living-docs SKILL.md skillA
living-docs from ejklock/living-docs-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ejklock/living-docs-skill/living-docs@v0.25.3Pins v0.25.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ejklock/living-docs-skill
- Path
skills/living-docs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v0.25.3, committed Nov 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 6,283 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Run a project's engineering decisions as a living log — MADR-lite ADRs (supersede, never delete) for decisions expensive to reverse, issues for the work (and its cheap-to-reverse choices), research artifacts, an optional PRD, a project constitution, and living Mermaid architecture views, where every record has exactly one home, indexes never drift, and a record is earned by materiality, not written per layer. Use when setting up or maintaining project docs, writing an…
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
# Living Docs Living Docs is a **decision log with a gate**. It records the engineering decisions a future reader would pay to rediscover, traces each from its rationale to the code, and refuses to let a record exist unindexed, untyped, or silently rewritten. The spine — **every piece of knowledge has exactly one home, that home is indexed, and a material decision ships with its record** — carries a small set of record types: ADRs, issues, research, a constitution, an optional PRD, and living architecture views. This skill is stack-agnostic. It governs *how* decisions are recorded and maintained, never *what* technology a project uses. --- ## Using this skill (progressive disclosure) This SKILL.md is a **slim stub** — a trigger plus a task→topic router. The `living-docs` CLI holds the full, authoritative conventions and templates and discloses them progressively. **Before authoring anything, load the topic for your task and operate from it, not from this stub:** - `living-docs guide --list` — discover every topic. - `living-docs guide <topic>` — load that topic's full rules (+ template). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ejklock/living-docs-skill/living-docs@sha256:ed60410b23ab56e3The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.25.3, 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_rquhbzn3qe5uvzdp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.25.3 latest | 2026-11-07 | 5b952e5 | 6,283 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.25.2 | 2026-10-27 | 8b67559 | 6,283 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.25.1 | 2026-10-27 | 0e91d87 | 6,283 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.25.0 | 2026-10-27 | 3c5eace | 6,283 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.24.0 | 2026-10-27 | 7af4209 | 6,283 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.24.0 | 2026-10-26 | fb66449 | 6,092 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.23.0 | 2026-10-19 | 1571829 | 6,092 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 (6283 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
ejklock/living-docs-skill · 14 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rquhbzn3qe5uvzdp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ejklock/living-docs-skill/living-docs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ed60410b23ab56e38ac3024ddfcae75772d71295f6a0f03eb307a05e7646821c
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