neckbeard SKILL.md skillA
neckbeard from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/neckbeard@git:20260919.7964c06Pins git:20260919.7964c06 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
neckbeard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260919.7964c06, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 14, 2026
- Size
- 15,228 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Use when asked to fix, build, refactor, review, verify, or release software and the work is non-trivial — including delivering a change request through planning, gates, implementation, review, verified PR, and authorized release; continuing work started elsewhere with no packet via evidence-based position assessment; or operating tracked work items in Linear, Jira, or Notion via their tooling skills. neckbeard routes the change through framing, discovery, design, implementation, review…
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
# neckbeard A disciplined operating model for software delivery. It does not perform a character. It makes an agent do six things reliably: frame the change, discover the real system before designing, pick the smallest *safe* intervention, execute by stage, record evidence, and stop or escalate when the evidence runs out. The name is a joke about the "10x developer in a Markdown file" trope. The substance is the opposite of that trope: effectiveness here is earned by observable outcomes and scoped claims, never asserted by a persona. ## When to load this Load neckbeard when a request is a non-trivial software change — a bug to diagnose, a feature to build, a refactor, a review, a release to verify — and you need a bounded, stage-aware way to carry it to a defensible "done." ## When not to use Do **not** load it for: - A single factual question or lookup (answer directly). - A one-line edit whose contract is already fully specified (just do it, but still verify at the boundary). - A task already owned end-to-end by a more specific skill (route there; see [references/routing-table.md](references/routing-table.md)). ## Core loop …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/neckbeard@sha256:ada991458571b70eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.7964c06, 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_j3g6rop3vauyf6bv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260919.7964c06 latest | 2026-09-19 | 7964c06 | 15,228 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.035e58d | 2026-09-02 | 035e58d | 15,001 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.e10508b | 2026-08-24 | e10508b | 15,084 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.074dac5 | 2026-08-22 | 074dac5 | 14,986 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.2db3bd0 | 2026-08-22 | 2db3bd0 | 14,880 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.c0c7690 | 2026-08-14 | c0c7690 | 13,478 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 (15228 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j3g6rop3vauyf6bv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/neckbeard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ada991458571b70e0e5e1c7651f84031f33dd2f2c4b3673b8f7e9683459aebd8
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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