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shape from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/shape@git:20261021.d548445Pins git:20261021.d548445 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
shape/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261021.d548445, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 25, 2026
- Size
- 16,682 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Primary pipeline entry for structured requirements discovery. Use first when the problem, scope, or user needs are still fuzzy and you need shared understanding before /research. Not for already-shaped PRDs or implementation-ready work.
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
# Shape This skill applies structured requirements discovery to prevent the most expensive class of engineering error: building the right thing wrong, or building the wrong thing right. Quality is a pre-design activity — better solutions come from more accurate problem definition, not from better solution-finding techniques. Output is shared understanding in the conversation. No file is produced. This normally feeds into `/research` and later `/write-a-prd`, but for work that requires multiple independent PRDs it can instead hand off to `/create-milestone`. > **One question per turn.** Throughout every phase of this skill, ask one question at a time and wait for the user's answer before asking the next. Never batch questions into a list. This is a conversation, not a questionnaire. > > **Prefer single-select.** Use single-select multiple choice when the user is choosing one direction, one priority, or one next step. > > **Use multi-select rarely.** Reserve it for compatible sets — goals, constraints, non-goals, success criteria — that can all coexist. If prioritization matters, follow up asking which selected item is primary. > …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/shape@sha256:207bd7795443bbe8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.d548445, 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_ujiliig7ydjcpp4v)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 25, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.d548445 latest | 2026-10-21 | d548445 | 16,682 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260817.b7ce3a4 | 2026-08-17 | b7ce3a4 | 16,467 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.5fcc001 | 2026-06-11 | 5fcc001 | 16,327 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.a02ae2b | 2026-04-30 | a02ae2b | 15,897 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.5eba27d | 2026-04-29 | 5eba27d | 15,480 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260425.c84ff49 | 2026-04-25 | c84ff49 | 15,134 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 (16682 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ujiliig7ydjcpp4v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/shape GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/207bd7795443bbe8dce2d59dddfc468f6a57ddbebd54ee81bcf96cce2746bcd9
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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