maintaining-agent-guidance SKILL.md skillA
maintaining-agent-guidance from valsteen/pinboard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add valsteen/pinboard/maintaining-agent-guidance@git:20261105.e98b06aPins git:20261105.e98b06a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- valsteen/pinboard
- Path
skills/maintaining-agent-guidance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261105.e98b06a, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 9,117 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when establishing or evaluating a project's durable AI-facing guidance, recommending what guidance it needs, resolving unclear ownership, or untangling duplicated or conflicting instructions. Do not use for routine wording, link, or metadata corrections when the authoritative owner is already settled.
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
# Maintaining Agent Guidance Place each durable proposition at the smallest authoritative owner that can prevent the problem or answer the recurring decision. Keep complementary layers distinct and avoid duplicated policy. ## Take the settled-owner fast path When the requested change is a bounded correction and its owner is already clear: 1. Inspect nearby guidance and any thin route that could become inconsistent. 2. Edit the authoritative owner and reconcile only directly affected references. 3. Validate the changed surface. Stop there. Do not reopen the full ownership question merely because durable guidance changed. Use the remaining workflow when the edit introduces a proposition, challenges placement, exposes duplication, or changes who needs the information. ## Establish or assess a project baseline When asked to onboard a project, evaluate its guidance, or recommend improvements, inspect the current authorities and real project evidence before proposing a baseline. Unless the user asks for edits, remain read-only. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add valsteen/pinboard/maintaining-agent-guidance@sha256:bb707d1fb32291c9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.e98b06a, 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_zy76hmq464pekzie)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261105.e98b06a latest | 2026-11-05 | e98b06a | 9,117 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.3054bce | 2026-10-17 | 3054bce | 9,157 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.59825be | 2026-10-08 | 59825be | 8,735 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.5360cd2 | 2026-09-27 | 5360cd2 | 8,984 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.bdf7dd8 | 2026-09-27 | bdf7dd8 | 8,814 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 (9117 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
valsteen/pinboard · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zy76hmq464pekzie GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=valsteen/pinboard/maintaining-agent-guidance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb707d1fb32291c9d3fccb843b8002aaf119cb01692e0195918dea26e4ca912e
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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.