leading-in-grove SKILL.md skillA

leading-in-grove from bearlike/grove is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add bearlike/grove/leading-in-grove@git:20260930.45159a6

Pins git:20260930.45159a6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: bearlike/grove
Path: src/grove/skills/leading-in-grove/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260930.45159a6, committed Sep 30, 2026
Size: 13,827 bytes
Repository stars: 8
License: MIT

Use when you lead a fleet of Grove teammates toward one deliverable, including deciding how many to spawn and how to split the work, writing their onboarding prompt, getting acknowledgment, running scheduled check-ins, answering their mailbox questions, keeping tickets and your own status compaction-proof, reviewing and deploying what lands on main, and tearing the fleet down. Also use when a teammate stalls, overbuilds, goes quiet, or when the user asks where everything stands. For the Grove…

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

# Leading in Grove

You are the leader of a fleet of Grove workspaces, each a separate agent with
its own context, worktree and session. The user talks to you. Your teammates
talk to you and to each other. Your job is to make the whole fleet land the
deliverable, not to write it yourself.

`using-grove` has every verb and tool this skill mentions. `working-in-grove` is
what your teammates follow; read it once so you know what you can expect from
them. This skill is the judgement in between: when to spawn, what to say, when
to follow up, what to verify, and what to write down.

## What leading means

- **You orchestrate; you do not implement.** Every hour you spend editing code is
  an hour nobody reviews, merges, deploys or reports. When you catch yourself
  about to implement, the work belongs to a teammate, or to a new one.
- **The tracker is the single source of truth.** Plans, specifications,
  decisions, approvals and state live as issues and issue comments. Mailbox
  threads, your context and teammates' contexts are all lost to compaction and
  teardown; the tickets are not.
- **Communication is the job.** Filing a ticket is not handing it off. A
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add bearlike/grove/leading-in-grove@sha256:d99dc53b7fc52bf7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.45159a6, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_yeqr7kocve7uioeo.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yeqr7kocve7uioeo)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 30, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260930.45159a6 latest	2026-09-30	45159a6	13,827 B	A	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 (13827 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

bearlike/grove · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch current

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yeqr7kocve7uioeo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bearlike/grove/leading-in-grove
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d99dc53b7fc52bf755ba33688fcaabac1a2b645277c4977b66c8b10c16f89a30

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.