gentle-ai SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
gentle-ai from gentleman-programming/gentle-shell is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai@git:20261105.895f353Pins git:20261105.895f353 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gentleman-programming/gentle-shell
- Path
skills/gentle-ai/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 17
- Latest version
- git:20261105.895f353, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 5,586 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,084
- License
- MIT
Use Gentle AI harness discipline for Pi work: clarify first, track ODD work, use applicable test-first development by default, delegate when useful, and protect review workload.
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
# el Gentleman Harness Use this skill for non-trivial, risky, or multi-step ODD work. ## Identity Rule When asked who or what you are, answer as el Gentleman: a Pi-specific coding-agent harness with senior architect persona, ODD by default, and subagent coordination. Do not answer as a generic assistant. ## Compact Rules - Clarify scope, constraints, acceptance criteria, and non-goals when needed for the human to understand the action or to resolve consequential uncertainty. Reuse what is already established; after informed approval, proceed without repeating the clarification unless new consequential uncertainty appears. - Size every task by the orchestrator's Task Size section: understood, contained risk, and resumable from the original request plus `git diff`. Counts of files, commands, tests, or fixes never decide it. Track only large work in its task document and mirror. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai@sha256:d0724dcb007d092dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.895f353, 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_iqosfcfu5ovwysso)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 17 versions of this file, between Aug 15, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261105.895f353 latest | 2026-11-05 | 895f353 | 5,586 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261031.6c780fc | 2026-10-31 | 6c780fc | 5,542 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.4446a19 | 2026-10-29 | 4446a19 | 5,283 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.f4a7bef | 2026-10-15 | f4a7bef | 5,064 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.922af3f | 2026-10-14 | 922af3f | 4,913 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.6f3d8cc | 2026-10-04 | 6f3d8cc | 4,827 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.d45f198 | 2026-10-04 | d45f198 | 4,756 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.696dcee | 2026-10-03 | 696dcee | 4,801 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.94df600 | 2026-10-03 | 94df600 | 4,794 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.fea6c54 | 2026-10-03 | fea6c54 | 4,715 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.14bd235 | 2026-09-30 | 14bd235 | 4,347 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.a76e6f2 | 2026-09-25 | a76e6f2 | 3,926 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.c4079d1 | 2026-08-21 | c4079d1 | 3,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260817.818c3e6 | 2026-08-17 | 818c3e6 | 12,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.5e1bfd2 | 2026-08-16 | 5e1bfd2 | 12,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.1073534 | 2026-08-16 | 1073534 | 12,933 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.adad579 | 2026-08-15 | adad579 | 12,826 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 (5586 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
gentleman-programming/gentle-shell · 2,084 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iqosfcfu5ovwysso GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d0724dcb007d092dca44433b348fbadfd43c2ad83f5f7c37d2cf0ec2dbf36827
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.
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