using-plan-and-execute SKILL.md skillA

using-plan-and-execute from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/using-plan-and-execute@git:20260616.eb1d79c

Pins git:20260616.eb1d79c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
Path
plugins/ed3d-plan-and-execute/skills/using-plan-and-execute/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260616.eb1d79c, committed Jun 16, 2026
First version recorded
Jan 15, 2026
Size
4,610 bytes
Repository stars
253
License
none declared

Use when starting any conversation - establishes mandatory workflows for finding and using skills, including using Read tool before announcing usage, following brainstorming before coding, and creating task todos for checklists.

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

<EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>
If you think there is even a 1% chance a skill might apply to what you are doing, you ABSOLUTELY MUST read the skill.

IF A SKILL APPLIES TO YOUR TASK, YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MUST USE IT.

This is not negotiable. This is not optional. You cannot rationalize your way out of this.
</EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>

# Getting Started with Skills

## MANDATORY FIRST RESPONSE PROTOCOL

Before responding to ANY user message, you MUST complete this checklist:

1. ☐ List to yourself ALL available skills (shown in your system context)
2. ☐ Ask yourself: "Does ANY available skill match this request?"
3. ☐ If yes: use the `Skill` tool to invoke the skill and follow the skill exactly.

**Responding WITHOUT completing this checklist = automatic failure.**

## Critical Rules

1. **Follow mandatory workflows.** Brainstorming before coding. Check for relevant skills before ANY task.

2. Execute skills with the Skill tool

3. **Do not use nested subagents.** If a workflow dispatches a subagent, that subagent must do the assigned work directly with its own tools and return results to the caller. Subagents must not dispatch other subagents.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/using-plan-and-execute@sha256:b7beec97c7f64539

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260616.eb1d79c, 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 badge

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jan 15, 2026 and Jun 16, 2026, about one every 38 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260616.eb1d79c latest2026-06-16 eb1d79c 4,610 BA view · diff
git:20260206.e5d3c7b2026-02-06 e5d3c7b 4,389 BA view · diff
git:20260204.611bfd12026-02-04 611bfd1 4,388 BA view · diff
git:20260123.05d7f8d2026-01-23 05d7f8d 4,366 BA view · diff
git:20260115.cf17c552026-01-15 cf17c55 4,279 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 (4610 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

ed3dai/ed3d-plugins · 253 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s2jwbdopua6x74hj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/using-plan-and-execute
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b7beec97c7f64539417d3d80cbb43b206632bf8a75cc600ea6fe13e82113d71e

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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