working-in-grove SKILL.md skillA

working-in-grove from bearlike/grove is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add bearlike/grove/working-in-grove@git:20261002.ab7241f

Pins git:20261002.ab7241f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: bearlike/grove
Path: src/grove/skills/working-in-grove/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 8
Latest version: git:20261002.ab7241f, committed Oct 2, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 3, 2026
Size: 15,579 bytes
Repository stars: 8
License: MIT

Use when working inside a Grove workspace, including reporting task phase, updating a workspace or its ticket links, using GROVE_PHASE_FILE, writing to another Grove agent through the mailbox, or waiting on slow work like CI by registering a watch instead of sleeping. Also use when a worktree has a phase file, when asked for progress, or when an attached issue or pull request needs updating. For fleet operation from outside use using-grove. For setup use configuring-grove.

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

# Working inside a Grove workspace

You are one agent in a fleet. Somebody is watching twenty workspaces at once and
cannot attach to yours to find out how it is going. Report your task phase so
they can tell scope from handoff at a glance.

## Writing to another agent

Every live Grove agent on this host can be written to, and you are one of them.
This is true whether an agent runs as a Grove-owned native session (the default
for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode) or in its own interactive terminal. There
is nothing to enrol in and no credential to obtain.

Find out who is reachable:

```bash
grove mailbox contacts
```

Each contact carries the address you write to, who it is, and whether it is
`live` right now. A contact that is not live is paused, offline or still
building; write to it after it comes back rather than retrying.

Send one message:

```bash
grove mailbox send --to <workspace-id> --subject "Ready for review" --body "PR #42 is open."
```

`--from` defaults to your own workspace, read from `GROVE_PHASE_FILE`. Add
`--to-agent <slot>` for a named agent sharing a container, `--from-agent` to say
which slot you are, and `--body-file -` to pipe a long body through stdin.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add bearlike/grove/working-in-grove@sha256:08c77c2e611252f4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.ab7241f, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_hp3iphpwowvk4vjo.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hp3iphpwowvk4vjo)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 9 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261002.ab7241f latest	2026-10-02	ab7241f	15,579 B	A	view · diff
git:20260930.45159a6	2026-09-30	45159a6	15,297 B	A	view · diff
git:20260923.1a5058d	2026-09-23	1a5058d	14,930 B	A	view · diff
git:20260921.13d222a	2026-09-21	13d222a	12,383 B	A	view · diff
git:20260908.bbb0fcb	2026-09-08	bbb0fcb	13,024 B	A	view · diff
git:20260821.3dfe12f	2026-08-21	3dfe12f	10,465 B	A	view · diff
git:20260812.6377c5a	2026-08-12	6377c5a	11,733 B	A	view · diff
git:20260803.49581e6	2026-08-03	49581e6	10,424 B	A	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 (15579 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

bearlike/grove · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch current

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hp3iphpwowvk4vjo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bearlike/grove/working-in-grove
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08c77c2e611252f407f42a5b11c19b136856cfcb49d60c6b8646637b9a185ad8

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.