setup-working-genius SKILL.md skillA

setup-working-genius from donald-ada/workinggenius is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/setup-working-genius@git:20261003.51d9739

Pins git:20261003.51d9739 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
donald-ada/workinggenius
Path
skills/setup-working-genius/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261003.51d9739, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 2, 2026
Size
8,337 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Per-repo configuration — pin the work-file directory, verify commands, and issue tracking, seed the project docs, and leave the pointer that tells every future session this project works this way.

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

# Setup Working Genius

The workflow runs on defaults (`.genius/` for work files, verify commands discovered per run, no issue mirror), so this skill is about the pointer as much as the settings: a fresh session knows none of it until an instruction file tells it. Run it once per repo, as a conversation: look first (existing `CLAUDE.md`/`AGENTS.md`, any `.genius/` in flight, the task runner, a `CONTEXT.md` or `DESIGN.md` already alive), propose what you found, let the user correct each choice.

The concept: **a setting no instruction file carries does not exist for the next session, so the pointer counts as much as the settings.** Done when the work-file directory exists, any confirmed `CONTEXT.md` terms are written, and a fresh session reading only `CLAUDE.md` finds the `## Working Genius` section through `@AGENTS.md`, with every setting and doc line in it confirmed by the user.

**A — Work-file directory.** Default `.genius/` at the repo root. Recommend committing — done files are decision history every session can read. Create the directory now (a `.gitkeep` where it would be empty).
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/setup-working-genius@sha256:5280bedaca323d8f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.51d9739, 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 9 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 4 days.

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git:20261003.51d9739 latest2026-10-03 51d9739 8,337 BA view · diff
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git:20260902.0efdfbd2026-09-02 0efdfbd 9,949 BA view · diff
git:20260902.283ffa42026-09-02 283ffa4 10,046 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 (8337 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

donald-ada/workinggenius · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i4wwancpmkmlzhsn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=donald-ada/workinggenius/setup-working-genius
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5280bedaca323d8f87409f510e8fafff15d38500a99b7baa6ba72888c810249f

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