write-great-instructions SKILL.md skillA
write-great-instructions from diegoos/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add diegoos/skills/write-great-instructions@v0.5.1Pins v0.5.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- diegoos/skills
- Path
skills/write-great-instructions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v0.5.1, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 8,064 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Write or edit agent instruction files (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `GEMINI.md`, Cursor `.mdc` rules, Copilot instructions, and other harness instruction files). Use when creating, drafting, or editing those files, or when the user wants better agent instructions for a repo. Skip writing an agent skill (SKILL.md); use make-skill.
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
# Write great instructions Operational policy for a coding agent — not a README. Filename and harness vary; the writing does not. ## Principles - **Always-on budget.** The expensive file loads on every turn in *this* harness. Root `AGENTS.md`: warn above ~150 lines. Codex shares 32 KiB cumulative along root→CWD; nested does not add a second budget. See caps in [`formats.md`](references/formats.md). - **Signal.** Headings reset attention: one topic each, depth stops at `h3`. A command lives in backticks (in a sentence it is a suggestion). When a heading is earned, use a familiar name (`Commands`, `Testing`, `Boundaries`, `Conventions`, `Structure`). Do not invent a required skeleton. - **Observable or attachable.** Always-on: a command (prefer the per-file form of lint/test/typecheck in the working loop), an observable condition, a CORRECT/WRONG snippet, or a pointer to a gold file in this repo. Glob: a convention for that slice. Cut no-ops (`write clean code`, `follow best practices`, `handle errors gracefully`). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add diegoos/skills/write-great-instructions@sha256:7e325caeb2be7585The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.1, 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_n4reqnlizg62ptwl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.5.1 latest | 2026-11-02 | 501093d | 8,064 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-10-19 | b962f7a | 8,064 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-09-17 | 1aaccf8 | 8,008 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-09-17 | 9fea159 | 8,008 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-09-08 | ea0dfdb | 7,088 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-08 | dab197e | 6,077 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-08-23 | dc965c7 | 3,908 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 (8064 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
diegoos/skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n4reqnlizg62ptwl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=diegoos/skills/write-great-instructions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7e325caeb2be75856d6d84b8a3fcd3931b8a5107b69edc1de3f8e28c25002b7c
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.