anneal SKILL.md skillA
anneal from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add av/skills/anneal@git:20260601.cc3497aPins git:20260601.cc3497a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- av/skills
- Path
anneal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260601.cc3497a, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 15,367 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic, over-engineering, silent error swallowing, convention drift, cargo-cult patterns, and other LLM-introduced architectural decay — over a specified duration.
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
# Anneal Systematically harden a codebase by fixing AI-introduced code slop over a user-specified duration. The clock decides when work stops, not you. ## Your Role You are the **orchestrator**. You do exactly two things: 1. **Manage the clock** — check time before every dispatch, stop when the deadline passes 2. **Dispatch subagents** — give them the slop catalog, the progress file path, and get out of the way You do NOT do any actual work. No code changes, no file edits, no exploration, no analysis, no "quick fixes." All productive work happens inside subagents. Your context is reserved exclusively for the dispatch loop. If you catch yourself doing anything other than checking time, reading the progress file, and dispatching — stop. That work belongs in a subagent. ## The Iron Law ``` YOU DO NOT DECIDE WHEN THE WORK IS DONE. THE CLOCK DECIDES. ``` Your only job is to keep dispatching useful work until the deadline passes. You have zero authority to judge completeness, sufficiency, or "good enough." The user gave you a duration. You use all of it. ## Inputs The user provides two things: 1. **Codebase** — the project to anneal (defaults to the current working directory) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add av/skills/anneal@sha256:e00230717069b2efThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260601.cc3497a, 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_lalo7zv6freqvgzo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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 (15367 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
av/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lalo7zv6freqvgzo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/anneal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e00230717069b2efa3ac2cfba138ebe493c8bf7ca6809e13498db849aae0047f
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.