skill-tighten SKILL.md skillA
skill-tighten from techygarg/lattice is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add techygarg/lattice/skill-tighten@git:20261009.a96f344Pins git:20261009.a96f344 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- techygarg/lattice
- Path
dev-skills/skill-tighten/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261009.a96f344, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 6,938 bytes
- Repository stars
- 206
- License
- MIT
Audit any Lattice SKILL.md for language compliance — removes rationale prose, converts soft language to imperatives, adds STOP: gates on hard rules, and cuts redundant repetition. Complements skill-review (which finds behavioral gaps) by fixing phrasing that causes agents to skip or underweight instructions at runtime. Use after writing or significantly changing any skill, or when the user says 'tighten this skill', 'clean up the language', 'make this more effective', 'reduce the bloat'…
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
# Skill Tighten
**Core responsibility:** Fix language that causes agents to skip or underweight instructions. Not behavioral gaps — that is `skill-review`'s job. Only phrasing: rationale prose, soft language, missing enforcement signals, redundant repetition.
**Input:** One or more of:
- A file path: `source/atoms/clean-code/SKILL.md`
- A skill name: `clean-code` (resolves to the correct path automatically)
- A tier: `atoms` (tightens all skills in that tier)
- No argument: tightens all skills across all tiers
**Output:** Edited files + a report per skill:
```
## skill-tighten — {skill-name}
Lines: {before} → {after}
Changes:
1. {what changed} — {one-line reason}
2. ...
Result: TIGHTENED ({N} changes) | CLEAN (no changes needed)
```
**How to verify this skill did its job:**
- Every cut section had zero commands — only rationale
- Every softened phrase was "consider / think about / you may want to / it is recommended"
- Every added STOP: was on a hard rule that previously had no enforcement signal
- No rule, gate, checklist item, or branching logic was removed
- Re-running after edits returns CLEAN
---
## Step 1: Read the skill
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add techygarg/lattice/skill-tighten@sha256:c441d4af7edefe76The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.a96f344, 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_ifjlnvccpdpufd7g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 57 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261009.a96f344 latest | 2026-10-09 | a96f344 | 6,938 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.74fcec8 | 2026-09-03 | 74fcec8 | 6,649 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.a4e8aca | 2026-06-17 | a4e8aca | 6,649 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 (6938 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
techygarg/lattice · 206 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ifjlnvccpdpufd7g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=techygarg/lattice/skill-tighten GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c441d4af7edefe768857c8880c11641df76221d7adffbd51d009ea3ed3725cdb
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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.