guidelines-advisor SKILL.md skillA
guidelines-advisor from trailofbits/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add trailofbits/skills/guidelines-advisor@git:20260825.32ad9e6Pins git:20260825.32ad9e6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills
- Path
plugins/building-secure-contracts/skills/guidelines-advisor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260825.32ad9e6, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 26, 2026
- Size
- 8,752 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,698
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Smart contract development advisor based on Trail of Bits' best practices. Analyzes codebase to generate documentation/specifications, review architecture, check upgradeability patterns, assess implementation quality, identify pitfalls, review dependencies, and evaluate testing. Use when asking whether a smart contract project follows development best practices, reviewing on-chain/off-chain split, upgradeability, or delegatecall proxy patterns against guidelines, or seeking recommendations on…
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
# Guidelines Advisor ## Purpose Systematically analyzes the codebase and provides guidance based on Trail of Bits' development guidelines: 1. **Generate documentation and specifications** (plain English descriptions, architectural diagrams, code documentation) 2. **Optimize on-chain/off-chain architecture** (only if applicable) 3. **Review upgradeability patterns** (if your project has upgrades) 4. **Check delegatecall/proxy implementations** (if present) 5. **Assess implementation quality** (functions, inheritance, events) 6. **Identify common pitfalls** 7. **Review dependencies** 8. **Evaluate test suite and suggest improvements** **Framework**: Building Secure Contracts - Development Guidelines --- ## How This Works ### Phase 1: Discovery & Context Explores the codebase to understand: - Project structure and platform - Contract/module files and their purposes - Existing documentation - Architecture patterns (proxies, upgrades, etc.) - Testing setup - Dependencies ### Phase 2: Documentation Generation Helps create: - Plain English system description - Architectural diagrams (using Slither printers for Solidity) - Code documentation recommendations (NatSpec for Solidity) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add trailofbits/skills/guidelines-advisor@sha256:5bb8ba34d363c419The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.32ad9e6, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jan 26, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 106 days.
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| git:20260825.32ad9e6 latest | 2026-08-25 | 32ad9e6 | 8,752 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260129.650f6e3 | 2026-01-29 | 650f6e3 | 8,486 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260126.7af5b1b | 2026-01-26 | 7af5b1b | 8,576 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 (8752 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
trailofbits/skills · 7,698 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pk7q4ozona3h5wnf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=trailofbits/skills/guidelines-advisor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5bb8ba34d363c419e1769a59d0fcc7444a04dc6d9e59032cb93019befdc2e464
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