start-task SKILL.md skillA
start-task from foyzulkarim/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add foyzulkarim/skills/start-task@git:20260724.cdb1a53Pins git:20260724.cdb1a53 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- foyzulkarim/skills
- Path
dev-pipeline/skills/start-task/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260724.cdb1a53, committed Jul 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,417 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- none declared
Bootstrap a task into a synced feature branch — one shot, zero confirmations. Detects the source from the args: GitHub issue ('#100', 'issue 100', 'gh issue 100', or bare '100'), Jira key ('PROJ-42'), or a local spec file path; ad-hoc conversation otherwise. Fetches the task, derives {type}/{number}/{slug}, syncs the default branch, creates and pushes the branch, and writes specs/context/<id>.md. Use only when the user explicitly asks to start a task or create a work branch — never trigger…
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
# Start-Task
Turn a task reference into a synced feature branch named
`{type}/{number}/{slug}` plus a context file at `specs/context/<id>.md`.
Zero confirmations on the happy path: detect → fetch → derive → execute → report.
## 1. Detect the source (no bash)
Match the args in this order:
1. **Jira** — `[A-Z]+-\d+` (e.g. `PROJ-42`)
2. **GitHub issue** — a numeric token, stripping any of `github`, `gh`, `issue`, `issues`, `#`
3. **Local spec** — a path ending in `.md`, `.txt`, `.yaml`, `.yml`, or `.json`; reject any path containing `..`
4. **Ad-hoc** — nothing matched: ask once (a single question) for the task type, title, and identifier, then skip to step 3
## 2. Fetch (1 bash call)
**GitHub:**
```bash
gh issue view <ISSUE_NUM> --json title,labels --jq '{title: .title, labels: [.labels[].name]}'
```
**Jira:** `which acli && acli jira issue view <KEY>` — extract summary, type, key.
If `acli` is missing, hard-stop: the developer chose Jira; do not degrade to ad-hoc.
**Local spec:** read the file; extract title and scope. The identifier is the
developer-provided one or the filename stem.
On any fetch failure, hard-stop and print the error verbatim — no retries, no
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add foyzulkarim/skills/start-task@sha256:8f670df72fc6560aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.cdb1a53, 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 May 8, 2026 and Jul 24, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260724.cdb1a53 latest | 2026-07-24 | cdb1a53 | 4,417 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260723.8489dcc | 2026-07-23 | 8489dcc | 4,448 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.72cac2a | 2026-07-05 | 72cac2a | 4,315 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260703.a84a3d2 | 2026-07-03 | a84a3d2 | 4,284 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.6443eee | 2026-05-08 | 6443eee | 11,180 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 (4417 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
foyzulkarim/skills · 43 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_th77einckf2obyrp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=foyzulkarim/skills/start-task GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f670df72fc6560a1cd91a4cbb096a483fe2721f92a70dc734237fa6656bf0c2
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.