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find-skills from transitive-bullshit/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/find-skills@git:20261011.ef64499

Pins git:20261011.ef64499 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: transitive-bullshit/skills
Path: skills/find-skills/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261011.ef64499, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 5, 2026
Size: 3,276 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: MIT

Discover, compare, install or update agent skills when the user explicitly seeks skills or asks to extend their skill collection. Use for skill-discovery requests, not ordinary how-to or implementation questions.

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

# Find Skills

Find the smallest useful addition to the user’s existing skills. A search result
is a lead; inspect its source and overlap before recommending it.

## Discover and compare

1. Read the installed catalog and the canonical skills checkout from
   `~/.local/state/agent-env/environment.json`. Check whether an existing skill
   already covers the request, including explicit-only skills and plugins.
2. Start with official maintainers, relevant practitioners and the user’s trusted
   authors. Matt Pocock (`mattpocock/skills`) and David Zhang (`dzhng/skills`) are
   trusted regardless of star count. Use the user’s
   [AI Skills list](https://app.notion.com/p/transitive-bs/AI-Skills-3c1edb27f12480c1b076e637a6b156e5)
   when accessible. Search [skills.sh](https://skills.sh/) or use
   `npx skills find <query> --owner <owner>` for discovery when useful.
3. Inspect the actual skill and its linked resources. Verify author track record,
   recency, license, dependencies, invocation scope and whether it adds a new job
   or duplicates an installed skill. Adoption counts are context, not a quality
   threshold; cite primary sources for the claims behind the recommendation.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/find-skills@sha256:a3270609ae4921e9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.ef64499, 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_iaa77ugqx73kr72a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_iaa77ugqx73kr72a)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 6 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261011.ef64499 latest	2026-10-11	ef64499	3,276 B	A	view · diff
git:20261005.34ffb4a	2026-10-05	34ffb4a	5,472 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 (3276 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

transitive-bullshit/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iaa77ugqx73kr72a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=transitive-bullshit/skills/find-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a3270609ae4921e9ec80b4f4183773d8b405c4b80aada78221527f52fc2ea727

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.

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