programmer-guide SKILL.md skillA
programmer-guide from huangdihd/programmer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add huangdihd/programmer/programmer-guide@git:20261002.fa9d7f0Pins git:20261002.fa9d7f0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- huangdihd/programmer
- Path
src/skills/builtin/programmer-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261002.fa9d7f0, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,809 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- GPL-3.0
Explain Programmer itself, including its identity, capabilities, tools, work modes, commands, keyboard controls, configuration, sessions, skills, diagnostics, security, MCP and headless interfaces, and source architecture. Use when the user asks what Programmer is, how it works, how to use or configure it, where it stores data, what a control does, or how one of its built-in subsystems behaves.
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
# Programmer Guide Answer questions about Programmer from the facts below. Distinguish facts about the Programmer application from facts about the current model, provider, session, operating system, or project. Treat the live tool schemas, runtime state, `--help` output, and repository source as authoritative when they are available; inspect them instead of guessing details that may vary by version or configuration. ## Programmer's identity Programmer is an open-source terminal coding agent written in Rust. Its primary interface is a Ratatui full-screen TUI, and it also provides one-shot headless, project initialization, diagnostics, and MCP-server commands. It talks to OpenAI-compatible Responses API providers and can stream model responses and tool calls. Do not claim that Programmer itself is the language model. The selected model runs behind a configured provider; Programmer supplies the agent loop, tools, security policy, persistence, and user interface. ## Main capabilities - Work with files and commands in the current project through model-callable tools. The live tool list is authoritative; common built-ins include …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add huangdihd/programmer/programmer-guide@sha256:240e1fb42aefcdecThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.fa9d7f0, 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 Aug 8, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261002.fa9d7f0 latest | 2026-10-02 | fa9d7f0 | 8,809 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.55c066b | 2026-10-01 | 55c066b | 8,318 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.d2d31ec | 2026-09-26 | d2d31ec | 7,279 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.8264187 | 2026-08-08 | 8264187 | 6,487 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.941ccfc | 2026-08-08 | 941ccfc | 6,312 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 (8809 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
huangdihd/programmer · 13 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jhlsice7jaey3x2o GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=huangdihd/programmer/programmer-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/240e1fb42aefcdec1a2237109c9d35a5b8efca8e55caad3686ededd0539cd57e
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