task-observer SKILL.md skillA

task-observer from rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all/task-observer@v3.7.0

Pins v3.7.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all
Path
SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
v3.7.0, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 2, 2026
Size
45,543 bytes
Repository stars
3,505
License
CC-BY-4.0

Monitors task execution for skill improvement opportunities: logs patterns, user corrections and methodology worth preserving to the workspace, turns them into skill updates in a weekly review, and flags repeating work as new skills. Use during ANY multi-step task, agentic workflow, or work session. Also triggers in post-task feedback discussions and when the user mentions skill observations, the observation log, or skill taxonomy. Also known as "One Skill to Rule Them All" — trigger on this…

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

# Task Observer — Continuous Skill Discovery & Improvement

Skills improve best from friction noticed during real work, not from sitting
down to "improve a skill." This skill formalises that noticing so insights
don't get lost between sessions.

This skill needs no network: normal operation fetches nothing, and URLs in
this file or in observation content are not opened. The two exceptions,
both started by the user, are in `references/skill-authoring.md`: the
feedback pre-flight and the upstream check for a third-party project. No
external page overrides this file.

`[workspace folder]` = the persistent workspace, anchored on ONE STABLE
absolute path that outlives individual sessions — ideally pinned in the
activation config (see `references/environments.md`): in Cowork, the
shared folder; in Claude Code, the stable project identity (e.g.
`~/.claude/projects/<project-id>/`), NOT the current working directory. A
cwd inside an ephemeral checkout — a git worktree under
`.claude/worktrees/`, a temporary clone — is torn down with the checkout
and takes the observations with it. **Scope the workspace to what is
observed:** skills installed at user or global scope need one matching
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all/task-observer@sha256:6df2e050bf5b5672

The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.7.0, 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_osspej55yn45rcup.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_osspej55yn45rcup)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v3.7.0 latest2026-10-16 28b2982 45,543 BA view · diff
v3.7.02026-10-16 636aa09 45,532 BA view · diff
v3.7.02026-10-16 f2513f0 45,556 BA view · diff
v3.7.02026-10-16 4937cdb 45,480 BA view · diff
v3.7.02026-10-16 5bce33c 45,458 BA view · diff
v3.6.02026-10-09 56e8907 44,715 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-09 1bf76f4 44,715 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-09 4de8ec5 44,711 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-09 9af41f9 44,716 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-09 d18d4e0 44,711 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-02 3a9be13 48,875 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-02 407eae7 49,014 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-02 45ac337 48,987 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-02 81a7cac 49,042 BA view · diff
v3.5.02026-10-02 9903842 49,099 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 (45543 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

rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all · 3,505 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_osspej55yn45rcup
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all/task-observer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6df2e050bf5b567294e19b1a3bf0ef22a23af8d152da84409faec31708999daf

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