scratchpad-working-files SKILL.md skillA
scratchpad-working-files from webreactiva/yesyak is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add webreactiva/yesyak/scratchpad-working-files@git:20261017.b634987Pins git:20261017.b634987 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- webreactiva/yesyak
- Path
skills/scratchpad-working-files/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261017.b634987, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 3,752 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Convention for working files that do not belong in the repository history, such as notes, progress tracking, reports, manual test helpers, scratch databases, reproduction scripts and session transcripts. All of them go in a gitignored .scratchpad/ folder, organized by feature slug. Use it at the start of any multi-step task, whenever you are about to create a temporary file, write a report, track progress, or brief a subagent, and whenever the user mentions the scratchpad or asks you to…
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
# Scratchpad working files
If AGENTS.md sets a different convention for this topic, follow AGENTS.md.
## Location
Everything temporary goes in `.scratchpad/` at the repository root. Never use `/tmp`, the system temp folder or a session-specific scratch folder. The user expects to find the files in one place, and files outside the project are lost between sessions.
Before the first write, make sure `.scratchpad/` is in `.gitignore`. If not, add it in its own commit:
```text
# Working notes
.scratchpad/
```
## Layout
Use the feature slug (from the branch, see `git-commit-organizer`) as a subfolder:
```text
.scratchpad/
└── <slug>/
├── progress.md step, status and commits; used to resume after an interruption
├── interview-decisions.md answers from on-the-spot
├── verification-report.md verify-against-spec
├── browser-test-report.md browser-acceptance-testing
├── redteam-report.md red-team-review
├── change-list.md triage-findings-list
├── production-readiness-report.md
├── retrospective.md session-retrospective-rules
├── pr-body.md write-visual-pr
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add webreactiva/yesyak/scratchpad-working-files@sha256:5a090fd067914a6eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.b634987, 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_hkydqhdmdnfka6tg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261017.b634987 latest | 2026-10-17 | b634987 | 3,752 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.2f2f40b | 2026-09-27 | 2f2f40b | 3,739 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.87257af | 2026-09-27 | 87257af | 3,609 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.d224a3a | 2026-09-27 | d224a3a | 3,600 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 (3752 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
webreactiva/yesyak · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hkydqhdmdnfka6tg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=webreactiva/yesyak/scratchpad-working-files GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5a090fd067914a6e9675995d46e0622bd84148975bc9fc135d3990309d484954
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