project-setup SKILL.md skillA
project-setup from photostructure/coding-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add photostructure/coding-skills/project-setup@git:20260820.d8935aaPins git:20260820.d8935aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- photostructure/coding-skills
- Path
plugins/cpp/skills/project-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260820.d8935aa, committed Aug 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 14,245 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Setup and hardening review for cross-platform modern-C++ (C++17) native projects, especially Node.js addons built with node-gyp / node-addon-api. Use when asked to "set up a native addon", "harden a C/C++ build", "review my binding.gyp", "add compiler hardening flags", "wire up AddressSanitizer/UBSan/TSan/clang-tidy", "set up cross-platform CI / prebuilds for a native module", or "make this native code maintainable". Produces an applicability-aware baseline gap analysis…
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
# Native C/C++ Project Setup & Hardening Assess a cross-platform modern-C++ (C++17) project — especially a Node.js native addon built with node-gyp and node-addon-api — against a practical, evidence-based baseline for build hardening, analysis tooling, portability, and maintainable code. Report applicable preventive-control gaps even when no defect is currently proven, while clearly distinguishing hardening advice from actual bugs. Use the **OpenSSF Compiler Options Hardening Guide** as the compiler/linker backbone, the **C++ Core Guidelines** for code conventions, **CERT C/C++** and the sanitizer/tool docs for analysis, and official node-gyp / Node-API documentation for the addon toolchain. See [ATTRIBUTION.md](./ATTRIBUTION.md). ## Boundary with resource review Keep this skill separate from `resource-review`: | This skill (`project-setup`) | The `resource-review` skill | | ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | | Asks whether applicable controls meet a baseline | Asks whether a memory/resource defect exists | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add photostructure/coding-skills/project-setup@sha256:db3c1a3fb5134d2dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260820.d8935aa, 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 Jul 12, 2026 and Aug 20, 2026, about one every 20 days.
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| git:20260820.d8935aa latest | 2026-08-20 | d8935aa | 14,245 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.1031a77 | 2026-07-13 | 1031a77 | 14,187 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.676a252 | 2026-07-12 | 676a252 | 14,256 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 (14245 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
photostructure/coding-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_prm67nbcgt4zwzvr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=photostructure/coding-skills/project-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db3c1a3fb5134d2d32085648f3b0db9199d3cfab163e32df463aef5f77dff2d3
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