survey-patterns SKILL.md skillA

survey-patterns from tobihagemann/turbo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/survey-patterns@git:20261022.181a901

Pins git:20261022.181a901 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tobihagemann/turbo
Path
codex/skills/survey-patterns/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261022.181a901, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 21, 2026
Size
2,519 bytes
Repository stars
418
License
MIT

Survey the codebase for analogous features, reusable utilities, and existing patterns relevant to a proposed change, reading any source the task names outside this repo. Returns structured findings without writing code. Use when the user asks to "survey patterns", "find existing patterns", "look for analogous features", "check how similar things are done", "find prior art for this change", or needs pattern context before planning a change.

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

# Survey Patterns

Search the codebase for analogous features and reusable building blocks before planning a change, and read any source the task names outside this repo. Returns structured findings. Does not write code or plans.

## Step 1: Identify the Task

Determine what the change is about:

- If a task description was passed in, use it
- Otherwise, derive it from conversation context (the user's latest request)

State the task back in one sentence to confirm scope before searching.

## Step 2: Spawn Pattern Survey Sub-agent

Spawn a single sub-agent (inherited model defaults). Its prompt must direct it to treat the shared working tree and its git index as read-only and to survey by reading and reasoning. Its prompt must also direct it to search the repository with a tool that skips gitignored files, such as `git grep --untracked`, and to open or search a gitignored path only when its prompt or a file its prompt directs it to read names it, or when a dependency's installed source is needed to verify a claim, never one holding local configuration or credentials. HEAD stays where it is: read other refs with `git show <ref>:<path>` rather than `git checkout` or `git switch`. The
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/survey-patterns@sha256:891ee071049ec7a3

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.181a901, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 19 days.

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git:20261022.181a901 latest2026-10-22 181a901 2,519 BA view · diff
git:20260816.6e964102026-08-16 6e96410 2,156 BA view · diff
git:20260813.cd92d422026-08-13 cd92d42 2,006 BA view · diff
git:20260727.a40bdb42026-07-27 a40bdb4 1,893 BA view · diff
git:20260721.ff8585d2026-07-21 ff8585d 1,763 BA view · diff
git:20260721.653fe402026-07-21 653fe40 1,727 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 (2519 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

tobihagemann/turbo · 418 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xmhnpbygc3enkce2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/survey-patterns
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/891ee071049ec7a3e56c581a24aea51f2b740c529034faebc067532a5ce29134

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