skills-continuous-improvement SKILL.md skillA
skills-continuous-improvement from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/skills-continuous-improvement@git:20260911.25e122aPins git:20260911.25e122a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook
- Path
skills/skills-continuous-improvement/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260911.25e122a, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 7, 2026
- Size
- 8,057 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Biweekly maintenance workflow for improving Agent Skills, eval suites, and matching rules in this handbook. Use when the user asks to review, refresh, audit, improve, harden, evaluate, or update skills/rules, or when doing a scheduled every-2-weeks quality pass over skills. Finds rule/skill/eval drift, stale examples, unsafe snippets, broken navigation, duplicated guidance, and missing non-negotiables; applies high-confidence fixes and reports larger follow-ups.
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
# Skills Continuous Improvement Use this skill for the recurring **two-week quality pass** over this repository's skills and the rules they pair with. The goal is not churn. The goal is to keep the handbook current, safe, and useful for code generation. ## Cadence Run every two weeks, or sooner when: - A rule changes and its companion skill may now be stale. - A new skill is added. - A skill with an eval suite changes its instructions, description, fixtures, or expected behavior. - A user reports that agents still generate weak code despite existing guidance. - A vendor/runtime changes defaults, versions, APIs, or best practices. - Pre-commit, lint, or security checks reveal repeated issues. ## Scope Review both layers: - **Rules** (`rules/*.mdc`) - concise invariant gates and file-scoped policy. - **Skills** (`skills/*/SKILL.md` plus one-level references) - canonical workflows, explanations, and examples. - **Skill evals** (`skills/*/evals/evals.json` and synthetic fixtures) - measurable behavior and regression coverage. ### Ownership Contract - A rule owns only requirements that must apply whenever its scope matches. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/skills-continuous-improvement@sha256:544b0f7bab8d14b5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.25e122a, 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 Jun 7, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 24 days.
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| git:20260911.25e122a latest | 2026-09-11 | 25e122a | 8,057 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.d23bb73 | 2026-08-19 | d23bb73 | 7,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.4160717 | 2026-08-12 | 4160717 | 8,797 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.f84761c | 2026-07-27 | f84761c | 6,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260607.cd1b06d | 2026-06-07 | cd1b06d | 5,721 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8057 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
d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ip6d3upyek3stxbk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/skills-continuous-improvement GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/544b0f7bab8d14b5381fbe10a87f0e2fa089b320cd56759b65bcf6bff2c1c33e
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