prepare SKILL.md skillA

prepare from apache/magpie is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add apache/magpie/prepare@git:20261027.5395957

Pins git:20261027.5395957 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
apache/magpie
Path
plugins/magpie-release-management/skills/prepare/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
21
Latest version
git:20261027.5395957, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 13, 2026
Size
21,537 bytes
Repository stars
138
License
Apache-2.0

Draft release-preparation artefacts for `<upstream>`: the planning issue, the version-bump and changelog prep PR (with the first-release review of what the source archive ships), the post-release dev-version bump PR, and, for ASF projects, the one-time `automated-signing` setup. Every output is a draft the RM confirms; nothing is merged, filed or sent.

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

<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->

<!-- Placeholder convention (see ../../AGENTS.md#placeholder-convention-used-in-skill-files):
     <project-config>              → adopter's project-config directory path
     <upstream>                    → adopter's public source repo (e.g. apache/airflow)
     <default-branch>              → upstream repo default branch
     <version>                     → release version string (e.g. 2.11.0)
     <product-name>                → project display name (e.g. Apache Airflow)
     <previous-version>            → version tag immediately preceding <version>
     <release-branch-base>         → base branch for the prep PR (from release_branch_base)
     <planning-issue-url>          → URL of the created or existing planning issue
     <category-x-dependencies>     → list of denied dependency identifiers from config
     <version-manifest-files>      → list of files the version bump touches from config
     Substitute these with concrete values from the adopting
     project's <project-config>/release-management-config.md and
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add apache/magpie/prepare@sha256:59c92d74dc126ad7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.5395957, 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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 21 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261027.5395957 latest2026-10-27 5395957 21,537 BA view · diff
git:20261027.4fc00322026-10-27 4fc0032 21,092 BA view · diff
git:20261025.cb51b532026-10-25 cb51b53 21,032 BA view · diff
git:20261016.a75734c2026-10-16 a75734c 20,885 BA view · diff
git:20261016.b4fca1e2026-10-16 b4fca1e 22,952 BA view · diff
git:20261013.f6d2b7e2026-10-13 f6d2b7e 22,801 BA view · diff
git:20261005.3ac6eee2026-10-05 3ac6eee 22,734 BA view · diff
git:20261005.01ec1742026-10-05 01ec174 22,126 BA view · diff
git:20261005.893b7842026-10-05 893b784 21,857 BA view · diff
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git:20260929.eaabd7d2026-09-29 eaabd7d 55,443 BA view · diff
git:20260928.77884f52026-09-28 77884f5 55,760 BA view · diff
git:20260926.c4795ea2026-09-26 c4795ea 55,544 BA view · diff
git:20260926.eca20092026-09-26 eca2009 55,539 BA view · diff
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git:20260923.f4df4522026-09-23 f4df452 43,417 BA view · diff
git:20260922.5a5e1d62026-09-22 5a5e1d6 43,432 BA view · diff
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git:20260918.f4a4abb2026-09-18 f4a4abb 31,780 BA view · diff
git:20260913.a4dd8ba2026-09-13 a4dd8ba 29,999 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 (21537 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

apache/magpie · 138 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wrdl7ce3dv556xag
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=apache/magpie/prepare
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/59c92d74dc126ad7516bc3bab4f361241b95ad11982ab2989a7af89360bc614f

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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