engineering-standards SKILL.md skillA
engineering-standards from nirholas/three.ws is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nirholas/three.ws/engineering-standards@git:20261024.d4d5b94Pins git:20261024.d4d5b94 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nirholas/three.ws
- Path
.claude/skills/engineering-standards/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261024.d4d5b94, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 7,047 bytes
- Repository stars
- 269
- License
- Apache-2.0
three.ws engineering excellence checklist: architecture, open-source-first search order, UI/UX standards, innovation standard.
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
# Engineering excellence ### Architecture - **Read before you write.** Before adding code, understand the existing patterns. Use the same naming conventions, file organization, and abstractions already established. Consistency compounds. - **Think in systems, not files.** A feature touches routing, data fetching, state management, UI rendering, and error handling. Trace the full path before you start. Wire every connection. - **Eliminate dead paths.** If a button exists, it must work. If a link exists, it must go somewhere. If a state exists, there must be a way to reach it. Audit your own work for unreachable or broken paths. - **Design data flow first.** Where does the data come from? How does it transform? Where does it render? Solve this before writing UI code. - **Small functions, clear boundaries.** Each function does one thing. If you need a comment to explain what a block does, extract it into a named function. - **Delete aggressively.** Dead code, unused imports, vestigial features: remove them. Less code is better code. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nirholas/three.ws/engineering-standards@sha256:4cbbfec8e93bc284The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.d4d5b94, 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_zmuuserqhngrrnak)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 10, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261024.d4d5b94 latest | 2026-10-24 | d4d5b94 | 7,047 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.03cba02 | 2026-10-10 | 03cba02 | 5,660 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 (7047 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
nirholas/three.ws · 269 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zmuuserqhngrrnak GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nirholas/three.ws/engineering-standards GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4cbbfec8e93bc284ead5d07d75e3679fae2f9079d810047c2ac60162ad0e1463
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