hydraia SKILL.md skillA

hydraia from jdanigo/hydraia is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jdanigo/hydraia/hydraia@git:20260924.c0f5fcb

Pins git:20260924.c0f5fcb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jdanigo/hydraia
Path
skills/hydraia/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260924.c0f5fcb, committed Sep 24, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 20, 2026
Size
5,338 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Use whenever the user asks to build, add, implement, or change a feature or functionality — or brings a user story or ticket to analyze, reports a bug or unexpected behavior, asks for a branch review, or wants a new app or service designed from scratch. Phase -1 triages the intent and routes it. Runs the complete non-negotiable development pipeline end to end — deep analysis and planning, sub-agent execution, and a double code-review loop — without asking the user which model, skill, or step…

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

# Hydraia — Agentic Development Pipeline

This skill defines the ONLY approved way to build a feature. Run every phase your
level requires, in order, automatically. **Never ask the user which model, skill, or
reviewer to use — those decisions are already made here.** Never skip a step the level
requires. Never pause for "should I continue?" between phases.

Announce once at the start: "Running the Hydraia pipeline." Then proceed silently
through the phases, narrating at most one short line per phase.

## Step-file architecture (how to run this pipeline)

The pipeline body lives in `phases/*.md`, loaded just-in-time. **Read one phase
file fully, execute it, then load the next only when its `## NEXT` directs you.**

- **NEVER load two phase files at once.** Do not skip, reorder, or pre-load phases.
- Follow each phase file exactly, the way you would a step file.
- `phases/model-policy.md` and `phases/token-discipline.md` are always-on
  reference (summarized below), not sequential steps — consult them as needed.

## Always-loaded facts (carry these for the whole run)

- **Route → phases** (decided in Phase -1 triage):
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jdanigo/hydraia/hydraia@sha256:2a9c268d9c3cab0c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.c0f5fcb, 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 20, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 7 days.

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git:20260924.c0f5fcb latest2026-09-24 c0f5fcb 5,338 BA view · diff
git:20260912.d4e73ee2026-09-12 d4e73ee 4,351 BA view · diff
git:20260911.e5f1c752026-09-11 e5f1c75 3,764 BA view · diff
git:20260911.1415fee2026-09-11 1415fee 3,191 BA view · diff
git:20260820.7721e2e2026-08-20 7721e2e 55,398 BA view · diff
git:20260820.65c2fba2026-08-20 65c2fba 55,146 BA 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 (5338 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

jdanigo/hydraia · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_utk73xzmo4usrqn5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jdanigo/hydraia/hydraia
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2a9c268d9c3cab0c54eeb42b6f21b1f6a8c39ce865f695ebabd29d8e2bc6be60

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.

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