agent-instructions SKILL.md skillA
agent-instructions from devantler-tech/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/agent-instructions@git:20260930.9efaca4Pins git:20260930.9efaca4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- devantler-tech/agent-skills
- Path
agent-instructions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260930.9efaca4, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 11,477 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Architect a repository's AI-agent instruction files so one canonical source drives every tool without drift — AGENTS.md as the cross-tool source of truth (now read by GitHub Copilot too), thin per-tool shims (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md) that include it, and optional path-scoped .github/instructions/ rules. Use when setting up or fixing agent instructions for a repo, supporting multiple AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini) at once, deciding what belongs in AGENTS.md vs a…
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
# Agent Instructions Most AI coding tools read project guidance from a file in the repo — historically each looked in a *different* place (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, …). Copy the same guidance into each one and the copies **drift**: a command changes in one file and the others keep telling agents the old way. The fix is one **canonical** source plus thin tool-specific **shims** (which include the canonical file). Give each durable rule one canonical home: the root core, a linked topic guide, or a nested instruction file. Keep genuine tool-specific quirks in a tool's own file. The good news: `AGENTS.md` is now read by nearly every major tool — **including GitHub Copilot** — so shared guidance can have one maintained source without a per-tool copy. ## The canonical file: `AGENTS.md` `AGENTS.md` is the cross-tool standard — a plain-Markdown file at the repo root, read natively by a growing set of agents and editors (Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot). Make it the **entrypoint** for durable, tool-neutral guidance: - **What the project is** — one-paragraph purpose, the stack, where the important code lives. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/agent-instructions@sha256:e8dda74baa147aa9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.9efaca4, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| git:20260930.9efaca4 latest | 2026-09-30 | 9efaca4 | 11,477 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.658f1d1 | 2026-07-11 | 658f1d1 | 8,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.c2cd37c | 2026-06-19 | c2cd37c | 8,082 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.ef0fa51 | 2026-06-17 | ef0fa51 | 7,107 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 (11477 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
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Source
devantler-tech/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_soyir26q7jnunm5l GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=devantler-tech/agent-skills/agent-instructions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e8dda74baa147aa934ffe4a3fd8b59c9e6c7df1043c3ef9570ff9430d14fe972
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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