vela SKILL.md skillA

vela from dbhq-uk/vela-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dbhq-uk/vela-skill/vela@git:20261003.179351f

Pins git:20261003.179351f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
dbhq-uk/vela-skill
Path
skills/vela/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
12
Latest version
git:20261003.179351f, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 29, 2026
Size
5,892 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Compiler-exact code search over a SCIP index - find where a symbol is defined, every reference to it, who calls it, and what a change would break. Indexes .NET itself: C#, VB, Razor Pages, MVC views and Blazor components, with every Razor reference resolved by the compiler into a saved index, where grep sees only text. Any other language - TypeScript, Python, Go, Java - reaches the same database by importing the .scip file its own indexer produces, and then the same verbs answer over it; vela…

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

# vela

Compiler-exact code search over a SCIP index. .NET answers come from Roslyn, other languages from their own indexers' `.scip` files. It never writes to the repository.

## Which tool

- **grep** when the name is distinctive. It is free and needs no index.
- **The LSP tool**, where your host has one, for code you have just edited. It stays live, where vela needs a re-index, which takes minutes on a large solution.
- **vela** for:
  - ordinary names (`Name`, `Status`, `Id`), where grep is mostly noise and vela reports when a name is ambiguous
  - references from `.cshtml` and `.razor` files
  - callers, implementations, and what a change touches
  - a survey of a clean tree before a change
- **Not vela** in a repository with no .NET and no `.scip` to import.

## Steps

### 0. Check the command is installed

```bash
command -v vela
```

Plugin and skills.sh installs copy this file, not the command. If it prints nothing, tell the user rather than quietly falling back to grep. vela needs:

- the .NET SDK 10.0 or newer
- the tool itself: clone `https://github.com/dbhq-uk/vela-skill` and run `./install.sh`
- `~/.dotnet/tools` on `PATH`

### 1. Build the index
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dbhq-uk/vela-skill/vela@sha256:625e8d8eecc69020

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.179351f, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ziyvrxdzjiwhryan.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ziyvrxdzjiwhryan)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261003.179351f latest2026-10-03 179351f 5,892 BA view · diff
git:20260925.e70f72a2026-09-25 e70f72a 5,933 BA view · diff
git:20260925.d4d1d5c2026-09-25 d4d1d5c 5,912 BA view · diff
git:20260925.0606a652026-09-25 0606a65 5,833 BA view · diff
git:20260925.71ce1e42026-09-25 71ce1e4 17,418 BA view · diff
git:20260925.7231a5f2026-09-25 7231a5f 17,249 BA view · diff
git:20260918.d36c8042026-09-18 d36c804 15,782 BA view · diff
git:20260731.b27fffb2026-07-31 b27fffb 15,429 BA view · diff
git:20260731.08885642026-07-31 0888564 14,138 BA view · diff
git:20260730.bdb68442026-07-30 bdb6844 12,063 BA view · diff
git:20260730.66044272026-07-30 6604427 12,019 BA view · diff
git:20260729.8ba85052026-07-29 8ba8505 11,604 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 (5892 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

dbhq-uk/vela-skill · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ziyvrxdzjiwhryan
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dbhq-uk/vela-skill/vela
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/625e8d8eecc69020765b3a9e2d762fe0d622dac29da3643c3162970c71ea5a49

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.

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