skiphow-simplify SKILL.md skillA
skiphow-simplify from mzored/skiphow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mzored/skiphow/skiphow-simplify@git:20261018.2f72c7fPins git:20261018.2f72c7f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mzored/skiphow
- Path
plugins/skiphow/skills/skiphow-simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261018.2f72c7f, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 17, 2026
- Size
- 5,987 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Shrink an existing project by measuring it, removing code, tests, tooling, and records that do not pay for themselves, and delivering the cuts through the project's normal path. Use only when the owner asks to simplify, clean up, slim down, or shrink the project or codebase; not for ordinary changes, bug fixes, or a refactor inside other work, and not for a bare clean that ends an iteration session, which is a delivery request. If context was compacted while this workflow governed, reopen this…
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
# SkipHow simplify Make the owner's project smaller and cheaper to change without losing behavior a user or caller would notice. Before consequential work, and again after any context compaction, load the [SkipHow CTO kernel](../skiphow/SKILL.md) by invoking the `skiphow` skill where the host has a skill tool, otherwise by reading it, unless its full text is already in context; a summary is not its text. Its Engineering standard is the measure for every cut. ## What the request grants An owner's request to simplify, clean up, or shrink the project is a change and delivery request: carry the cuts through the project's established non-production workflow without asking again. A question about what could be cut stays read-only and returns what you would remove and what it would save. Material deletion of data, history others share, production changes, and other protected actions still need the kernel's grant. Deleting code, tests, tooling, and documents through reviewed commits is ordinary engineering. ## Measure first …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mzored/skiphow/skiphow-simplify@sha256:6411b22f0a49bb2eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.2f72c7f, 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_mrxzv2mm4rlzhigz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261018.2f72c7f latest | 2026-10-18 | 2f72c7f | 5,987 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.38e39b8 | 2026-10-17 | 38e39b8 | 5,146 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 (5987 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
mzored/skiphow · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mrxzv2mm4rlzhigz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mzored/skiphow/skiphow-simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6411b22f0a49bb2e3e01be2b8e960a669b8794f03cea2a1870614e9626f8a9f0
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