choosing-a-workflow SKILL.md skillA
choosing-a-workflow from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/choosing-a-workflow@git:20261027.7c9150cPins git:20261027.7c9150c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jetbrains/thinkrail
- Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/choosing-a-workflow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261027.7c9150c, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 3,340 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,127
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use at the start of new project onboarding, PR lifecycle work including PR checks, or any change to what the product does — a feature, a behavior change, or a bug fix. Not for continuing work already routed to a workflow, non-PR questions, checks, explanations, or edits that change no behavior.
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
# Choosing a Workflow The root router of the workflow family. It classifies new workflow-eligible work and names the workflow skill that governs it — nothing more. Work already routed resumes its active workflow instead. A routed skill's steps live in that skill alone; read it, don't run it from memory. ## Classify For a new piece of work, read the request and use what is already known to answer three questions: 1. **Is this project onboarding?** No spec graph yet — an empty or effectively empty workspace where the user brings a raw idea, or an existing codebase being set up or specced for the first time. 2. **Is this the PR lifecycle?** Finished work shipping as a pull request, or an existing PR being tended — created, brought up to date, given screenshots, its checks watched, or its review comments addressed. Fixes that flow from a PR's own review comments belong here. 3. **Does the work change what the product does?** A new feature, a change in behavior, or a bug fix — however small, and even when the request already spells out the design. A detailed request shortens the interview; it never skips it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/choosing-a-workflow@sha256:a1e850b0744c981eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.7c9150c, 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_y7hx3fs3zemjc7ep)
2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.7c9150c latest | 2026-10-27 | 7c9150c | 3,340 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.ba8d9d8 | 2026-10-13 | ba8d9d8 | 3,376 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0a41d5d | 2026-09-15 | 0a41d5d | 3,134 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.a7992bd | 2026-08-24 | a7992bd | 3,411 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f2e4d5a | 2026-07-13 | f2e4d5a | 2,901 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 (3340 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
jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y7hx3fs3zemjc7ep GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/choosing-a-workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a1e850b0744c981ebce3b24ef1615c0e3364136573c8c7879acbfc01b719447d
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.