teach-back SKILL.md skillA
teach-back from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/teach-back@git:20260729.b84f061Pins git:20260729.b84f061 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tmusser/ai-engineering-skills
- Path
skills/teach-back/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260729.b84f061, committed Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 5,339 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Transfer ownership of a verified implementation by testing and repairing the human's understanding of its behavior, decisions, and failure modes without turning every task into a tutorial.
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
# Teach Back ## Purpose Turn a verified implementation into transferable human understanding. **Transfer ownership, do not narrate the diff.** The goal is for the human to explain, debug, and safely modify the implementation rather than merely receive an agent-generated code tour. **Test understanding, do not assume it.** Ask for a small teach-back attempt before supplying a complete explanation, then repair only material gaps using implementation evidence. ## When to use Use after trustworthy verification when at least one learning trigger exists: - the implementation introduced an unfamiliar technology, pattern, or dependency - a consequential design decision or trade-off should remain human-owned - the control flow, state transition, data path, or failure mode is non-obvious - the human expects to review, debug, maintain, or extend the change later - learning from the implementation is an explicit task goal Skip boilerplate, tiny reversible patches, familiar work, and tasks where the human does not want a learning pass. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/teach-back@sha256:0bd03acd4ec9d7f7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.b84f061, 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_vp6bayp7ulkvl4sw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 29, 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 (5339 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
tmusser/ai-engineering-skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vp6bayp7ulkvl4sw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/teach-back GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0bd03acd4ec9d7f7f0d771f9e669b66ff163b3d59557c22b3f4adae08b6aafda
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.
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