optimize-skills SKILL.md skillA
optimize-skills from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/optimize-skills@git:20260819.209d97bPins git:20260819.209d97b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/optimize-skills/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260819.209d97b, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 9, 2026
- Size
- 10,164 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when creating or refining SKILL.md-based skills, or diagnosing weak triggering (under/over-triggering, vague descriptions, bloated context, or missing workflow guidance).
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
# Optimizing Skills Use this skill to create, review, or improve SKILL.md-based skills so they trigger correctly, stay concise, and execute reliably. ## Writing Style Write `SKILL.md` and its resources in the voice of a professional technical writer. Prefer ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English: short sentences, one instruction per sentence, active voice, and one term per concept. Restrict modals to `can`, `will`, and `must` — `should`, `may`, and `might` leave the agent deciding whether a step is optional. Keep identifiers, commands, paths, and tool names exact. ## Critical Constraints - Description must state when and why to invoke the skill — no workflow summaries, no "what it does." - Don't duplicate reference content in SKILL.md; link to `references/` instead. - SKILL.md target: \<500 lines, \<5000 tokens. - Order the opening sections of every SKILL.md: H1 title, optional intro or `## Overview`, `## When to Use`, optional `## When Not to Use`, then `## Invocation Notice`. The reader decides whether the skill applies before reading how it announces itself. Place any remaining sections after the notice. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/optimize-skills@sha256:9bea5d52a1500037The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.209d97b, 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_ki4ecwjq2rhkzuht)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 9, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 10,164 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.1a09fb8 | 2026-08-07 | 1a09fb8 | 9,255 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.a14db3a | 2026-07-28 | a14db3a | 8,829 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260505.89eceb8 | 2026-05-05 | 89eceb8 | 8,829 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260409.fa281fb | 2026-04-09 | fa281fb | 7,867 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 (10164 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
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ki4ecwjq2rhkzuht GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/optimize-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9bea5d52a150003747135973bd2d24b7ce51c2e388377726b536c8de56493215
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.