gentle-ai-work-unit-commits SKILL.md skillA

gentle-ai-work-unit-commits from gentleman-programming/gentle-pi is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-ai-work-unit-commits@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gentleman-programming/gentle-pi
Path
skills/work-unit-commits/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
v1.0, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
May 11, 2026
Size
5,216 bytes
Repository stars
2,023
License
MIT

Plan commits as reviewable work units. Trigger: implementation, commit splitting, chained PRs, or keeping tests and docs with code.

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

## When to Use

Load this skill when deciding what belongs in each commit or PR.

Use it for:

- Splitting a feature into reviewable work.
- Preparing commits before opening a PR.
- Turning a large change into chained or stacked PRs.
- Keeping reviewer cognitive load healthy.
- Committing ODD work in reviewable slices of about 400 authored changed lines.

## Critical Rules

| Rule | Requirement |
|------|-------------|
| Commit by work unit | A commit represents a deliverable behavior, fix, migration, or docs unit. |
| Do not commit by file type | Avoid `models`, then `services`, then `tests` if none works alone. |
| Keep tests with code | Tests belong in the same commit as the behavior they verify. |
| Keep docs with the user-visible change | Docs belong with the feature or workflow they explain. |
| Tell a story | A reviewer should understand why each commit exists from its diff and message. |
| Future PR-ready | Each commit should be a candidate chained PR when the change grows. |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-ai-work-unit-commits@sha256:9f28a9b6a1204f5e

The 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.

Badge

mdr badge

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 11, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 30 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0 latest2026-11-06 24a9265 5,216 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-14 e6f25b3 5,207 BA view · diff
v1.02026-09-30 2843a59 4,910 BA view · diff
v1.02026-09-17 d1c0067 4,188 BA view · diff
v1.02026-08-31 2394b9f 3,688 BA view · diff
v1.02026-08-25 6451f33 3,200 BA view · diff
v1.02026-05-11 94b55fe 3,190 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 (5216 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

gentleman-programming/gentle-pi · 2,023 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p2wbt3hajn5u6qgi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-ai-work-unit-commits
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9f28a9b6a1204f5e8f12369953026c64fcf705fc26751bb8479dc8f96b398267

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.

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