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guide from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vanducng/skills/guide@v0.1.3Pins v0.1.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vanducng/skills
- Path
skills/guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.1.3, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 4,487 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Catalog front door. Map an ask to the right vd: skill and the next hand-off so agents and humans do not memorize the catalog. Use when the user asks 'which skill', 'how do I start', 'what should I run', 'guide me', 'router', or when several skills could apply (review lenses, browser ladder, diagram picker, get-it-done paths).
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
# Guide This skill picks the next skill. It does not interview, plan, or edit source. Name one skill (plus a flag if needed), say why, and stop unless the user asks you to run it. ## Delivery spine One path: **interview → brainstorm → plan → cook → ship**. `vd:ultracook` runs the smallest slice of the same path. | If | Use | |---|---| | Who / why / success / out of scope is missing | `vd:interview` | | A plan or idea needs its decisions walked | `vd:interview --grill` | | Deciding will not fit one session | `vd:interview --wayfinder` | | Want is clear, how is not | `vd:brainstorm` | | Approach is picked | `vd:plan` → `vd:cook` → `vd:code-review` → `vd:ship` | | Something is broken | `vd:debug` → `vd:fix` | | Drive the whole thing | `vd:ultracook` | ## Three "just get it done" paths | Path | Pick when | |---|---| | `vd:cook --quick` | Tight, no plan, one surface. You will still verify and test. | | `vd:fix` | Known bug, narrow blast radius. `--quick` on cook covers similar ground. | | `vd:ultracook` (direct) | User asked to orchestrate and the task is trivial. Ultracook classifies; it should not open a goal-dir. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vanducng/skills/guide@sha256:497341ad725a633cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.3, 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_wdiqpvb27xkrke6b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.3 latest | 2026-10-28 | 792f7e1 | 4,487 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.3 | 2026-10-07 | 2ab1959 | 4,413 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-10-04 | 1faa77f | 4,330 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-09-20 | a55aee0 | 4,144 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-09-03 | 2cb5ffd | 3,580 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-23 | 87cd06b | 3,527 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 (4487 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
vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wdiqpvb27xkrke6b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/497341ad725a633cbb1eff11bd8cba8ad32eb706b95e80f1b366a28d9db27258
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.