improve-pipeline SKILL.md skillA
improve-pipeline from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/improve-pipeline@git:20260813.5a88270Pins git:20260813.5a88270 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
improve-pipeline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260813.5a88270, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 29, 2026
- Size
- 29,047 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Optional meta-skill for improving `chrislacey89/skills` from real-world friction or breakdowns discovered while using the pipeline in another repo. Use when the main lesson is about the pipeline itself, not the downstream project. Grounds proposals in established software-engineering guidance from `/library`. Produces a GitHub issue in `chrislacey89/skills` and only moves to implementation after review.
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 Pipeline Use this skill when real-world usage of the pipeline reveals a weakness in the pipeline itself. The triggering incident may happen in another repository, but the improvement target is always `chrislacey89/skills`: the skills, docs, checklists, and workflow guidance that shape future agentic development. This is not automatic self-modification. Default output is a GitHub issue in `chrislacey89/skills`. The issue should explain what happened, why it is a pipeline problem rather than only a project problem, what change is recommended, what repo-wide effects the change could have, and which files in `chrislacey89/skills` would need to change if the recommendation is approved. If the user asks for implementation after reviewing the proposal, implementation can follow as a separate step. Do not skip the proposal. > **One question per turn.** If key facts are missing, ask one question at a time and wait for the user's answer before asking the next. Never turn incident intake or review into a questionnaire. > > **Prefer single-select.** Use single-select multiple choice when the user is choosing one direction, one priority, or one next step. > …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/improve-pipeline@sha256:b9097c5ac76faf9aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.5a88270, 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_w2dwljh3bem55oya)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 29, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 26 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260813.5a88270 latest | 2026-08-13 | 5a88270 | 29,047 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.09ccbc0 | 2026-08-13 | 09ccbc0 | 28,960 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.25d4c6a | 2026-08-12 | 25d4c6a | 27,220 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260523.9ea118e | 2026-05-23 | 9ea118e | 26,397 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.dc95786 | 2026-04-29 | dc95786 | 25,712 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 (29047 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w2dwljh3bem55oya GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/improve-pipeline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b9097c5ac76faf9a423aa2010cbfbd0f8e619c507cdfccc71d048cdc37970970
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.