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principles from imagile-dev/claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add imagile-dev/claude-plugins/principles@git:20261020.ce5808a

Pins git:20261020.ce5808a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: imagile-dev/claude-plugins
Path: plugins/imagile/skills/principles/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261020.ce5808a, committed Oct 20, 2026
Size: 2,677 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: MIT

Write, sharpen and audit a principle-first CLAUDE.md so agents decide without asking. Use to set up CLAUDE.md, turn a correction into a principle, or trim a long one.

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

# Principles

The principal track. A repo's CLAUDE.md sets a few core principles. Agents work
autonomously inside them, and the human revisits what they decided later (the
`imagile:revisit` skill). The better the principles, the fewer questions.

## Mode 1: write

For a repo with no CLAUDE.md, or one that is a list of rules with no principles.

1. Read what exists: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`,
   README, CI workflows, the project layout.
2. Ask the user at most five questions, only about what the code can't answer:
   who uses it, what must never break, what can't an agent do alone, the merge
   policy.
3. Start from `references/claude-md-template.md`. Keep Imagile principles 1 to 9
   unless the user rejects one. Add repo-specific principles from step 2.
4. Fill in the Gate from the commands CI actually runs. Run each one locally to
   prove it works.
5. Move every task-specific rule into a repo skill (`.claude/skills/<name>/`), and
   leave a one-line index entry.
6. Create the `AGENTS.md` symlink (`ln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md`) and an empty
   `AGENT_DECISIONS.md` (format in `imagile:revisit`).

## Mode 2: absorb a correction
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add imagile-dev/claude-plugins/principles@sha256:746f22b48fab4b0a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.ce5808a, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_u2q7l2mrdcdb3bkh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_u2q7l2mrdcdb3bkh)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 20, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261020.ce5808a latest	2026-10-20	ce5808a	2,677 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2677 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

GitHub

imagile-dev/claude-plugins · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u2q7l2mrdcdb3bkh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=imagile-dev/claude-plugins/principles
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/746f22b48fab4b0a3c6b0baad7f7682371a153ee56c0384a67b48667ec049daf

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.