spec SKILL.md skillA
spec from ananthanandanan/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/spec@git:20260515.7c4fd06Pins git:20260515.7c4fd06 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ananthanandanan/skills
- Path
skills/engineering/spec/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260515.7c4fd06, committed May 15, 2026
- Size
- 11,219 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Turn a rough product idea (or the output of /ank:third-degree) into a single, opinionated SPEC.md that serves as the source of truth for an entire product or feature. Use whenever the user invokes /ank:spec, says "let's design this", "draft a spec", "write the design doc", "turn this into a tech spec", or otherwise signals they want the idea crystallised into a reviewable document before tasks or code. The skill produces ONE file (SPEC.md at repo root for product-level specs, or…
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
# Spec
The user has an idea — either fresh, or already pressure-tested via `/ank:third-degree`. Your job is to **freeze that idea into a single SPEC.md** that's sharp enough to drive task breakdown and implementation without further interrogation.
You are **not** writing tasks. You are **not** writing code. You are not even sketching the package layout in chat — you put it in the file.
## Pipeline position
```
/ank:third-degree → /ank:spec → /ank:tasks → (build with Claude Code) → /ank:review-board
(interview) (this) (issues + (implementation) (post-feature
scaffold) walkthrough)
```
If the conversation already contains a third-degree summary, **use it as the analysis input** — do not re-interview. If it doesn't, do the deep analysis pass yourself (Stage 1 below) but resist the urge to ask more than 2-3 clarifying questions. The spec itself is the place to surface assumptions, via the Open Questions section.
## Where the spec lives
| Scope | Path | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/spec@sha256:ff0766de36b4cee0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260515.7c4fd06, 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_wgjgzsexadmy57c7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 15, 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 (11219 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
ananthanandanan/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wgjgzsexadmy57c7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ananthanandanan/skills/spec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ff0766de36b4cee0ac0f7c0185a512ceffd4dc2dc25d2b7f0b21e6390883d9e7
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.
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