wiki-initialize SKILL.md skillA

wiki-initialize from yarlson/yarstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/wiki-initialize@git:20260815.c9a62f3

Pins git:20260815.c9a62f3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yarlson/yarstack
Path
plugins/yarbrain/skills/wiki-initialize/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260815.c9a62f3, committed Aug 15, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 9, 2026
Size
1,680 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Create or adopt a user-controlled Yarbrain Markdown vault and configure lifecycle hooks to find it. Use when setting up Yarbrain, moving its vault, or repairing a missing vault structure; do not use for routine capture or maintenance.

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

# Initialize a Yarbrain Wiki

Create the canonical vault only at a location the user approves. Never initialize
or reconfigure a vault as an implicit side effect of installing the plugin.

## Workflow

1.  Confirm the vault path, whether it is personal or shared, and whether an
    existing directory must be adopted without overwriting content.
2.  Confirm authority to write the Yarbrain config. Its default location is
    ~/.config/yarbrain/config.json; YARBRAIN_CONFIG can select another file.
3.  Resolve ../../scripts/yarbrain.py relative to this SKILL.md and run:

        python3 <helper> init <vault-path>

    Use --config only for an explicitly selected config path. Use
    --no-write-config when the user wants a vault without automatic hooks.

4.  Verify that the command preserved existing files and created INDEX.md plus
    episodes/, notes/, skills/, inbox/, archive/, reports/, and .cache/.
5.  Run the helper's lint command against the configured vault.
6.  Report the vault and config paths, whether hooks can now find the vault, and
    any existing content that still needs adoption work.

The vault owns canonical Markdown. The config only locates it. Search indexes,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/wiki-initialize@sha256:5b1cae35b8ad8162

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260815.c9a62f3, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_nzxajjx3tmjlk6vs.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_nzxajjx3tmjlk6vs)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260815.c9a62f3 latest2026-08-15 c9a62f3 1,680 BA view · diff
git:20260809.f078c7a2026-08-09 f078c7a 1,667 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1680 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

yarlson/yarstack · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nzxajjx3tmjlk6vs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yarlson/yarstack/wiki-initialize
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b1cae35b8ad81622247f32db3e4a5094be5e803ffb041769b6b2f0613d60d17

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.

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