create-workbench SKILL.md skillA

create-workbench from ovich/swarmstorm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/create-workbench@git:20261024.4607d5c

Pins git:20261024.4607d5c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ovich/swarmstorm
Path
skills/workbench/create-workbench/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261024.4607d5c, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 12, 2026
Size
11,418 bytes
Repository stars
13
License
MIT

Use when a page is wanted to work on something with the person during development, fed the project's real data (comparing model answers, walking an agent call by call, measuring an output against its template), when such a workbench has to change, be reworked or its feed broke, or mid-session when turns went into aligning with the person on how to do a kind of work that recurs and real project data could show it. Produces the page in aiview, kind `workbench`, and the project's…

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

# Create a workbench

**Some work is done with the person in the loop, and time goes into aligning on how to do
it.** That alignment is kept as a skill, so the next session does not explain it all again;
a workbench keeps it with a dev tool beside it, fed the project's real data. It is made at
the start of the work or mid-session.

**Mid-session, propose it in one line, at a pause**, when three things hold: the session
spent turns aligning on how to do a kind of work, that work recurs, and real project data
could show it. Build only on a yes; one no ends it for that work in the session.

**A workbench is a dev tool for iterating on an idea, and it has two users**: the person, who
needs a clear UI that opens on what is being tried now, and the agent, who needs the bench
cheap to read, change and check. It is judged by the time from "what if…" to the result seen.

**Two things are produced, and a later agent works the bench from them alone**: the page,
in the data home like every document, and the project's `workbench-<bench>` skill, which
holds the feed that fills the page and the steps to operate it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/create-workbench@sha256:5f635039cd436830

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.4607d5c, 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 6 versions of this file, between Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261012.77e988d2026-10-12 77e988d 8,611 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 (11418 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

ovich/swarmstorm · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_owjdnayggt2yylaz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ovich/swarmstorm/create-workbench
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f635039cd436830924354aabbdb805e07bc9ed2fe9c2d799cda37f102c43dd4

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