sota-ml-engineering SKILL.md skillA
sota-ml-engineering from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-ml-engineering@git:20261025.c05557fPins git:20261025.c05557f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martinholovsky/sota-skills
- Path
skills/sota-ml-engineering/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261025.c05557f, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 29, 2026
- Size
- 12,106 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
State-of-the-art ML engineering / MLOps rules (2026) for BUILDING and AUDITING production machine-learning systems — the training→serving→monitoring lifecycle of classical/predictive ML. Distinct from LLM apps (prompts/RAG/agents → sota-llm-engineering). Covers ML system architecture (feature stores, model registry, reproducibility), data & features (leakage, train/serve skew, versioning), training & experiment tracking, evaluation (ML Test Score, slices, regression gates), deployment/serving…
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
# SOTA ML Engineering / MLOps (2026) Expert rules for building and auditing **production machine-learning systems** — the lifecycle that turns a model into a reliable, monitored, governed service. This is **classical/predictive ML** (tabular, ranking, vision, forecasting, recommendation): training pipelines, feature stores, model registries, serving, and drift monitoring. It is **not** LLM-application engineering — prompts, RAG, agents, and LLM evals live in [`sota-llm-engineering`](../sota-llm-engineering/SKILL.md); data pipelines/warehouses live in [`sota-data-engineering`](../sota-data-engineering/SKILL.md). Grounded in Google's [Rules of ML](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml), the [ML Test Score](https://research.google/pubs/the-ml-test-score-a-rubric-for-ml-production-readiness-and-technical-debt-reduction/) rubric, and [Hidden Technical Debt in ML Systems](https://research.google/pubs/hidden-technical-debt-in-machine-learning-systems/). Every rule states the *why*; every rules file ends with an audit checklist. ## Purpose Two consumers, one source of truth: - **BUILD mode** — building ML systems: follow the rules as defaults. The model …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-ml-engineering@sha256:51823cd933a02329The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.c05557f, 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 7 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 20 days.
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| git:20261025.c05557f latest | 2026-10-25 | c05557f | 12,106 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.8dd2b0a | 2026-10-24 | 8dd2b0a | 12,100 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ae1b29b | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 11,859 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.2b21d93 | 2026-09-25 | 2b21d93 | 10,993 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.ae23b19 | 2026-09-25 | ae23b19 | 10,187 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.1c5bd88 | 2026-07-01 | 1c5bd88 | 10,021 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.2ffd9f5 | 2026-06-29 | 2ffd9f5 | 9,978 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12106 bytes)
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- 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
martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pudnmh3ydlnl4t7r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-ml-engineering GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51823cd933a023297c4fabd4ac17ca67bb3ce29835fbba4e2f1bbc2e3b6ac4ba
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