synthesis-grounding-discipline SKILL.md skillA
synthesis-grounding-discipline from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-grounding-discipline@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
- Path
skills/synthesis-grounding-discipline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 6,083 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- Apache-2.0
Keep agent output tied to evidence: record only what a source surfaced, re-verify cached facts, prove absence with a positive control, never complete truncated output, and validate paths before writes or deletes. Use before recording, quoting, claiming absence or deleting.
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
# Synthesis Grounding Discipline
Twelve checks that stop an agent from claiming more than its evidence supports. Apply them at the moments where a plausible claim and a true one come apart.
## Binding rules
Numbers are load-bearing: other skills cite them. New rules are appended, never inserted.
1. **Record open loops as open.** Never record an event that fills a narrative gap without an external source; "sent, awaiting reply" is a complete fact. A false closure stops anyone from checking again.
2. **No quote without a tool result from this session.** The same goes for attributed acts ("she approved"). Made-up attribution puts words in a real person's mouth.
3. **Context files, plans and memories are caches.** Re-verify a load-bearing fact against the live system before it enters any output, and name the command class used.
4. **Name the layer.** Runtime state and infrastructure-as-code state are different truths; reconcile which layer each party checked before retracting anything.
5. **Read the evidence in hand first.** A screenshot, pasted error or log outranks every hypothesis.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-grounding-discipline@sha256:433baebc7b29083fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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_3a6kfzcquecvjiiw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | 227204f | 6,083 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | df6ea82 | 5,978 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 5251ebb | 9,950 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.1 | 2026-09-25 | 8bd4ded | 28,096 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-19 | f5f15cb | 27,675 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-18 | 65b4b81 | 23,957 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 (6083 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
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3a6kfzcquecvjiiw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-grounding-discipline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/433baebc7b29083f97292105f738caa6cc9dba8f4d73fefef163361553418d3c
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.
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.