setup-first-pass SKILL.md skillA
setup-first-pass from joetawil7/first-pass is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/setup-first-pass@git:20261014.81d2b78Pins git:20261014.81d2b78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- joetawil7/first-pass
- Path
skills/setup-first-pass/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261014.81d2b78, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 33,791 bytes
- Repository stars
- 107
- License
- MIT
Set up first-pass for a main folder that holds many repos, or for one repo. In a main folder it writes one set of working rules at the root that every session loads, a workspace map, and a section in each repo with that repo's real commands, test limits and invariants, and it lists each repo's own hooks so first-pass can run them from the main folder. In one repo it writes the rules and the section into that repo. Use when asked to set up, install, add, update or re-run first-pass, to…
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
# setup-first-pass
Installs first-pass so every session, in every tool the team uses, starts with the rules,
and each repo's own facts load when work reaches that repo.
The files this skill copies are in its own folder, `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/assets/`:
`rules-block.md`, `profile-block.md`, `words-block.md`, `machine-block.md`,
`workspace-block.md`, `project-block.md`, `INVARIANTS.md` and `breaker.md`. (Claude Code fills in that path. In other tools it is the
folder this SKILL.md was loaded from.) Read them from there and copy them exactly; never
write them from memory. If they cannot be read, stop and say so.
With the Claude Code plugin, `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/cli.mjs` exists: it does
the deterministic parts (`survey`, `record`, `cursor-rules`, `check`). Without it (a skills
install in another tool), do the survey by reading, and skip the steps marked *plugin*.
Nothing is committed, pushed or branched: the owner reviews and commits.
## 0. Which mode
- **Main folder**: the current folder holds two or more git repos (the survey looks two
levels down and follows links), whether or not it is a git repo itself, or it has
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/setup-first-pass@sha256:fcde986f7be07003The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.81d2b78, 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_mgiurvn5ucmrhc4i)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 25, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261014.81d2b78 latest | 2026-10-14 | 81d2b78 | 33,791 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.f5bc413 | 2026-10-09 | f5bc413 | 33,517 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.9b47d32 | 2026-10-08 | 9b47d32 | 24,168 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.5291e17 | 2026-09-29 | 5291e17 | 20,979 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.b12fce8 | 2026-09-25 | b12fce8 | 20,168 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.dbcac0d | 2026-09-25 | dbcac0d | 8,427 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 (33791 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
joetawil7/first-pass · 107 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mgiurvn5ucmrhc4i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=joetawil7/first-pass/setup-first-pass GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fcde986f7be070035abdc4941c85f2edaa903db0a8efad757c2aa69aad0656b0
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