tool-noise-guard SKILL.md skillA
tool-noise-guard 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/tool-noise-guard@git:20260724.f589327Pins git:20260724.f589327 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/tool-noise-guard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260724.f589327, committed Jul 24, 2026
- Size
- 6,233 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Passive guardrail that compacts repetitive tool-result envelopes, preserves decision-relevant anchors and deltas, and suppresses redundant re-fetches without pretending prior context disappeared.
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
# Tool Noise Guard ## Purpose Reduce the forward propagation of tool-call bloat during tool-heavy work. **Compact forward, not backward.** This skill cannot remove raw tool output that the runtime already injected into context. It prevents that cost from multiplying by re-quoting, re-summarizing, and re-fetching the same low-value metadata on later turns. Never trade required evidence for token savings. ## When to use Optional passive guardrail. Once explicitly enabled for a tool-heavy task or session, stay active until the user disables it or the task no longer uses tools. Stay silent by default. Intervene behaviorally when one or more of these signals appear: - successive tool results repeat the same wrapper, schema, or stable metadata - a list/search response contains many fields but only a few affect the next decision - the same resource is fetched or polled again without a concrete freshness reason - a follow-up call can reuse an existing ID, cursor, path, or resource reference - verbose tool envelopes are being copied into summaries, handoffs, or user-facing prose Do not compact aggressively when exact raw payload shape is itself the evidence, when …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/tool-noise-guard@sha256:18a5eee73647e744The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.f589327, 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_wajx4wgc26ttmbhk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 24, 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 (6233 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_wajx4wgc26ttmbhk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/tool-noise-guard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18a5eee73647e74411c799e5310b774b1fd7e40b8a4f5b83acace456c7717e80
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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.