skill-persistence-guard SKILL.md skillA
skill-persistence-guard from stijnman/grok-custom-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add stijnman/grok-custom-skills/skill-persistence-guard@git:20260826.913fa23Pins git:20260826.913fa23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- stijnman/grok-custom-skills
- Path
.grok/skills/skill-persistence-guard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260826.913fa23, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 26, 2026
- Size
- 2,713 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Detects missing or vanished skill directories in the local library and restores them from the latest local tar.gz artifacts or known Drive/GitHub sources. Use when skills disappear between turns, after environment cleanup, on startup health checks, or when autonomous-skill-forge or beta-unlocker report missing critical skills. High autonomy default — restore critical skills (forge, unlocker, evolver, orchestrator) automatically and report. Makes the ecosystem more resilient to ephemeral…
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
# Skill Persistence Guard ## Overview Fixes the recurring problem of skill directories vanishing from `/home/workdir/.grok/skills/` between conversation turns or environment resets. Provides auto-detection and restore so critical feral skills stay available. ## Core Rules - Critical skills list (always try to keep present): autonomous-skill-forge, beta-unlocker, skill-evolver, multi-agent-orchestrator, drive-persistence-bridge, natural-language-to-skill, skill-researcher. - Prefer local artifact tars first (fastest), then Drive download if available, then GitHub. - Log every restore action. - Do not claim success until the SKILL.md is present and validates. ## Instructions 1. **Detect** - `ls /home/workdir/.grok/skills/` and compare against expected critical set. - Flag any missing critical skill. 2. **Restore Priority** - Local: look in `/home/workdir/artifacts/` for matching `*-feral.tar.gz` or dated tars and extract. Prefer the newest version tar when multiple exist. - If local missing: use google_drive_download_artifact or search for the latest package in the skills folder ID `1jEivRtcNo-x9sd--2l1qe1bVox-TSnYK`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add stijnman/grok-custom-skills/skill-persistence-guard@sha256:0eb407c195d8f89fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.913fa23, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 26, 2026.
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| git:20260826.913fa23 latest | 2026-08-26 | 913fa23 | 2,713 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.8532cec | 2026-08-26 | 8532cec | 2,495 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 (2713 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
stijnman/grok-custom-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zsyndezc3zl6edyv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stijnman/grok-custom-skills/skill-persistence-guard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0eb407c195d8f89f747c8e8428973875bf557e7b36d340e19dca87fb80ae454f
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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.