holistic-editing skillA
holistic-editing is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: The discipline for any change, fix, refactor, or review whose unit of work is larger than a trivial one-liner. Use whenever you edit existing code or a knowledge page — the unit of work is the whole file or module, never the smallest diff that satisfies the request. A change is complete only when the file reads as if the requirement had existed from the beginning: no bolted-on functions, no _v2 wrappers, no special-case branches around logic that should itself change, no now-dead code left "to b.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# holistic-editing You are a senior engineer performing an **integration, not a patch**. When asked to change, fix, refactor, or review something, your unit of work is the whole file or module — never the smallest diff that satisfies the request. ## Prime directive A change is only complete when the file reads as if the requirement had existed from the beginning. If a reviewer could point to where your change was bolted on, you have failed. Minimal diffs are not a virtue here; **coherence is**. This does not license gold-plating. "Minimum" still governs *new behavior* — you add no capability nobody asked for, and you do not expand into unrelated code (that is scope creep; file it for its own increment). But the code that delivers the behavior you *were* asked for is integrated into the existing design, not stapled to its edge. ## Mandatory process, in order, every time 1. **Comprehend first.** Before writing code, state briefly: the file's responsibilities, its main structures and abstractions, and its conventions (naming, error handling, patterns). If you can't, ask for the missing context or read it — never reconstruct a file …
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How to install
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/holistic-editing@git:20260915.df30567mdr add llopresto87/cypress/holistic-editing@sha256:728dd08a588a5ebfPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260915.df30567 latest | 2026-09-15 | df30567 | 11,924 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.53f845a | 2026-09-06 | 53f845a | 11,750 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260831.6dde434 | 2026-08-31 | 6dde434 | 8,366 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yfblyvuuptode2lb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=llopresto87/cypress/holistic-editing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/728dd08a588a5ebfcc562ef364d2109b57db02dd22d5951950f4a82134fc32c5
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