elegant-code SKILL.md skillA
elegant-code from athola/claude-night-market is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/elegant-code@git:20261023.1fce5cdPins git:20261023.1fce5cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- athola/claude-night-market
- Path
plugins/conserve/skills/elegant-code/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261023.1fce5cd, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 10,500 bytes
- Repository stars
- 348
- License
- MIT
Guide minimal code via a decision ladder with full safety, edge, and negative-case coverage. Use when adding code, choosing a dependency, or auditing a diff.
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
# Elegant Code > Write the minimal, elegant code that fully solves the problem: > its performance, its edge cases, and its failure cases. Minimal > is not fewest lines. It is no incidental complexity, with > nothing essential omitted. ## What this skill is (and is not) This skill codifies a discipline that strong models already exhibit *some* of the time. Its value is not teaching a missing capability. Its value is three things: 1. A shared **vocabulary** (the rungs, the floor) that review skills can point at, so "you skipped rung 2" is a concrete, auditable note. 2. **Consistency**: the ladder is applied every time, not just when the model happens to think of it. 3. A **guard**: the negligence floor below is never traded away for brevity. It is the generative counterpart to the review-side contract in `leyline:additive-bias-defense`. ## When To Use - Before adding a function, file, class, abstraction, or dependency. - When choosing between reuse and writing new code. - When auditing a diff for lines that can be deleted. ## When NOT To Use - Throwaway scripts or one-time migrations where review cost is near zero. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/elegant-code@sha256:9ee2a1e25bbb4115The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.1fce5cd, 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_n37b5wyxkhmunz4g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 13, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 66 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261023.1fce5cd latest | 2026-10-23 | 1fce5cd | 10,500 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.a094fc8 | 2026-10-21 | a094fc8 | 9,906 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.293ec70 | 2026-06-13 | 293ec70 | 8,510 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 (10500 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
athola/claude-night-market · 348 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n37b5wyxkhmunz4g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/elegant-code GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ee2a1e25bbb411518cdf705e785c326921c44905ac9a39c1837f14f89481b84
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.