holistic-editing SKILL.md skillA

holistic-editing from llopresto87/cypress is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/holistic-editing@git:20261006.fa6eac5

Pins git:20261006.fa6eac5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
llopresto87/cypress
Path
skills/holistic-editing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261006.fa6eac5, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 31, 2026
Size
13,110 bytes
Repository stars
121
License
MIT

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…

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

# 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**.

"Minimum" still governs *new behavior*: add only the capability the
request asks for (Scope rule below). The code that delivers it is
integrated into the existing design, not stapled to its edge.

## Process, in order

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, read
   the file or ask for the missing context, so the change is built on
   the file and not on memory. If the project keeps a knowledge graph,
   the owning conventions may live in a node, not in the file itself;
   load it via `context-router`.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/holistic-editing@sha256:76b8d5b46eb3f3cb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.fa6eac5, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 7 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261006.fa6eac5 latest2026-10-06 fa6eac5 13,110 BA view · diff
git:20260930.dd7591d2026-09-30 dd7591d 12,480 BA view · diff
git:20260927.b4072312026-09-27 b407231 13,181 BA view · diff
git:20260915.df305672026-09-15 df30567 11,924 BA view · diff
git:20260906.53f845a2026-09-06 53f845a 11,750 BA view · diff
git:20260831.6dde4342026-08-31 6dde434 8,366 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 (13110 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

llopresto87/cypress · 121 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · 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/76b8d5b46eb3f3cb77f164c1e9bfcd86a74b4ced75b61ddcded1cdd517cfb1bf

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