jpeetz/agent-skills · skills/development/repo-recon/SKILL.md

repo-recon skillA

repo-recon is agent-read markdown (skill) from jpeetz/agent-skills: Use this skill when you need to map an unfamiliar codebase before changing anything. Runs a systematic five-step recon pass — read the map, learn the commands, trace one flow end-to-end, note conventions then match them, and write it down — so you understand architecture, build/test commands, and code conventions before making a single edit. Prevents broken builds, misfiled changes, and convention-violating PRs caused by search-before- assuming. Activates on "where do I start", "understand this .

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/repo-recon@v1.0.0
Exact content
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/repo-recon@sha256:a8e675c6efc83296

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-09-14 c69b97e 8,642 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (8642 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

jpeetz/agent-skills · 8 stars · license none · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mhrseu4xv52wodw4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpeetz/agent-skills/repo-recon
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a8e675c6efc832969f8f6a3d71f73252599a30cfafbf9a7d8a2d410f0754950a