tech-radar SKILL.md skillA
tech-radar 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/tech-radar@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 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/big-tech-processes/tech-radar/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,133 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Maintain a tech radar that sorts technologies into adopt, trial, assess, and hold against a real evidence bar, and pairs each adoption with a sunset. Use when an organization needs a shared, current view of which tools and techniques to reach for and which to retire.
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
# Tech radar A tech radar, in the form ThoughtWorks made common, places technologies into four rings so a whole organization shares one opinion about what to reach for. It decays into a list of things someone thought were cool: entries with no evidence behind the ring, nothing ever moving to hold, and adoptions that quietly pile new tools on top of the old without ever removing anything. A radar earns its keep by having a bar and by retiring as deliberately as it adopts. ## Method 1. **Sort every entry into exactly one of four rings.** Adopt: proven here, use it by default. Trial: worth using on a real project with a fallback. Assess: worth a spike to understand, not yet a bet. Hold: do not start anything new with it. The ring is a recommendation for action, not a rating of how interesting a thing is. 2. **Require evidence to move inward, and raise the bar per ring.** Assess needs a credible reason to look. Trial needs at least one team that shipped something real with it. Adopt needs multiple teams, production mileage, and a story for operating it. "A senior engineer likes it" moves nothing on its own. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/tech-radar@sha256:df4d928316f0d631The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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_z5mdg2ugk3bkg6e2)
4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,133 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,124 B | A | view |
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 (3133 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_z5mdg2ugk3bkg6e2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/tech-radar GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df4d928316f0d631b6c744223ee046cc04cfcc6681df5612b1db4c07fe7aac29
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.