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AGENTS.md@skills/engineering/maintainable-code from jpcaparas/skills is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/skills/engineering/maintainable-code/AGENTS.md@git:20260915.12d6015

Pins git:20260915.12d6015 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
AGENTS.md file
Repository
jpcaparas/skills
Path
skills/engineering/maintainable-code/AGENTS.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260915.12d6015, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 12, 2026
Size
1,001 bytes
Repository stars
56
License
none declared

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

# maintainable-code

Use this skill passively whenever writing, editing, refactoring, reviewing, or planning code. It keeps agent-generated code understandable, decomposed around stable responsibilities, resilient to production failures (retries, duplicates, stuck work), replaceable in tests, and aligned with local repository patterns.

Keep `SKILL.md` authoritative. The wrapper files only describe packaging.

Core references:

- `references/principles.md`
- `references/decomposition.md`
- `references/commenting.md`
- `references/review-rubric.md`
- `references/implementation-plans.md`
- `references/guardrails-and-quality-gates.md`
- `references/resilience.md`
- `references/jobs-and-queues.md`
- `references/distributed-systems.md`
- `references/observability.md`
- `references/dependency-boundaries.md`
- `references/test-doubles.md`
- `references/gotchas.md`

Primary helpers:

- `scripts/analyze_maintainability.py`
- `scripts/analyze_app_resilience.py`
- `scripts/analyze_mockability.py`

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/skills/engineering/maintainable-code/AGENTS.md@sha256:35192b4761b63fe9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.12d6015, 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.

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Audit of the latest version

A  14 of 14 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
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  • 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

jpcaparas/skills · 56 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sgbu5ms4ho5suyv5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpcaparas/skills/skills/engineering/maintainable-code/AGENTS.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/35192b4761b63fe9c6d22207d7e62a5a2d8ceb742f02f51b71a1e67091ecbd0b

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.

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