bm25 SKILL.md skillA

bm25 from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/bm25@v0.2.1

Pins v0.2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Path
bm25/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.2.1, committed Sep 9, 2026
First version recorded
May 20, 2026
Size
7,063 bytes
Repository stars
158
License
MIT

Ranked content search over a text corpus you point it at, using BM25 (via xhluca/bm25s). Corpus-agnostic: cloned repos, project knowledge stores, uploaded files and archives, any local directory. In-memory BM25 index per invocation, with a session-local disk cache for repeat runs against the same corpus. Use for "rank these documents", "search this corpus", "which files are most about X", "find content about Y", or any multi-word concept query against a known body of text where grep would…

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

# bm25

Ranked content search over any text corpus. One CLI, in-memory BM25 index
per process, with a session-local disk cache so repeat invocations against
the same corpus load in tens of milliseconds instead of rebuilding.

## Setup

```bash
uv pip install --system --break-system-packages bm25s
```

Install is sub-second on a warm uv cache. That's the entire dependency.

## Usage

```bash
BM25=/mnt/skills/user/bm25/scripts/bm25.py

# Local directory
python3 $BM25 ./repo 'csrf middleware'

# Multiple queries against the same in-memory index (build once, query many)
python3 $BM25 ./repo 'csrf middleware' 'session backend' 'queryset filter'

# Cloned GitHub repo via tarball (one HTTP call)
python3 $BM25 'github.com/django/django' 'atomic transaction'
python3 $BM25 'github.com/django/django@stable/5.0.x' 'atomic transaction'

# Project knowledge or uploads
python3 $BM25 project 'RAG scaling laws'
python3 $BM25 uploads 'tax loss harvesting'

# Filters
python3 $BM25 ./repo 'auth flow' --exclude 'tests/*' --exclude '*/tests/*'
python3 $BM25 ./repo 'config' --include '*.py' --include '*.toml'

# Interactive (REPL — single corpus, many queries)
python3 $BM25 ./repo --interactive
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/bm25@sha256:4199603c37d75f39

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.1, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 20, 2026 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every 28 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.2.1 latest2026-09-09 db4e3e1 7,063 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-08-25 4fcc13f 7,012 BA view · diff
v0.1.22026-05-20 b09ab51 6,915 BA view · diff
v0.1.12026-05-20 e5f8ba8 5,704 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-05-20 188997b 5,650 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 (7063 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

oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pqn2a6sqsfx2sec2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/bm25
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4199603c37d75f39927c8c8d75b7a2635d4ab3813f218a955c0f5aff80e5e710

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.

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