gardening SKILL.md skillA

gardening from kunanonj/ai-skills-hub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kunanonj/ai-skills-hub/gardening@git:20261006.876cce4

Pins git:20261006.876cce4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kunanonj/ai-skills-hub
Path
plugins/superstacks/skills/gardening/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261006.876cce4, committed Oct 6, 2026
Size
1,179 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Use when finding small maintenance work. One concern per PR, each with a verify command and a small diff budget.

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

# Gardening

Small maintenance only: deprecated patterns, dead code, tiny perf fixes, lint debt. One concern per draft PR.

## Sequence

1. List candidate nits. Pick **one**.
2. Name a verify-loop command that fails on the nit and passes after the fix.
3. Stay inside the diff budget. Run:

```text
python <this-skill>/scripts/diff_budget.py --base <default-branch> --max-lines 80 --max-files 6
```

4. If the script fails, split the work. Do not raise the budget to fit a refactor.
5. Open a draft PR. Run `pr/scripts/check_pr_body.py` on the body.

## Budget defaults

- 80 changed lines
- 6 files
- No generated lockfile churn
- No behaviour change outside the named nit

## Rules

- Dead-code deletion needs a verify command that would fail if the symbol were still referenced, or a compile/test run that proves the tree still loads.
- Do not mix gardening with a feature. Do not "while I'm here".
- One-way doors are not gardening. Hand those to `intake-triage` / `interrogate`.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kunanonj/ai-skills-hub/gardening@sha256:ab86fe3f9b92e8a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.876cce4, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_whetpxqwadf234vu.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_whetpxqwadf234vu)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 6, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261006.876cce4 latest2026-10-06 876cce4 1,179 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1179 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

GitHub

kunanonj/ai-skills-hub · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_whetpxqwadf234vu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kunanonj/ai-skills-hub/gardening
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ab86fe3f9b92e8a406b165c3d9e5cf246604754daa8973e3a9a1b4ab16949128

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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