The shortest version that hides intent is not demi; it is just dense.

## The demi ladder

Before writing custom code, stop at the first rung that holds:

1. **Does this need to exist?** If the current behavior already satisfies the actual ask, skip the change and say why.
2. **Can the repo already do it?** Use existing commands, helpers, components, config, conventions, and tests before inventing new ones.
3. **Does the standard library cover it?** Prefer built-in language or framework features over custom code.
4. **Does the platform cover it?** Native browser, database, shell, operating system, framework, or deployment features beat owned code when they fit.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/demi@sha256:212c776302f124ae

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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_hjmqgu2m2q4zlq7i.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hjmqgu2m2q4zlq7i)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 21 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.1.0 latest2026-07-28 5c0ca70 8,311 BA view · diff
git:20260712.1f871dd2026-07-12 1f871dd 8,296 BA view · diff
git:20260616.c14dac02026-06-16 c14dac0 8,283 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 (8311 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

escoffier-labs/skillet · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hjmqgu2m2q4zlq7i
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/skillet/demi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/212c776302f124aeb0d450b37e35d13ab72576e9843014f4505fbf374ecd344a

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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