transcript-hygiene SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 4 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
transcript-hygiene from jakeselby/agent-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jakeselby/agent-harness/transcript-hygiene@git:20260929.1af83d7Pins git:20260929.1af83d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jakeselby/agent-harness
- Path
directory/model-citizen/primitives/skills/transcript-hygiene/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260929.1af83d7, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,504 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Bound what subagents return and what tool output enters the transcript; load when briefing a subagent or reading large output.
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
# Transcript hygiene The resident rule `primitives/rules/transcript-hygiene.md` is provenance for the full harness, not a standalone installation requirement. Apply the reading and return limits below directly. The user reads the transcript, not just the final message. **Thinking summaries are wanted and stay** — they are collapsed and opened deliberately. Everything else in the scroll is cost they did not ask for, and the worst offenders are tool output and relayed subagent reports, not prose. ## Read narrowly - **Never `cat` a whole file to answer a narrow question.** `sed -n '40,80p'`, `head -40`, or `grep -n` with the pattern. Read the whole file only when you will actually use the whole file. - **Never chain `cat A && cat B && cat C`** to orient. Orient with `grep -n '^#'` for headings, `wc -l` for size, then read the part that matters. - **Filter every `find` and `ls`.** A repo with a `renders/`, `data/` or `target/` directory will print hundreds of generated filenames. Scope the glob or pipe to `head`. - **A command printing more than ~100 lines needs a reason** you could state out loud. ## Bound what a subagent hands back …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jakeselby/agent-harness/transcript-hygiene@sha256:df0faaab8c80f994The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.1af83d7, 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_mcreeit4o3cdtb3z)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260929.1af83d7 latest | 2026-09-29 | 1af83d7 | 3,504 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260928.ca93e6d | 2026-09-28 | ca93e6d | 3,490 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 (3504 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
jakeselby/agent-harness · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mcreeit4o3cdtb3z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jakeselby/agent-harness/transcript-hygiene GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df0faaab8c80f99416e21fe5c344ccb1a5073939e6f571234cc0757df44bde8f
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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