using-clink SKILL.md skillA
using-clink from xenodeve/xeno-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/using-clink@git:20260819.bae99b7Pins git:20260819.bae99b7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xenodeve/xeno-skills
- Path
skills/multi-agent/using-clink/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260819.bae99b7, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 4,770 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
The entry point for delegating to another AI CLI agent through PAL's clink tool. Decides which of the four clink skills you actually want before you spend a call — executing a scoped subtask, convening a panel for judgment, hunting a bug across agents, or deciding who may do the work at all. Reach for it whenever you are about to delegate, whenever you are choosing between a subagent and a panel, and whenever a delegation came back wrong and you are not sure the routing was right. Triggers…
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
# Using Clink **Pick the instrument before you spend a call.** Each skill below carries its own rules — the model ladder, the provenance rule, the verify-everything discipline. This file only decides which one you are in. ## The routing decision | You want | Skill | |---|---| | A scoped subtask **executed** and handed back done — an implementation, a bulk transform, a focused lookup, a first draft | **`clink-subagents`** | | **Judgment** — which design wins, what is wrong with this plan, is this code right | **`clink-brainstorm`** | | To find out **why something is broken**, using more than one agent | **`clink-debug`** | | To decide **who may do it at all**, and to pick the model from measured scores rather than memory | **`clink-masteragent`** | **`clink-masteragent` is a precondition, not a fourth option.** Read it before any of the other three; it owns what you may never hand out, and picking a model from recollection instead of the score table is a documented way this goes wrong. ## Work versus judgment is the whole decision It is the one that gets made backwards, and it is expensive in both directions: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/using-clink@sha256:3472db2ea4d5358eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.bae99b7, 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 2 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20260819.bae99b7 latest | 2026-08-19 | bae99b7 | 4,770 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.3836efc | 2026-08-12 | 3836efc | 2,964 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
xenodeve/xeno-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ocrx33vfl7q2nmrn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xenodeve/xeno-skills/using-clink GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3472db2ea4d5358e321cf3e83278e71e04cf9b7cda63199a870e5f75cc6d2052
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.