untangle-codebase SKILL.md skillA
untangle-codebase from aiskillstore/marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aiskillstore/marketplace/untangle-codebase@git:20261106.d2f3d4ePins git:20261106.d2f3d4e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aiskillstore/marketplace
- Path
pending/caldoai/untangle-codebase/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261106.d2f3d4e, committed Nov 6, 2026
- Size
- 8,881 bytes
- Repository stars
- 471
- License
- none declared
Untangle a whole codebase in one pass, so agents working in it read less per change, break less without noticing, and debug faster.
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
Start a thorough refactor of this codebase and complete it to the end. Treat this as a goal. **Why do this at all?** - **Better output:** agents write better code in a well-structured codebase. - **Cheaper & faster changes:** agents spend fewer tokens searching and more on the problem. - **Fewer silent breaks:** agents break less without noticing. - **Faster debugging:** agents find root causes faster. **1. Ask** Besides untangling the codebase, there are two other things you may do: | Addition | What it does | | --- | --- | | **Comments** | Remove comments that only restate the code. | | **Tests** | Remove tests that wouldn't catch a real bug, and fix the ones that fail without one. | List these (with their exact descriptions) for the user and ask which ones to do. Then do only those. **2. List every problem** Don't change anything yet. Go through the codebase asking one thing: **should these pieces change together?** Write down every place the code gets the answer wrong, as in the [decision log example](#decision-log-example). There are only three ways to get it wrong. **Hidden links:** pieces that must change together, where the code doesn't show it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aiskillstore/marketplace/untangle-codebase@sha256:b4eb6b5130c38ca0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.d2f3d4e, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 6, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
aiskillstore/marketplace · 471 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vfol4alhakcrcu4v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aiskillstore/marketplace/untangle-codebase GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b4eb6b5130c38ca04532601e99d2d174cf4faa4df520b5b7ba609e8707e55761
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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