skills-best-practices SKILL.md skillA
skills-best-practices from tenequm/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tenequm/skills/skills-best-practices@v0.9.1Pins v0.9.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tenequm/skills
- Path
skills/skills-best-practices/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.9.1, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 26,093 bytes
- Repository stars
- 39
- License
- MIT
Opinionated best practices for building Agent Skills - SKILL.md structure, frontmatter, description writing, progressive disclosure, testing, distribution. Use when creating or reviewing a skill, or debugging why one will not trigger.
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
# Skills Best Practices Opinionated guide to building Agent Skills for any agent - distilled from the [Agent Skills open standard](https://agentskills.io), Anthropic's official guidance, and production experience, with deviations from the official line marked where they occur. Skills are folders (often just a single file) containing instructions, scripts, and resources that teach an agent how to handle specific tasks. ## Quick Start A minimal skill is a directory with a `SKILL.md` file: ``` my-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # Required - instructions with YAML frontmatter ├── references/ # Optional - detailed docs loaded on demand ├── scripts/ # Optional - executable code └── assets/ # Optional - templates, fonts, icons ``` Minimal `SKILL.md`: ```yaml --- name: my-skill-name description: What it does. Use when [specific triggers]. --- # My Skill Name [Instructions here] ``` Only `name` and `description` are required in frontmatter. ## Core Design Principles ### Single File vs. references/ (Most Important) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tenequm/skills/skills-best-practices@sha256:b68eb28bde50cd7fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.9.1, 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 6 versions of this file, between Aug 7, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| v0.9.1 latest | 2026-11-05 | cb14e29 | 26,093 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.9.0 | 2026-09-09 | 39448af | 26,093 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.8.2 | 2026-09-09 | 532dedd | 24,818 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.8.1 | 2026-08-21 | b16c242 | 25,138 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.8.0 | 2026-08-07 | f030317 | 25,025 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.7.0 | 2026-08-07 | e54d080 | 18,690 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 (26093 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
tenequm/skills · 39 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ukjmubwiklfyepm2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tenequm/skills/skills-best-practices GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b68eb28bde50cd7f406779b89758c11cfb9d2f931343b63bb8746d298aa03b1a
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.