chisle-help SKILL.md skillA

chisle-help from jaypokale/chisle is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-help@git:20260911.dea14e2

Pins git:20260911.dea14e2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jaypokale/chisle
Path
skills/chisle-help/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260911.dea14e2, committed Sep 11, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 28, 2026
Size
1,101 bytes
Repository stars
738
License
MIT

Quick-reference card for Chisle commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Use when the user says "chisle help", "how do I use chisle", "what chisle commands", or invokes /chisle-help.

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

# Chisle quick reference

**What it is:** maximum-efficiency dev mode. Zero-fluff prose + YAGNI-first code, always on together.

## Commands

| Command | Effect |
|---------|--------|
| `/chisle` | Activate |
| `/chisle-audit [path]` | Audit a diff/file/repo for both code bloat AND prose verbosity |
| `/chisle-review` | Review the current diff for over-engineering |
| `stop chisle` / `normal mode` | Deactivate |

Natural language works: "activate chisle", "chisle mode", "chislify this".

## The code ladder

YAGNI → reuse → stdlib → native → installed dep → one line → minimum code.

## Statusline

`[CHISLE]` is shown while active. Configure via
`hooks/chisle-statusline.sh` (or `.ps1` on Windows).

## Never minimal about

Input validation, error handling that prevents data loss, security,
accessibility, anything you explicitly asked for.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-help@sha256:6f6b8faf8b54e4ce

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.dea14e2, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_pxx664e7gfzckzrn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pxx664e7gfzckzrn)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 23 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260911.dea14e2 latest2026-09-11 dea14e2 1,101 BA view · diff
git:20260728.7bd67d32026-07-28 7bd67d3 1,106 BA view · diff
git:20260728.f0241192026-07-28 f024119 1,608 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 (1101 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

jaypokale/chisle · 738 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pxx664e7gfzckzrn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaypokale/chisle/chisle-help
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f6b8faf8b54e4ced37998cc362941d9c4330e5a74788c0becf53a907f2dc531

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.

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