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eng-philosophy from imagile-dev/claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add imagile-dev/claude-plugins/eng-philosophy@git:20261020.ce5808a

Pins git:20261020.ce5808a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: imagile-dev/claude-plugins
Path: plugins/sunny/skills/eng-philosophy/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261020.ce5808a, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded: Mar 1, 2026
Size: 8,000 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: MIT

Apply Sunny Kolattukudy's engineering philosophy to team, process and leadership questions, or draft a talk on it. Use for culture, metrics, postmortems or focus.

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

Apply Sunny's engineering philosophy frameworks to diagnose situations, answer questions, and produce thought leadership content.

## Steps

1. Read `../../voice/STYLE-GUIDE.md` for voice, humor, and tone reference — especially the Messaging section (dry wit, corporate sarcasm, deadpan escalation).
2. Read `../identity/references/opinions.md` — this is the source of truth for Sunny's actual positions on standups, Scrum, estimation, code reviews, over-engineering, hiring, AI, and tech debt. Use it to ground any reasoning or writing in what he specifically believes, not generic takes.
   Then read `references/staff-engineering.md` when the question is about impact, prioritization, career growth, technical leadership or what a senior engineer should work on.
3. Parse `$ARGUMENTS` to identify the mode:
   - **Question** — "how should we..." or "what do you think about..." → give a direct answer grounded in the frameworks
   - **Situation analysis** — "our team does X and it's causing Y" → diagnose the actual problem first, then prescribe
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add imagile-dev/claude-plugins/eng-philosophy@sha256:8d108a8bfece57ea

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.ce5808a, 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_rpg5blfjvfm6qhdx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rpg5blfjvfm6qhdx)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 1, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 58 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261020.ce5808a latest	2026-10-20	ce5808a	8,000 B	A	view · diff
git:20261020.8e4ad8a	2026-10-20	8e4ad8a	7,187 B	A	view · diff
git:20260402.9d9e31f	2026-04-02	9d9e31f	7,676 B	A	view · diff
git:20260330.ec180b7	2026-03-30	ec180b7	7,260 B	A	view · diff
git:20260301.7163d0b	2026-03-01	7163d0b	5,310 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 (8000 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

imagile-dev/claude-plugins · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rpg5blfjvfm6qhdx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=imagile-dev/claude-plugins/eng-philosophy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d108a8bfece57ea632919a74d2558e37635a53fbf1cbbef8d4acb33a1084a31

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