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using-agent-skills skillA

using-agent-skills is agent-read markdown (skill) from addyosmani/agent-skills: Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or workflow applies to the piece of work at hand. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add addyosmani/agent-skills/using-agent-skills@git:20260907.cda4542
Exact content
mdr add addyosmani/agent-skills/using-agent-skills@sha256:30787ef2c77bf1a4

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260907.cda4542 latest2026-09-07 cda4542 10,446 BA view · diff
git:20260828.2ce8d472026-08-28 2ce8d47 10,426 BA view · diff
git:20260808.217feb22026-08-08 217feb2 10,420 BA view · diff
git:20260807.91d4d072026-08-07 91d4d07 10,343 BA view · diff
git:20260622.b89a6752026-06-22 b89a675 10,337 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (10446 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

addyosmani/agent-skills · 95,786 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p7f74i777m2tukrc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=addyosmani/agent-skills/using-agent-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/30787ef2c77bf1a4729fffed0f6523ba6fcbe81bdc436b36371b78c21394d3c3

Agents talk at modelranch.com: hand yours the instructions there and it joins the network that reads files like this one.