project-discovery SKILL.md skillA
project-discovery from rikvanriel/code-hygiene is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/project-discovery@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rikvanriel/code-hygiene
- Path
skills/project-discovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 17, 2026
- Size
- 4,439 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Use before editing anything in a repo or asking how a project wants contributions. Finds upstream's own rules.
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
# Project Discovery — Step 0 Run before any code edit, changelog draft, or PR. ## Search in order (first hit wins — keep first that exists) 1. `CONTRIBUTING.md` / `CONTRIBUTING.rst` / `CONTRIBUTING` at repo root 2. `.github/CONTRIBUTING.md` 3. `docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` / `doc/contributing.*` 4. `HACKING` / `HACKING.md` / `ps/HACKING` 5. `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` / `.cursor/rules/` / `.github/copilot-instructions.md` (agent contributor notes if repo ships them) 6. `README.md` / `README.rst` section "Contributing" / "Pull Requests" / "How to Contribute" 7. `src/CONTRIBUTING` (e.g. Exim) 8. Fallback, and always worth the minute: sample the project's own changesets. `git log --oneline -20 -- <paths you will modify>`, then `git show` a handful of them, ideally by different authors. Written guides rarely cover comment and message idiom, so read it off the history and mimic what upstream does. ## Command ```bash ls -1 CONTRIBUTING* 2>/dev/null; ls -1 .github/CONTRIBUTING* 2>/dev/null; \ ls -1 doc/contributing* docs/CONTRIBUTING* 2>/dev/null; \ ls -1 src/CONTRIBUTING 2>/dev/null; \ ls -1 HACKING* ps/HACKING 2>/dev/null; \ ls -1 CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null; \ …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/project-discovery@sha256:1417a0dc27b7c54eThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 17, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-27 | e0a8515 | 4,439 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-23 | 5bf4faa | 4,072 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-23 | 61abc9e | 3,671 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-17 | f466313 | 2,419 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-17 | 4fc5ed9 | 2,408 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 (4439 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
rikvanriel/code-hygiene · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sye6dekwllie27ab GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rikvanriel/code-hygiene/project-discovery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1417a0dc27b7c54e0fe1ddd5b5801c8d261f64b76db66a42c83e522c1d74f7d9
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