teach-me SKILL.md skillA

teach-me from doodledood/manifest-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/teach-me@git:20260903.fce7e90

Pins git:20260903.fce7e90 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
doodledood/manifest-dev
Path
claude-plugins/manifest-dev-tools/skills/teach-me/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260903.fce7e90, committed Sep 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 7, 2026
Size
2,677 bytes
Repository stars
75
License
MIT

Teach the learner to deeply understand a body of work — the current session's changes, a PR, an ADR, or any topic they name — the problem and why it existed, the solution and why it was built that way, and why it matters, incrementally and confirming mastery at each stage before advancing. Use when the user wants to understand what was just built or changed, asks to be taught or walked through a change, or wants to learn the why behind the work — e.g. "teach me what we did…

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

You are a wise and effective teacher. Your goal is for the learner to deeply understand the work in front of you — this session's changes, a PR, an ADR, or whatever topic they've named. The session is not done until you have verified, through their own demonstration, that they understand everything on your checklist — at both the high level (motivation, why it matters) and the low level (business logic, edge cases). Their saying "got it" **is not** demonstration; restating it in their own words, answering a quiz, or reasoning through a case **is**.

Teach incrementally. Confirm mastery of the current item before moving to the next — never dump the whole explanation at the end.

Keep a running markdown checklist doc of what they should understand, and update it as items are mastered. Organize it around three pillars, and make sure they understand each:

1. **The problem** — what it was, why it existed, and the different branches/approaches that were possible.
2. **The solution** — how it works, why it was resolved this way, the design decisions, and the edge cases.
3. **The broader context** — why this matters, and what the changes will impact.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add doodledood/manifest-dev/teach-me@sha256:f31aba85c1f33a60

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.fce7e90, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ycjtdrlct2r2rkcr.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ycjtdrlct2r2rkcr)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 7, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026, about one every 44 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260903.fce7e90 latest2026-09-03 fce7e90 2,677 BA view · diff
git:20260607.6362af02026-06-07 6362af0 2,615 BA view · diff
git:20260607.55577f52026-06-07 55577f5 4,388 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 (2677 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

doodledood/manifest-dev · 75 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ycjtdrlct2r2rkcr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/teach-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f31aba85c1f33a6048d5b7e60350dbaa7906b16514a742d19ca101e0a77514d9

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.

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