sdd-apply SKILL.md skillA

sdd-apply from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ahgraber/skills/sdd-apply@git:20261017.d9ba006

Pins git:20261017.d9ba006 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ahgraber/skills
Path
skills/sdd-apply/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261017.d9ba006, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
May 6, 2026
Size
14,434 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
CC0-1.0

Use when implementing tasks from a change's tasks.md. Triggers: "apply tasks", "implement the change", "work through tasks", "start implementing", "continue implementing", "apply the change".

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

# SDD Apply

Implement tasks from `SPECS_ROOT/changes/<name>/tasks.md`.
Check off each task as it completes.

> `SPECS_ROOT` is resolved by the `sdd` router before this skill runs.
> Replace `.specs/` with your project's actual specs root in all paths below.

## Writing Style

Write artifact updates, task notes, and commit bodies in the voice of a professional technical writer.
Prefer ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English: short sentences, one instruction per sentence, active voice, and one term per concept.
Keep identifiers, commands, paths, and RFC 2119 keywords exact.

## Hard Gate

**If `tasks.md` does not exist for the active change: STOP.**

> "No tasks to implement. Run `sdd-propose` first to create the change artifacts."

Do not proceed without tasks.md.

**If the change directory has no proposal commit: STOP.**
Check with:

```bash
git log --diff-filter=A --format=%H -- .specs/changes/<name>/proposal.md
```

If the output is empty, tell the user:

> "The change artifacts are not committed. Commit `.specs/changes/<name>/` before implementing. Without that commit, the spec-drift check cannot tell which spec text you approved and which text changed during implementation."
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ahgraber/skills/sdd-apply@sha256:3deb5a16d63d99cd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.d9ba006, 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_p54u5qzobfqiuhuo.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_p54u5qzobfqiuhuo)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 23 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261017.d9ba006 latest2026-10-17 d9ba006 14,434 BA view · diff
git:20261011.101da9c2026-10-11 101da9c 13,869 BA view · diff
git:20261004.eaab92b2026-10-04 eaab92b 13,676 BA view · diff
git:20260819.209d97b2026-08-19 209d97b 11,329 BA view · diff
git:20260807.1a09fb82026-08-07 1a09fb8 11,125 BA view · diff
git:20260617.5b2fd9a2026-06-17 5b2fd9a 10,804 BA view · diff
git:20260510.dd1c3132026-05-10 dd1c313 9,459 BA view · diff
git:20260506.8076cab2026-05-06 8076cab 9,220 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 (14434 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

ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p54u5qzobfqiuhuo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/sdd-apply
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3deb5a16d63d99cdfeebf02f071a6baf544bf8172b9edf79bd7d528d6a30dad5

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