athanor SKILL.md skillA
athanor from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/athanor@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/athanor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 12,077 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Four-stage alchemical code transmutation — nigredo (decomposition), albedo (purification), citrinitas (illumination), rubedo (synthesis) — with meditate and heal checkpoints between stages. Transforms tangled or legacy code into optimized, well-structured output through systematic material analysis. Use when transforming legacy code into modern equivalents, refactoring deeply tangled modules where incremental fixes keep failing, converting a codebase between paradigms, or when simpler…
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
# Athanor Execute a four-stage alchemical transmutation of code or data — decomposing the prima materia, purifying its essence, illuminating its target form, and synthesizing the refined output. The athanor is the furnace that maintains steady heat across all stages. ## When to Use - Transforming legacy code into modern, well-structured equivalents - Refactoring deeply tangled modules where incremental fixes keep failing - Converting a codebase from one paradigm to another (procedural to functional, monolith to modular) - Processing raw, messy data into clean analytical datasets - When simpler refactoring approaches have stalled and a full-cycle transformation is needed ## Inputs - **Required**: The material to transform (file paths, module names, or data sources) - **Required**: The desired end state (target architecture, paradigm, or format) - **Optional**: Known constraints (must preserve API, can't change database schema, etc.) - **Optional**: Prior failed transformation attempts and why they stalled ## Procedure ### Step 1: Nigredo — Decomposition Break the prima materia into its constituent elements. Nothing is sacred; everything is cataloged. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/athanor@sha256:8a09736dbfc2eda5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_lm6gcgkkdnsyq76y)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 60 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 12,077 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | a31852a | 12,048 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | e334ebd | 12,111 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 (12077 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
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lm6gcgkkdnsyq76y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/athanor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a09736dbfc2eda5bc995d2393d04206562d9d49c61aa930acba5c7cd9f06d75
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.