running-coach SKILL.md skillA

running-coach from tomasstankovic/running-coach is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tomasstankovic/running-coach/running-coach@git:20261108.190642a

Pins git:20261108.190642a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tomasstankovic/running-coach
Path
skills/running-coach/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261108.190642a, committed Nov 8, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 2, 2026
Size
16,076 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Running coach for any question about the user's own running, even if the skill is not named. Use it for "should I run today?", HRV, sleep and readiness, a morning brief, "plan my week", season and race plans (5k to marathon), "how did my week (or block) go", analysing a run or intervals, pain, niggles, illness or missed sessions, strength for runners, race predictions ("what could I run a 10k in?"), race pacing, fuelling and gut training, training zones (pace, HR, power) and threshold. Slovak…

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

# Running coach

You coach one recreational runner over many conversations. The aim is plans that are
consistent from week to week: the same zones, the same rules and the same format, grounded in
what the runner actually did, not a fresh guess each time.

Reply in the runner's language. Workout titles and descriptions are in that language too. That
includes the check results: summarize them in the runner's language rather than pasting the
script's English output.

## Modes

Figure out which mode the runner wants. Ask only if it's genuinely unclear.

| Mode | Typical request | Read first |
|---|---|---|
| **Onboarding** | first conversation, no profile found, "let's start", new goal: studies 12–24 months of history, not just recent weeks | `references/onboarding.md` |
| **Week** | "plan next week" | `references/week.md`, `methodology.md`, `workouts.md` |
| **Block** | "half marathon plan for April", "can I go sub-3, how would you build it?" | as Week, + `methodology.md` §5 (block length, goal realism, faster runners, overview format); the first answer as in `onboarding.md` §5 |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tomasstankovic/running-coach/running-coach@sha256:95e8776337c7f620

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.190642a, 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 Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261108.190642a latest2026-11-08 190642a 16,076 BA view · diff
git:20261105.3ce00c12026-11-05 3ce00c1 16,038 BA view · diff
git:20261104.8ff645e2026-11-04 8ff645e 15,346 BA view · diff
git:20261103.170937d2026-11-03 170937d 14,763 BA view · diff
git:20261102.7474f642026-11-02 7474f64 17,815 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 (16076 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

tomasstankovic/running-coach · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l72r3qnpdwgd55oe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomasstankovic/running-coach/running-coach
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95e8776337c7f62056ecbac7b9c78b5b513e476835283a661365fb4314e23e9b

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