generalize SKILL.md skillA
generalize from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/generalize@git:20260928.efe5ce6Pins git:20260928.efe5ce6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
generalize/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260928.efe5ce6, committed Sep 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 2,554 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention. Use when explicitly asked to broaden, systematize, or extract transferable lessons.
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
# Generalize Surface meaningful improvements at multiple levels and recommend the option that best fits the user's intent and impact-versus-effort tradeoff. 1. Establish the user's actual goal, authorized scope, observed examples, and underlying failure mechanism. 2. Inspect the current conversation, established workflow, and relevant code, data, tests, or logs. Reuse existing parsers, contracts, and resume mechanisms before proposing another path. Search available agent session history only when past decisions or recurrence could change the conclusion; target exact repository names, errors, or phrases, bound the search, and avoid secrets or unrelated private content. 3. Find sibling cases and counterexamples. Generalize only the verified cause; do not turn a local defect into new policy, requirements, or architecture without supporting evidence. Distinguish a one-off symptom, repeated pattern, missing invariant, unreliable input, and architectural constraint; quantify affected cases when practical. 4. Offer only useful levels of intervention: - Fix the immediate instance. - Repair other cases sharing the same verified cause. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/generalize@sha256:ac38b355ae038fadThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.efe5ce6, 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_qlc2t37vvgeaivkn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260928.efe5ce6 latest | 2026-09-28 | efe5ce6 | 2,554 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.08e8cd1 | 2026-08-25 | 08e8cd1 | 2,022 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 (2554 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qlc2t37vvgeaivkn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/generalize GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac38b355ae038fad1ef9f31f341af8d01b9304c670666f1b0d947f7210503a2c
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.