prior-art SKILL.md skillA
prior-art from runxhq/runx is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add runxhq/runx/prior-art@git:20261105.fdab958Pins git:20261105.fdab958 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- runxhq/runx
- Path
skills/prior-art/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261105.fdab958, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 5,076 bytes
- Repository stars
- 104
- License
- Apache-2.0
Inspect bounded local repository and Runx catalog evidence before a design, draft, or operator decision, then produce citation-bound findings and a reuse, amendment, new-work, or stop recommendation. Use when existing tools, skills, standards, or project patterns must constrain downstream work; use research or web-fetch first for external sources.
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
# Prior Art Ground the next decision in sources that were actually inspected. ## Direct use Do the inspection and return the recommendation in the same task. Do not stop after announcing a search plan, ask the operator to enumerate obvious files, or turn bounded discovery into a repository-wide grep. 1. Start from the operator's objective and current workspace. When exact `source_paths` are already supplied, reuse them. 2. Otherwise, make one targeted discovery pass for the smallest likely owning set: repository instructions and conventions, the named product or package, exact active plans or specs implicated by the objective, and adjacent Runx skill manifests. Select at most sixteen files. Listing filenames is discovery, not the prior-art result; continue through inspection. 3. Invoke the default runner with the objective, chosen paths, and any existing decomposition. Complete its bounded research request, resume it in memory, and return the validated prior-art report—not a narration of what you intend to read. 4. If the selected evidence is insufficient, return one precise `needs_more_evidence` result naming the missing source. Do not broaden the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add runxhq/runx/prior-art@sha256:3ddfd13d3a67564fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.fdab958, 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_y3ku6zl6wxpvbbmb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261105.fdab958 latest | 2026-11-05 | fdab958 | 5,076 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.16ba3f9 | 2026-10-17 | 16ba3f9 | 4,578 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.8b7af2a | 2026-08-08 | 8b7af2a | 4,578 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260723.6e5370b | 2026-07-23 | 6e5370b | 2,638 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.56d9652 | 2026-07-17 | 56d9652 | 2,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.f00df98 | 2026-07-15 | f00df98 | 4,366 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.02561b0 | 2026-05-21 | 02561b0 | 5,460 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 (5076 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
runxhq/runx · 104 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y3ku6zl6wxpvbbmb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=runxhq/runx/prior-art GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ddfd13d3a67564f49f84de9baa3d8ae2e88ae85b7b0ab3cebac708beb6e02d7
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.