hive.writing-hive-skills SKILL.md skillA
hive.writing-hive-skills from aden-hive/hive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.writing-hive-skills@git:20261102.cd5a951Pins git:20261102.cd5a951 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aden-hive/hive
- Path
core/framework/skills/_default_skills/writing-hive-skills/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261102.cd5a951, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 10, 2026
- Size
- 9,781 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11,142
- License
- Apache-2.0
Author a new Agent Skill for a Hive agent that conforms to the Agent Skills specification (SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter, optional scripts/references/assets directories). Use when the user asks to create, scaffold, add, install, or package a new skill for a Hive agent, or you want to keep a procedure as a 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
## Operational Protocol: Writing Hive Skills Hive agents discover skills by scanning several roots, in precedence order (later wins): 1. Framework defaults shipped in `core/framework/skills/_default_skills/` 2. `~/.agents/skills/` — user, cross-client 3. `$HIVE_HOME/skills/` — the shared library every queen and colony reads 4. `$HIVE_HOME/queens/<queen_id>/skills/` — one queen's own skills (her colonies read them too) 5. `$HIVE_HOME/colonies/<colony_name>/skills/` — one colony's skills 6. `<project>/.agents/skills/`, then `<project>/.hive/skills/` — project Each skill is a directory containing a `SKILL.md`. At startup, only the frontmatter `name` + `description` of every skill is loaded; the body is loaded only when the agent activates the skill. Design for that. ### Adding a skill as a queen: `write_skill` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.writing-hive-skills@sha256:607e54622c0e47e9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.cd5a951, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 10, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 68 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261102.cd5a951 latest | 2026-11-02 | cd5a951 | 9,781 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.6dafbbe | 2026-08-09 | 6dafbbe | 9,719 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260418.0d13c80 | 2026-04-18 | 0d13c80 | 9,786 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260410.c23c274 | 2026-04-10 | c23c274 | 7,524 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 (9781 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
aden-hive/hive · 11,142 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nglzq5zvzoya67tv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aden-hive/hive/hive.writing-hive-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/607e54622c0e47e96edb05aa1ebb6b22aa5ecf72a7c8302f8b78f1890a5fef67
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.