better-prompt SKILL.md skillA
better-prompt from davidondrej/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add davidondrej/skills/better-prompt@git:20261015.d23aac3Pins git:20261015.d23aac3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- davidondrej/skills
- Path
skills/thinking-and-docs/better-prompt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261015.d23aac3, committed Oct 15, 2026
- Size
- 689 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,161
- License
- MIT
Rewrite a prompt into a deeper version of the same task, the way a top professional would approach it. Use only when explicitly invoked with /better-prompt.
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
I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Before rewriting it: (1) say what a top professional in this field would do here that I'm not asking for; (2) name the rawest material they would start from instead of what has already been digested for me; (3) name the specific methods and tools they would use; (4) say what, other than you or me, would show the result is right. Then rewrite my prompt to ask for exactly that.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add davidondrej/skills/better-prompt@sha256:2c40a34a0fedb068The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.d23aac3, 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_u6zxs4hrvcwjfu3p)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 15, 2026.
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 (689 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
davidondrej/skills · 4,161 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u6zxs4hrvcwjfu3p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=davidondrej/skills/better-prompt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2c40a34a0fedb068f707842f0e41ea1accddcdbbfd62e7092b9292ccf77ba84f
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.
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