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evolve-crux is agent-read markdown (skill) from mehdiforoozandeh/crux: Evolve crux itself — add a capability or fix a recurring flaw in the crux tool, end to end: ideate → build → validate → ship. Turns a feature idea or a "crux keeps doing X" annoyance into a signed-off PRD, a tests-first implementation, a hard validation gate (selftest green · stdlib-only · existing vaults still load · version/migration), and a pull request. Works for anyone contributing to crux, not just the maintainer; the maintainer self-merges and cuts releases. Use when working ON crux — add.

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What the file says

# evolve-crux — ship a change to crux, rigorously

This skill is for working **on crux the tool** (your clone of the crux repo), not on a
research project that *uses* crux. It carries one change — a new capability or a fix for something
crux keeps getting wrong — through a strictly gated arc:

```
ideate → build → validate → ship
```

Each stage has an **exit criterion**; you do not advance until it's met. The arc is the
same whether the change is a one-line bug fix or a `.spec/` epic — only the ceremony scales.

## Who's driving (contributor-always)

Assume **the person evolving crux is not the maintainer.** Because crux ships this skill
to its users, everyone runs the *same* path and **ends at a pull request** — no
auto-detection of who you are, no privileged branch. The maintainer is just the
contributor who can **self-merge** their own PR, plus a small, separate **release** step
(below). This keeps one code path and makes third-party PRs first-class.

Work in a dedicated session **inside your crux clone** (a fresh chat, not the project you
were researching). No clone yet — e.g. you installed the skills via `npx skills add`?
…

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/evolve-crux@v1.0
Exact content
mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/evolve-crux@sha256:d22b45761a376c53

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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v1.0 latest2026-08-16 aaa1899 10,396 BA view · diff
v1.02026-08-05 56eaccf 9,734 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-14 48eab68 9,232 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-10 9a0775b 8,992 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-09 afa9257 8,920 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 (10396 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

mehdiforoozandeh/crux · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_molde7e2oaithpxj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mehdiforoozandeh/crux/evolve-crux
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d22b45761a376c5323beb13cde4841971f04de56251594f36cb844de13420745

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