precap SKILL.md skillA
precap from parcha-ai/parcha-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add parcha-ai/parcha-skills/precap@git:20260908.9532a5dPins git:20260908.9532a5d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- parcha-ai/parcha-skills
- Path
precap/skills/precap/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260908.9532a5d, committed Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 12,409 bytes
- Repository stars
- 65
- License
- MIT
Write a precap — the recap of a task as if it were already finished — before or during long-running work, then use it to check whether the run is still on the imagined path. Use when the user says "/precap", "precap this", "write the precap", "what will this take", "imagine this is done", or "are we still on track"; at the start of any task expected to span many steps, hours, or sessions; on resume when a precap.md exists in the working directory; and whenever a long-running agent needs to…
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
# /precap — the recap written before the work A precap is a recap from the future. You imagine the task is completely done, then write the account of the work it took and the end result, in past tense, as concretely as a real recap. Long-running agents lose the thread: context compacts, subtasks multiply, a detour starts to look like the task. A precap gives your future self a fixed reference to compare against. It does not predict the future; it records the imagined path, concretely enough that leaving it is detectable and revising it is explicit. The difference between a precap and an educated guess is investigation. Every step in the path must point at something real in the repo, plan, or history. A step with no grounding is a hope. ## Modes - **write** (default): no `precap.md` for this task yet. Investigate, imagine, write, validate. - **check**: a precap exists and work is under way. Compare reality against it and report. - **revise**: reality diverged. Amend the precap without erasing what was imagined. If `precap.md` already exists in the working directory and the user did not say which mode, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add parcha-ai/parcha-skills/precap@sha256:07b3363080de64a2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.9532a5d, 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_uweytf6eipawhheb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 8, 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 (12409 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
parcha-ai/parcha-skills · 65 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uweytf6eipawhheb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=parcha-ai/parcha-skills/precap GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/07b3363080de64a2587dda67716e12f8bf0263a1f919583068a815aa45653e60
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.