help SKILL.md skillA

help from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/help@git:20261020.f57e6a3

Pins git:20261020.f57e6a3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
chrislacey89/skills
Path
help/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261020.f57e6a3, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 17, 2026
Size
18,873 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Side-route orientation skill. Use when the user asks 'what's next', 'where am I', or is returning to a repo mid-pipeline and wants to know which skill to run next. Reads repo state (branch, PRs, issues, research archive, milestones) and recommends one next step with a one-line reason. Not for executing work — only for routing.

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

# Help

Read the current repo state and recommend the next pipeline step. This skill does not do any work itself — it orients the user by pointing to the right next skill, citing the state it observed so the recommendation can be overruled.

This is the front door for users who are returning to a repo after a break, onboarding to Skill Kit for the first time, or stuck mid-pipeline and unsure which skill to invoke next.

## Invocation Position

This is a side-route skill. It reconnects to the main pipeline at whichever skill the diagnosis points to.

Use `/help` when:

- The user is starting a session in a repo that already uses Skill Kit and wants to know where they are in the pipeline
- The user has been away from a feature for a while and needs a refresher on what state the work is in
- A new team member is learning the pipeline and wants guidance rather than reading all of `references/SYSTEM-OVERVIEW.md`
- The user explicitly asks "what should I do next?" or "where am I?"

Do not use `/help`:

- To actually run the recommended skill — `/help` only recommends; the user runs the next skill themselves
- When the user already knows the next step and just wants to execute
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/help@sha256:e9de962c6239a614

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.f57e6a3, 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 9 versions of this file, between Apr 17, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 23 days.

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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 (18873 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

chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch prod

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mdtzejeutustk25d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/help
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e9de962c6239a614ba83bf8763de16a944f21de557d1e8919a4ff3e96e54936e

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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