agent-principles SKILL.md skillA
agent-principles from akillness/jeo-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add akillness/jeo-skills/agent-principles@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- akillness/jeo-skills
- Path
.agent-skills/agent-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,642 bytes
- Repository stars
- 52
- License
- none declared
Core principles for collaborative development with AI agents. Defines divide-and-conquer, context management, abstraction-level selection, automation philosophy, and verification/retrospectives. Apply optimal collaboration patterns when using any AI agent. Also the owner of the retired `agent-development-principles` name (merged 2026-09-19). Triggers on: agent principles, agentic development principles, AI collaboration principles, context-management strategy, how to work with coding agents.
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
# Core Principles for AI-Agent Collaboration (Agentic Development Principles) > **"AI is the copilot; you are the pilot."** > AI agents amplify a developer's thinking and take over repetitive work, but final decisions and responsibility always remain with the developer. ## When to use this skill - Confirm the baseline principles at the start of an AI-agent session - Decide an approach before starting complex work - Establish a context-management strategy - Review workflows to improve productivity - Onboard teammates on how to use AI agents --- ## Principle 1: Divide and Conquer ### Core concept AI performs far better with **small, clear instructions** than with large, ambiguous tasks. ### How to apply | Bad example | Good example | |----------|----------| | "Build me a login page" | 1. "Create the login form UI component" | | | 2. "Implement the login API endpoint" | | | 3. "Wire up the authentication logic" | | | 4. "Write tests" | ### Practical pattern: staged implementation ``` Step 1: Design and validate models/schemas Step 2: Implement core logic (minimum viable functionality) Step 3: Connect APIs/interfaces Step 4: Write and run tests Step 5: Integrate and refactor …
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How to install
mdr add akillness/jeo-skills/agent-principles@sha256:5321fbec239f6990The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every day.
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-09-20 | 2a2b733 | 7,642 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-09-19 | 9f2a908 | 7,386 B | A | view |
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Source
akillness/jeo-skills · 52 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m5yrepspofl6t66y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akillness/jeo-skills/agent-principles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5321fbec239f6990be8cad27f75d0c2d7ce4ed1a1b99283badc0f590a0a904d4
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