procedure-promote SKILL.md skillA

procedure-promote from yarlson/yarstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/procedure-promote@git:20260809.f078c7a

Pins git:20260809.f078c7a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yarlson/yarstack
Path
plugins/yarbrain/skills/procedure-promote/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260809.f078c7a, committed Aug 9, 2026
Size
2,539 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Promote a repeated, verified Yarbrain procedure candidate into a user-owned Agent Skill or propose an update to an existing one. Use after the same procedure succeeds in independent episodes or when the user explicitly requests reusable automation; do not promote facts, policy, or unexplained workarounds.

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

# Promote a Procedure

Turn proven know-how into a reusable procedure without modifying installed
plugin content or activating unreviewed instructions.

## Qualification

Promote a candidate only when the user explicitly requests it or at least two
independent episodes show the same successful procedure. The steps must be
stable, prerequisites identifiable, and success verifiable.

Reject project facts, one-off fixes with unknown causes, behavioral policy that
belongs in agent instructions, and procedures whose safe scope cannot be stated.
Leave an ineligible candidate unchanged and report it as deferred.
An explicit promotion request does not waive these evidence and safety checks.

## Workflow

1. Read the candidate and every supporting episode. Confirm the evidence shows
   success rather than a proposed or partially completed approach.
2. Search the vault's skills/ tree and the user's configured Agent Skill
   directories for the same trigger and outcome.
3. Draft either a new skill or a focused patch to an existing skill under
   inbox/skills/. Do not create a near-duplicate. If the current request does
   not authorize a vault write, show the draft without storing it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/procedure-promote@sha256:d4ac1fdf44415ce6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.f078c7a, 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_hjwa3pouhyi3hdil.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hjwa3pouhyi3hdil)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 9, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260809.f078c7a latest2026-08-09 f078c7a 2,539 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 (2539 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

yarlson/yarstack · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hjwa3pouhyi3hdil
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yarlson/yarstack/procedure-promote
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d4ac1fdf44415ce627bfc7c7ff7db0fdddd390906910cc22017fd52d95a0800a

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.

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