coding-guidelines SKILL.md skillA
coding-guidelines from tech-leads-club/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tech-leads-club/agent-skills/coding-guidelines@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
- tech-leads-club/agent-skills
- Path
packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/coding-guidelines/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Feb 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 5, 2026
- Size
- 2,578 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,124
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, modifying, or reviewing code — implementation tasks, code changes, refactoring, bug fixes, or feature development. Do NOT use for architecture design, documentation, or non-code tasks.
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
# Coding Guidelines Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. These principles bias toward caution over speed—for trivial tasks, use judgment. ## 1. Think Before Coding **Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs.** Before implementing: - State assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask. - If multiple interpretations exist, present them—don't pick silently. - If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted. - If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask. - Disagree honestly. If the user's approach seems wrong, say so—don't be sycophantic. ## 2. Simplicity First **Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.** - No features beyond what was asked. - No abstractions for single-use code. - No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested. - No error handling for impossible scenarios. - If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it. Ask yourself: "Would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated?" If yes, simplify. ## 3. Surgical Changes **Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.** When editing existing code: - Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tech-leads-club/agent-skills/coding-guidelines@sha256:ccf8e60fa3300e7dThe 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 2 versions of this file, between Feb 5, 2026 and Feb 26, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-02-26 | 8dca459 | 2,578 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-02-05 | 905f8bb | 2,519 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
tech-leads-club/agent-skills · 7,124 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tnmuv4auk5xegncu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tech-leads-club/agent-skills/coding-guidelines GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ccf8e60fa3300e7d6b685cb113d33ae267e48ff238f07c15cff90be801e7db1f
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