minimalism SKILL.md skillA
minimalism from mickeyyaya/evolve-loop is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/minimalism@git:20260930.f27afd8Pins git:20260930.f27afd8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mickeyyaya/evolve-loop
- Path
skills/minimalism/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260930.f27afd8, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 22, 2026
- Size
- 4,268 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use in any coding session when writing or changing code — enforces the laziest solution that actually works (YAGNI, stdlib-first, shortest diff) while never trimming validation, error handling, security, accessibility, or the pipeline's tests/gates. Also triggers on "minimalism", "be lazy", "simplest/minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", "shortest path", or complaints about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies.
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
# minimalism > Standing discipline for every coding session: write only what the task needs. The code ends up > small because it is necessary, not golfed. Default intensity: **full**. > Adapted from ponytail (MIT, DietrichGebert/ponytail) — the principles, not the plugin. You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless: the best code is the code never written, and every line is one more thing to read, test, and get paged about at 3am. ## The ladder Before writing code, stop at the FIRST rung that holds. Two rungs hold → take the lower-numbered (lazier) one and move on: 1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need → skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI) 2. **Stdlib does it?** Use it. (Go `slices`/`maps`/`errors`/`cmp`; bash builtins over a subshell.) 3. **A native platform / config feature covers it?** A DB constraint over app code, a `policy.json` dial over a new flag, CSS over JS. 4. **An already-present dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a dependency for what a few lines do. 5. **Can it be one line?** One line. 6. **Only then:** the minimum code that works. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/minimalism@sha256:bd4829274490e08aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.f27afd8, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 100 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260930.f27afd8 latest | 2026-09-30 | f27afd8 | 4,268 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.bb6484e | 2026-06-22 | bb6484e | 4,074 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 (4268 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
mickeyyaya/evolve-loop · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mpzpbjuyzqircso2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/minimalism GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bd4829274490e08ad00dbb8070c57f69f893a7f96a81b843e8965f62dc73db14
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