spawn SKILL.md skillA
spawn from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/spawn@git:20261008.eaad168Pins git:20261008.eaad168 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
archive/codex/spawn/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261008.eaad168, committed Oct 8, 2026
- Size
- 15,443 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Spawn full peer Codex or Claude sessions in their own panes and git worktrees — real sessions, not subagents — briefed by the lead and merged back. Not for bounded consults a subagent covers. Use when work must outlive or run beside this session, needs its own worktree, or must stay user-steerable.
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
# Spawn You are the **lead**. A spawned peer is a **full agent session** — its own context window, its own approval flow, its own lifetime, steerable by the user in a visible pane. That makes it a third kind of delegate, above the two the Codex library already has: | Tier | What it is | Lifetime | Reach it via | |---|---|---|---| | subagent | `spawn_agent` child — context isolation, same model | dies with the thread | `$orchestrate` | | one-shot | fresh `codex exec` / `claude -p` process | one turn, deliberately not resumable | advisor and peer scripts | | **spawned peer** | full interactive session, own pane + worktree | survives you; user-steerable | this skill | ## Preflight — the sandbox gate Everything here drives the herdr socket through the `herdr` CLI, and the socket lives outside the workspace (`~/.config/herdr/herdr.sock`). Gate first, fail closed: 1. `HERDR_ENV=1`? If not, you are not inside herdr — jump to Fallbacks. 2. `herdr status` — if it answers, you have socket access; proceed. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/spawn@sha256:a362a5fdc118c30aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.eaad168, 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_xbmsilpnxg42ug7j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 8, 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 (15443 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
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xbmsilpnxg42ug7j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/spawn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a362a5fdc118c30afe803cf146a7a91048f9f5327ab6ede2cea59a50d2d72e72
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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