brain-link-discipline SKILL.md skillA

brain-link-discipline from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/brain-link-discipline@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gbrain
Path
plugin-variants/gbrain-coding/skills/brain-link-discipline/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 12, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
13,326 bytes
Repository stars
31,587
License
MIT

When you report a brain page to the user — created, edited, committed, or relayed from a subagent — a working link is part of the deliverable, in the SAME message. Derive the path mechanically (git ls-files --full-name), push BEFORE linking, verify the link resolves when a hosted remote exists, and degrade through a defined fallback chain when it doesn't. Inside brain pages the rule inverts: relative links preserve the link graph; absolute URLs are for chat deliverables only.

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

# brain-link-discipline — The Link Is Part of the Deliverable

> **Convention:** see [_output-rules.md](../_output-rules.md) — the
> Deterministic Links section carries the cross-skill canon (in-page relative
> vs in-message verified, plus the fallback chain). This skill carries the
> mechanics: path derivation, push-before-link ordering, verification, the
> subagent-relay rewrite, and bulk-list formatting.
>
> **Convention:** [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md)
> states the one-line principle ("every brain page reference in output should
> use a clickable link format appropriate to the deployment"). This skill is
> that line's full expansion.

This is a reporting convention the harness routes brain-page delivery
messages through — a standing rule to apply when composing such messages,
not a mechanical guarantee enforced by tooling.

## The rule (same message)

If you commit and push a brain page, the link goes in the SAME message that
reports the work. Every time. No "let me commit and push" without the link
landing in that same reply once the push succeeds. The user should never
have to ask "give me the link" or "where is the page."

This applies to:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/brain-link-discipline@sha256:fa6d254de7d61576

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 14 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-12 64cbd70 13,326 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 590bb9a 12,701 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-05 6509f9b 12,700 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 739e5cc 12,533 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-17 489e277 11,889 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (13326 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

garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3qa5k3xrgbmod54h
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/brain-link-discipline
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa6d254de7d61576f4d43ded652f1b4ec2db81316f9bc1ff8659c70d85478857

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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