improve-skill-quality SKILL.md skillA
improve-skill-quality from dotnet/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dotnet/skills/improve-skill-quality@git:20261006.77aac26Pins git:20261006.77aac26 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dotnet/skills
- Path
.agents/skills/improve-skill-quality/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261006.77aac26, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 14,524 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,788
- License
- MIT
Diagnoses and fixes skills in the dotnet/skills repository that lose to their own baseline, fail to activate, time out, or return "no credible improvement". Use when an evaluation verdict is a regression or underpowered, when a skill regressed after a change, when /evaluate reports no results, or when deciding whether a weak skill should be strengthened or retired. Do not use for scaffolding a brand-new skill (use create-skill) or a brand-new eval (use create-skill-test).
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
# Improve Skill Quality Turn a failing or unconvincing evaluation into a targeted fix. The single most common mistake in this repo is rewriting skill prose in response to a verdict whose real cause was the eval, the fixtures, or the harness. Classify first, then fix. ## When to Use - An evaluation verdict is a regression, underpowered, or "no credible improvement". - A skill wins in the isolated arm but not in the plugin arm, or is reported "not activated". - `/evaluate` reports "Evaluation ran but produced no results". - A skill scores well but costs too much (tokens, turns, wall time, plugin menu budget). - Deciding whether to strengthen or retire a persistently weak skill. ## When Not to Use - Creating a new skill from scratch — use `create-skill`. - Creating a new `eval.yaml` from scratch — use `create-skill-test`. - Changing the harness itself (`eng/skill-validator`, `eng/vally-adapter`, `evaluation*.yml`). ## Inputs | Input | Required | Description | |-------|----------|-------------| | Verdict evidence | Yes | The `/evaluate` PR comment, or `results.json` from the run artifacts | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/improve-skill-quality@sha256:553530b3d7028c15The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.77aac26, 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_probu5v3imtgyjfq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 8 days.
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| git:20261006.77aac26 latest | 2026-10-06 | 77aac26 | 14,524 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.f868e4e | 2026-10-01 | f868e4e | 14,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.2b9056b | 2026-08-28 | 2b9056b | 12,691 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.3adf7cb | 2026-08-26 | 3adf7cb | 12,598 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.ba4f404 | 2026-08-25 | ba4f404 | 12,624 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.780c999 | 2026-08-19 | 780c999 | 12,576 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.3e9d74a | 2026-08-19 | 3e9d74a | 12,579 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 (14524 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
dotnet/skills · 5,788 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_probu5v3imtgyjfq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/improve-skill-quality GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/553530b3d7028c15e69119a053b09975d25598857a8ce6032302a72ff5a6c33e
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.