abide-compile SKILL.md skillA
abide-compile from coldteadotai/abide is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coldteadotai/abide/abide-compile@git:20260918.ce868ffPins git:20260918.ce868ff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coldteadotai/abide
- Path
skills/abide-compile/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260918.ce868ff, committed Sep 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 13,286 bytes
- Repository stars
- 624
- License
- MIT
Compile a repository's instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and friends) into an Abide rubric, then validate and calibrate it.
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
# Compile an Abide rubric You are turning the rules a person wrote for coding agents into a rubric that a checker outside your context window can enforce on every edit. The checker sees only one rule and one diff at a time. Nothing else. Every decision below follows from that. Two facts before you start: - Rules come only from the user's own files. Never add a rule you think they should have. If a file holds zero rules, the rubric holds zero rules and you say so. - The rubric is a committed, hand-editable file. A person will read it, and a verdict must trace to a rule they can point at. Quote their wording. ## Step 1. Read the sources The hook that sent you here listed the instruction files it found and where the rubric goes. Read every listed file in full. Then: - Follow pointer files. A file whose whole content is "Read instructions from X" or "Read ./AGENTS.md" is a pointer. Read X and treat X as a source in its own right: list it under `sources` with its own path so it gets its own hash. - Files under a subdirectory apply only there. The hook gave each one a scope glob. Rules from that file carry that glob. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coldteadotai/abide/abide-compile@sha256:6a04f26d0a709011The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.ce868ff, 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_id77jmgrqvsrecp2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 18, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260918.ce868ff latest | 2026-09-18 | ce868ff | 13,286 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.19d23e9 | 2026-09-18 | 19d23e9 | 13,227 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 (13286 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
coldteadotai/abide · 624 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_id77jmgrqvsrecp2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coldteadotai/abide/abide-compile GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6a04f26d0a709011d1f5dfa16850ad60cccf35d29f626519fbbdcde38a8553d8
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.