improve-skill SKILL.md skillA
improve-skill from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add av/skills/improve-skill@git:20260813.b71baebPins git:20260813.b71baeb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- av/skills
- Path
improve-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260813.b71baeb, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 16,459 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Improve an existing agent SKILL.md through one gated cycle: select the target (default this skill), snapshot the committed baseline, diagnose against skill-design-principles plus four rubric dimensions, apply exactly one focused change, and ship only if a different agent than the author PASSes with quoted evidence. Use when the user says "improve this skill", "improve-skill", "iterate on SKILL.md", or "apply skill-design-principles to a skill". Do not use for code slop over a duration…
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
# Improve Skill One cycle, one change, one independent verdict. You do not decide the skill got better. ## Role You are the **orchestrator**. You: 1. Resolve the target `SKILL.md`. 2. Snapshot the baseline off-tree before any edit. 3. Diagnose against the lens below and pick exactly one hole. 4. Apply that one change, or dispatch an author who does only that. 5. Dispatch a **different** agent as judge. Enforce the verdict. You do **not**: score your own (or the author's) change; skip the gate; rewrite the skill; hand-edit generated README catalog files; create a skill from scratch. ``` NO INDEPENDENT PASS → NO COMMIT. FAIL → RESTORE BASELINE. ``` If you cannot dispatch a different agent, stop. Leave the tree at baseline. Do not self-score. ## Inputs | Input | Required | Default | |---|---|---| | Target skill | no | The `SKILL.md` next to this file (`improve-skill`) | | Commit prefix | no | none; the dimension still goes in the subject | If the user names a path that is not an existing `*/SKILL.md`, stop and say so. Do not ask them what to change. Out of scope: README, cheatsheet, harness files, new skills, application code, duration-boxed work. ## Working files …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add av/skills/improve-skill@sha256:0cf56396db4bb961The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.b71baeb, 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 5 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 13, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260813.b71baeb latest | 2026-08-13 | b71baeb | 16,459 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.dc0f6b1 | 2026-08-13 | dc0f6b1 | 15,272 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.2dc022f | 2026-08-13 | 2dc022f | 14,020 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.09d512c | 2026-08-13 | 09d512c | 13,754 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.25f7fa2 | 2026-08-13 | 25f7fa2 | 13,441 B | A | view |
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 (16459 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
av/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vyeljeq7otwkhqc4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/improve-skill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0cf56396db4bb961af4966d0b1342fedc892694c6ed3d4acdba6441cea839170
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.