arch-scaffold-new SKILL.md skillA

arch-scaffold-new from baristaze/swe_guidelines is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-scaffold-new@git:20261014.7748a1f

Pins git:20261014.7748a1f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
baristaze/swe_guidelines
Path
skills/arch-scaffold-new/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
16
Latest version
git:20261014.7748a1f, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
8,982 bytes
Repository stars
94
License
MIT

Start a new system in the guideline's shape: pick its name, copy the scaffold's domain-agnostic core under it, run its gates, record the product's first decisions, then add the first namespace.

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

# arch-scaffold-new

A path that starts with `../` is read from this skill's folder
as `realpath` resolves it.
Conventions: `../_shared/scaffold-conventions.md`.
Sections of `../../architecture.md`: Monorepo
Folder Structure, Deployment (Local: Docker Compose, Twins for External
Services), Cross-Cutting Conventions (Records of Decisions).

The scaffold, `../../scaffold/acme_root/`, is the
domain-agnostic core of a system in the guideline's shape, whole and
green. This skill copies it under the product's name, then adds the
product: its first decisions and its first namespace. It writes no part
of the core by hand.

## Input

`[<name>] [--first <namespace> [<Entity> [field:type ...]]] [--codeowners <owner,...>]`,
and the product: the path of its spec, or a description, in the
arguments or in the conversation.

Example: `free_journalism --first journalists Journalist display_name:str`.

- `<name>` is the project's code name, its Python package, and its
  folder at once: one or two snake_case words, never a standard-library
  module, a Python keyword, or `acme`, and no longer than the bound
  `new.py` holds it to, `MAX_NAME_LENGTH` (17 characters). The bound
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-scaffold-new@sha256:d8e170506fc806a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.7748a1f, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 16 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261014.7748a1f latest2026-10-14 7748a1f 8,982 BA view · diff
git:20261004.0351c862026-10-04 0351c86 8,141 BA view · diff
git:20260930.9bc4b262026-09-30 9bc4b26 7,880 BA view · diff
git:20260929.34220142026-09-29 3422014 7,687 BA view · diff
git:20260929.65e10932026-09-29 65e1093 7,661 BA view · diff
git:20260928.b970f332026-09-28 b970f33 16,961 BA view · diff
git:20260926.8ad26312026-09-26 8ad2631 13,748 BA view · diff
git:20260926.0d1169a2026-09-26 0d1169a 13,750 BA view · diff
git:20260922.a3c1e912026-09-22 a3c1e91 13,721 BA view · diff
git:20260922.28cefc12026-09-22 28cefc1 76,859 BB view · diff
git:20260922.81ce1ea2026-09-22 81ce1ea 63,434 BB view · diff
git:20260922.5fc1bb82026-09-22 5fc1bb8 51,097 BB view · diff
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git:20260922.e8626bd2026-09-22 e8626bd 51,208 BB view · diff
git:20260922.7464ce72026-09-22 7464ce7 46,981 BB view · diff
git:20260922.0a7fa5c2026-09-22 0a7fa5c 45,086 BB 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 (8982 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

baristaze/swe_guidelines · 94 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hvxmulovs4fjeeec
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-scaffold-new
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d8e170506fc806a40f7158267ab1934816e595cf3f0160377dd46d80a17d5d9f

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