lythoskill-sober SKILL.md skillA
lythoskill-sober from lythos-labs/lythoskill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober@v0.21.0Pins v0.21.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lythos-labs/lythoskill
- Path
skills/lythoskill-sober/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- v0.21.0, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 6,925 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Stay clear-headed. Before you commit to a conclusion, check your basis. Is this evidence or assumption? Do the sources agree? What's the confidence per claim — not in general, but specifically? When you catch yourself listing risks without checking, or hesitating between directions without data, that's the signal to stop and verify.
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
# Sober — Second Thought
> Not a tool. A posture. Stay clear-headed. Check your basis.
> Arena = multi-agent verification infra. Curator = memory.
> Sober = the cognitive baseline connecting them.
> **Invocation.** `arena <cmd>` / `curator <cmd>` below are shorthand for
> `bunx @lythos/skill-arena@…` / `bunx @lythos/skill-curator@…` (no install).
> The bare names are not registered bins — in-repo alias convention only.
> Want them? `alias arena='bunx @lythos/skill-arena@latest'`,
> `alias curator='bunx @lythos/skill-curator@latest'` — optional.
## Core Practice
These 7 practices keep decisions grounded in evidence, not impulse.
### 1. Decompose before searching
Vague claims ("fast", "reliable", "better than Y") are unverifiable. Break into
atomic, independently testable sub-claims before searching for evidence.
Flag unverifiable claims explicitly — don't guess.
### 2. Independence > count
10 sources citing the same report = 1 source. Sources that cite each other are
echo, not convergence. Always trace to primary source.
### 3. L3 > L2 > L1 (自己动手丰衣足食 — "do it yourself and you'll have plenty": self-reliance, build your own verification when none exists)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober@sha256:df994d7becdb1d4fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.21.0, 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_37i76fxqgqbpvhjs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Sep 8, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.21.0 latest | 2026-10-23 | afa7efd | 6,925 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.20.1 | 2026-10-19 | d2225a9 | 6,925 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.20.1 | 2026-10-19 | e94b298 | 6,795 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.20.1 | 2026-10-14 | 0e42b7b | 6,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.20.0 | 2026-10-13 | da50fe4 | 6,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.3 | 2026-09-11 | b988114 | 6,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.2 | 2026-09-11 | 8f116d7 | 6,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.1 | 2026-09-09 | c3edaf7 | 6,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.1 | 2026-09-08 | 0a0e7a3 | 6,418 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.19.0 | 2026-09-08 | cc5fe72 | 6,418 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 (6925 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
lythos-labs/lythoskill · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_37i76fxqgqbpvhjs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df994d7becdb1d4fae715bfe3b21134a0f53e8348db44fe2bb17a0d834fffd4b
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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