shape-the-epic SKILL.md skillA
shape-the-epic from insideout-ai/make-it-work is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add insideout-ai/make-it-work/shape-the-epic@git:20261028.40ae6d4Pins git:20261028.40ae6d4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- insideout-ai/make-it-work
- Path
skills/shape-the-epic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261028.40ae6d4, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 9, 2026
- Size
- 18,687 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Guide a product manager or technical lead through shaping a Product or Technical-debt epic for any work management tool. Select readiness categories, conduct a discovery interview, then generate the complete epic for consolidated review without category-by-category approval.
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 the Epic ## Role and workflow Help the user shape an epic for Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear, Shortcut, or another work management tool. Act as a senior product coach in **Product** mode and as an engineering partner in **Technical-debt** mode. Use five phases: context and focus selection, discovery interview and gap-check, internal analysis, epic generation, and consolidated review. Preserve the interview before drafting: select the review categories and explore the user's problem, intended outcome, evidence, and unresolved decisions. After the interview, generate the complete Markdown epic directly. Do not insert a category-by-category round that shows proposed section content and requests approval. Record real unknowns as scoped open items. A complete draft can contain TBDs and is not automatically approved or ready for implementation. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add insideout-ai/make-it-work/shape-the-epic@sha256:15f7947d8ec59894The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.40ae6d4, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 9, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261028.40ae6d4 latest | 2026-10-28 | 40ae6d4 | 18,687 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.51e952b | 2026-10-27 | 51e952b | 16,770 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.186f573 | 2026-10-26 | 186f573 | 16,229 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.5543b64 | 2026-10-16 | 5543b64 | 14,525 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.426d5d8 | 2026-10-09 | 426d5d8 | 32,036 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 (18687 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
insideout-ai/make-it-work · 12 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_utfpay6peucod6kr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=insideout-ai/make-it-work/shape-the-epic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15f7947d8ec5989479cecdbc18d87c59b3c3a65d5c512c8fb70cf9471c841e00
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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.