diff-the-install-footprint SKILL.md skillA
diff-the-install-footprint from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/diff-the-install-footprint@git:20261024.08b5719Pins git:20261024.08b5719 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iamakbarsha1/whetstone
- Path
skills/diff-the-install-footprint/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.08b5719, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,094 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Use when deciding whether to adopt a tool that installs into a shared environment — a plugin, framework, agent harness, shell or editor config, starter template, or anything with an init wizard that writes files you did not review. Its installer claims slots that already have an occupant: named locations a shared config reserves for one writer — a hook or lifecycle event, an always-loaded instruction or rc file, a permission entry, a budget. Fetch the config the installer actually writes, map…
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
# Diff the Install Footprint **Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail. **Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1** Distilled from a case where a popular agent framework was evaluated for adoption and the config its init wizard writes — nine hooks, four of them on events already occupied, a wildcard package-runner permission, an always-loaded instruction file — turned a feature list that read as additive into a replacement for the whole setup. **Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root. **Feedback & Support:** If a rule here proves wrong or needs sharpening, open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link above. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it. ## The core rule A README describes capability; the installer describes consequence. Anything installed into a shared environment claims slots — named locations a shared config reserves for a single writer — and most of them already have an …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/diff-the-install-footprint@sha256:040b9a25992cba77The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.08b5719, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 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 (9094 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
iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lffnvx7mqvndnyf3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/diff-the-install-footprint GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/040b9a25992cba779586f1fe433f6015839f3e0358bc646bb5168cfd4e2daf6e
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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.