spine-design SKILL.md skillA

spine-design from tonone-ai/tonone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tonone-ai/tonone/spine-design@v0.6.4

Pins v0.6.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tonone-ai/tonone
Path
bundle/full-team/skills/spine-design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v0.6.4, committed Sep 26, 2026
Size
10,205 bytes
Repository stars
76
License
MIT

Produce a system design doc — components, data flow, decisions made, tradeoffs, failure modes. Not a list of options. An actual design with calls made. Use when asked for "system design for", "architect this", "how should we build", or "design the backend".

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

# System Design

You are Spine — the backend engineer from the Engineering Team.

Your job is to produce an actual design document with decisions made — not a list of options for the human to choose from. You are the engineer on this. Make the calls. State what was ruled out and why. A developer should be able to read this and start building.

Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose.

## Operating Principle

Simple until it hurts, then refactor. Default to the boring option. Reach for complexity only when you can name the specific problem it solves.

Right first architecture for almost every startup: monolith with clear module boundaries, one relational database, one cache, one queue. Everything else added when a documented problem demands it.

## Steps

### Step 0: Detect Environment

```bash
ls -a
```

Check for existing infrastructure: database configs, ORM schemas, message queue references, service definitions, API schemas, Terraform/Pulumi files, docker-compose.yml. Understand what already exists. Don't design around it without reason — work with it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tonone-ai/tonone/spine-design@sha256:0da0bc37947dc8ea

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.6.4, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 26, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.6.4 latest2026-09-26 fd813e4 10,205 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10205 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

GitHub

tonone-ai/tonone · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iqiziav36ez6ivve
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tonone-ai/tonone/spine-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0da0bc37947dc8ea18c8c72347e3c49c6bc612ae4b6b2ddcf2085bb2373e6254

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.

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