settle-blockers SKILL.md skillA
settle-blockers from checkpickerupper/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/settle-blockers@git:20261021.61c15fbPins git:20261021.61c15fb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- checkpickerupper/skills
- Path
skills/productivity/settle-blockers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261021.61c15fb, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,645 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Decide whether each blocked-by link or claimed blocker between GitHub issues is real, and record the verdict on the issue. Use before calling work blocked, waiting on another issue, or sequencing issues; when picking what can run in parallel; when reviewing or creating blocked-by edges; and when an agent reports 'blocked on #N'. A blocker is real only when the work cannot be done now or doing it now means redoing it; shared files, merge conflicts and relatedness never are. Sends cheap…
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
# Settle blockers Waiting costs time, so every wait has to buy something. An issue is **blocked** only when one of these is true: - **Missing**: it needs something only the blocker delivers (a function, a table, an API, a decision), and building that here would duplicate the blocker's work. - **Rework**: doing it now means redoing part of it once the blocker lands. Everything else is ready now. That includes touching the same file, an expected merge conflict, a related topic, a preferred order, "safer to wait", a big or important blocker, and a link that already exists. A conflict is fixed in minutes at merge time; waiting costs the whole blocker. This skill settles and records. Starting the work it finds ready is a separate step the owner calls for. ## 1. List what needs a verdict <what-to-do> Run the check on the repository, or on the issues in question: ```bash python3 <folder of this SKILL.md>/scripts/blockers.py check --repo OWNER/REPO [--issue N ...] ``` It lists every blocked-by link with no reason line, every reason line with no link, every line with no reason, and every blocker that has already closed. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/settle-blockers@sha256:2d3fdbaef5eb5936The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.61c15fb, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tk2ovzjfzou272et)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 14, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261021.61c15fb latest | 2026-10-21 | 61c15fb | 4,645 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.1bd544c | 2026-10-14 | 1bd544c | 4,551 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 (4645 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
checkpickerupper/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tk2ovzjfzou272et GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=checkpickerupper/skills/settle-blockers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2d3fdbaef5eb5936db1d0a27f2ac0ba52580ab9d3a50a114c9d438e53dcfc7c8
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.