create-skill SKILL.md skillA

create-skill from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/create-skill@git:20260929.dc367db

Pins git:20260929.dc367db in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
engine/skills/create-skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260929.dc367db, committed Sep 29, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 27, 2026
Size
5,465 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Create or install an agent skill for Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Muse together. Use when authoring a new skill, adding SKILL.md, home-linking a project skill, or when the user says create-skill / install a skill. Overrides single-harness Cursor-only install advice.

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

# Creating skills (Claude + Cursor + Codex + Muse)

## Invariants (assert)

- Skill markdown MUST NOT reference files that do not exist in this repo or
  in that skill package (except allowlisted consumer/runtime contract paths
  such as `.cursor/judge-swarm-bindings.json`). Enforced by
  `scripts/ci/check_skill_file_refs.py`.
- A new skill MUST be available to **Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Muse** — never only
  the harness the agent happens to be running in.
- Prefer putting portable skills under `product/skills/<name>/` (or mined
  lessons under `corpus/skills/<name>/`) and running `./install.sh`. That is
  the only path that keeps all four harness roots in sync automatically.
  See [docs/ecosystem.md](../../../docs/ecosystem.md). Engine skills
  (`reflect`, `create-skill`, …) live under `engine/skills/` only.
- Claude-only skills MUST be listed in `CLAUDE_ONLY_SKILLS` in `install.sh`
  (and nowhere else). Muse-only skills — meaningful only on the harness
  without a hook pipeline — MUST be listed in `MUSE_ONLY_SKILLS` instead.
  Everything not listed MUST install to all four.
- When home-linking a **project** skill (repo `.cursor/skills/<name>` that is
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/create-skill@sha256:212e7e6f5ad131b4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.dc367db, 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 27, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 8 days.

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git:20260827.0974fbc2026-08-27 0974fbc 5,210 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 (5465 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

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jouqxvuz4fetyb7a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/create-skill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/212e7e6f5ad131b42e69f53af38ad08f4f0c144a572f51e50c43ee87cbdfe97c

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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