sharpen SKILL.md skillA
sharpen from joetawil7/first-pass is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/sharpen@git:20260925.ec4b0baPins git:20260925.ec4b0ba in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- joetawil7/first-pass
- Path
skills/sharpen/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260925.ec4b0ba, committed Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 7,783 bytes
- Repository stars
- 107
- License
- MIT
Rewrites the prompt typed after the command before any work starts, then works from the rewrite. Splits a mixed-up message into a numbered list of asks, turns words like "be 100% sure", "cover all cases" or "don't break anything" into the checks they stand for, keeps every name, path, number and quote exactly, and stops to ask only where it would have to guess. Runs only when the user types it.
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
# sharpen The prompt to rewrite: <prompt> $ARGUMENTS </prompt> If the prompt block above is empty or still shows a placeholder, the prompt is the text the user sent with this command. If there is none, ask for it and stop. **The rewrite (step 5) is shown before any other skill, edit or command that changes anything.** The user typed this command to see how their prompt was read; work that starts without showing it has skipped the skill. It is not a preamble or a restatement of the question, so reply rules against those do not apply to it. It goes in the reply text, never only in thinking, which the user cannot see. Other skills the work calls for (`premortem`, `fix-the-class`, `ship-check`) are loaded only after it. **When this runs as `/first-pass:sharpen` (the Claude Code plugin), the rewrite is a message of its own: write it, then end the message with no tool call.** The plugin's hooks hold back edits, shell commands, subagents, MCP tools, publishing, scheduling and other skills until reply text starting with the word **Sharpened** has been shown, then tell you to go on with the work. Read, Grep and Glob are never held back. Anywhere else (Cursor, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/sharpen@sha256:8025f3e8d1c7ce00The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.ec4b0ba, 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_qxadx5phaneihltu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 25, 2026.
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 (7783 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
joetawil7/first-pass · 107 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qxadx5phaneihltu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=joetawil7/first-pass/sharpen GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8025f3e8d1c7ce004059748c7c99b16a8882064add3cd01e6e3df2fd008b98fd
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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