shaping SKILL.md skillA

shaping from szoloth/skill-pack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add szoloth/skill-pack/shaping@git:20260327.c9b0fe1

Pins git:20260327.c9b0fe1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
szoloth/skill-pack
Path
skills/shaping/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260327.c9b0fe1, committed Mar 27, 2026
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23,312 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
MIT

Use this methodology when collaboratively shaping a solution with the user - iterating on problem definition (requirements) and solution options (shapes).

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

# Shaping Methodology

A structured approach for collaboratively defining problems and exploring solution options.

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## Multi-Level Consistency (Critical)

Shaping produces documents at different levels of abstraction. **Truth must stay consistent across all levels.**

### The Document Hierarchy (high to low)

1. **Shaping doc** — ground truth for R's, shapes, parts, fit checks
2. **Slices doc** — ground truth for slice definitions, breadboards
3. **Individual slice plans** (V1-plan, etc.) — ground truth for implementation details

### The Principle

Each level summarizes or provides a view into the level(s) below it. Lower levels contain more detail; higher levels are designed views that help acquire context quickly.

**Changes ripple in both directions:**

- **Change at high level → trickles down:** If you change the shaping doc's parts table, update the slices doc too.
- **Change at low level → trickles up:** If a slice plan reveals a new mechanism or changes the scope of a slice, the Slices doc and shaping doc must reflect that.

### The Practice

Whenever making a change:

1. **Identify which level you're touching**
2. **Ask: "Does this affect documents above or below?"**
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add szoloth/skill-pack/shaping@sha256:fed50ece39203878

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260327.c9b0fe1, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 27, 2026.

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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 (23312 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

szoloth/skill-pack · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wpmw7h4o7kh4sj7e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=szoloth/skill-pack/shaping
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fed50ece3920387808ae5ff20e227db06549e7011f3e9778e2cc67e9f7a12bc2

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.

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