recursive-language-model SKILL.md skillA
recursive-language-model from understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools/recursive-language-model@git:20260619.75e83dbPins git:20260619.75e83db in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools
- Path
skills/recursive-language-model/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260619.75e83db, committed Jun 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 9, 2026
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- 8,600 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Use when a developer wants a small or local model to take over an agentic task a frontier model one-shots — "can a small model do this whole case", "the prompt is too big for the small model", "hill-climb the local model on this task". Decomposes the task into bounded, flat-context steps behind the same call contract; includes the training path.
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What the file says
# Recursive language model (decomposition harness) A methodology, not a library — the coding agent writes the loop to fit the workload. Use it when a frontier model does a task in **one giant agentic prompt** (many tool declarations + a context that compounds as raw tool results pile up) that a smaller local model cannot. Instead of shrinking the model, change the *harness*: have the small model solve the task as a sequence of small, bounded steps, each with a deliberately flat context. Crucially, the RLM wraps the small model **behind the incumbent's existing call contract** — the workload's callers send the same request and get the same answer; the decomposition happens *inside*. That makes the specialist a **drop-in replacement** for the frontier generalist, not a rewrite of the system around it. This composes two other skills: it needs [`../understand-workload/SKILL.md`](../understand-workload/SKILL.md) to know the task, its steps, and the success criteria, and [`../design-simulated-environment/SKILL.md`](../design-simulated-environment/SKILL.md) so the small model has a real, scorable place to run the whole case. …
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How to install
mdr add understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools/recursive-language-model@sha256:5ce354dc7dbfddc5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260619.75e83db, 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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Source
understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_343cdihljdlrsyzz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=understudylabs/orchestra-agent-tools/recursive-language-model GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5ce354dc7dbfddc5f8d6dafaf2882fa1a28723550cc26d5e0a1dca5e9e3f556a
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