clean-code SKILL.md skillA

clean-code from mindrally/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add mindrally/skills/clean-code@git:20261008.7682ca7

Pins git:20261008.7682ca7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: mindrally/skills
Path: clean-code/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261008.7682ca7, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 3, 2026
Size: 7,425 bytes
Repository stars: 278
License: Apache-2.0

Clean, maintainable, human-readable code principles combined with anti-over-engineering discipline: naming, single responsibility, DRY, and scoping changes to exactly what was requested. Use when writing new code, refactoring existing code, reviewing code for quality, or deciding how much abstraction a change actually needs.

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

# Clean Code

This skill covers writing code that is easy to read and change, and — just as important — avoiding the over-engineering that makes code harder to read and change in the name of "best practices." Both halves matter together: clean code is simple code, not merely well-decorated code.

## Workflow for Writing or Reviewing Code

1. **Scope the change** — Identify exactly what was asked for. Note what's out of scope before writing anything.
2. **Reach for the simplest solution first** — Prefer the direct, obvious implementation over a general or configurable one, unless a concrete current need justifies more.
3. **Name things for their purpose** — Choose names that reveal intent before writing the body of a function or the shape of a type.
4. **Keep functions single-purpose** — If a function needs a comment to explain what it does, split it.
5. **Remove duplication deliberately** — Extract shared logic only once it's actually duplicated (see Rule of Three below), not preemptively.
6. **Write or update tests** — Cover the new behavior and the edge cases it introduces.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add mindrally/skills/clean-code@sha256:bac5e58e0d0a0579

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.7682ca7, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_qn6ulpbsejmt2m7y.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qn6ulpbsejmt2m7y)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 35 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261008.7682ca7 latest	2026-10-08	7682ca7	7,425 B	A	view · diff
git:20260903.9718410	2026-09-03	9718410	7,345 B	A	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 (7425 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

mindrally/skills · 278 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qn6ulpbsejmt2m7y
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mindrally/skills/clean-code
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bac5e58e0d0a0579736bace8d5c113bf818b1105605617dad857c1f6a26807a4

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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