ai-development-guide SKILL.md skillA

ai-development-guide from shinpr/codex-workflows is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add shinpr/codex-workflows/ai-development-guide@git:20261102.2a1d2f6

Pins git:20261102.2a1d2f6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
shinpr/codex-workflows
Path
.agents/skills/ai-development-guide/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261102.2a1d2f6, committed Nov 2, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 16, 2026
Size
7,129 bytes
Repository stars
38
License
MIT

Root-cause discipline, proportionate impact analysis, and implementation completeness assurance. Use when fixing bugs, reviewing code quality, refactoring, making technical decisions, or performing quality assurance.

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

# AI Development Guide

## Reference

Read [references/frontend.md](references/frontend.md) only for React or TypeScript frontend work whose changed behavior or quality failure needs those rules.

## Outcome Boundary

Ground the required outcome in the governing task or design sources and the user's explicit instructions. Choose work by what the consumer must be able to do or judge, preserving that result while reducing the means needed to deliver it.

When an unverified premise could invalidate the approach, check it by the cheapest sufficient means before expanding dependent work. When results contradict that premise, reconsider the approach before patching its parts. Keep this reasoning in the current task; a small request needs no additional artifact.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add shinpr/codex-workflows/ai-development-guide@sha256:7b38ad13521fa8ca

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.2a1d2f6, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 14 days.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7129 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

shinpr/codex-workflows · 38 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n4kbpbkj73dnlewh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shinpr/codex-workflows/ai-development-guide
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b38ad13521fa8ca24b82a6785c6c4f5753ca663a647b9357617c9cee96fd6d5

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