new-work SKILL.md skillA
new-work from posit-dev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add posit-dev/skills/new-work@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- posit-dev/skills
- Path
posit-dev/new-work/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 2,516 bytes
- Repository stars
- 556
- License
- MIT
Create and manage todo tracking documents for features, bugs, and multi-step tasks. Use when starting new work that benefits from a persistent record of decisions, progress, and context.
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
# New Work Todo notes track work items as markdown files with YAML front matter capturing status, context, and progress. ## Storage Location Use `_dev/todos/` if it exists in the repository root; otherwise ask the user where to store todo notes before creating anything. It contains two subdirectories: `pending/` (active) and `done/` (finished). ## File Naming `YYYY-MM-DD_short-kebab-slug.md`, e.g. `2026-02-18_add-oauth-support.md`. ## File Contents YAML front matter plus a markdown body. Only `status` is required. ```markdown --- status: pending # pending | in progress | review | blocked | done issue: https://github.com/org/repo/issues/123 # optional pr: https://github.com/org/repo/pull/456 # optional --- # Title Overview of what this is about and why it matters. ## Key Files - `src/relevant-file.ts` — what it does - `src/other-file.ts:functionName()` — why it matters ## Work Items - [ ] First thing to do - [ ] Second thing to do ## Design Decisions Context, constraints, or choices worth capturing. ## Decision Log <!-- ### YYYY-MM-DD — Short Decision Title **Decision:** What was decided? **Rationale:** Why? --> ``` ## Lifecycle …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add posit-dev/skills/new-work@sha256:df3864d6e4b8bd77The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 17, 2026.
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 (2516 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
posit-dev/skills · 556 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_otecx5ngvplrcqjq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=posit-dev/skills/new-work GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df3864d6e4b8bd77a58614b1efd18968c83af5392e38b2e78ea7d89304a5fd43
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.