course-direction-advisor SKILL.md skillA
course-direction-advisor from ai-shifu/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ai-shifu/skills/course-direction-advisor@git:20260727.4bb4243Pins git:20260727.4bb4243 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-shifu/skills
- Path
skills/course-direction-advisor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260727.4bb4243, committed Jul 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 5, 2026
- Size
- 13,634 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Turn user-provided source materials into market-fit course-topic decisions without exceeding the evidence boundary of the materials. Use when the user needs course topic selection, competitor analysis, pricing guidance, audience targeting, market positioning, or a decision on whether the material is strong and complete enough to support a course. Avoid when the topic is already fixed and the user only needs lesson breakdowns, scripts, or copy polishing.
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
# Course Topic Selection Turn messy or complete source materials into a course-topic decision that is sellable, explainable, and traceable. ## What This Skill Actually Does This skill is not a generic naming tool. It performs a constrained commercial translation: - Content constraint: the core of the course must come from the user's materials. - Market constraint: the recommendation must match real demand, competition, and buying logic. The goal is not to find the biggest possible topic. The goal is to find the smallest topic that is still credibly sellable: - `Minimum Sellable Topic`: a topic the author can truly teach and the market can plausibly buy. ## Core Capabilities This skill is designed to: - translate an author's real material into market-aware course directions - identify target users, market stage, competing solutions, and credible gaps - judge whether a topic is too crowded, tool-replaced, weakly differentiated, or better downgraded - decide whether the material supports a course, a lighter product, or no product at all - judge whether the material is substantial enough to sustain a real course rather than only a topic claim …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ai-shifu/skills/course-direction-advisor@sha256:e6400dcb1437763aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.4bb4243, 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 4 versions of this file, between Apr 5, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 38 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260727.4bb4243 latest | 2026-07-27 | 4bb4243 | 13,634 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.1eeba0e | 2026-07-17 | 1eeba0e | 13,658 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.6492989 | 2026-06-19 | 6492989 | 13,619 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260405.6c9c22c | 2026-04-05 | 6c9c22c | 13,595 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 (13634 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
ai-shifu/skills · 11 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wfpujhey42wgbjei GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ai-shifu/skills/course-direction-advisor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e6400dcb1437763a836e62fa4eebe9083dce8fdbdd2756b1187a92f0a47d1128
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