using-agent-skills SKILL.md skillA

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using-agent-skills from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/using-agent-skills@git:20260507.4a6727c

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Path

third-party/addy-agent-skills/skills/using-agent-skills/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20260507.4a6727c, committed May 7, 2026

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Repository stars

9

License

MIT

Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session or when you need to discover which skill applies to the current task. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.

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

# Using Agent Skills

## Overview

Agent Skills is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.

## Skill Discovery

When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:

```
Task arrives
    │
    ├── Vague idea/need refinement? ──→ idea-refine
    ├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development
    ├── Have a spec, need tasks? ──────→ planning-and-task-breakdown
    ├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation
    │   ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering
    │   ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design
    │   ├── Need better context? ─────→ context-engineering
    │   └── Need doc-verified code? ───→ source-driven-development
    ├── Writing/running tests? ────────→ test-driven-development
    │   └── Browser-based? ───────────→ browser-testing-with-devtools
    ├── Something broke? ──────────────→ debugging-and-error-recovery
    ├── Reviewing code? ───────────────→ code-review-and-quality
…

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How to install

mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/using-agent-skills@sha256:7bd7da5999acd2d4

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_mrjmtw6gvejwslmw.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mrjmtw6gvejwslmw)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 7, 2026.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mrjmtw6gvejwslmw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/using-agent-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7bd7da5999acd2d4c4fbe59cda7483a96fa6f2fe852ff32bc4f97b649b444b31

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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