talking-stick SKILL.md skillA
talking-stick from mostlydev/talking-stick is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mostlydev/talking-stick/talking-stick@git:20261025.a301a0ePins git:20261025.a301a0e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mostlydev/talking-stick
- Path
skills/talking-stick/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261025.a301a0e, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 20, 2026
- Size
- 18,699 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use when working in a Talking Stick room - joining it, coordinating with other agents, taking turns, handing off work, or messaging peers with tt. To check on or question rooms from outside, use talking-stick-rooms instead.
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
# Talking Stick Talking Stick gives several harnesses one shared-writer turn and one room event stream. Use the `tt` CLI. If the task is only to check on rooms or ask another room's agents something, use the `talking-stick-rooms` skill and do not join anything. If you are already in a room, stay in it; looking into other rooms never changes your membership. ## Invoked without a task Being asked to use this skill is not itself a task. When invoked without a task or an existing assignment to continue, join the room and wait for instructions through `tt chat`. If already joined, do not rejoin. A quiet wake does not cancel an existing assignment. ```sh tt join --json tt instructions show --json tt standby --json ``` Joining is already visible: the room emits a join event and the operator's console prints it. Do not send a room message announcing that you arrived, and do not introduce yourself unprompted — wait until the operator asks. When standby can wake you, end your model turn. Do not claim the stick, invent work, propose a plan, or ask for a task in your harness prompt. Use chat for operator interaction by default. Two cases need care: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mostlydev/talking-stick/talking-stick@sha256:f9c5e403475a2ceaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.a301a0e, 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_lklex7bcnpera7iz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Oct 20, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20261025.a301a0e latest | 2026-10-25 | a301a0e | 18,699 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.7bc53db | 2026-10-23 | 7bc53db | 18,424 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.3e854b6 | 2026-10-23 | 3e854b6 | 18,007 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.adaa147 | 2026-10-20 | adaa147 | 17,640 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.c6bbb76 | 2026-10-20 | c6bbb76 | 17,306 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.65518b9 | 2026-10-20 | 65518b9 | 17,095 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.eec592d | 2026-10-20 | eec592d | 16,958 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.396feb9 | 2026-10-20 | 396feb9 | 15,843 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 (18699 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
mostlydev/talking-stick · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lklex7bcnpera7iz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mostlydev/talking-stick/talking-stick GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f9c5e403475a2cead84c8f0c5a82ce3f87b7828bae50fc2bca141b151a319696
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.