slice SKILL.md skillA

slice from stevepolitodesign/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/slice@git:20261105.0b5f9f2

Pins git:20261105.0b5f9f2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
stevepolitodesign/skills
Path
slice/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261105.0b5f9f2, committed Nov 5, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 18, 2026
Size
16,262 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
none declared

Cut a feature or idea down to one full-stack slice.

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

# Full-stack slice SPEC

A full-stack slice cuts vertically through every layer a feature needs: storage, logic, interface, integration. It ships on its own, and a user gets something they couldn't get before. The opposite is a horizontal slice ("add the schema", "build the API", "design the UI"), which ships nothing anyone can use and hides the integration pain until the end.

Full stack means whatever this project's fullest stack is. For a web app, storage through to screen. For a CLI, argument parsing through to printed output. Let the repo tell you its layers instead of assuming.

The job is finding the version that costs a fraction of the work and is still worth shipping. The SPEC goes to a session that has none of this conversation, so it has to stand alone.

## Workflow

Arguments start with `--auto`? Nobody will answer. Read [Autonomous mode](#autonomous-mode) first; it replaces the interview and both gates below.

1. Capture the raw idea in the user's words.
2. Recon the codebase with subagents. Wait for them; the interview depends on what they find.
3. Run the interview to cut scope.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/slice@sha256:09ad54a12a80b90e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.0b5f9f2, 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

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_s5znw5vjev2qzqdf.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_s5znw5vjev2qzqdf)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 10 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261105.0b5f9f2 latest2026-11-05 0b5f9f2 16,262 BA view · diff
git:20261105.80b31042026-11-05 80b3104 15,861 BA view · diff
git:20261102.6eca3492026-11-02 6eca349 15,633 BA view · diff
git:20260926.c0ccd572026-09-26 c0ccd57 13,542 BA view · diff
git:20260915.6a514262026-09-15 6a51426 13,531 BA view · diff
git:20260824.84f78a92026-08-24 84f78a9 13,562 BA view · diff
git:20260824.ecce87d2026-08-24 ecce87d 12,038 BA view · diff
git:20260821.40a3bed2026-08-21 40a3bed 11,601 BA view · diff
git:20260818.15755142026-08-18 1575514 9,699 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 (16262 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

stevepolitodesign/skills · 10 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s5znw5vjev2qzqdf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stevepolitodesign/skills/slice
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/09ad54a12a80b90e81068f273174f3045baa48b507f0140e85987270fdee3a4c

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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