where-to-start SKILL.md skillA
where-to-start from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/where-to-start@v0.1.4Pins v0.1.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gooseworks-ai/goose-skills
- Path
skills/marketing/where-to-start/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.1.4, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 23, 2026
- Size
- 12,687 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,302
- License
- MIT
First-move advice for a broad growth or marketing ask with no job named: looks at what GooseWorks already knows and at the site, asks a few short questions in one message, names the one thing in the way, and sends the marketer to the right next job. Use when the marketer says "help me grow my brand", "I need to grow my business", "how do I get more customers / sales", "help me with marketing", "where do I start", "sales are flat", "what should I focus on this month", or "I'm back, what's next?".
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
# where-to-start
This playbook frames the situation, holds it against the map of playbooks, and recommends a first move a senior advisor would stand behind. Judgment stays with you; the references make sure it looks at the right things.
Name each move by what it does ("set up your welcome and post-purchase emails"), using the "Say it as" names in `references/playbook-map.md`.
## What you get
A first-move recommendation on one screen: the read of the situation, the one constraint in the way, one or two moves (or a step the marketer takes plus one move alongside), what to bring, what not to do yet and why, a "worked if" with a number and a date, when to come back, and an offer of the next job in plain words. The marketer's answers are saved with the brand, so the next visit, the brand setup and the job they ask for next don't ask again.
## Before you start
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/where-to-start@sha256:48aa6d0c2b59b823The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.4, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_phjnop2uv47kg4qb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v0.1.4 latest | 2026-10-24 | dedb611 | 12,687 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.3 | 2026-10-24 | 5de8433 | 12,119 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-10-24 | 811818d | 12,119 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.3 | 2026-10-24 | e655e55 | 12,647 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-10-23 | 4cd1948 | 12,079 B | A | view |
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 (12687 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
gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,302 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_phjnop2uv47kg4qb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/where-to-start GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/48aa6d0c2b59b82361f78ec42e036b3cee1740bdd47fde6483fc120061dd9bd2
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.