skill-install-improved SKILL.md skillA

skill-install-improved from luongnv89/asm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add luongnv89/asm/skill-install-improved@v1.3.0

Pins v1.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
luongnv89/asm
Path
skills/skill-install-improved/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v1.3.0, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
13,316 bytes
Repository stars
964
License
MIT

Install an improved variant of one named skill: resolve it by local path, repo, or name, run skill-creator's retrofit on a throwaway copy, then install the improved result. Don't use for improving in place, upstream PRs, or plain asm install.

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

# Skill Install Improved

You install an **improved** variant of one skill instead of the skill as published: resolve the target to a local directory → run `skill-creator`'s Subpath B1 retrofit loop on it → install the improved result → report what was improved and from what. The improvement is a step inside the install, not a separate errand. One skill per run.

## When to Use

- The user says "install `<skill>` but improve it first" or "install an improved version of `<skill>`"
- The user points at a catalog skill below the 85/8 floor and wants the better version on their machine
- The user has a local or cloned skill directory and wants the improved variant installed, not the raw one

Do **not** trigger for: improving without installing (`skill-creator`), contributing upstream (`skill-upstream-pr`), authoring from scratch (`skill-creator`), plain installs (`asm install <source>`), or bulk-improving many skills at once.

## Prerequisites

Verify each before resolving anything. If one fails, stop and tell the user which one.

- `asm` and `git` on PATH, and Python 3 (skill-creator's validator needs it)
- Network access to GitHub, for the repo and name forms
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add luongnv89/asm/skill-install-improved@sha256:c5cfb13d36e5d17b

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_mbnivb2jmaoyghs3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mbnivb2jmaoyghs3)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 25 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.3.0 latest2026-10-06 729ced0 13,316 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-05 82a2342 14,316 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-17 dc5102b 14,215 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 (13316 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

luongnv89/asm · 964 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mbnivb2jmaoyghs3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=luongnv89/asm/skill-install-improved
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5cfb13d36e5d17bef11857acc0359e79d76894054aa452af42aee8187e10e4e

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.

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