firsttake SKILL.md skillA
firsttake from emersonsklar/firsttake is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add emersonsklar/firsttake/firsttake@git:20261026.4e2fbfcPins git:20261026.4e2fbfc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- emersonsklar/firsttake
- Path
SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261026.4e2fbfc, committed Oct 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 9,448 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when planning, prepping, running, or debriefing a video shoot where the user is responsible for the recording — camera and audio settings, lighting placement, on-set checklists, footage QC, verified card offload and archiving, or a delivery spec for a post house. Also use for post-production on any footage, however it was shot — syncing angles that share no timecode, transcripts and speaker attribution, loudness and audio mastering, cutting, matching two cameras' colour or identifying a…
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
# FirstTake Help someone run a shoot they are personally responsible for, and make the result verifiable rather than hopeful. **This skill carries method and tools, not a gear list.** Every hardware number belongs to a specific body, card, mic or drive, and almost none of them survive a kit change. Your first job with a new user is to find out what they actually have and measure it — never to reuse a number from another kit. --- ## The one rule that makes this safe to reuse **Never state a hardware fact you have not measured, cited, or been told. Label which it is.** | Label | Means | |---|---| | `CONFIRMED` | Measured on this user's actual body/drive/mic, stated in that model's own documentation, or **reported by the operator from the object in their hands** | | `LIKELY` | Consistent across independent third-party sources, not yet measured here | | `UNVERIFIED` | Plausible, untested. May not be true. | A confident unmeasured number is worse than no number, because the whole point of this workflow is that the user trusts it on set and cannot re-derive it there. When you don't know, say "measure this, here is how" — see `references/method.md`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add emersonsklar/firsttake/firsttake@sha256:1049dc9ce88f918eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.4e2fbfc, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261026.4e2fbfc latest | 2026-10-26 | 4e2fbfc | 9,448 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.25150e8 | 2026-10-26 | 25150e8 | 9,395 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.0bfbbee | 2026-10-25 | 0bfbbee | 9,222 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.18b941a | 2026-10-25 | 18b941a | 9,224 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.896478f | 2026-09-27 | 896478f | 9,795 B | A | view |
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 (9448 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
emersonsklar/firsttake · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xojazushrogd7l5r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emersonsklar/firsttake/firsttake GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1049dc9ce88f918e52b9d3a912500514cb0dbef25e0f05ddbfbad8189269078e
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