newcomer-issue-explainer SKILL.md skillA
newcomer-issue-explainer from apache/magpie is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add apache/magpie/newcomer-issue-explainer@git:20261027.5395957Pins git:20261027.5395957 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- apache/magpie
- Path
plugins/magpie-mentoring/skills/newcomer-issue-explainer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261027.5395957, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 13, 2026
- Size
- 15,668 bytes
- Repository stars
- 138
- License
- Apache-2.0
Given an open good-first-issue on the configured `<upstream>` repo, explain it in beginner terms and sketch a concrete approach: which files to read first, what "done" looks like, and where to ask follow-up questions — without writing any code. First confirms the issue is open, non-security, and scope-clear, then drafts the explanation for maintainer review. Posts nothing without explicit maintainer confirmation.
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
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
<!-- Placeholder convention:
<upstream> → upstream codebase repo in `owner/name` form (default: read from `<project-config>/project.md → upstream_repo`)
<project-config> → the adopting project's config directory (see /AGENTS.md § Placeholder convention)
Substitute these with concrete values before running any `gh` command below. -->
# newcomer-issue-explainer
<!-- BEGIN MAGPIE PREFLIGHT — generated from tools/dev/preflight-block.md -->
## Pre-flight — is this project set up?
Do this **first, before anything else in this skill**, and do it silently.
One command answers it and carries its own rules; there is nothing else to
read.
Run the checker with this skill's own frontmatter `name:` and
`surface_hash:`, and one `--requires` for each `requires_config:` entry:
```bash
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add apache/magpie/newcomer-issue-explainer@sha256:ad606d790fa8bf5fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.5395957, 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_iavqplmypysvtyl2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.5395957 latest | 2026-10-27 | 5395957 | 15,668 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.4fc0032 | 2026-10-27 | 4fc0032 | 15,223 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.cb51b53 | 2026-10-25 | cb51b53 | 15,163 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.b4fca1e | 2026-10-16 | b4fca1e | 15,016 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.bdbd66d | 2026-10-09 | bdbd66d | 14,865 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261005.3ac6eee | 2026-10-05 | 3ac6eee | 15,115 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.eca2009 | 2026-09-26 | eca2009 | 14,622 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.f4df452 | 2026-09-23 | f4df452 | 14,600 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.5a5e1d6 | 2026-09-22 | 5a5e1d6 | 14,607 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.f4a4abb | 2026-09-18 | f4a4abb | 19,188 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.a4dd8ba | 2026-09-13 | a4dd8ba | 17,407 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 (15668 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
apache/magpie · 138 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iavqplmypysvtyl2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=apache/magpie/newcomer-issue-explainer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ad606d790fa8bf5f36e05b6baa49d97340b995a94a8e433490a2d62ae07066fb
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.