drop-folder SKILL.md skillA
drop-folder from protolabsai/protoagent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/drop-folder@git:20260912.42516adPins git:20260912.42516ad in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- protolabsai/protoagent
- Path
plugins/cowork/skills/drop-folder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260912.42516ad, committed Sep 12, 2026
- Size
- 2,243 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Turn a fenced work folder into a drop zone — a watch notices when files land, change, or disappear there and runs a follow-up you define (summarize the new PDF, file the invoice, merge the CSV). Use when the operator wants something to happen "whenever a file shows up in <folder>", or wants to pause or remove such a watch.
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
# Drop-folder workflows
A schedule runs on the clock; a drop zone runs on arrival. protoAgent's watch
primitive polls a condition out-of-band and runs a follow-up prompt in this
session when it moves. The tools: `create_watch`, `list_watches`,
`clear_watch`; the folder check is `cowork:folder_changed`.
## Setting one up
1. **The folder must be fenced.** The check only reads inside the operator's
fenced work folders (Settings ▸ Tools) — outside them it refuses on every
poll. If the folder isn't fenced yet, send the operator to Settings first;
don't create a watch that can never fire.
2. **Distill the follow-up with the schedule skill's discipline.** The
`run_prompt` runs cold: name the folder by absolute path, say what to do
with what's new, where results go, and what *done* looks like. The prompt
fires on *any* movement — arrivals, edits, deletions — so tell it to
compare against what it already handled and do nothing when nothing needs
doing.
3. **Create the watch:** `check` = `cowork:folder_changed`, `check_args` =
`{"path": "/abs/folder", "glob": "*.pdf"}` (add `"recursive": true` for
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/drop-folder@sha256:823bf964f4f4f808The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.42516ad, 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_xdkkxrppcdiwleyh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 12, 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 (2243 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
protolabsai/protoagent · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xdkkxrppcdiwleyh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=protolabsai/protoagent/drop-folder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/823bf964f4f4f80842d04738a47348fbbf3583e1918a0131902e91004ce8e3c6
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.