agent-instruction-files SKILL.md skillA
agent-instruction-files from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-instruction-files@git:20260728.819a393Pins git:20260728.819a393 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-coding-tools/agent-instruction-files/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.819a393, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 2,009 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Write the repository instruction file that coding agents read, so they follow project conventions without being told each session. Use when setting up a repository for Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor, or any agent reading AGENTS.md.
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
# Agent instruction files Coding agents read a repository instruction file at the start of every session. It is the highest-leverage document in the repository, because it shapes every subsequent action, and most are either empty or a wall of text the agent cannot act on. ## Method 1. **Write instructions, not documentation.** What to do and what to avoid, since prose explaining the architecture is less useful to an agent than a rule it can follow. 2. **Cover the conventions an agent cannot infer.** Commit format, testing commands, directory meaning, and the quality gates that must pass before a change is done. 3. **State the commands exactly.** The precise build, test, and lint invocations, because an agent guessing them wastes turns and sometimes runs the wrong thing. 4. **Name what must never happen.** Files not to edit, commands not to run, and actions requiring human approval (see agent-delegation-protocol). 5. **Keep it short enough to be read carefully.** It consumes context every session, and a long file dilutes the rules that matter (see prompt-structure). 6. **Use the filename each tool expects.** AGENTS.md is widely read, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-instruction-files@sha256:c15c73ab9922d03eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.819a393, 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_yzobq6gmpofskfnq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2009 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yzobq6gmpofskfnq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-instruction-files GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c15c73ab9922d03ef3b94a2bedb7ff3c58e2d6d8083cde22a9a929eac065dd93
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.