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greenspuns-tenth-rule skillA

greenspuns-tenth-rule is agent-read markdown (skill) from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer: Apply Greenspun's Tenth Rule when reviewing complex codebases that have grown their own configuration systems, rule engines, templating languages, scripting layers, or workflow DSLs. Trigger on phrases like "we built our own config language", "we have a custom rules engine", "this template system has gotten really complex", "we're basically reimplementing X ourselves", or any time a team has reinvented a programming language feature or general-purpose tool inside their application. This rule is .

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/greenspuns-tenth-rule@git:20260530.3e17152
Exact content
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/greenspuns-tenth-rule@sha256:3d32e54b0b559d8f

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (3921 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

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2djob32tm2kiq6vu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/greenspuns-tenth-rule
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3d32e54b0b559d8f643e816019723ae9837800c27a7cabed6941b183f6a3b11e

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