gherkin-ticket SKILL.md skillB
gherkin-ticket from coalesce-labs/catalyst is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coalesce-labs/catalyst/gherkin-ticket@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coalesce-labs/catalyst
- Path
plugins/dev/skills/gherkin-ticket/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 16,880 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- none declared
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
# Gherkin Ticket — Use-Case-First Ticket Authoring
Every ticket must open with **a use case a stranger can understand**: who gets what outcome, under what condition, and why. Most tickets fail this — they dive straight into implementation ("Wire HRW ownership into dispatchTriage") and the reader has to reverse-engineer the point. This skill fixes that at authoring time.
This skill owns **ticket format** (title voice + body structure). It does **not** own the Linear CLI mechanics — once a draft is ready, hand off to the `/catalyst-dev:linear` skill to actually create or update the issue. CLI syntax lives in `/catalyst-dev:linearis`.
**Paths.** Commands below name files inside this skill's own directory as `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/…`. Claude Code fills that in. On any other harness, set CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR to the absolute directory that contains this SKILL.md before running them. If you cannot, stop and report `skill_dir_unresolved`.
## When this fires
Auto-invoked whenever a ticket is being born or rewritten — you do **not** need to say "gherkin":
- "file a ticket for X", "create tickets for A and B", "open an issue", "log this bug"
- breaking a PRD/plan into tickets
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coalesce-labs/catalyst/gherkin-ticket@sha256:48efc16fcb2aef31The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_ux2lxloduknpmqqm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Sep 13, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-13 | a14ac7d | 16,880 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | 2202f79 | 16,580 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | c38ed90 | 16,599 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-26 | b82e745 | 16,560 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-23 | fa7d78c | 16,846 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-18 | c7b9f2d | 16,880 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16880 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
coalesce-labs/catalyst · 20 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ux2lxloduknpmqqm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coalesce-labs/catalyst/gherkin-ticket GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/48efc16fcb2aef3100b014324579b465ca86fd69097159dbf2b36fb5b5464b10
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.