sharpen SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

sharpen from cursor/plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add cursor/plugins/sharpen@git:20261020.88d4751

Pins git:20261020.88d4751 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
cursor/plugins
Path
harness/pstack/claude-code/skills/sharpen/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261020.88d4751, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 16, 2026
Size
661 bytes
Repository stars
13,494
License
none declared

Make a task deeper, not bigger, then rewrite the prompt. Use for /sharpen.

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

I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Before rewriting it, do four things:

1. Say what a top professional in this field would do here that I'm not asking for.
2. Name the rawest material they would start from instead of what has already been digested for me.
3. Name the specific methods and tools they would use.
4. Say what, other than you or me, would show the result is right.

Then rewrite my prompt to ask for exactly that.

Leave choices that are mine to make open instead of deciding them.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cursor/plugins/sharpen@sha256:563dfc460c605d31

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.88d4751, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_lqnoob7cmpsz3jj5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_lqnoob7cmpsz3jj5)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 16, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261020.88d4751 latest2026-10-20 88d4751 661 BA view · diff
git:20261018.75fabac2026-10-18 75fabac 756 BA view · diff
git:20261016.182f2ce2026-10-16 182f2ce 792 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (661 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

GitHub

cursor/plugins · 13,494 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lqnoob7cmpsz3jj5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cursor/plugins/sharpen
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/563dfc460c605d311e650726288e2f1cbd61eab817db178d6e7e29643e07e7a2

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.

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