init SKILL.md skillB
init from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/init@git:20261003.5f5a39ePins git:20261003.5f5a39e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/init/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261003.5f5a39e, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 16, 2026
- Size
- 12,658 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when starting from nothing or pointing rsc at an existing project — the front door. First asks one question — technical terms or analogies (analogies by default) — then discovers what the user wants to build or govern (any stack, or a non-code harness: company/ops, research, knowledge, content), writes the profile to 02-DOCS, and installs the skills discovery justified. NOT the scaffolder (that is `harness`), NOT a stack skill.
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
# init — the rsc-skills Front Door *The very first thing you run. It meets the user where they are — assuming non-technical until told otherwise — figures out what they actually want, installs the right skills, and hands off to `harness` to build the workspace.* Think of `init` as the receptionist: it learns who you are and what you need, writes that down where every other skill can read it, and walks you to the right room. The boundary is fixed: **`init` writes only the user-profile and decisions log under `02-DOCS/wiki/harness/`, plus the `CLAUDE.md` Knowledge-map link.** Every other `01-TOOLS/` + `02-DOCS/` scaffold belongs to `harness`. It is **domain-agnostic**. The thing being built or governed may be software on any stack, or a non-code harness — running a company, an ops desk, a research program, a knowledge base, a content operation. No code required; the same structure governs it. Never assume "project" means "code". ## First contact: one question, set before anything else The whole harness talks differently depending on this answer. Nothing — no discovery, no recommendation — happens before the profile exists and `CLAUDE.md` links it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/init@sha256:e1b920c31e521ff6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.5f5a39e, 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_yaesrlgucacf257u)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261003.5f5a39e latest | 2026-10-03 | 5f5a39e | 12,658 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261003.f0c84d6 | 2026-10-03 | f0c84d6 | 12,149 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260910.1bcf47e | 2026-09-10 | 1bcf47e | 12,988 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260725.fda2155 | 2026-07-25 | fda2155 | 12,036 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260616.e764ffd | 2026-06-16 | e764ffd | 21,162 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl | bash)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12658 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yaesrlgucacf257u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/init GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e1b920c31e521ff6b36ae4fd1d5706035d14b55964ca48734ef5baa3fe81333f
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.
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