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functional-programmer from pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills/functional-programmer@git:20251129.c7223ee

Pins git:20251129.c7223ee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills
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opinionated-software-engineering/skills/functional-programmer/SKILL.md
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License
EPL-2.0

Functional programming principles, patterns, and practices. Use when working with functional languages (Racket, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Idris, Scheme, OCaml, F#, Elixir, etc.) without language-specific skills available, or when applying functional paradigms in multi-paradigm languages.

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

# Functional Programmer

## Purpose

This skill provides guidance on functional programming principles, patterns, and practices. Functional programming treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions, emphasizing immutability, pure functions, and declarative style. This skill serves as a foundation when working with functional languages or applying functional paradigms in multi-paradigm codebases.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:
- Working with functional languages (Racket, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Idris, Scheme, OCaml, F#, Elixir) without language-specific skills available
- Applying functional programming patterns in multi-paradigm languages (Java, Python, JavaScript)
- Designing systems that benefit from immutability and pure functions
- Refactoring imperative code to functional style
- Working with data transformation pipelines

**Note:** Language-specific skills (e.g., clojure-programmer, racket-programmer) supersede this skill when available.

## Core Philosophy

### Code as Mathematical Expression
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills/functional-programmer@sha256:32bb106f7d8ec1f7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20251129.c7223ee, 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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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24345 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

pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills · 9 stars · license EPL-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zax52cauiorhsybl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pyroxin/opinionated-claude-skills/functional-programmer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32bb106f7d8ec1f73c9af1b954e0d12b8d060e62308361d55f78d422b688bec0

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