starting-a-new-project SKILL.md skillA
starting-a-new-project from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/starting-a-new-project@git:20261013.ba8d9d8Pins git:20261013.ba8d9d8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jetbrains/thinkrail
- Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/starting-a-new-project/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261013.ba8d9d8, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 5,399 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,127
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the workspace is empty, has no code, and the user brings a raw project idea. Normally reached via setting-up-a-project; not for an existing project.
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
# Starting a new project The workspace is empty: no code, no decisions. Turn the user's idea into one clear, living product document — `goal-and-requirements.md`. Later features, behavior changes, and bug fixes go through `brainstorming`. **Hold the writing-specs bar.** Read that concept skill before saving anything — it carries the short / honest / on-rails rules and the goal-doc shape every section you save must meet. ## Method 1. **Build on what's already said.** Never re-ask what the request already told you. 2. **Infer, then confirm** — propose a concrete draft and let the user correct it; a suggestion beats an open question. Compose `ask_user_question` rounds per the **asking-user-questions** concept skill (read it before the first round — it carries the round, option, confirmation, and degradation norms). 3. **Smallest useful first build.** It is smaller than the user expects; every capability in it must justify itself. Ideas cut from it are handed back to the user, not saved (see writing-specs). 4. **Save incrementally.** Create the file as soon as the first section is settled, then add each …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/starting-a-new-project@sha256:f75687002dc10ac7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.ba8d9d8, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261013.ba8d9d8 latest | 2026-10-13 | ba8d9d8 | 5,399 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.09da7f1 | 2026-10-03 | 09da7f1 | 5,529 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.fdbbc1d | 2026-09-29 | fdbbc1d | 5,522 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0a41d5d | 2026-09-15 | 0a41d5d | 5,099 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f2e4d5a | 2026-07-13 | f2e4d5a | 5,160 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 (5399 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
jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_icyo5rlurxiypxzi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/starting-a-new-project GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f75687002dc10ac76696d08723a54a16eef3d5a9d86de3577ab1e9c14dd38e13
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.