sips-tool-factory SKILL.md skillA
sips-tool-factory from rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/sips-tool-factory@git:20260920.f42ab34Pins git:20260920.f42ab34 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin
- Path
skills/sips-tool-factory/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260920.f42ab34, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,951 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Decide whether to reuse, improve, or scaffold a deterministic helper. Use when repeated work is slow, brittle, or blocked by a missing local tool.
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
# SIPS Tool Factory Use `homebase_tool_factory` with the task, desired helper, and any existing script. Prefer improving a nearby working helper over creating a new one. Create a tool only when it removes repeated manual work or closes a real capability gap. Keep it repo-local, deterministic, and covered by a small smoke or regression check. After the helper works, record the command and proof path in `state.yaml`, `LEDGER.md`, or memory when the lesson is durable. Use `available_types` and `required_types` when the task has known artifact contracts. Treat a composition as a proposal requiring consumer checks; `insufficient_fit` calls for more evidence or an explicit creation decision. Scaffolding creates a draft `.contract.json`. Implement the helper and populate its inputs, outputs, prerequisites, effects, failure semantics, resources, and behavioral cases before setting status to `implemented`. `validate` executes those cases and records exact artifact identities; help output and test-name mentions are insufficient. `promote` packages the validated version and pins the skill entrypoint. Host discovery remains a separate check. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/sips-tool-factory@sha256:336db23fba579d79The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.f42ab34, 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_oe3ab365tmpuhp4j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 20, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 62 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260920.f42ab34 latest | 2026-09-20 | f42ab34 | 2,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.dcc8fa1 | 2026-07-20 | dcc8fa1 | 666 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 (2951 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
rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oe3ab365tmpuhp4j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/sips-tool-factory GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/336db23fba579d79993d7013ff2a1a289455976b5d7290cd23a44efa28200fbc
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.