xh SKILL.md skillA

xh from fmind/dot is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fmind/dot/xh@git:20261031.ad68ebd

Pins git:20261031.ad68ebd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fmind/dot
Path
skills/xh/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261031.ad68ebd, committed Oct 31, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 6, 2026
Size
3,458 bytes
Repository stars
13
License
MIT

Inspect HTTP endpoints with bounded, credential-safe xh requests.

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

# xh HTTP Inspection

Use xh for bounded read-only HTTP inspection; debugging a known failure belongs to [systematic-debugging](../systematic-debugging/SKILL.md), and API research to [research-brief](../implementation-plan/references/research-brief.md).

## Workflow

1. **Confirm the target**: use an explicit trusted URL, ignore stdin, and start with a headers-only HEAD so redirects and advertised size are visible without fetching a body. Pass `--print=h`: piped output shows only the body, so a bare HEAD prints nothing.

   ```bash
   xh --ignore-stdin --check-status --timeout 10 --print=h HEAD https://example.com/health
   ```

1. **Limit the displayed body**: request at most 64 KiB and cap displayed output even when a server ignores `Range`; do not add `--follow` until the redirect target is reviewed.

   ```bash
   xh --ignore-stdin --check-status --timeout 10 GET https://example.com/api Range:bytes=0-65535 | head -c 65536
   ```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fmind/dot/xh@sha256:c2dde8cb5f6c19f1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.ad68ebd, 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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Sep 6, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261031.ad68ebd latest2026-10-31 ad68ebd 3,458 BA view · diff
git:20261024.692d8d22026-10-24 692d8d2 3,236 BA view · diff
git:20261007.fbd724a2026-10-07 fbd724a 3,236 BA view · diff
git:20261005.e9af7a22026-10-05 e9af7a2 3,478 BA view · diff
git:20261004.f03a5512026-10-04 f03a551 3,247 BA view · diff
git:20260923.2988db22026-09-23 2988db2 3,244 BA view · diff
git:20260919.44918442026-09-19 4491844 3,014 BA view · diff
git:20260916.50d68102026-09-16 50d6810 2,980 BA view · diff
git:20260912.0ce18c02026-09-12 0ce18c0 3,020 BA view · diff
git:20260906.a4e0ec82026-09-06 a4e0ec8 2,892 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 (3458 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

fmind/dot · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rmnthnbgvlyhbtzi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fmind/dot/xh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2dde8cb5f6c19f10cd0a3e81ec41fcb12589e9e6b77bf4b762795f3ffdfa4c3

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