implementation-approach SKILL.md skillA
implementation-approach from shinpr/codex-workflows is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add shinpr/codex-workflows/implementation-approach@git:20261102.2a1d2f6Pins git:20261102.2a1d2f6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- shinpr/codex-workflows
- Path
.agents/skills/implementation-approach/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261102.2a1d2f6, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 3,551 bytes
- Repository stars
- 38
- License
- MIT
Selects the smallest sufficient implementation strategy and verification boundary from current requirements and repository evidence.
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
# Implementation Approach ## Strategy Selection Use this sequence when a design or task needs an implementation approach: 1. **Current evidence** — inspect the relevant responsibility, data/control path, representative repository pattern, and constraints that can change the choice. 2. **Direct MVP** — identify the simplest complete path to the user's required result, including no change or removing unnecessary behavior when sufficient. A previously passed design is a revisable starting point. 3. **Necessity before detail** — establish a concrete required result that this path cannot deliver before designing an extra mechanism. Discovery of a concern or a potential consumer supplies a candidate, not new requirements. 4. **Selection** — consider subtraction and existing behavior first. Adopt an addition only when those cannot satisfy the requirement and its supported benefit justifies total UX, runtime, implementation, testing, documentation, and maintenance cost. Evidence alone does not select it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add shinpr/codex-workflows/implementation-approach@sha256:da547f15eafa7460The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.2a1d2f6, 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_lltebaizrbmy2xax)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261102.2a1d2f6 latest | 2026-11-02 | 2a1d2f6 | 3,551 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.5a1e725 | 2026-10-13 | 5a1e725 | 3,561 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.3b2dc52 | 2026-09-15 | 3b2dc52 | 3,681 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.c74151e | 2026-08-23 | c74151e | 3,476 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.c018280 | 2026-08-02 | c018280 | 3,210 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.aa3bfed | 2026-08-02 | aa3bfed | 3,204 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.3848a77 | 2026-07-19 | 3848a77 | 7,115 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.aea9523 | 2026-07-16 | aea9523 | 6,130 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 (3551 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
shinpr/codex-workflows · 38 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lltebaizrbmy2xax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shinpr/codex-workflows/implementation-approach GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/da547f15eafa746025386cec42277a4e204d1f9b00bfc7a7f3afc7a7d77cc977
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