taste SKILL.md skillA

taste from escoffier-labs/skillet is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/taste@v0.2.1

Pins v0.2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
escoffier-labs/skillet
Path
skillet/skills/taste/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.2.1, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 12, 2026
Size
6,674 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Use when implementing any feature, bugfix, or behavior change, before writing the implementation code. Especially use under pressure - production is down, "just make it work", "quick fix" - which is when it gets skipped.

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

# taste

You decide what the dish should taste like before you cook it, and nothing leaves the kitchen untasted. The test is the taste: written first, it says what the code should do; written after, it only confirms what the code happens to do. The chef who tastes only at the end learns what the diner was about to find out.

**Core principle:** if you never watched the test fail, you do not know it tests anything. **Violating the letter of this rule is violating its spirit.**

## The iron law

No production code without a failing test first. Wrote code before the test? Delete it and start over. Not "keep it as reference", not "adapt it while writing the test", not "look at it once". Delete means delete; implement fresh from the test.

Applies to features, bugfixes, refactors, behavior changes. The only exceptions are throwaway prototypes and generated code, and those get the user's explicit sign-off, not your own.

## The loop
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/taste@sha256:34334efbce109755

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.1, 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_sawphlxzwl2pwi6p.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sawphlxzwl2pwi6p)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 12, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 33 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.2.1 latest2026-10-20 d86ac11 6,674 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-24 a351ae6 5,823 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-07-28 5c0ca70 5,203 BA view · diff
git:20260712.1f871dd2026-07-12 1f871dd 5,188 BA view · diff
git:20260612.716ab762026-06-12 716ab76 5,175 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 (6674 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

escoffier-labs/skillet · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sawphlxzwl2pwi6p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/skillet/taste
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/34334efbce1097555e891187fd4cf1a254cee030449b3b2318cf1b543845be51

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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