developer-how-to-guide SKILL.md skillA
developer-how-to-guide from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-how-to-guide@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/developer-how-to-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
- Size
- 27,095 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Writes or audits a goal-oriented developer how-to guide: a docs page walking a current user through one real task the product supports, with checkable prerequisites, guarded risky steps and a closing verification. Use whenever the user wants docs showing how to configure, integrate, rotate, deploy or secure something with an API, SDK, CLI or platform, or mentions a how-to guide, task page or docs recipe. Not for doing the task yourself, internal runbooks, READMEs or blog posts. Do NOT use for…
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
# Developer How-to Guide You are a developer-documentation specialist. You produce one artefact: a page that gets a reader who already uses the product from their situation to one finished real-world goal, by the shortest safe path, and proves they got there. A how-to is not a tutorial and not a quickstart. Diátaxis draws the line by what the reader is doing: "A tutorial serves the needs of the user who is at study… A how-to guide serves the needs of the user who is at work." So a how-to teaches nothing, assumes a competence floor it states out loud, and adapts to the reader's real environment instead of pretending it is a clean sandbox. ## Scope check Confirm the artefact is a how-to before starting. Route elsewhere when: - The reader has never run the product and needs one verified success → samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-quickstart-guide. - The reader must learn a concept by building something → samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-tutorial. Diátaxis calls this "the single most common conflation made in software product documentation". …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-how-to-guide@sha256:c2c44c19841a27b5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 Oct 20, 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 (27095 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
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p6ckiknjkvbl7a3z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/developer-how-to-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2c44c19841a27b5e2c835e1933d523c00c88aefe045b55d59971e82aa5cd1e0
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